
The abstract statue's base is only present in the early render, while the staircase's railing has what appears to be a flourish not present in the final (albeit untextured).ĭon's photography darkroom appears almost overexposed in the early render. This shot of the spiral staircase leading up to the second floor hallway was also rendered without lighting. The door on said wall is always closed in the early render, whereas the final uses a sprite overlay (hence why there appears to be no door in the registered version's image).Ī different angle from the same room. The bluish-green mural is missing from the wall leading into the theater. This forward shot of the ground level foyer has a noticeably different seal on the marble floor and the rug underneath the grand piano has been changed between versions. Most noticeable is the maximum brightness caused by a lack of (or disabled) lighting entities when the scene was saved.
#Phantasmagoria game dis series
The first in a series of renderings which were left over in the final product. These exist in the engine's enormous resource archives and are never displayed in-game. They can be viewed by deliberately underclocking DOSBox and running the MS-DOS version of Phantasmagoria, but are not any different content-wise.Īll of these are in the Picture format described above. While there are no unused VMDs, running the game on modern hardware may never play the lower-framerate FMVs which exist on the discs for computers which didn't meet the system requirements in 1995. These are usually higher-resolution (not to exceed 640×480 pixels) and can last up to a minute. Robots - Similar to Views, but also contain sound.More than two-thirds of the files depict Adrienne (the player character). Views - Animated sprites (and sometimes foreground masks).Pictures - Basic bitmaps, usually reserved for pre-rendered backgrounds for the player character to walk around on.Posting unmarked spoilers will result in removal and warning, and posting spoilers with malicious intent will result in a ban.Sierra's SCI engine (Sierra Creative Interpreter) uses at least four different graphical formats in Phantasmagoria: Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers. If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad. For more information, see the self-promotion on reddit FAQ. Some promotional submitting (posting your own projects, articles, etc.) is permitted, but it must be balanced out by a much greater level of non-promotion participation in reddit - the rule of thumb is no more than 10% of your submissions may be promotional. Promotion must be kept within acceptable limits.Follow all specific content restrictions.



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