Old 3d graphics

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@Corvid

The original PS1 Silent Hill is one of those games that gains a lot from its crappy graphics. It’s a bit like looking at an old pinhole photograph in that it becomes a bit abstract in places and your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps. I believe the imagination is more powerful than anything, so I actually get your point.

That, and the way it uses fog /darkness to keep the draw distance down really made it terrifying IMO. Playing it on an emulator with smooth shading and filtering etc actually removes something!

100% yes less = more imo. I think what you said it something I find true of many blurry old textures.

Corvid, out of interest which look do you prefer? It was an attempt to create a Resident Evil like game, uses fixed camera positions but not pre-rendered backgrounds. There is nothing to do bar walk around and press light switches and a few other buttons. Kind of re-making it with a different twist, havn’t made any playable versions

[orange451]

The PS1 had terrible vertex precision, a low-bit depth buffer, and it didn’t render 3d like openGL does today. If you tried to access a PS1 games “3d” pipeline you will only receive a 2d quad rendered to the screen Also, PS1 games seemed to use more frame-based animation instead of bone-skinning (though I can’t speak for all games).

That, and almost all visual effects were done via textures. Most games couldn’t afford shaders; things like lights/shadows were pre-rendered onto textures.

I personally think art was better back in the PS1 era. Artists were so limited by resources, that they had to jam quite a high amount detail into a limited space.

[pitbuller]

Absolute good read about PS1 stuff and crash bandicoot.

Making Crash Bandicoot – part 1

[Cero]

@orange451

The PS1 had terrible vertex precision, a low-bit depth buffer, and it didn’t render 3d like openGL does today. If you tried to access a PS1 games “3d” pipeline you will only receive a 2d quad rendered to the screen Also, PS1 games seemed to use more frame-based animation instead of bone-skinning (though I can’t speak for all games).

That, and almost all visual effects were done via textures. Most games couldn’t afford shaders; things like lights/shadows were pre-rendered onto textures.

Yeah i heard that too. I mean the PSone had 3 mb of RAM