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NuXCOM_90Percent ,

Just from the screenshots in the tweet/article:

I would argue that is less transparency and more overlaying the skybox texture. In the city map with the Pinky you can’t actually see anything behind that wall, you just see the skybox.

Could just be “bad” examples but this makes sense. My understanding is that PC DOOM tended to use additive geometry in these cases so that the skybox is literally just a bigass box around the map. Whereas I assume the Saturn version had to do some magic to fit everything and may have used a different technique. Hence the ability to just overlay that texture over everything.

scutiger ,

IIRC Doom didn’t have a skybox per se, just parallax ceiling textures. You could put that texture on floors or ceilings and it would show the sky texture that would not be attached to the walls.

NuXCOM_90Percent ,

The texture was definitely funky and I want to say was used as the ground portal in a lot of Ep3 levels.

But I THINK that was still applied to a giant box on the edges of the map. Which is how a lot of games still do that.

AlbinoPython ,

idkfa iddqd

psilotop ,

Idclip OR idspispopd depending on Doom 1 or 2

EvilBit ,

Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris!

drasglaf ,
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idbehold

jordanlund ,
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Particularly interesting in that the Saturn had known problems with transparencies.

Davel23 ,

I'm not sure I would call it "problems", but doing transparencies on the Saturn required leveraging VDP2 and most developers just didn't bother.

jordanlund ,
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Yup. Sega had it figured out and enabled Fishbowl Head in Virtua Fighter Kids, but it was out of the reach of 3rd party developers.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/22b54609-229e-4905-92c3-1a794309fec5.png

shinratdr ,
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Is that transparency? Looks like the same dithering/alternating empty pixels that all Saturn ports are plagued with.

jordanlund ,
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Oh, but it’s what passes for transparency on the Saturn. :)

Mozingo ,
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Yea, that’s specifically not transparency. Megaman X 4 had actual transparencies, which you can see here with the glass tube, next to a spotlight using the dithering method.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63b71569-10de-48ec-9d5a-2d75a2595ec7.png

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