Developer achieves toon shading and real-time dynamic shadows on real N64 hardware
Raploz
Member
He says it works fine on real hardware.
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
People say lots of things.
TransTrender
Gold Member
I'm sure if you're writing assembly code to get this going on a slice, yeah that's great.
Can't do that shit top to bottom for a shipping consumer title within budget and timeframe constraints.
Also not trying to talk shit on this person. Clearly talented so I hope they have a full time job.
Can't do that shit top to bottom for a shipping consumer title within budget and timeframe constraints.
Also not trying to talk shit on this person. Clearly talented so I hope they have a full time job.
Sorry didn't watch video
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polybius80
Member
very interesting demo
difficult to know it probably depends the complexity of the game and how low the framerate can be acceptable or if the tech is fully implemented for example a bomberman like game or a fighting game seem as perfect candidates, but I dont see it necesarily as a problem except for nintendo politics regarding commercial games messing with the rendering code, there are comercial games with very impressive shadows and light on psone(chiken run and most popular 3d fighters) so I dont think its a problem for N64 specially if there are some changes to make them lighter like using simpler 3d models for making the shadows and things like, in the demo textures are not filtered so maybe that is necesary to improve performance or its only because it looks better, unless there is a very specific problem unique to n64 doesnt look too problematic, I think Fafalada can tell us how demanding are those effects to be implemented
difficult to know it probably depends the complexity of the game and how low the framerate can be acceptable or if the tech is fully implemented for example a bomberman like game or a fighting game seem as perfect candidates, but I dont see it necesarily as a problem except for nintendo politics regarding commercial games messing with the rendering code, there are comercial games with very impressive shadows and light on psone(chiken run and most popular 3d fighters) so I dont think its a problem for N64 specially if there are some changes to make them lighter like using simpler 3d models for making the shadows and things like, in the demo textures are not filtered so maybe that is necesary to improve performance or its only because it looks better, unless there is a very specific problem unique to n64 doesnt look too problematic, I think Fafalada can tell us how demanding are those effects to be implemented
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
That's very cool! Kinda surprising that nobody ever did this back then.
The N64 is very stable, in fact I've never seen one tip over.
Yep, especially since the N64 didn't even exist in 1992.
The N64 is very stable, in fact I've never seen one tip over.
If 1992 Nintendo saw this they would go insaneamazing !
Yep, especially since the N64 didn't even exist in 1992.