The Simplest Guide to Ps1 Graphics In Blender

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@SunnyIsOnline 11 ай бұрын

This is a super scuffed tutorial that I just felt the need to upload since I did a lot of PSX renders, if you have any questions feel free to ask away, I'm gonna go back to animating more silly things for you great great goobers 😱 Edit: I did NOT expect this video to get so much attention, I promise I will respond to any questions you guys have even despite the viewcount, I like this stuff fr

@fab246 11 ай бұрын

How far does it squirt?

@SunnyIsOnline 11 ай бұрын

@@fab246 7 miles minimum

@fab246 11 ай бұрын

@@SunnyIsOnline dam bbby let me see 🤭

@mogo-wc7xw 10 ай бұрын

clicked because music posting

@0ver1de89 10 ай бұрын

never been too interested in this style besides for every time blender crashes anything high res. Super cool seeing a tutorial on a smaller topic that i always hear people saying they wish existed

@sbboh-kcin 10 ай бұрын

me staring at the pre-req saying "intermediate" and knowing full well I can barely delete the default cube: yeah this is the tutorial for me baby

@Aztrosist 10 ай бұрын

VERY COOL VISUALS

@theewl6xer166 4 ай бұрын

aztrosist spotted 🗣️🔥🙏

@redssign 10 ай бұрын

clicked and watching exclusively because of alex and astrid in the thumbnail, glorious glorious human

@pretzel1313 6 ай бұрын

Are they his own models or are they from a game? They look great. Also what are they from?

@keygenrosie 6 ай бұрын

@@pretzel1313they’re from the Sleep Deprived Podcast.

@TitozThing 8 ай бұрын

YOURE THE GUY WHO MADE THE FEMTANYL ANIMATION thats so sick and this tutorial is so helpful omg

@jmalmsten 10 ай бұрын

A lot of PS1 games kind of circumvented the problem of deforming by just doing action figure like segmented models. For example, the arms and head of Solid Snake were their own geometries that clipped into each other. Using clothing as guides is probably a good approach. And you still need to keep a an eye out for surplus polygons. Like, bottom of the neck, never gonna see it. So why waste polygons on it. And flat image planes with alpha textures means you can do a fairly detailed knife blade of one or two polygons. Another popular trick is to use a flat plane with a circular texture, if you always orient it towards the camera, you get a perfect pixellated sphere with just two triangles. If the hardware can remap the texture coordinates on the fly, you can fake a highlight, glare and shadow on that "sphere". And, I guess they could also write some compensating code that moves the edge loops during deformation to preserve volume. Another approach, I guess, would be to detach the vertices of the back of the knee at high deformation animations, so the leg bits can keep their volume and just clip into each other. But. If you know there's gonna be a lot of knee bending, it might be worth the extra polys to just get one extra edge loop at the knee. Especially if you can fake geometry somewhere else on the model to compensate. There are a lot of very clever ways these modelers and animators used to fake geometry and details for low spec hardware.

@Hatsworthful 10 ай бұрын

There's a fair number of tricks you could do with textures aswell, Megaman legends had plenty of face textures made just to "cheat" out more angles out of simpler charcter model structures. Also the way ND made crash bandicoot look as good as it did is an interesting dive for this sort of thing, but definetly out of the scope of most folks trying to emulate ps1 graphics.

@nidgithm 8 ай бұрын

I never thought of that when I was making low poly models, thanks for pointing that out

@SquigglyP 8 ай бұрын

So a lot of old software engines would store the vertex locations for each vertex in a model for each frame and just lerp between them by looking at the ms difference between the two frames and the time elapsed. That's how a lot of older engines did it (and a lot of the games that used non-segmented models on the PS1-era consoles), but by the early 2000s it started becoming much more efficient to just do the skeletal animation as part of your engine's animation system. It tended to look better and the mesh densities were getting to a point where it was a major resource inefficiency to store the positions for each vert individually and instead just do the math compared to the skeletal deformation. You just store the skeletal info and maybe some vertex animation to tweak things. There are some later-era PS1 games that actually do a really good job of making every frame of vertex animation count on the PS1, like Soul Reaver, the Spyro games, etc. I always preferred that method of animation for lowpoly, but it's one of those techniques that's so outdated that doing it today is actually kinda difficult cause the tools don't really support it that easily anymore. Like, "Why would you want to do it that way!?" sort of thing. But then you lose a lot of the ability that you have with skeletal, like being able to do procedural or physics-based animation, re-using animations over multiple models (and modular models) etc. Our tools are generally better now, but unless you tweak lowpoly animations a lot, they will tend to look way worse in motion today than they used to.

