Remember when retro game devs used photos as textures?

Remember dogshit threads? I do.

>dogshit
Hello zoomer.

>>11795245
I can’t believe dogs didn’t shit before the year 2010

It would actually make for a fun quiz trying to recognize different textures and skyboxes from retro games.

>>11795245
Doggy doo doo is the correct term for toddlerenials.

I really prefer the "sprite texture" style.

>>11795269
maryo 64?

you mean devs don't use photos for textures anymore?

Final Fantasy VIII

>>11795214 (OP)
Did any non-n64/pre-rendered background games do this.

>>11795304
Resident Evil
Sonic

>>11795303
lmao holy shit
how do people even find out this shit

>>11795245
Dogshit has always been a gen x term, get withe the times.

>>11795235
Lazy ass OP
>>11795345
Autism.

Any idea where Tekken might've gotten their textures from? Always thought this sky in the Tekken 4 airport stage was a beauty

The Doom stuff is well documented, but for those who don't know already id software did this extensively.
https://youtu.be/8L7v3vRA65E

>>11795214 (OP)
>>11795287
They still do, does OP think the devs for new games are drawing them by hand? This is only the case if it's a stylized game, realistic games all use photos for reference.

https://80.lv/articles/this-team-of-enthusiasts-is-discovering-sources-of-textures-from-retro-games

https://github.com/Render96/Render96Wiki/wiki/cobble_stone-%28The-Texture-of-Your-Childhood%29

>>11795214 (OP)
feel like this could still work today

>>11795214 (OP)
We use photogrammetry now retard. We use more photos as textures now more than ever. We only exclusively used drawn textures in the Amiga and pre i486 era when consumer computers weren't powerful enough to render high resolution high color textures.

>>11795285
Yup.

>>11795474
Banjo

>>11795483
Guh-huh, let's try a cropped image.

>>11795474
This isn't a photo, it's a pre-rendered model

>>11795537
You sound like a fun guy.

>>11795539
Oh well.

>>11795214 (OP)
Has a game dev ever snuck a picture of their own dick into a texture?

>>11795354
>walls made of arm hair and knees
>guns and environmental objects made from toy chainguns and PCBs
I should not have watched this.

>>11795271
I thought they actually say “dogwater” now

>>11795545
I heard someone scanned their balls into Sin? It was an FPS for PC. I could be completely wrong.

>>11795303
Explains why artists are so mad about AI stealing art... because it'll generate something close to what they'd steal before them.

>>11795596
Anyone smart realizes AI is god tier for asset creation like this. They likely had to pay a license to use that picture in FFVIII. Or they were like Capcom with Resident Evil 4 2005's logo, where they just stole it without permission and got sued 18 years later.

>slapping photo of real thing on polygon
soulless
>using AI to make textures
soulless
>hand drawing or pre-rendered textures
ahh, that's the stuff

>>11795539

>>11795605
Probably the latter. Early video game development was not known for its integrity.

>>11795245
Your brain is fried by your zoomer obsession.

haha did any game dev secretly insert their scrotum haha

eh? eh? EHHHH???

>>11795673
System Shock 2's Body of the Many level uses a texture derived from colonoscopy footage from one of the developers. The sphincter doors to be exact.

>>11795673
>>11795679
Why are western devs so gay?

>>11795578
they started saying that because some famous streamer said it to avoid being flagged for swearing if he said "dogshit"

>>11795707
being straight is considered oppressive in the west

>>11795506
thas bomberman hero

>>11795304
virtually every texture in Oblivion was photographed

>>11795214 (OP)
What about that RE4 remake where people went around and tried to find the actual real life doorways and european architecture and shit and re-photograph them at higher resolutions?

>>11795345
Artificial Intelligence

>>11795596
AIjeets can't bee this dumb.

>>11795214 (OP)
Wasn't a lot of OOTs music also open source or something?

But yeah, game devs are hacks and always have been.

>>11795558
you are now enlightened

>>11795720
Yeh.

>11795960
>>>/v/ is the bait board, anon

>>11795354
Ah yes, the rich jungly mountains of phobos

I believe RE4 and Half-life 2 to be some of the best looking games ever. Nothing beats photos as textures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbv-X8GwIE&ab_channel=lymphoid

>>11795214 (OP)
they still do, even the newest AAA game uses photos for the 2D textures on stuff like walls and the ground.

Slapping photos as is in the game like Sonic Adventure >>11795308
did looks absolutely awful. I've always thought this game looked awful. It's also lazy.

Good devs at the very least modified the photos with a pre-determined art direction so that they can all fit together.

It's like using stock sounds, everyone's heard the Doom door sound or the Battlelord cry from Duke Nukem 3D in several movies. Now devs that take stock sounds and modify them to make them more suitable for their games do not have this problem. It's weird Duke Nukem 3D didn't do that considering that they did modify the stock pictures they used for some of their textures, I suppose the difference is for textures they had no choice but to modify the photo to adapt it to their palette, which is why once the 6th gen lifted all restrictions and allowed to used stock photos as-is like Sonic Adventure it started to look like shit.

>>11795303
Bullshit. Where's the submarine?

Imagine how much better this board would be if there was a minimum 1000 characters typed before you can post a thread, and the jannies perma banned anyone who wrote threads like this.

>>11795235
This thread at least replaced one of them.

What’s the problem? This is a fun subject. I’m sorry that it’s not how to save the Sega Saturn, again, for the 4th time this week.

>>11795345
So in my experience when you are just scrolling through the net and stumble across one of the pictures your brain immediately yells out the game. Being a human you go "naw that ain't from the game, is it?" Then go check and sure enough that image is from some random ass cruise ship website or something idk. For me it was visiting yrop (specifically Spain and Italy) and being a massive fan of RE4 I found some of the exact spots Capcom took for textures. It's definitely an odd feeling seeing them in person

>>11798153
I think the issue is less the subject, and more the lazy ass "remember when x" format implying this isn't still commonly done now.

>>11798262
>implying this isn't still commonly done now.
It really isn't. Using photographs for texturing wholesale is discouraged in professional circles and most youtube tutorials don't ever teach it. They use Substance Painter or Marmoset Toolbag to generate textures without using photos. Even photogrammetry is often completely retextured.
There was some tutorial on youtube called "lazy blender tutorials" or something where all the guy did was use fotos for texturing wholesale like old devs did, and people in the comments were calling him a genius for that.
Modern artists just don't consider fotos at all.

>>11798476
Damn I'm a clueless tard then. I don't follow dev processes very closely so I wouldn't know.

>>11795784
So were the Max Payne games and GTA games.

>>11798160
What spots was that?

>>11795214 (OP)
They sold graphical asset cds in the 80-90s retardbro

>>11798160
>>11798634
that's exactly what the guy who made the HD texture mod did, he hunted down the textures of the game by looking at random walls from cities of Spain (and England if I remember right)

>>11795394
That model always freaked me out as a kid. I feel a little justified knowing it was an actual human body the photographed.

>>11801768
I wonder what that dude would think knowing that the face of his corpse has been immortalized in the hobo model on a million DarkRP servers.

>>11801768
I mean in hindsight it's pretty obvious that it used a real photo, just look at the detail on the teeth

>>11795960
>Wasn't a lot of OOTs music also open source or something?
A lot of the sounds used came from a sound library that they licensed. Not the same thing as open source.

>>11795235
You better start believing in them. You’re in one!

>>11800490
Japs are lazy bastards lol

>how do i make a succesful thread?
>i know! i will pretend to be retarded!