"First I make a 3D model" Well that's the first problem

@gahmuretvanbegonia994

2 жыл бұрын

not really

@jackthehacker05

2 жыл бұрын

@@gahmuretvanbegonia994 yes really

@nicolaslindken9468

2 жыл бұрын

*Sighs* ... so I learned to make a 3D Model in less than 24 hours ...

@rodolf5941

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolaslindken9468 Yeah but it's a little more complicated than that, you I import my 3D model to unity, some faces disappear, some bones function wrong and so much more. I have no problem with creating a 3D model, nor with unity, but when these teo gotta br mixed shit always goes wrong

@dealloc

2 жыл бұрын

@@rodolf5941 Me neither, but if you put in your time and willingness, you can learn all these things. Especially with the amount of resources and tutorials available in today's internet.

You need to disable z-buffer depth to give that weird janky wobbly look the PS1 had. :)

@Fooxoul

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly that snapping look was due to the GPU on the PS1 only using ints and not floats from what I remember.

@nikodem123asdf

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say, if polygons don't clip into everything and wobble on every move it aint real ps1

@heliusuniverse7460

2 жыл бұрын

using a vertex shader you could emulate the texture distortion

@CykPykMyk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fooxoul thats true. It used somehow pre-written lookup table with trigonometrical values. Some DOS games were using that stuff too, for people that didnt have Voodoo or such, back then. Funny times. Today engineering students learn about such stuff, and try to implement it by themselves, as a project for a subject. It used to be a real technology to earn money with, lol.

@zoeythebee1779

2 жыл бұрын

I was actually gonna mention that. I wonder if there is a way to do that in Godot...

"it is suprising easy" early 2000's devs: am I joke to you?

@ZairotOne

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's easy now because devs didn't have access to tools like Blender back then.

@jackmcslay

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZairotOne No, low poly modelling was never particularly hard, they had a hard time because they had sub-100Mhz processors and 4MB or fewer RAM to work with. The software engineering, level design, animations, characters, all had to be carefully designed so they hardware of the time could handle it. An universal engine like Unity was simply not possible; each game had to have a dedicated engine specifically designed for the game itself to extract the most performance.

@JesterWhoHelps

3 жыл бұрын

uh, no game in 2000 had these graphics. Try the 90s.

@jackmcslay

3 жыл бұрын

@@JesterWhoHelps Nintendo DS: " Am I a joke to you?"

@jordy9606

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackmcslay The DS has pretty decent graphics, comparing it to the PS2's graphics, which came out 4 years earlier. The Nintendo 64 had graphics that look more like the ones in this video Edit: decemy is my new favorite word

Skeletal rigging wasn’t a thing on the ps1 or n64 until late in their lifespan. The polygons for arms and legs were separated due to the animations having to be done by rotating the polys by hand without rigging.

@jas-jr3rv

2 жыл бұрын

i feel so bad for the devs and animators back then oh man! the look was gorgeous though so the hard work payed off

@buzter8135

2 жыл бұрын

Then the Conker's Bad Fur Day cutscenes come to mind.... The poor sods....

@crimson-foxtwitch2581

2 жыл бұрын

The Crash Bandicoot games used per-vertex animation, but using a custom compression algorithm to reduce the filesize of the animations to get it working on actual hardware.

@DesertPunks

7 ай бұрын

Funny story, the devs at Valve (or maybe prior) during their pitch for Half-Life got turned down by a few studios because they wanted to try skeletal rigging. I'm trying to recall which interview it was, but nobody believed they could do it.

@rich1051414

3 ай бұрын

@@DesertPunks Skeletal rigging actually requires non-euclidian four dimensional math. Quaternions and matrices. I remember having to crash course that subject and I thought my brain was going to melt before I understood.

Half of Garbaj's tutorials I don't even want to do; he just makes it fun to go on the journey with him lol

@tomi4717

3 жыл бұрын

true

@Anthonypython

3 жыл бұрын

ok colly

@jackmakmorn

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, you name it, Colly! And still he gives enough to learn in almost every lesson.

Everyone: The game should be as realistic as possible Garbaj and Miziziziz:

@fr4nk0

3 жыл бұрын

don't forget Anders Lundbjörk!

