Re:Microsoft Pix
by jandrese on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:10PM
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The Pix version looks like one of those old computer games when they wanted to animate some wind, but cut only afford to animate a handful of sprites on the screen. So everything is stiff as a board except for some flipping scarves/hair/etc...
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Re:Microsoft Pix
by vanderZwan on Monday September 12, 2016 @06:56PM
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I think you're referring to color cycling, and it's a much interesting technology than just a handful of sprites:
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
I think that effect (of having a large static background with a few small sprite overlays providing motion) was largely orthogonal to color cycling.
They're talking about the more general effect of a complete hand-drawn background with mobile sprites/items layered on top (usually with somewhat different color palette &al, so you'd "see the seams" so to speak between what would or had moved and the actual immoveable background)
Kind of like the SF2 Ryu victory pose (except in that case, it's intentional, and makes him look badass, not creepy).
[1] http://street-fighter-sprites.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Street...
