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The TF2 Engineer's "favorite equation" is actually an expression
Official TF2 wiki page on the Engineer: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Engineer
Image file showing the Engineer's "favorite equation": http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:The_Engineer's_Favorite_Equation.png
I know it's from the in-game lighting formulas.
That doesn't change the fact that this is not an equation. It's an expression.
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It looks like a generalized shine term in the shader. I know specular is an approximated direct reflection, and I assume rim is some kind of edge bloom. If k-rim is a negative number you're essentially using the same dot product to catch oblique edges as well as direct reflection spots.
IT'S STILL NOT AN EQUATION
So you'd be okay with it if they hadn't called it an equation expressly?
What else would they call it?
I guess they could call it a formula.
Yeah, that's not an equation. Equations tend to have equals signs.
but there's one just right below the sigma
And on a related note,