Nvidia's Ansel Post-FX solution was allegedly stolen from modders

[WYP]

Marty McFly modding has alleged that Nvidia has stolen his MasterEffect filtering code for use in their Ansel in-game photography solution.



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[Thelosouvlakia]

NVIDIA is probably the most loved company in the industry right now!

 

[Dicehunter]

With the gimping of cards older than Pascal through drivers *apparently* that has been seen by some people, The 970 fiasco and I'm sure many other things, Nvidia are not looking good.

 

[ImprovizoR]

With the gimping of cards older than Pascal through drivers that has been seen by some people, The 970 fiasco and I'm sure many other things, Nvidia are not looking good.

Yet people keep buying Nvidia regardless of their crappy business practices.

 

[NeverBackDown]

With the gimping of cards older than Pascal through drivers that has been seen by some people, The 970 fiasco and I'm sure many other things, Nvidia are not looking good.

This is why I don't buy Nvidia. Too many controversies surrounding them. Not implying AMD is perfect, but at least they don't have anything of this sort.

 

[SgtT8ie]

Time for an update on the article - there's been an update on the FB page for Marty McFly Modding.

 

[Daiyus]

This is why I don't buy Nvidia. Too many controversies surrounding them. Not implying AMD is perfect, but at least they don't have anything of this sort.

It's strange. I've always bought AMD GPU's and it seemed I was in the minority.

Now I'm actually considering a GTX 1060 for my next card to give nVidia the benefit of the doubt (and aftermarket waterblock options) and it seems I'm once again in the minority.

 

[Mysterae]

I must be without morals because I just buy the best graphics card that I can afford at the time, regardless of what the company gets up to. For the past few years that's been Nvidia.

 

[Dawelio]

I must be without morals because I just buy the best graphics card that I can afford at the time, regardless of what the company gets up to. For the past few years that's been Nvidia.

I wouldn't say you would be without morals, you're just getting the best bang for your wallet. Like everyone else does.

You wouldn't pass on a Lamborghini for a Fiat Punto if you had the opportunity right? Just because the company Lamborgini and the idiots running it, did a wrong call/something bad?

What you buy from their company, that is the best you can afford, doesn't have anything related to them, other than their profit... But how big of a profit is only your GPU to them in whole though? Not a whole lot I'd imagine.... But then I don't really have any knowledge of business etc, this is just what I imagine though.

 

[Kilbane]

Taken from the mcfly modding facebook page .....

"Update and conclusion on the Ansel thing: I talked with some guys from Nvidia and especially the lead developer of Ansel, it's all sorted out. It was a result of some testing, basically leftover code; the next Ansel update will have some code removed and me credited, so it's all fine now. I have seen that someone posted this on reddit, probably in an attempt to start a storm or something, don't do that. It's not a big thing really and Ansel is no commercial product so case closed then"

 

[NeverBackDown]

They probably paid him off. If they used his IP(as he called it) without permission then they would be responsible to pay him. Probably not much since it wasn't being actively used and him being credited after the update

 

[Kushiro]

Haha actively defending nVidia. Way too nice for someone whose work just got stolen.

Paid off good...

Funny though, why remove the code now along with giving ceedit though. Or does "me credited" mean the money..

This ass. I mean seriously the guy who posted on reddit gets accused of trying to flame nVidia :notworthy: :notworthy: who knows.

 

[hdimitrov]

Haha actively defending nVidia. Way too nice for someone whose work just got stolen.

Paid off good...

Funny though, why remove the code now along with giving ceedit though. Or does "me credited" mean the money..

This ass. I mean seriously the guy who posted on reddit gets accused of trying to flame nVidia :notworthy: :notworthy: who knows.

They will remove *some* code not all of it. And suddenly giving him credit doesn't seem that illogical now.

 

[SeekaX]

Taken from the mcfly modding facebook page .....

"Update and conclusion on the Ansel thing: I talked with some guys from Nvidia and especially the lead developer of Ansel, it's all sorted out. It was a result of some testing, basically leftover code; the next Ansel update will have some code removed and me credited, so it's all fine now. I have seen that someone posted this on reddit, probably in an attempt to start a storm or something, don't do that. It's not a big thing really and Ansel is no commercial product so case closed then"

The guy posts that it's all sorted and people still continue the witchhunt, not questioning the legitimacy of his claims in the first place and then calling him a sellout when an explanation is delivered, because it's not juicy enough. At this point an nvidia employee stepping on a bug would cause another outrage.
Bandwagoning is dangerous and the responses i've read here are quite frankly embarrassing.

 

[Kushiro]

They will remove *some* code not all of it. And suddenly giving him credit doesn't seem that illogical now.

Didnt miss that part. Just didnt word it properly for you

Point being why are they removing some of it.

 

[Mysterae]

I wouldn't say you would be without morals, you're just getting the best bang for your wallet. Like everyone else does.

You wouldn't pass on a Lamborghini for a Fiat Punto if you had the opportunity right? Just because the company Lamborgini and the idiots running it, did a wrong call/something bad?

What you buy from their company, that is the best you can afford, doesn't have anything related to them, other than their profit... But how big of a profit is only your GPU to them in whole though? Not a whole lot I'd imagine.... But then I don't really have any knowledge of business etc, this is just what I imagine though.

You get my vote .

 

[Kleptobot]

The guy posts that it's all sorted and people still continue the witchhunt, not questioning the legitimacy of his claims in the first place and then calling him a sellout when an explanation is delivered, because it's not juicy enough. At this point an nvidia employee stepping on a bug would cause another outrage.
Bandwagoning is dangerous and the responses i've read here are quite frankly embarrassing.

I agree 100%, normally not a huge fan of Nvidia but in this case it seems pretty clear cut

 

[hdimitrov]

Didnt miss that part. Just didnt word it properly for you

Point being why are they removing some of it.

Because some of it is not used/needed anymore but was used in testing and is now "leftover" code. While the rest of it, however small a chunk, is being used/needed in order for Ansel to function and they are crediting him as he requested so I agree 100% with him that this case is closed and there is no need to rage against Nvidia over this (however bad a company they may be)

 

[Warchild]

So what if they paid him off?

End of the story is that the Modder is happy and gets the recognition, along with free publicity now, thanks to the witch hunt against Nvidia..again. Life goes on. Welcome to the world of business.

 

[Doomslayer]

So what if they paid him off?

End of the story is that the Modder is happy and gets the recognition, along with free publicity now, thanks to the witch hunt against Nvidia..again. Life goes on. Welcome to the world of business.

100% agree with this.