Naughty Dog really went crazy with stuffing as much as they could into the PS1. Of all the 3D games from that era, Crash has probably aged the best. A great look into how they pulled it off!

Geez, the job animating for this game must have been nightmarish, kudos to Naughty Dog for sticking with it!!

Love when this channel uploads :D

I'm really impressed with Shenmue's NPCs and their in-built GPS, would love an episode about that. Great work btw.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Crash's model uses vertex colors instead of a diffuse map right? This is why textures don't get blurred during deformation. Just another example of why Crash was such a unique case.

Aww yes the series is back baby!

YES! A new video from CGJ :D

You're back?! :D Please don't go away again!

wow glad you're back! please continue what you're doing!

I always wondered how Insomniac achieved the portals and level transitions in Spyro 1. Particularly the way the skyboxes in the portal rotate relative to the player and the overall seemlessness of the level transitions.

We have missed you

I fucking love this channel so much.

I like the fact that when he spins, it's a completely different model.

had a crash bandicoot ad on a crash bandicoot video... awesome

I got a Crash Bandicoot add! I did not skip that add!

Welcome back dude!

+ClassicGameJunkie I have 3 suggestions for videos: Procedural animations a la "Grow Home". Loved that game, and the animations were cute. The damage to vehicles in "Carmagedon 2", they even split the mesh sometimes! And when you repair your car, all the dents slowly pop out, it's mesmerizing. How do they do the damage in the first place? Infinite procedural world optimizations. It's easy to make a bunch of cubes appear on screen like in Minecraft, but then even very powerful computers can't handle rendering that. I get the general idea of how that is done, but I like how you explain things, so there's another idea.

I'd love it if you could break down how Impossible Creatures allowed the player to select body parts to be assigned to a unit and then determine what the animation, models and textures would look like.

i know a good idea for an episode of "How Did They Do That" , how does undertale remember your deleted saves, how does it manipulate them so much without corrupting them?

I thought that this channel was dead, I'm so happy that I stayed subscribed.

HE RETURN

I'm glad I discovered your channel. Love these short and informative videos! The only point of criticism I have is to maybe use a better mic because can sometimes be hard to understand you for non-native speakers like me. Oh and that little fun fact about crash's model being shrunk down when he blows up was pretty cool!

"How Did They Do That?" applies to this entire game, to be honest. Good Heavens.

Here's one that I can't figure out. How do they do the destructible terrain in Worms. I guess a 2D boolean array representing every pixel could work but that can't be practical.

MYSTERY CAVES

How did Blizzard achieved such a big, seamless world in WoW without loading times in between Areas? Awesome content, I'm always happy when another video comes up.

the sand in journey

Awesome Video!

It hurts my *soul* when I see those wumpas getting left behind...

nice seeing that the show is not dead

I've always been curious about the various fur/fuzz shaders used in games like Star Fox Adventures, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Super Mario Galaxy, DKC Returns: Tropical Freeze, and Yoshi's Woolly World.

Epic Mickey's Paint and Thinner mechanic.

Yay! Another video!

You should do one about how games like Tommi Makinen Rally and Tomb Raider 2 managed to do "pseudo real-time reflections" on PS1 in some surfaces.

love these videos so much

If you guys can, I'd love to see something on Kingdom Hearts, Specifically how the shadows enter and exit their ground crawling animation where they can't be hit.

We miss you

I would love to know how the coin bag is done in Kingdom and Kingdom New Lands. Not only is it a wonderful subtle gameplay mechanic its a beautiful bit visual as well.

imagine doing morph target animation on a modern high poly character

What about Okamis ink? How is the ink screen (the scroll showing the scene) made? And how does the drawing of a circle by the player create a bloom effect after the screen is removed?

You earned yourself a subscriber mate! I challenge you to the technology behind From Dust (Simulation game). ;) Have a great day!

Welcome back! I would like to know how "the taken - shield of darkness" from Alan Wake was made. Thank you.

