#Texturing in games

[auntiealiasing]

Early Texturing in Games

For the first arcade game with textures, Ridge Racer is one hell of a showing! Something like this running at 512x384 at 60FPS in '93 would only be matched when the Dreamcast released in 1998

The first game with hardware texturing was surprisingly in the home space: The aptly-named Crash 'n Burn for the 3DO, which came out with the system a few days before Ridge Racer that October. It would be the only 3DO game released in 1993. I don't know for sure, but I have a hunch that its extremely linear gameplay suggests it might be using a system where the vertices (polygon edge points) of the track/environment are pre-calculated and used for when the system actually draws the polygons at runtime, similar to Winter Gold ('96, SNES) or the intro of Silpheed ('86, NEC PC-8801mkIISR)

The first games to use texturing period were both software-rendered DOS games: Catacomb 3D and Ultima Underworld in '91 and '92 respectively.

Catacomb 3D is an Id Software game inspired by an early showing of Ultima Underworld at CES 1990, and it uses a software raycasting engine that would later be popularized by Wolfenstein 3D, Doom 1&2, and Duke Nukem 3D. Only the walls are textured, but hey, it was early days

Ultima Underworld uses a software polygon renderer and is fully textured. It ended up directly inspiring Tomb Raider, and it's not hard to see why. Aside from the tiny viewport, severe texture warping and 2D objects, it's pretty comparable to King's Field 1 from '94 on the PS1!

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