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by jasonwatkinspdx 1420 days ago
No clue what people use today, but when I worked on a psx game 3D Studio Max was the the main choice, with Lightwave 3D having a lot of fans as well. Doing low poly modeling you basically just live between the edge split, rotate, merge, and vertex move tools, so it's incredibly important they have a low friction UI.
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yomkippur 1420 days ago
omg what game
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jasonwatkinspdx 1419 days ago
It was a never published port of Unreal to Playstation 1.

Interestingly enough the renderer was up and running. It was a lot more limited in triangle count than the PC version, hence a lot of fiddling with models.

In any case, the project fell apart for the usual disorganized management reasons.

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