@Rayo75 10 ай бұрын

Femtanyl mentioned 🗣🔥🔥

@skalor231 10 ай бұрын

MUSIC POSTING PODCAST!!

@astrut 8 ай бұрын

mikasacus

@skade245 2 ай бұрын

the PS1 only had rigid body linear animations and many games used limbs that were separate objects because of this. It allows for limb movement without deformation at the cost of making your model look more like an action figure.

@Floreum 10 ай бұрын

You can do dithering in Blender compositor as well, you just need to get a dither texture image. How I do it is after Pixelating the image I use a dither image node (4x4 bayer pattern looks great) > Translate node (Wrap set to Both Axes) > Translate connected to Mix RGB Factor and set to Add. Top color input slot is your render result, bottom is your render also but with a HSV node to control how intense the dithering is. Then connect the Add to another Mix RGB color top input and set to Mix, bottom input is your render result again. The factor is your opacity for the dithering. Then connect to whatever color clamping setup you've got or your final render result. Unfortunately this will look scuffed in the real-time compositor, so make sure you are looking at an actual render to preview the result.

@SunnyIsOnline 10 ай бұрын

I could not for the LIFE of me find a way to do this natively in blender, genuinely thank you 😭😭

@daveloomis 10 ай бұрын

Was just about to post the same thing.

@puepeupeu 10 күн бұрын

Screenshotting the fuck out of this, thank you!

@jamzee_ 10 ай бұрын

Im still in the process of even making a first model, let alone trying to animate or anything else. Definitely a motivation booster.

@fetch7312 9 ай бұрын

dude idk how but ur channel is like the convergence of my hyperfixations and its crazy. You got Ultrakill, Femtanyl, Music Posting, and Sleep Deprived related content on your channel and its like the perfect combination of shit im hyperfixating on

@gohchi 9 ай бұрын

The nervous silence at 15:35 was priceless LOL. Cool stuffs!

@zoltanracz9105 10 күн бұрын

The scale node inherently has anti-aliasing in it. In order to have the compositing pixelation make a true nearest neighbor effect, use transform nodes instead of scale. It took me a while to figure this out and it's way easier than people think, I wonder why nobody talks about it.

@Karter55 10 ай бұрын

blender knowledge "intermediate" okay bye

@dove_shampoo2957 5 ай бұрын

I watched this just cuz I’m kinda interested but I don’t plan on doing anything with it

@homborgor 3 ай бұрын

Cya

@steverye8872 2 ай бұрын

Don't give up! I spent years trying to learn blender, followed tutorials, experimented, explored the counter intuitive UI that changes drastically with almost every update, learned a lot of esoteric terms for simple geometric functions, tried (and failed)about 300 times to build the simplest possible low poly humanoid, finally did the donut tutorial (I always thought it was beneath me despite having no skills whatsoever) and now after countless hours and forcing myself to spend an hour a day ( 30 minutes building simple models, 30 minutes flipping switches and twisting knobs to see what happens to them) I can make decent looking buildings and racetracks. I swear Blender is magic, you can make it do anything you just need to know how to tell it what to do. If I can do it, you can. And you're probably not a complete idiot like I am!

@CryptToneMusic Ай бұрын

@@steverye8872 I'm trying to learn blender too it's so overwhelming and I'm only interested in it to make things that look PS1 style and the controls and all the buttons and options are so confusing 😂 I managed to rip a model from one of my PS1 games and I got it loaded in blender and I'm like okay now what 😂

@Antonwalnuts Ай бұрын

"i-i need.. skill? and THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF DEDICATION!? BYE!"

