Every time I stumble upon this I end up losing an hour.

The Rare era Nintendo 64 games are particularly interesting from a graphical stand-point, as Rare really got the most out of the N64's limited texture cache by blending textures with vertex colours.

In Banjo-Kazooie its mostly for used as a primitive baked-lighting (Mad Monster Mansion being a great example of this.) But by the time you get to DK64, they're really working overtime to leverage vertex colours to add variety to the textures and help blend texture edges.

People refer to N64's blurry textures as its signature look, but I think what Rare did with vertex colours is really what most people think when they remember back to the N64.

(Would love to see GoldenEye or Perfect Dark maps added to this site.)

I started learning Blender recently to have a play with throwing something on my blog with Three.js (we're a long way from that), but I appreciate now how you want to remove as much geometry as possible that isn't visible to the user to give the impression it's all very much there and solid, but presents the actual bare minimum to look right[0].

Anyone got example of levels with cool stuff hidden outside of the player area that can't be accessed while clipping is enabled? I remember some stone tablet with credits, in some game, in an "Aztec" area/level many, many years ago, don't remember which game though.

[0]https://noclip.website/#mkwii/beginner_course;ShareData=APu}e9y:oa8[qXpUFsE~WAK4bQ!l|bUooMfUPaItV]lVR9GC@bT{ZRK936MkWP

In a similar vein, but for Old School RuneScape, is https://osrs.world/

This one is kept up-to-date with the state of the game world. Even includes full NPC locations and animations.

This is actually wild. I have no idea how this works. Does it somehow emulate the rendering engine of each of these games to render the map? The water in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is just how I remember it. Very cool.

Noclip's creator Jasper has some great deep-dive video essays on game deconstructions over on their yt channel, as well: https://www.youtube.com/@JasperRLZ

Hey it's even got Infra! An underrated gem I imagine many on HN would love.

Wow. Just... wow. Didn't think I'd get to head back to Pilotwings 64 and fly around those maps anytime soon. Or TF2, or HalfLife. Very, very cool.

Oh, that is SO cool. I love that, I love that! This was everything I hoped it would be. Thank you for this amazing stuff. Truly immersive imagination inspiration :)

Just WOW

I wish there were some of the Metal Gear or Monster Hunter maps.

I have to say i really love this :D damn i could spend hours here ! I really hope nintendo will not end up suing the living s** out of them.

Great project !

The Portal 2 renders were genuinely surprising. Crazy what we can do in a browser today

Wow, what a throwback!

Interesting to see the speed at which levels load.

The old N64 levels are almost instant, and still look amazing.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe -> Bell Cup -> GBA Ribbon Road is my favorite, you can see how small the track is compared to the whole room and how much detail there is out of bounds!

This brings back soo much nostalgia.. cool website.

genuinely laughed out loud when i saw the t-posing NPCs in the Half-Life levels. really sells it.

Amazing resource for game dev! Specifically level design. So many great titles in there.

Some previous discussions:

2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37043934

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902949

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232022

Now, that's something where I would consider dusting off the old VR headset if it had such a mode.

wow incredible job ! it's a very nice idea.

Yeah I know this website! Its one of my favourites.

Enabled webgl/webgpu and it still doesn't work on my end with Librewolf

AMAZING WEBSITE