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[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The characters and environments in Fallout and JA2 are basically still frames (sprites) of 3D models at specific angles. They were rendered once on a powerful development machine, and converted to sprites for our lowly Pentiums and Voodoos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Aren't all sprites prerendered? What is the alternative, hand drawn ones? That would go waaay back...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It wouldn't really. Hand-drawn sprites are pretty standard even today - whether they're hand-pixelled (Stardew Valley) or frame-by-frame animation (Spiritfarer).