• ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Lots of the best games were prerendered! Donkey Kong Country, Fallout, Jagged Alliance 2, Duke 3D, the Pro Pinball games, just to name a few.

    I do have a soft spot for prerendered graphics.

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      2 months ago

      I am not sure prerendered describes ja2 and fallout (some of the best games tbh). Aren’t those just sprites?

      The rest I have not played.

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        2 months ago

        Prerendered sprites by taking screenshots of the models on their single expensive silicon graphics.

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        The characters and environments in Fallout and JA2 are basically still frames (sprites) of 3D models at specific angles. They were rendered once on a powerful development machine, and converted to sprites for our lowly Pentiums and Voodoos.

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      2 months ago

      BioForge was particularly impressive for the time, with mixed pre-rendered graphics.