{"id":20742,"date":"2013-08-22T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20742"},"modified":"2013-08-22T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:18:23","slug":"tomb-raider-ep22-diplomacy-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20742","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider EP22: Diplomacy Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3M9A4Z7oM4k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3M9A4Z7oM4k'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>See? I&#8217;m not reflexively against combat. I like combat sometimes. When it&#8217;s done right.  And when I have a specialized shotgun specifically designed for it. And when the cover-based shooting doesn&#8217;t have too much cover. <\/p>\n<p>The graphics glitches at the 21 minute mark are really revealing.  The holes in Lara&#8217;s face let us see the tessellation. I will say her face looks like it has a LOT of polygons. The cheek is a really common place to trim out a few polygons, often reducing the whole surface to just a dozen or so triangles. Assuming those holes are indicitive of the complexity of the rest of the face, then I&#8217;d wager just Lara&#8217;s face (not including head or hair) has more polygons than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20567\">the Doom 3 guy we were looking at a couple of weeks ago<\/a>.  It makes sense, since this game is almost a decade newer and Lara needs to be able to emote in close-ups, but still. So many polygons. <\/p>\n<p>&lt;old man voice&gt;Back in my day, that many polygons was our budget for the whole level!&lt;\/old man voice&gt;<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, we&#8217;ll wrap this game up tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) See? I&#8217;m not reflexively against combat. I like combat sometimes. When it&#8217;s done right. And when I have a specialized shotgun specifically designed for it. And when the cover-based shooting doesn&#8217;t have too much cover. The graphics glitches at the 21 minute mark are really revealing. The holes in Lara&#8217;s face let us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-20742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}