20s. mildly notorious internet weirdo. homestucker. making the WEIRD gender shit.
i don't want a "how to make epic PS1 style models!!!" tutorial i want to see how they actually made 3D models for games from 1994-2004. like where did they start out from? a box? a single plane? i'm interested in knowing...
oh well. i can make guesses.
in the early 3d fighters from like 1994, Tekken, battle arena toahinden, virtua fighter etc the models are composed of multiple independent piece that overlap instead of a single discrete mesh, and nothing is textured except for the faces I believe. so like each leg is two or three cylinders, the feet are boxes, the pelvis is a box, etc, and they only really model the spots where they need more detail like the torso and head. I think they did box modeling for that, I've seen that referred to as "old fashioned" in CG forums
guess it made sense to do box modeling back then! i remember telling someone i did box modeling in like 2011 and they scolded me lol
the modern method is to sculpt it in high resolution and then like... do something to get a low poly version based on that, right? I can't wrap my head around 3d sculpting so I can only understand the old ways haha
that's pretty cool. building models from primitives like chunky 3D lego
I bet it's super fast when you need something that doesn't need much detail.
