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.
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Trail@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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 20 hours ago
Trail@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Aren’t all sprites prerendered? What is the alternative, hand drawn ones? That would go waaay back…
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
It wouldn’t really. Hand-drawn sprites are pretty standard even today - whether they’re hand-pixelled (Stardew Valley) or frame-by-frame animation (Spiritfarer).
yamanii@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Prerendered sprites by taking screenshots of the models on their single expensive silicon graphics.