One of the biggest technical challenges Respawn faced when creating Jedi: Fallen Order was not, apparently, rendering its star’s head of well-conditioned hair. It was creating Star Wars‘ simple, iconic wipe transition.“The wipe in film is so easy—well, I don’t know if it’s easy, but in film you just take two different pictures and you have them both and you just wipe them across—but in
One of the biggest technical challenges Respawn faced when creating Jedi: Fallen Order was not, apparently, rendering its star’s head of well-conditioned hair. It was creating Star Wars‘ simple, iconic wipe transition.
„The wipe in film is so easy—well, I don’t know if it’s easy, but in film you just take two different pictures and you have them both and you just wipe them across—but in games, you have to render both of those things at the same time,“ said lead technical designer Brandon Kelch in an interview with PC Gamer at EA Play today.
