ashley9803 opened this issue on Feb 18, 2008 · 139 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 21 February 2008 at 6:08 PM
Quote - That's frankly nonsense. It is extremely, extremely unlikely they're going to "slip in" Global Illumination or some other very desirable feature and not advertise it beforehand. I mean, unless you're saying SM/EF are a bunch of morons? They Would Be Very Very Stupid To Not Mention Such A Feature Well In Advance Of The Release For Sale. It's complicated enough of a programming task that it would take a very significant investment of man hours, and thus it would need to be planned, it's not something a guy accidentally figures out on his lunch break. It's also a highly valued feature in a renderer, and they would be nuts and/or highly stupid not to advertise it.* *** Ergo, it is not planned. Where the list of advertised features might be inaccurate is in things that are not included at release time.
Uh......who said anything about "slipping in" GI? I certainly didn't. Please see my final few paragraphs in the post above. Perhaps communication is possible -- or at least there's always hope.