@stormstudios1

3 жыл бұрын

@@fr4nk0 who is that

@flafcodes

3 жыл бұрын

It's realistically PSX

@bokunogentoo4420

2 жыл бұрын

to be fair, most indies didn't even go for any kind of 3D graphics until relatively recently. For a long time, most indie games were 2D with very thick pixels for a "retro" look due to the limitations of the one-man-army making them, then people started slowly upgrading to PS1 and N64 looking simple 3D graphics, again because it's usually just one person working on the games who typically doesn't have as much of a background in graphics as they do in programming and game design

@anindyaroythetechmaster

2 жыл бұрын

@@bokunogentoo4420 Me who downloads all graphics from internet and downloads animations from mixamo: *visible confusion*

"You notice something just doesn't look right" Me watching this in 240p: 👀

@tangentialtony4358

2 жыл бұрын

Literally me with rural internet

@tangentialtony4358

2 жыл бұрын

Literally me with rural internet

@thebarrelman1840

2 жыл бұрын

42 kps

@dairygecko

2 ай бұрын

like "now that you mention it..."

"It's pretty hard to look at" 1:58 - I think something that people miss about retrogames is that they would be played on those CRT televisions, which had the effect of "smoothing out" the blockiness and pixels, and so when you try to re-create the look, you need to cheat a little in order to recreate the "feel"

"First I made a 3D model" I believe that's actually the step I got stuck on.

@Zeppy0204

Ай бұрын

ong I literally have no idea where to begin

why she wearing that twitter merch

Nice one! For a full PS1-like effect you should figure out how to implement affine texture mapping and how to disable the z-buffer depth, but I think you already knew that.

@garbaj

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know anything about that actually. More to learn!

@crimson-foxtwitch2581

2 жыл бұрын

@@garbaj Also, by the way, the PS1 does support 640x480, it’s just locked to interlaced rendering. Not very many games used it for regular gameplay due to the hardware demands though, but some 480i titles did crop up later into the PS1’s lifespan. Tekken 3, Dead or Alive, and Ridge Racer Turbo Mode are a few examples. Most just stuck with 240p since it was easier to optimize a game’s assets for that resolution. Also, instead of skeletal animation, PS1 animators used different techniques. Namely, the Crash Bandicoot games preferred to manually animate by each vertex, but the animation data was compressed at an extreme ratio: something like 50,000:1.

@NihongoWakannai

7 ай бұрын

Affine texturing can be done with just a shader, but the lack of z-buffer depth is not something that anyone is going to replicate. PS1 devs had to MANUALLY define the depths of vertices so that back parts of the model wouldn't show through to the front which created occasionally glitchy looking graphics because it wasn't perfect. No way an indie dev is going to put in that much effort for a small effect that most people wont even notice

It's evolving, just backwards.

I appreciate the video. While I never played the old playstation games, I am a big fan of minimalist or limited art styles. These limits often end up leaving you more creative, which is always good in my book.

@chidaluokoro9104

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@mantchova

Жыл бұрын

I am also a big fan of minimalist styles. in addition to making you more creative, it further develops the player's imagination.

@jonahabenhaim1223

Жыл бұрын

You should play them, your missing out

The part I struggle with the most is the shapes, and getting that to feel authentic. A lot of PS1 games were still aiming for "realism" despite the limitations. And the main difference between low poly and PS1 aesthetic is that the PS1 used tris, not quads. Which gave them more geometry to work with, under the same vertex count. That's why stuff like the Harry Mason model in Silent Hill 1 looks super detailed even though it's super low poly. And that's... kinda hard to go for intentionally. Like, you're not aiming for stylized low poly. You're aiming for "how can I make this look as high fidelity as possible within these limitations?" Because that's what developers back then were aiming for. It's a weird balance.

@Semudara

3 жыл бұрын

Alternatively, there were games even at the time (Mega Man Legends comes to mind) that embraced the low-poly aesthetic and were stylized accordingly. So it all depends on what look you want to go for!

@sebastianaliandkulche

3 жыл бұрын

Or games like Crash Bandicoot that looks practically like a next generation videogame.