Particle effects from InFAMOUS Second Son.

please upload more ;-; I love this series

As bad as Jurassic Park Trespasser was, I've wondered how they did the animations for the dinosaurs

How's this? The 2D sprite wheels from Diddy Kong Racing that are made to look 3D.

The person talking sounds a bit like bazamalam

The sand in Journey or Bound?

woohoo coment 19: Could you do the ink in splatoon?

But wouldn't bones need _less_ memory than storing the movement of each individual vertex? At the cost of having to process the mesh deformation in real time?

How did they do Starfox Adventure's fur / grass animation ?

This channel has a lot of potential. Contact Shesez, Beta64 and A+Start. You pretty much belong in that group. Extremely nice idea and channel. Good content, and not a lot of subs. You deserve WAY more subs.

So THAT'S how they did that...

Hier did they do the 3d effect from Super Mario Kart?

This could be used to give Crash a show. Crash needs his own show just like the Skylanders have. We all want Crash Bandicoot show.

THEY USED WISDOM!!!

Please do a video on the partial effect on kindom hearts

got a new idea...what about yoshis island...when you run into one of the spores everything starts to become distorted. this is not only visually but also affects the gameplay... HOW DID THEY DO THAT?

the scarab in Halo 3

What software did u use to animate the crash model?

I want to know how the main mechanic in katamari damacy work on a technical level.

2:13 I have NEVER seen that!

been over a year....

Based on some of the "making of" videos, I think Overwatch uses a similar method for it's animation too!

Dude, you got something very fundamentally wrong here. The animations were not moved to be vertex morph based because of memory usage. Using bones for animations you use magnitudes less memory to store an animation, let alone one that is "baked" for each frame. The issue here was that the CPU couldn't handle the extra math required to flatten matrix hierarchies to determine each vertex's final position, which is entirely eliminated if the position of the vertex is what's stored in the animation data. The difference is between animating the position/rotation/scale of

Breath of Fire IV! :D

ClassicGameJunkie, what 3D program did you use to pose crash's vertices? Thanks.

Yeah, I knew they had to pull off some weird trick to achieve what Crash Bandicoot does. CB was just too much to handle for the PSX. So much, it's practically obvious that most of the weight fell onto the programmers' shoulders.

When do you plan to return?

Is it to save memory are you sure? bone take much less to animate than vertex, but they are expensive in transform. Think about it, each vertex is a triplet of variable to make a coordinate, so is the bone, bone give you just a few vertices frame to store over a whole mesh, hence why they are use so much.

Question who is this and what game is she from? 0:59

i prefer bone models, i never done entire vertex model

1000th like!

I'm really, really happy you noticed that Crash Bandicoot was originally based on the Tex Avery cartoons. You have some good, interesting content, but you've earned my subscription simply by noticing that detail.

I think the Rare N64 platformers did a much better job at cartoony animation. Curious why you picked Crash for this.

Please make more vids

Good video but god that gameplay

Any chance to revive the series? Maybe launching a patreon to support it?

why did you stop making videos ;-;

Almost, but not quite... Rigged animations uses LESS system memory than baked animations. Baked animations use MORE memory, because each frame of animation is stored explicitly, each frame of animation is essentially stored as another model. Whereas rigged animation stores one frame (usually a t-pose), and interpolates the rest. Rigged animations weren't common during the ps1 era because it's expensive to compute on the CPU. You must first interpolate bone positions, then interpolate vertex positions using the weight maps. This is expensive, as this has to be done for each vertex. Nowadays all this is done on the GPU, so yay! Also: squash and stretch can be handled with bone animations. $100 says Naughty Dog used 95% bone animations, then baked them out. BTW, what the hell are "tri intersection points"? you are supposed to be explaining stuff, not inventing new jargon. It's not even correct jargon, the triangles don't intersect, they just meet.

This is a load of bollocks. Baked vertices use MORE memory not less. It saves CPU, while enabling the PSX to display the more complex animations. Therefore what you should be explaining is how it was stored in memory (i.e. the compression method used) so that it could fit within the PSX's small 2MB of main RAM.

First?

Screw this fanbase.