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Ophaque
@ophaque.bsky.social
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Age: 21 || 3D Generalist/Optimization Obsessive | optimize your crap content or ill break your spine over my knee like a glow stick

If you like low-fidelity 3D video games and art, there is a very good chance we'll get along. Also, I use Blender.
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ophaque.bsky.social
Have this gargoyle cat. She normally does nothing but stare at people in the hallway. I managed to catch her being cute.

I can't imagine what you must be going through, so hopefully this makes you day at least a little bit better.
A photograph of a gray cat loafing on a wooden cat-shelf mounted onto a windowsill. Her front paws are dangling off the side, in front of her. She is cute.
September 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
That polygon you're wondering about is on the back of the grip, which is meant to give the pistol a more rounded silhouette. I've circled it.

Also, I tried out your suggestions, and I think it loses too much thickness for it to be worth it. If I were making a LOD model, I would do those first.
January 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
ophaque.bsky.social
I'd love to hear any potential suggestions you have to cut down the polygon count. Here's the pistol with the wireframe turned on. Currently 106 triangles (minus the "muzzle flash").

Keep in mind, with the limitations I'm working under, transparency isn't possible.
January 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
This is gonna be the muzzle flash for this gun whenever it fires. Due to strict polygon limits, I only had one singular triangle to spare.

(LWS 32 textures made by tulie3d.bsky.social)

#Blender #Blender3D #LowPoly #3DModeling
A low-fidelity 3D model of an LWS 32 pocket pistol. The muzzle flash is a triangle in front of the barrel with a low-resolution, public domain explosion sprite on a green background. On top of the explosion sprite, there is text that says "i ran out of polygons" in all-lowercase.
January 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
Can't forget the other sticker.
This is a 3D model of an LWS 32 pocket pistol with a homemade sticker slapped onto the right side of the slide, below the engraved text. The sticker is a simple drawing of a bunny, with human lips and a hand with long, painted nails photoshopped on.
December 21, 2024 at 9:12 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
I wanna see more cool fake reflections in video games. I hate screen-space reflections, cubemaps CAN look terrible if used in the wrong context, and raytracing is inaccessible.

The art of making fake reflections is so rare now, that one of the only modern examples I can think of is Atomic Heart.
A screenshot from the video game Atomic Heart. The screenshot depicts a "fake" reflection technique used in a large, open room with a high ceiling, by duplicating most of the room, flipping it to the other side of the floor, and then making the floor transparent. Screen Space Reflections are also in use, to reflect character models and smaller objects that weren't mirrored with geometry. Without the transparent floor technique, looking down would remove the reflection entirely, because there would be nothing on the screen for SSR to reflect. Even raytracing wouldn't do the job, because the ceiling is too high. This technique was extremely popular during the 5th and 6th generation of console systems (PS1, N64, and Dreamcast, up to PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.) A screenshot from the video game Atomic Heart. The screenshot depicts a "fake" reflection technique used in a large, open room with a high ceiling, by duplicating most of the room, flipping it to the other side of the floor, and then making the floor transparent. Screen Space Reflections are also in use, to reflect character models and smaller objects that weren't mirrored with geometry. Without the transparent floor technique, looking down would remove the reflection entirely, because there would be nothing on the screen for SSR to reflect. Even raytracing wouldn't do the job, because the ceiling is too high. This technique was extremely popular during the 5th and 6th generation of console systems (PS1, N64, and Dreamcast, up to PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.)
October 22, 2024 at 12:42 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
The most baffling thing about Board Game Top Shop is that it's genuinely great.

It's basically the simplified rules from Fortune Street, but you're buying mall shops. The music is great, the visuals are cute and charming, I like it!

Which begs the question, WHY WAS THE FRONT COVER A 240p JPEG-
A screenshot from the PS1 video game, Board Game Top Shop. The game is basically a few different floors of a mall, where you buy a mall shop that players must buy from if they land on it. You can expand your shop by buying the space next to it. You have to keep your shops stocked with items, or other players may have the chance to buy them to replace the shop with their own. Buying shops and earning money increases your Net Worth. Whoever reaches the goal Net Worth wins.
October 18, 2024 at 4:20 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
Even better, this is what Seventh Cross looks like.
This is a screenshot of the Dreamcast game, Seventh Cross: Evolution. Unfortunately, it looks like a Nintendo 64 tech demo was ported to Dreamcast by a development team that had never seen another 3D video game in their lives. If you're relying on these alt texts for context, I'm sorry, but it's very difficult to describe what this screenshot contains. Every surface is an obnoxious, ugly, repeating texture that looks awful. The environment is just a shallow pond that leads into a cave. The current player character is a slightly man-shaped creature with crab legs and a fish head. This game looks hideous.
October 18, 2024 at 4:11 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
Seventh Cross: Evolution hooked me for a different reason. The case I found in the store didn't have a back cover, but it DID have the manual. So, curious, I looked through the manual, and found this:

If "How to Play on the Screen" didn't hook me enough, "360º full polygon fields" absolutely did.
A screenshot of text from the manual for the Dreamcast game, Seventh Cross: Evolution. The text reads "How to Play on the Screen: Seventh Cross consists of 360º full polygon fields. To move, use the Direction button. Up, left, right, and down on the button represent movement forward, left, right, and backward, respectively. If you press the B button, the Command window opens." I did not make any typos. That's exactly how it's written.
October 18, 2024 at 4:03 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
With Spider... I mean, the front cover is a spider holding a shotgun and a combat knife. I can't NOT pick it up!
A high-quality scan of the front cover for the PS1 video game, Spider. It features a hyper-realistic spider holding a combat knife and a shotgun.
October 18, 2024 at 3:55 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
With SwagMan, I took a look at the back of the case, and...

I'm sold.
A photograph of the back of the case for SwagMan, featuring multiple screenshots of top-down gameplay, and a 3D render of two extremely janky-looking kids. A zoomed-in photograph of two poorly-rendered 3D models of the kid protagonists in the PS1 game, SwagMan.
October 18, 2024 at 3:53 AM
ophaque.bsky.social
I think I have a new fixation. I keep finding these old games that give off really questionable first impressions in one way or another.

It could be the name, the pictures on the back, a line of text in the manual, or even the front cover.

I can't resist trying these games out, and I need more.
A photograph of the PlayStation 1 game, SwagMan. The front cover features a creepy figure with glowing yellow eyes wearing a fedora, looking directly at the camera with a cartoonishly evil smile. The background is pitch black. A photograph of the PlayStation 1 video game, Spider. The front cover features a hyper-realistic spider holding a combat knife and a shotgun. The background is pitch black. A photograph of the Sega Dreamcast video game, Seventh Cross: Evolution. The front cover is a picture of a dark red planet over a pitch-black background. A photograph of the obscure PlayStation 1 video game, Board Game Top Shop. The cover features 3 illustrated chibi/anime style characters standing in a default pose. The background is a zoomed-in 240p JPEG, which is a screenshot of gameplay. No, that's not hyperbole, that's an accurate description.
October 18, 2024 at 3:48 AM