The most overused game graphic you never noticed | Texture Archaeology

[Vaporweeb]

Here's a fascinating video on the burgeoning field of texture archaeology, the process of searching for the original sources of textures in old videogames. Interestingly, there are many specific textures that are shared between many games, such as the brick graphic in the video. An interesting little rabbit hole to go down.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs&list=LL&index=1

And here's the Render96 wiki which details all of the discoveries to date:

https://github.com/Render96/Render96Wiki/wiki

EDIT: And here's the collection of texture and sound CDs that Render96 has archived. Feel free to mess around with those if you like. Thanks to BobbyTrivia for the reminder.

https://archive.org/details/@render96

 

[crendulus]

This is really cool, thanks for sharing it!

 

[BobbyTrivia]

Thanks for this!

Here is the account on archive.org that's preserving these old texture CDs as well:

User Account

 

[Vaporweeb]

Thanks for this!

Here is the account on archive.org that's preserving these old texture CDs as well:

http://[URL]https://archive.org/details/@render96

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Thanks, I browsed the archive myself but forgot to include it in the main post.

 

[AnanaSUPREME]

It's very wholesome to see that people care about these things.

 

[LostintheCycle]

I might know of a similar thing to this: there is this sample of bird chirping I hear everywhere now, I first noticed it when I played the first mission of the first Arma and it really stuck out to me for no reason. After that, I swear I have heard that exact same sample in at least two or three other games.
Addendum: Here is a video of the mission I mean.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB0lCaCcdaw