Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 06:39:41 UTC No. 963587

>>963586
"but that's a unity game on modern hardware! you couldn't get such nice graphics on an OG playstation"

ok, here's a basic 3D engine running on GBA hardware. look at how polished the texture work is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abki1Tp1maM

'soul' does not come from shitty graphics. 'soul' comes from persevering with an artistic vision despite limited resources. that is a reflection of the human spirit. that is what gives something soul, and its why things today lack so much of it in an age of ez engines and lighting presets and metahumans.

you can do better, so go do better! persevere! i believe in you!

/rant

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 07:23:09 UTC No. 963593

I make it a point not to listen to dumb rallying cries like these. especially when you dont pyw.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 07:32:21 UTC No. 963594

>>963593
would but its identifying. can tell u its educational webgl programs for high schoolers. need to target weak hardware like kindles and chromebooks

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 10:01:34 UTC No. 963607

>>963586
>look at what good art direction can accomplish with lo-fi graphics:
That's not lo-fi graphics but a demo.
Likely pre-baked lightning from a proper GI renderer.
That's something that wasn't viable in the PS1 area.

It's like putting a bicycle into the back of your car, driving it the next city and claiming you took a bike trip.

🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 10:16:10 UTC No. 963608

>>963586
wow that looks so incredible, not just looks but the music and voiceover are top notch too
I like the look of old graphics with new lighting

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 10:21:40 UTC No. 963609

>>963586
wow that looks incredible, I really like the way new lighting looks with old lo res texturing
I think it somehow makes it even more nostalgic than if you made something with "real" ps1 lighting, its just better
the music and voiceover also really add to the atmosphere

>>963587
kind of obviously true but I guess it has to be stated

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 17:35:02 UTC No. 963631

>>963607
fair, but games have been using baked lighting since the late 90s. something similar was certainly possible by 2001 even if not as ez to accomplish

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 18:36:44 UTC No. 963637

>>963586
that would have looked much better without that shitty pixelated filter

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 20:31:36 UTC No. 963643

>>963637
its a whole custom render pipeline. at least they are doing it legit

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 20:51:30 UTC No. 963648

So the way it's done in OP is via baking the lighting to texture only?

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 21:29:18 UTC No. 963649

Retro graphics fags on this board as a blight, none of them want to make anything interesting they just want to use old software and use "sovl" as a stand in for tallent.
Their artistic vision goes as far as primitive objects and dithering, and they want a participation trophy for it too.
There's nothing wrong with the concept of retro graphics, as OP demonstrated, but you do have to actually try.

>>963607
It's not a PS1 game you retard, it's retro for aesthetic purposes.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 21:41:24 UTC No. 963652

>>963649
>try
its not quantifiable and the goalpost is easily shifted.
you have no hard ground to base anything off of.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 22:10:21 UTC No. 963660

>>963652
>it's subjective
This is you asking for a participation trophy. You know you aren't pushing yourself or else you wouldn't have thought it applied to you.
Come on anon, put some elbow grease into it

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Nov 2023 22:52:56 UTC No. 963668

>>963660
im just asking for a clear goal. you dont have one, so your demands dont mean shit.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Nov 2023 00:32:26 UTC No. 963678

>>963607
Quake 2 in 1997 had pre-baked global illumination lightmaps. And lightmaps can be quite low-res and still look amazing, so idk why it wouldn't be feasible, unless the hardware was drastically worse than mainstream pc hardware

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Nov 2023 03:56:38 UTC No. 963700

don't care. gonna make "ps1 graphics" just so i can shit out assets faster and appeal to zoomers at the same time.