Wednesday, August 24th 2016
NVIDIA to Credit Marty McFly Modding for Leftover Ansel Code
Earlier this week, it was reported that game modder Marty McFly Modding accused NVIDIA of stealing their post-processing code for Ansel, NVIDIA's in-game photography tool, which lets you freeze your gameplay to take 2D or VR stills, with added post-processing. Late Wednesday, the Marty McFly Modding posted an update on their Facebook page, clarifying that the discrepancy has been "sorted out."
Marty McFly Modding states that they had a word with NVIDIA, including the lead developer of Ansel, who explained that the MasterEffect ReShade.fx was part of some "leftover code" that NVIDIA was testing as part of Ansel's development, and vestiges of which made it to the production version of Ansel. NVIDIA assured Marty McFly Modding that with the next version of Ansel (likely shipped with a future version of the GeForce drivers), it will remove this leftover code, and add Marty McFly Modding to the roll of credits.
Marty McFly Modding states that they had a word with NVIDIA, including the lead developer of Ansel, who explained that the MasterEffect ReShade.fx was part of some "leftover code" that NVIDIA was testing as part of Ansel's development, and vestiges of which made it to the production version of Ansel. NVIDIA assured Marty McFly Modding that with the next version of Ansel (likely shipped with a future version of the GeForce drivers), it will remove this leftover code, and add Marty McFly Modding to the roll of credits.
56 Comments on NVIDIA to Credit Marty McFly Modding for Leftover Ansel Code
While I could believe that some code would be written the same even with different developers (there's only a few ways to write shader code after all) the fact that the code comes with the very same comments and tags pretty much guaranteed that nvidia lifted (not going to say stole since the code is free for comercial use) the code directly from Marty's work. Good thing Marty is getting the recognition he deserves.
He was only asking for Credit (lucky for Nvidia) but he deserves more if what he says is true.
Other news just in: Water is Wet, Sky is Blue, Grass is Green.
Nvidia being Nvidia, and Internet being Internet, there will be shit floating in the water for....1 week
THIS is how you handle a fuckup
you manup admit you dun wrong
and get on with it
ya know its all gone to shit when the devil is more honest then the angels
Nvidia went about it all wrong, if they had to buy out Ageia (which they did not) make it free to use for everyone except demand that at the start of a product using it its mentioned "PhysX brought to you by Nvidia" so that every game using it advertises for Nvidia (and then rightly so if Nvidia is supporting and developing the feature) but nope.avi.
Instead they just bought it out and basically signed its death warrant with this bs.
Was it not Nvidia that also bought out this company that was aspiring to bring us real time raytracing? hmm wonder where that went....
Nvidia is basically like EA, buy out possible competition, shove it under the rug and continue on with your baby step progress for maximum profit.
I think the least they could have done was offer him a good job. WTH Nvidia?!