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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 hours ago

Dead or Alive came out in the 90s on sony, tho.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

From what I know about N64 hardware, that "Candy" written on her shirt is a much bigger performance sink than the polygons, which is certainly also an important decision the devs made

[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Pretty sure that was RARE's doing, but Nintendo did greenlight it.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It just so happens that game was Rare’s last doing under Nintendo.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 36 points 18 hours ago

But without Nintendo holding them back they went BIGGER!

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

What about Starfox Adventures?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

And ‘Tomb Raider’ was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Correct, rare.

[–] brandon@piefed.social 55 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

She's an ape, not a monkey, have some respect.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All apes are monkeys, but not all monkeys are apes.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Apes and monkeys are separate from each other. Apes are not a kind of monkey.

Both apes and monkeys are primates.

Edit: worth reading down the chain to find that there isn't as clear of a consensus on this as is generally presented.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The distinction between apes and monkeys is complicated by the traditional paraphyly of monkeys: Apes emerged as a sister group of Old World Monkeys in the catarrhines, which are a sister group of New World Monkeys. Therefore, cladistically, apes, catarrhines and related contemporary extinct groups such as Parapithecidae are monkeys as well, for any consistent definition of "monkey". "Old World monkey" may also legitimately be taken to be meant to include all the catarrhines, including apes and extinct species such as Aegyptopithecus,[12][13][14][15] in which case the apes, Cercopithecoidea and Aegyptopithecus emerged within the Old World monkeys.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps, but that page you linked seems pretty clear that apes are related closer to old world monkeys than new world moneys, but are still not monkeys?

I don't really intend to argue semantics, but before my original reply to you I akimmed a good dozen links incluthat Wikipedia page and they all say apes and monkeys are related but different.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I literally quoted the part that says apes are monkeys by any definition of the word.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh shit sorry, it wasn't clear to me that it was a quote! It sounds like if you look too close then it's complicated!

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

All primates are spheres in a vacuum when calculating dominant forces

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey.

Even if it has a monkey kind-of shape.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

If it doesn't have a tail, it's not a monkey,

If it doesn't have a tail, it's an ape!

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if they had to reduce/save polygons in other places just to make these happen...

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't have to with a smooth normals shader. It's basically free on the GPU. You can even try this on Blender, and any particularly blocky model will look unusually smooth at certain angles.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

We are talking about the N64... Was a 'smooth normals shader' a thing it could do?

I know the N64 was a very unusual machine that took developers a little while to learn to manipulate to its full extent; but I'm not all that versed in the details.

ModernVintageGamer has some decent videos on it if I remember right. (it's been a while)

https://youtu.be/gRslfM-MOOw

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, I found that they used a technique called Gourard shading that uses smooth normals under the hood.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

Nice! Easily my favorite console.

[–] LikeableLime@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

I recommend watching some Kaze Emanuar videos as well to see what the N64 hardware is capable of