He's written a program which basically takes a polygonal model, and as it's rendering it looks at the size of the polygons if they're very small it says "there's no point texturing this, let's do it flat in just one color," and this way it saves processor time and helps keep the frame rate up. We've got one guy coming over to us from Sega who's very clever. In an interview during development, Pick elaborated on how the team intended to optimize the game for Saturn:Īt the moment on PlayStation, we've got six or seven circular images which appear to make the lens flare effect, but maybe we'll just have two or three on Saturn version to keep the frame rate up.
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In particular, he reasoned that the Saturn and PC versions would come out better if the programmers were trying to emulate impressive graphical effects on an extant PlayStation version than if they were designing the game around the hardware limitations of the Saturn. The PlayStation was chosen as the lead platform because Pick strongly felt that it was the most powerful format of the time. The larger models could not be built completely in RAM, so the team divided it into sections, designed a system to calculate which section to load next, and fixed the resultant errors by hand. For the Die Hard with a Vengeance segment, the team had wanted to use an authentic recreation of New York City, but found that when driving at 200 miles per hour, an accurate model of NYC felt too small and confining. Initially the Die Hard 2 segment of the game was developed with polygonal enemies, but they were later replaced with digitized sprites. The inexperienced team found they had taken on more than they could comfortably handle by promising three games in one, forcing them to make technical compromises as they went along. We’d implement a feature and the designer would write it up to send over to Fox as an update." We had a design document, but it was written after the fact. We knew the overall feeling we wanted and the various points we wanted to hit gameplay-wise. Lead programmer Simon Pick recounted, "There was no real design. įox Interactive exerted little creative control over the project, allowing the Probe team to be unrestrained and improvisational in their designs. Since Alien Trilogy was being published by Probe's new owner Acclaim Entertainment, technology and experienced personnel were prioritized towards Alien Trilogy, leaving Die Hard Trilogy to be developed by a small team of young programmers and designers working with Probe's oldest equipment. Probe were developing Alien Trilogy at the same time. The Die Hard with a Vengeance segment was developed first and was intended to be a standalone release, but publisher Fox Interactive insisted that the game should be more closely linked to the films, leading Probe to develop the other two segments. The game was developed by a UK-based development studio, Probe Entertainment.
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