@RaimonTarou

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianaliandkulche crash bandicoot did not look like a next generation videogame... you could literally count the polygons on his model. i think the ps1 game that pushed the ps1 to the limit in terms of 3d models from what i can think of the most is probably final fantasy 9.. look it up. Next closest i would say chrono cross.

@sebastianaliandkulche

2 жыл бұрын

@@RaimonTarou Heavily disagree. That could be said of any PS1 game, but Crash Bandicoot is one of the few fifth generation games with facial animation, something that not even FF9 have (and the places are just pictures and not 3d enviroments except the world map). And Crash 2 and 3 looks much better, not even the polygons are noticeable. I didnt play Chrono Cross, but i would check it out one of this days.

@RaimonTarou

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianaliandkulche ok crash was one of the few ps1 games that actually animated the faces ill give you that but ff9 models still looked better overall. maybe it was the way they painted the textures that made them look way better. and yea im only talking about character models, not backgrounds.

Can we appreciate the cute character design though?Got some nostalgic "Coraline" vibes. Also I would love to see this project fleshed further!

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR, I’m learning to make animations and render visuals for my clothing brand and I’ve been seeing a lot of these really cool low res video game style animations and really wanted to do my own but didn’t know how, thank you for this existing on KZread because I don’t know how I found it

@goon4696

2 жыл бұрын

May I ask what game engine you’re using to make and render the characters animations?

@iknowcharley5

2 жыл бұрын

@@goon4696 I think he uses Godot, but you can use any game engine

A Retro graphics comeback would be fun to see(but with advanced effects)

@dylanroemmele906

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you've seen the explosion of PS1-styled games in the past 3 years.

@dontkickmychick6076

2 жыл бұрын

@@dylanroemmele906 its all *pixels* now... honestly im into it, especially against that "im trying too hard to be realistic" look

@MerkhVision

2 жыл бұрын

@@dylanroemmele906 Could u name some examples? I’m super interested in checking them out!

@dylanroemmele906

2 жыл бұрын

@@dontkickmychick6076 I prefer the Midground PS2 look, IMO I think this is the best for game graphics, not too unrealistic, not too (sometimes lol the PS2 had gorgeous games) realistic

@Dogman_35

Жыл бұрын

@@MerkhVision Look up the Haunted PS1 community, it's literally nothing but retro style horror games lol

Very straight forward felt like this was perfect video wasn’t too long kept me engaged the whole video, the other ps2 style videos were more based on game building less how to style the models and this broke it all down in a way I can understand. I’m for sure hopping in blender and trying this out I didn’t know the textures were just super tiny that actually makes sense now. subbed❤️

@garbaj

3 жыл бұрын

glad you liked the video, welcome!

Your "Press start!" Blinking text legit gave me goosebumps from nostalgia, LoL. That was awesome

You could also simplify the lighting too because most games of that era had either no lighting, baked lighting, or vertex shading where the vertex would be assigned a color depending on the position of the lightsource and the normals

Thats really funny! Keep making amazing vids :3

"The first thing I did was create a 3D model" oh silly fucking me I thought that might be part of "learning to make PS1 graphics" "I learned how to paint masterpiece paintings in under 24 hours. First, I sketched a photorealistic woman with a slight sly smile"

@sagehanson190

2 жыл бұрын

I learned how to make a low poly model in less than hour lmao I had literally zero experience. It really isn't that hard.

@ThatFilmisGnarly

2 жыл бұрын

@@sagehanson190 share the tutorial

@sagehanson190

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThatFilmisGnarly Modeling: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoOJu7GEd8-dqJM.html Rigging: kzread.info/dash/bejne/paaksceuabi7crg.html

@MateriaGirl

2 жыл бұрын

@@sagehanson190 I didn't say it was hard. I said I expected this video about how to make PS1 graphics to be about how to make PS1 graphics, not about how if you already know how to make PS1 graphics, you can make them look more accurate.

@sagehanson190

2 жыл бұрын

@@MateriaGirl So you expected a tutorial going over the basics of blender and low poly? I mean if you're interested in that stuff why not just go look up an actual tutorial? PS1 graphics seem very simple but they're not where you start, they're stylized and have a certain aesthetic as you probably saw in the video. You need a small bit of knowledge before you can move in that direction.

