Why does GC resident evil remake look so good?

iNfuSeD · 2004-01-15T10:13:02

What techniques does the game resident evil on the gamecube use to create such a beautifully animated 3D environment with such smooth models? It doesn''t look like they use polygon models at all. Is it some form of raytracing? I played the game for the first time today and I was blown away. I''ve never seen anything like it. Does the GC hold some powerful graphic secrets that other consols cannot replicate?

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Started by iNfuSeD January 07, 2004 03:34 AM

21 comments, last by iNfuSeD 20 years, 3 months ago

Ingenu

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January 10, 2004 07:52 AM

quote:Original post by PumpkinPieman
I was always wondering how the RE games always looked so amazing, I always assumed they used pre-renderd 3D backgrounds.

It IS the case, they use pre rendered 3D backgrounds.
(Except in the upcoming BioHazard 4)

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XMark

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January 10, 2004 08:02 AM

I always thought that crappy controls were part of what made the RE series good, since it actually makes me afraid of the enemies. My favourite was in RE3, where you have a special button to press that will instantly turn you around 180 degrees. Sounds cool but if I was panicked I would accidentally double-tap it and poor Jill would run straight into the zombie she was trying to run away from. But it was cool because in real life people do stupid stuff when they're panicked

[edited by - XMark on January 10, 2004 9:04:38 AM]

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M3d10n

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January 15, 2004 10:13 AM

The backgrounds in the GC RE1 (and RE0) are pre-rendered, but they are animated.

They probably use short MPEG2 video sequences for some backgrounds, that''s why it looks good.

As for the shadowing and dynamic lighting over the scenery, they use a similar trick as Alone In The Dark 4: there is a low polygon version of the pre-rendered scenery that is used for lighting, so a flashlight can properly light the surfaces and the depth shadows can properly project onto it.

But I think RE1 remake and RE0 uses pre-rendered z-buffers instead of low polygon models.

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