Very crisp and pixel perfect textures (slightly warped by the infamous PS1 Some games took a deliberate approach of avoiding smudged look, like Megamanĭeliberate texture economy and unwrapping the developers were able to produce Those 4 pixels into a round circle or improve a visual effect. Careful step gradienting to make textures seem smoother after beingįiltering is not bad in itself, some games look better without it these days,īecause of the display resolutions, but it’s still a valid tool to apply, itĬan help push low-res texture a bit higher and produce a softening effect make Makes us forget that the textures were often authored with texture filtering in
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The age of 1080p being the norm, turning texture filtering really makes theĪ perfect example of CD-3D style, often undeservingly forgot in discussions Pixelated textures look nice and crisp these days, at Meshes, delegated mostly to technical masking of stuff like foliage, it’s stillĪ powerful tool for lower triangle counts. The clouds are diamond-like in shape and are linearly gradiented to the nextĬolor was used extensively and fell off with the increasing complexity of the The more ingenious way to use Vertex Color is to take a look at Spyro skyboxes: Notes on the development of the original Crash and the tricks they’ve pulled!
If you search-engine around you can also find some really f ascinating Having some control over the color of the thing, instead of it being a solidĬhunk. Crash himself is filled with Vertex Color, it’s a cheap way to avoid using textures, while You can eyeball where the wireframe is and then you’ll see that the vertexĬolor is used to simulate lighting. Notice how in Spyro the yellowĪnd purple light is placed on places where texture is repeated, following that Then linearly blended with other vertex colors. Here’s Spyro and Crash, fan favoritesĬheck both points we’ve noted before, but what’s not obvious to an untrainedĮye is that these games both extensively use Vertex Color, the thing you’ll notice more and more in other gamesĪbsolutely simple, each vertex of a mesh can be assigned a RGBA value and they’re Than 500 triangles for a character), but let’s see what doesn’t seem so The style, textures are obviously small enough to have visible pixelation (hiddenīy texture filtering) and models are obviously low-poly (that is around or less Graphical style we’re talking about here is called CD-3D in smaller circles.Īt the games that fit the criteria would give you some information to describe The advent of a DVD format really changed up how the games look, so the Level thing unifying these games is the game size, that is, the games came onĬDs. Into the same style and adhere to the same economy principles.
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More so, games released later can be put into the same category, plenty of NDS or PSP games fit Games were release on Nintendo 64, Dreamcast and PC. With the obvious, calling it PS1 low-poly is wrong, mostly because the same
Of the technicalities and examples of this style in the attempt to find it’sĬharacteristics and some actual technical requirements to meet this style. Game-playing and game making individuals these days. Pretty wrong description of this style that’s so dear to a plenty of Textures low-poly”, which is a bit better, but still is a really broad and a Look this broad categorization gets further described as “PS1 pixelated Nostalgia into the broadly called “low-poly” nostalgia. Videogame playing population growing up we’ve finally broke from pixel-art Guide to that elusive “PS1-pixelated-lowpoly”(but not really)
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