Player Faces Have Greatly Improved in MLB The Show 17 (Polygon)

[skrody]

are we getting fat pablo sandoval or trim pablo sandoval this year?

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans.

same for fans in the stands?

[WaitTilNextYear]

Dare I say these look almost photorealistic?


EDIT: I knew they'd "crack the code" for the lighting again. lol

[ArchitectsMetalcore]

"They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans."

This is a very ignorant question so pardon me, but does that even mean? How do you improve faces with a new face scan? Lighting? There seems to be more work done than just lighting. May someone please explain how this works?

[philmnn]

Quote: Originally Posted by ArchitectsMetalcore

"They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans." This is a very ignorant question so pardon me, but does that even mean? How do you improve faces with a new face scan? Lighting? There seems to be more work done than just lighting. May someone please explain how this works?

I'm no graphic designer, but a scan is a scan. There's a video from either last year or 2 years ago showing how SCEA scans players faces. They use dozens of cameras in a 360 view for each player. That means the images they have are as good as it gets, the graphics in recent years were not up to par to mimic those real life images. This year they improved and tweaked the graphics/shadows etc to closer mimic those real life scans. It's not like their scans automatically turn to video game graphics. I'm assuming obviously more power and detail was put in to making real life look more like real life. In sum, the team's scan capturing equipment is as good as it gets, they're simply trying to figure out how to get as much detail in the game as the scans show.

[ArchitectsMetalcore]

Quote: Originally Posted by ArchitectsMetalcore

"They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans." This is a very ignorant question so pardon me, but does that even mean? How do you improve faces with a new face scan? Lighting? There seems to be more work done than just lighting. May someone please explain how this works?

Quote: Originally Posted by philmnn

I'm no graphic designer, but a scan is a scan. There's a video from either last year or 2 years ago showing how SCEA scans players faces. They use dozens of cameras in a 360 view for each player. That means the images they have are as good as it gets, the graphics in recent years were not up to par to mimic those real life images. This year they improved and tweaked the graphics/shadows etc to closer mimic those real life scans. It's not like their scans automatically turn to video game graphics. I'm assuming obviously more power and detail was put in to making real life look more like real life.

So the way they improved the face models this year is inherently superior to face scans?

[CoiaNY]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans.

Very interesting! Does the team get an updaed graphical improvements feature suite every year, or is that one of those things that released every so now and then?

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caulfield

I'm about 101% positive your Lindors and Kershaws and Altuves will have improved faces but the equipment I cant even venture a guess.

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

They do not have new faces all the improvements are from this year's graphical improvements feature suite. None of those guys have new face scans.

Ah, thanks, fixxed!