• Trail@lemmy.world
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    10 hours 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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      6 hours ago

      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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      9 hours ago

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