@lofeAbred 10 ай бұрын

You know what you're doing, period. Links in the description including one to gimp, never expected that, and just an awesome rewatchable video. Thank YOU.

@Happy156 11 ай бұрын

the last time i tried to use blender i couldn't figure out how to make a texture for 8 hours. but your voice is incredible so i'm watching the full video anyways

@jass783 10 ай бұрын

thank you so much for this. there are a lot of videos out there going over this topic but none really explained the depth behind the techniques that you did with this amount of conciseness, and the reasons why some things look the way they do. i'll be having this open the whole time i do my first project like this :)

@Kn.77 10 ай бұрын

This is the exact guide I was looking for!!! Thank you :D

@victorianomas89 10 ай бұрын

Music Posting and Femtanyl fan spotted! Good tutorial, very helpful!

@DonChups 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for this guide. Not only useful in step by step, also explaining why those steps are needed.

@AtanoKSi 10 ай бұрын

for the deformation on bending legs and such, a lot of times legs and arms and such are separated in different parts, so when one moves, it doesn't actually bend, it just moves a piece, like an articulated toy

@equinox1353 3 күн бұрын

Just adding something about the texture, I recommand to always keep the pixel size of an image square and something that is 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 pixels large caus if you use it in an engine it will perform better

@ThisIsDownstate 10 ай бұрын

very nice. i have been doing these graphics for a year now but still learnt something. i always wanted to mimic the vertex shadows so thanks for showing that so clearly. i would also give a shout out for the dripspsx add-on, its really good value for 18 bucks. cheers

@carlomazzoli 8 ай бұрын

The vertex wobble is amazing

@MichaelLuckhardt 10 ай бұрын

Golden tut my dude. Thanks for sharing your wobbly secrets.

@rob0nemusic369 Ай бұрын

You can get the dithering compositing effect with Aseprite ( go to sprite > color mode > more options. You can have an animated dithering using Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion dithering )

@lanniekin 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much! I didn't even know about Model Resource, so that was awesome to discover and wander through :)

@freddy.is.in.space.6 9 ай бұрын

Why do I keep watching blender tutorials... my pc cant even handle blender... i love these though-

@jannikf2504 10 ай бұрын

Lock Camera to View when you're difining your camera composition! It's in the N-menu under view and I recommend you add it to the Q-menu

@rosevolkov1943 10 ай бұрын

this is AMAZING im so excited to get better at blender just so i can learn these skills ty!!!

@pinkbalem 9 ай бұрын

Incredible video man, just helped me a ton. Thank you, the research behind it does not go unnoticed.

@drakbak9107 10 ай бұрын

That's insane! You explained the baked lighting super well. Are you going to cover how they animated the characters next? I saw you explained how the model deformed incorrectly but I am very much interested in how you could animate such a low poly model properly.

@SunnyIsOnline 10 ай бұрын

I haven't actually looked too hard into animation, the scene I created was animated like i'd animate anything else. If I had to guess though, I'm assuming they probably animate the least axes of rotation as possible. So if you needed a character to raise their arms, instead of animating the intricate shoulder movement and maybe the torso stretching, you'd just animate the arms rotating straight up on the Z axis. If it was up to me though, I'd just animate like I normally do! It's more fun ;)

@DurumAmigos 10 ай бұрын

I have to start getting into shading and modeling and I loved this vid, im kinda scared about everything I have to learn but this video made me feel more interested in it. Congrats, keep it up!

@cleopatrxb 9 ай бұрын

holy shit i've been looking for something exactly like this for months!! thank you amazing

@horndog-p 10 ай бұрын

great video, i’ve been down the psx rabbit hole and this is easily the greatest and most straightforward walkthrough !

@ThatNoLifeArtist 9 ай бұрын

Actual legend I didn't even think to use vertex colours for the shadows

@pixelzwithaz 11 ай бұрын

I LOVE LOW POLY

@Adelious_ 8 ай бұрын

Hey, thats awesome and made me wanna make some project ! Also I'm very in love with you scene style in 00:32.

@SunnyIsOnline 8 ай бұрын

You can thank @SplendidMeepers for the absolutely wonderful original art I based that render on, they created so much of what makes that scene appealing!

