Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:12:37 UTC No. 841554

>>841549
low poly means different things depending on the context, so no

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:25:04 UTC No. 841555

Doubt the 64 could render OP pic.
And even back then, most games just slashed together some primitives like kitbashing.
Just look at the Mario 64 model

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:23:29 UTC No. 841563

Is this low poly then?
https://www.models-resource.com/nintendo_64/mariotennis/model/5913/

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:19:34 UTC No. 841583

>>841563
Damn, that looks like something the 64DD could push.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:56:06 UTC No. 841586

If it's running in real-time, it's low poly.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:02:58 UTC No. 841587

>>841586
not neccesarrily, since there is a difference between running at sub 30 fps and running at the expected fps of 120

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:38:06 UTC No. 841606

>>841587
Why not 390?

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:50:31 UTC No. 841623

>>841587
>the expected fps of 120

>on 50-60hz tv

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:00:00 UTC No. 841626

>>841623
>tv
oh nonononono

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:00:34 UTC No. 841637

>>841555
>Doubt the 64 could render OP pic.
859 tris. Maybe a little bit higher than ideal but definitely capable of running on the Nintendo 64.

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:23:49 UTC No. 841643

>>841637
Mario's model from SM64 is over 800 tris, so it's fair enough to work.

The textures being packed into one image is the big issue; it wouldn't fit into TMEM

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:35:42 UTC No. 841718

>>841549
That's the arbitrary definition of historyless newbie retrofags who thinks the term is in reference to an art movement.

'Low poly' is just a byword for whatever is realtime on whatever hardware you are targeting.
'Low' as opposed to 'High poly' which is in reference to the super subdivided mesh used for offline rendering in film CGI or sculpts used for projection bakes.
For you see compared to the several million polygons used in highpoly graphics a lightweight ~100K polygon character for a videogame is very 'low' on the polycount indeed.

Can't you guys just sit down and name your art movement something else than 'low poly' that states it's retro videogame graphics?
Because to any vet who has been around computer graphics since the dawn of the polygon it doesn't mean what you want it to mean at all.

Anonymous at Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:43:28 UTC No. 841720

>>841718
wtf a based post on /3/