BioForge was particularly impressive for the time, with mixed pre-rendered graphics.
Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours agoLots 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.
Hawke@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Trail@lemmy.world 15 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.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 11 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.
yamanii@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Prerendered sprites by taking screenshots of the models on their single expensive silicon graphics.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Technically the monsters in Doom, too.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
Most things in Doom, if we’re counting photos!