How the walls in The Sims are lying to you | Bitwise

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I'm a professional programmer who works on games, web and VR/AR applications. With my videos I like to share the wonderful world of programming with everyone! Have you ever thought about how the walls actually work in The Sims? No? Well, there's a lot more to it than you can imagine! I explain what challenges there are to building a wall system like The Sims and reveal some secret cheats they used to fool you. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:55 Defining and testing our hypotheses 4:15 What solution we developed ourselves 8:02 How the Sims is lying to you with their lighting My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/digidigger Music in in outro: Besus y Abrazor - Rolemusic: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic available under a Creative Commons Attribution license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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