You're missing the most important part of the aesthetic. The classic PSX dither.

@JOELwindows7

3 жыл бұрын

Without it, it looks like N64 instead, XD 😆

@wiegraf9009

7 ай бұрын

Sort of. The dither was supposed to get blended out by the CRT so it's really a matter of preference

wow thanks for making this super simple to understand!

Very accurate! Btw, you can set your test resolution to HD, but your window resolution to not hd and youll have a full sized but pixlelated game.

This was the perfect video I needed to complete my current 3D project. I'm actually building a replica of some of the cars from the PS1 game LEGO Racers. I'm definitely putting a filter on them now to give them a classic look.

You've nailed the aesthetic! I often think it might be interesting if more new games were like this but with higher resolutions.

A surprising amount of info packed into a 3 minute video. Top job, mate.

I kinda wanted the noob version of this where he shows you how to make the model itself... The rest is easy. I dunno Blender.

Needs a post-process jitter filter on the game camera! Awesome video!!

do more of this bruh this made me sub

Generally i don't like this kind of non video tutorials on this topics but this video actually made me to learn something and it was actually well made. Nice work garbaj

the character model you made for this is kinda adorable ngl

"I learned to make PS1 graphics" - Did not use affine mapping - Did not snap vertices - Did not make PS1 graphics

@billyj.causeyvideoguy7361

2 жыл бұрын

Also used shadowed light source. Shadows had to be baked or faked. Also skeletal rigged the model when rigging wasn’t possible on the ps1 until very late in its lifespan (2000-2002) Not sure they had the right culling limit either.

@Xegethra

2 жыл бұрын

Pseudo PS1 graphics. I still think it looks good though.

@roadkill_52

2 жыл бұрын

And it's not on 320x200, which is the best part of the PS1 graphics imo

@cringee21

2 жыл бұрын

and he’s not running it on an actual ps1 smh 😔

@Raggaren02

2 жыл бұрын

recommend a youtuber or video that shows this? Im interested in learning this

Great video. I suggest for an even more PSX look: convert the textures to TIM files and back before making the atlas. It will introduce compression artifacts that, I think, are essential to the look. Oh, and vertex shading solid colors... Keeps texture maps from looking like a carpet sample book, reduces number of texture maps needed, reduces UV work, etc.

Christ, that Press Start takes me right back to playing the home console version of Radical Bikers. Still have that PS1, and it still runs perfectly despite being nearly... oh wow it's nearly thirty. Christ.

this is like building your own chair and saying how easy it was compared to the cavemen while holding power tools, nails, and construction implements

awesome video dude, great job!,,

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Definitely looks authentic - Mel Brooks would be proud.

amazing how much information in less than 3 minutes. ! +1 new sub

My face just started to shine when you switched to an "old school" resolution. Great video :-)

This will be most likely be the next movement toward retro gaming.

I see we're using the "Draw the rest of the owl" school of learning

thank you so much for this tutorial i am so grateful

This is something I can imagine a lot of people wanting to do and you did it with free software that anyone can download and use on their computer, so brilliant job!

@MrEspaillat

3 жыл бұрын

What software is it?? I wanna do this

@lucascoimbra3478

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrEspaillat He used blender and godot

Damn, you predicted the twitter thing.

Dope! How long do you think it would take to recreate the last cutscene from the first kingdom hearts game by yourself? Those graphics blow my mind. And you should recreate the scene a ps1 version hahaha. Maybe you could make a series where you take certain cutscenes from games and recreate them as ps1 versions. I think it’d be dope

damn i never thought to make a 3d model you made this so much easier

nice breakdown!

Literally my ideal aesthetic tyvm

I was about to cry when you said retro graphics. It seems that people have started considering PS1 era games as retro which means I’m now officially old.