@WeaselOnaStick 10 ай бұрын

5:41 in this case you can just select all faces and use UV -> Reset

@qualityhardwarestore1676 7 ай бұрын

this is such a sick tutorial!!!! I've been wanting to know how to vertex paint for so long, so thanks for breaking it down in such a fantastic way :D you are a legend

@nidgithm 8 ай бұрын

ive been trying and struggling to good guides, thank you

@staxie 10 ай бұрын

“Low poly isn’t as hard as you think” it was harder than I thought when I created my first low poly character 😅

@DommoDommo 10 ай бұрын

I was hoping to see how you modeled that couple sitting together instead. Video was fine, but totally do one on that though!!

@mogo-wc7xw 10 ай бұрын

das aztrosist and mikasaurs from music posting

@boscorner 10 ай бұрын

Im buyin that plugin at the end Affine texture mapping is what makes ps1 look ps1, imo.

@CalebTibster 11 ай бұрын

Ayo, this rocks! Totally gonna try a PSX style render!

@bijikedelai 10 ай бұрын

Oooh this is what i need. Bookmark it for later

@deegandoesthings 5 ай бұрын

This is the most helpful tutorial I've ever watched - thanks so much!!!!!

@themextor 10 ай бұрын

I love everything about this video, thank you! It actually gave me the motivation to carry on with the donut, gotta take the baby steps. I promise myself to comeback to this video! :D

@fullcapsethan 10 ай бұрын

ive started learning blender to model lowpoly characters, this video is extremely useful thank you!!!

@GinoZump 10 ай бұрын

the way I researched of making the vertices wobble was to add a displacement modifier set to minimal strenght (texture set to disorted noise: cell noise, make the size big) and make the object coordinates controlled by the camera

@izaakbecker4263 10 ай бұрын

Killer tutorial, earned a subscriber, keep it up man!

@LostTerminalVideos 11 ай бұрын

This is a really well produced and high quality tutorail! Keep up the great work as always!

@GeorgiaSmalls3517 10 ай бұрын

5:32 if you select all of the faces in edit mode, instead of unwrapping each face individually, you can just click "reset" at the bottom of the menu, and it will do the same thing.

@DrThobOfficial 11 ай бұрын

Amazing!!

@dongodongo12 10 ай бұрын

I swear to got the fucking vertex lighting thing, i have been looking for that for a while and never got a straight answer as to how to do it, i love you

@thebeluvdtrex 8 ай бұрын

I had no idea there was a models resource! I only ever used spriters resource.

@Tyliuge 10 ай бұрын

Very helpful tutorial, Im excited to try this out

@GHOSERDUDE 10 ай бұрын

I din't even plan to make any 3d stuff again, but this video is so good. Now I'm actually considering to come back to 3d modeling.

@myriadrhea 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the interesting video! Honestly didn't expect to find content like this and will definitely give the resource site a check. Had a good nostalgia trip a while back to bomberman fantasy race, possibly my favourite childhood game and wanted to remake it in both modern style and also a fan remake in its original style with a new theme. 👍

@Pingu568 11 ай бұрын

Really great video! Also love the music posting models!

@Zinkquer 8 ай бұрын

my favorite person to go to for ancient looks

@gabrielangeliccc 11 ай бұрын

I love sunny online

@LandonEmma 8 ай бұрын

To make a good PS1 model you must make characters like it was the 90s

@endostatic7687 7 ай бұрын

I love this

@duhhbread 9 ай бұрын

Great video! Mannnnnn we need another one!!!🔥

@Ojama_ 10 ай бұрын

rad introduction to the subject

@calimber 8 ай бұрын

SO GLAD this found me, i love these old graphics so much especially when their used for horror and im trying to learn modeling to recreate these :D is that yume nikki ost in the bg?

@SunnyIsOnline 8 ай бұрын

Indeed it is!!

@_Braised 6 ай бұрын

This is just amazing- I learned a lot, thank you heaps. That note of yours about the N64 visual style was fascinating- do you think you could do a similar start-to-end tutorial specific to the N64's higher poly but lower res texture style?