StageCraft WAS Unreal Engine; it is not anymore.
What is Helios?
/? Helios StageCraft https://rebusfarm.net/news/ilm-stagecraft-a-virtual-producti... :
> StageCraft leverages Helios ILM’s real-time cinema render engine. It is a set of LED screens that work as a 360 extension digital set, allowing filmmakers to explore new ideas, communicate concepts, and execute shots in a collaborative and flexible production environment.
Is there a way to vary the [UE] AutoLOD for longer shots? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160089
That's not even cinematography! Because there aren't lenses, there are presumably Camera matrices.
Cinematography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography
Computer graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics
"Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355444 ; generative-manim, manimGPT, BlenderGPT, ipyblender, o3de, how do we teach primary math intuition with the platforms that reach them, how do we Manim in 3 or even 4D?
Manim > "Render with [Blender and/or od3e]" https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362
FWIU Disney Games are often built with Panda3d, which works with pygame-web/pygbag in WASM now
Research: "Fabric of the Cosmos", "Cosmos", "How the Universe Works",
UE5 (and other 4d graphics and physics simulators) automatically reduce the LOD Level-of-Detail for objects in the distance.
Is that LOD parametric with StageCraft software?
(For example, reportedly Cities Skyline 2 is bad slow because they included meshes for characters' teeth and expected AutoLOD to just make it work on the computers kids tend to have. It doesn't work on reasonable machines because the devs all have fast pro GPUs to develop on, so they don't know what the UX is for the average family (that would be happy to turn down the polygon count themselves for what we can learn from the gameplay). Having game devs dogfood with real-world devices that families afford would be good for these firms too.).
Hopefully they'll continue to sell games through non-Epic stores that people have already invested in.
And hopefully, they'll make sure their products work with Proton and thus popular Linux-based handheld gaming devices.
A HUD-like [spinning ball trajectory] with observations and symbolic model fitting
Hopefully they will invest in Games that cause STEM (and SEL) learning;
And hopefully they will apply great CGI tools for STEM education