{"id":2183,"date":"2019-03-20T10:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:34:03","slug":"the-new-nwnee-renderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"The new NWN:EE renderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beamdog.com\/2019\/03\/beamdog-update-march-19-2019.html\">full text can be read here<\/a>, but it&#8217;s not really worth reading to be honest, no details are unveiled yet, we only know we won&#8217;t be having a new patch for months, until they are done with the 64bit binaries, console controls and the new renderer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely the new renderer will be able to use more texture maps, maybe PBR materials, but I don&#8217;t think they are going to touch the engine which will leave us with flat 360\/360 meters maps.<br \/>\nAnd quite frankly, it doesn&#8217;t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>I was very vocal about how graphics don&#8217;t matter and only content\/gameplay is important, but I was wrong: people just don&#8217;t play old games for more than a few hours of nostalgia. Usually; they are always exceptions or course, but it&#8217;s not worth it developing on an old engine, in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full text can be read here, but it&#8217;s not really worth reading to be honest, no details are unveiled yet, we only know we won&#8217;t be having a new patch for months, until they are done with the 64bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}