If you wanna nail the ps1 aesthetic, there are a few more things you can do. 1#. Simulate a lack of a z-buffer. The z-buffer tells the render engine what polygons to draw first and what ones to draw last depending on their distance from the camera. Lots of PS1 games had issues with this since the console didn't have a native way of doing this. If you've ever played a PS1 game, you might see that some polygons that are obviously behind other ones get drawn in front due to small errors. 2#. Get a shader that uses affine texture mapping. This will cause the textures to warp in strange ways depending on how the in-game camera looks at them. Affine texture mapping simply linearly maps the texture onto polygons without any care for perspective. The PS1 used affine texture mapping, so if you want to mimic the PS1 aesthetic, it'll be one of the things you'll need to use, but another tip in this tip, if you're gonna use this, you'll need to subdivide your meshes. Devs back on the PS1 did this to lessen the effect of affine texture warping, so if you wanna hit the aesthetic on the head, it'll be useful to take advantage of that too. Just remember not to make your meshes too high poly. 3#. Integer vertex snapping. The ps1 couldn't use decimal values for vertex positions, so it had to snap vertexes to screenspace Integer values. This cause the vertex snapping that we all remember. 4#. Colour Depth and Dithering. The PS1 could show 24 bits worth of colour or 16,777,216 different colours, but this mode was basically only for still image display. It was more common for games to use a 15-bit colour mode for actual gameplay. This means most games only had access to 32,768 colours during gameplay. If you want to simulate PS1 graphics, that's one thing you'll have to do. However, with such a small amount of colours, colour banding was basically a guarantee. To help with this, dithering is used to break up the banding and give the illusion of more colour. Personally, I'd only recommend using dithering on 3D graphics, but if you wanna use them on 2D art too, you do you. 5#. Vertex shading. The PS1 couldn't quite handle per-pixel shading, so it had to survive with vertex shading. This causes shadows to be calculated per vertex instead of per pixel. No doubt I've missed something or I've gotten something blatantly wrong, so if you have any input or a correction, please tell me!

Can you make a tutorial about importing a rigged character to blender with animations and stuff. Love your work btw!!

With modern technology and 4k graphics, we can replicate low poly playstation games but slightly less of an eyesore

I'm glad they bring this style back, PS1 style graphics were just a nostalgic coin in my saved data! There has to be more games like this!

I loved how concise this video was but what are the apps used ?

For PS1 look you'd need a texture filtering/distortion shader as well. I have it somewhere in my project since I also made a PS1 aesthetic prototype some time ago.

Only guy I've seen editing textures with inkscape

nice video broo!!! which software did you use to create the textures?

this graphical style (sans the resolution and aspect ratio part) is gonna be the 3D pixel art. I am extremely confident of this.

@1:51 The PS1 also supported hi-res modes. Wipeout 3: 720x480 (480i), and various other hi res modes like Ergheiz: 640x480, Tobal 1+2: 512x512 (which scaled to 640x480), Crash, Kain, Soulreaver, Quake2: 512x240, Tekken 3: 384x480 (also scaled to 640x480) The problem of course, these screen modes leave little texture space. Depending on the art direction, vertex colors alone would do the job...

id really love to see the tutorial of making that model

Oh my goodness now I wanna make ps1/ps2 graphics now. Thanks!

It looks great!.please do a full tutorial

I would love to play some sort of online multi-player 3rd person shooter in this style and a near future theme

joints were not connected in old 3D games because lack of proper skinning that would work in real time so it was easier to separate body into parts with pivots in joint spots and animate it like that...

This is very nice, but which app did you use to draw the anime face? I was looking for it.

what the hell do you mean easy. this is hell.

what software did you use at 0:45 second? thanks, nice tutorial.

I was sure this would be how to get the weird texture distortions the PS1 had.

Note for the Chads who want Saturn style visuals based on this video, instead of just PS1 or N64- Saturn was more color saturated than PS1 and also had no texture filtering, in addition, there would sometimes be flickering polys. 3D games on Saturn also had a more reflective look to their polys since the first party titles used what would later become Sonic Adventure's Lantern Engine lighting, palette based. Really good examples to reference are Burning Rangers and Panzer Dragoon Saga if you want to make something that looks nicer, or Tomb Raider and Sonic R if you're trying to go full Saturn faithful. Resolution for like 90% of games on the console was 320x240, but it also had a high res mode that a few games used at an absolute maximum of 704 X 480

What tools/programs are you using for modeling and textures and applying textures? i would love to do this myself but idk where to begin. I know how to use unity but I'm new to modeling

Thanks for sharing the low poly love! I want to give this a try now.

