If using tiling materials with decals and trims is the proper way then I'm definitely going to explore that route. All decal work is done in engine and not in Painter right?
Here is how it should look ideally This is with SS Raytracing (well also not perfect since its covering too much in shadow also) This SSRT does a very surprisingly good job tho on even the tiny details Here is more the cold reality of realtime lol with ao decals and mixed quality bakes Looks pretty crap in debug view But…
Don't know about the interview, but there is no way that it's thousands of years after. Apeture would have completely decayed by then. I think it's only been a dozen years or so. [Edit].... the timeline according to the interwebs claims that portal 2 takes place a few decades after 1 ...