I really like this. Also I’m with you, I miss retro Graphics too.

textures are still filtered. fog should be dithered (i know it looks smooth on crt), add jittering due to lack of floating point unit and affine textures. can you emulate the software depth sorting in a simple shader??? or maybe fake it by rounding the depth value?

PS1 maximum resolution is actually 640x480 interlaced (in NTSC) but this was rarely used because the entire screen takes up part of the same video memory used to store textures, and there isn't much VRAM.

that's cool cheers fella

"so I learned how to draw a realistic woman in less than five minutes. It is surprisingly easy!" -Picasso

Love it, another thing that adds a lot to that retro aesthetic would be texture warping.

2 pretty important things if you wanna make it look as convincing as possible: 1. make a shader that rounds vertex positions in view space. This gives models that strange wobbliness as the ps1 didn't have floating point values for those positions (pretty sure, don't quote me on that) 2. Use affine texture mapping and subdivide your models on large flat surfaces. This gives textures that strange warped look as the camera gets closer.

@chaseyates3848

2 жыл бұрын

Great video btw!

What program are you using and where do you get to customize textures like that? Thanks

Loved the model

Hey ! This video is awsome . What S the program name

How would you advise to get started on this? And are you using Blender?

Cool, thanks for this. Honestly after growing up in the 80's and witnessing the 8bit wars and then the 16bit and into the 3d gaming world, not much has changed. For a while games were just being re created over and over with just better graphics. Today, the playing field is level and you have to make games with creativity, just showcasing what the GPU can do isn't enough anymore.

Did you try to keep the resolution low, and just apply a CRT filter? Ill bet it would look much better.

Some old games from PS2 era had special 16:9 mode that makes everything squashed. Then if you happen to have a 16:9 CRT or LCD the game looks nice and proportional. It works like anamorphic lens from 4:3 video camera and the final picture looks good on 16:9 TV Monitor or projector. The same way was working with funky resolutions that old consoles had but ratio standard was 4:3.

This is so cool!

1:57 Bro, Look at the graphics! OMG so cool!

This is magic

For anyone wanting to do stuff that could run on the real deal: Most textures in PS1 games were about 64x64 and often did not have more than 16 colours each, the models also had to be carefully designed to avoid depth sorting issues as it didn't have a Z-buffer, triangles close together would flip back and forth which one was in front/behind. You could have about 3000 triangles on screen at one time. Per pixel lighting (like the circular lights you get in unity or unreal) did pretty much not exist and was far too expensive. Instead you tended to see vertex lighting either baked on a model or dynamic.

It's so nice to see that other people in the world have the motivation to do fun things

this is some high quality garbaj yes i'm aware this probably isn't the first time someone's made the joke, though im new here so maybe idk

Very nice video and good job, i have PS 1 ah the memories....😍

0:34 well actually Kaze Emanuar talked about that in one of his videos, it was a problem with earlier microcodes of the n64 which got fixed later

you're growing fast boi B]

@garbaj

3 жыл бұрын

All according to plan >:)

Nobody animates the iconic artifacts of PlayStation 1 rendering. Popping polygons, extremely low resolution textures, fixed cameras, etc...

I can see this being a new trend for indie games like how pixel games are now. No complaints.

@eso29k

2 жыл бұрын

it kinda is, i seen a couple (mostly indie horror) games use this kinda style

@Simonthecat88

2 жыл бұрын

Anodyne 2 is a good example.

@sulphurous2656

Жыл бұрын

I'm not complaining. It is a tried and tested look. It allows one developer working on a project to focus more on actually creating the game and programming it rather than fiddling around for thousands of hours making photorealistic assets that can still look uncanny in the end. That way you can also spend more time on the gameplay features and art style instead and adding little things. Oh, and you can also run it on anything. So that is a bonus. And let's be real here, do most aspiring game developers who are just starting out with no programming experience really need those 8th gen AAA graphics to fulfill their vision in every scenario? Horror games especially come to mind here.

it is also needs something called, vertex/gouraud lighting most render engines nowdays uses phong lighting