The most overused game graphic you never noticed | Texture Archaeology 

Haha cobbled

Haha cobbled

Cobbled... Get it?!

Haha cobbled(3).png

cobbled!

Same

Same, I couldnt give a crap about old video game textures but this was actually entertaining.

You're god damn right!

Yeah, it's like if you walk into the wrong classroom, but the teacher is nice, understanding, and interesting.

Lol same

Realistic texture pacc

HD 5th generation games texture pack

i guarantee it already exists... i swear ive seen it with my own eyes too

Nick Brown if İ can’t find it İ will make it, this is too good of an idea

Not just that cobblestone, but all textures derived from those cds

happy birthday (if you are 33 today i guess i dont even know your birthday but ok)

@@Americanflynn06 now hes 34 ish

This is like hearing zunpets

cobble_stone is the amen break of video games lol

DX7 presets because no one wanted to learn how to program it. Fairlight workstations too (that orchestra stab got a lot of mileage).

@@inthefade I'm convinced Trent Reznor was the only one who knew how to program one for decades only because he had smashed enough of them to know how they work

The Mario bricks, the Fairlight orch stab, and the Willhelm scream are distant cousins of each other.

Because it's the best thing to happen to humanity

Mario 64 and new Vegas just seem infinitely huge, the deeper you go the more little wet spiter web silk their way upon each branching path

You mean Luigi 64?

LMFAOOOO

@@corncobjohnsonreal Earthbound, too

And gathering and collecting it for everyone is an amazing task.

yeah I think that sounds so cool

Makes me wanna do texture archaeology for the Touhou games. It sounds fun.

What is the end goal of it? Obviously to match a texture to its source, but why? What gain is there from this?

And here I always assumed video game texture graphics were all drawn and built by pixel artists or something.... The lesson here I guess is that everyone is lazy and it's ok to steal verything

OutKast would be proud

Cool pfp where it from

Ahhh, a fellow geek of culture *tips fedora*

Damn bro, got that CTRL + V

@garbageeater66 But it's true. Most teachers are more concerned at how (copy paste) and where (Wikipedia) you get the information than if whethever you read it and comprehended it.

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I mean, I would definitely have no need to use the knowledge I gained from studying political formations in the 18th century

also the famous "calculator isn't always in you pocket"

There's a lot more to this job than copy pasting. I hope you understand that.

im just commenting for this to be better seen

Y

im also here to heat up the comment algorithm

@@shrimpycorn HEAT IT UP!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@@ToyotaTacomaOfficial Y

I was actually planning on doing that lol

just take a photo a compress it lol

Dude, wtf? Stop watching vids about textures and bless us with another upload ;D

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@@DerAykac wake up, he uploaded

So you’re glad that the palm texture in BFBB is literal shit?

@Cookie Addict Same here!

@@SomeoneIDKK ...WHAT!?

@@theextremeanimator4721 6:46

@@SomeoneIDKK Now THAT'S what i didn't want to know.

i hat ethe channel crack back

me hate da channel shid bot 420 >:(

@@doondonbigbong5479 why

@@botwfan1175 same

Everything can be a rose if you're brave enough

My question is why they used that, and how they came to the conclusion that they needed that specifically.

@@DesolateLavender texture artist probably did it as a joke

@@Smileyreal Art Director: No, that texture looks like shit! Texture Artist: I'll show him, the smug prick...

I knew Outkast were onto something

i know you like to thank your shit don't stank

Yeah but his project is a labor of love, redrawing the textures has a certain charm to it as opposed to just hi-res textures. I think there are already multiple hi-res packs for MM, but Nerrel's is just on another level in my opinion

Nerrels art is soo good tho, besides that sort of dark ironic twist would be befitting someone so charmingly sarcastic

Also need more channels as good as nerrel, gimme some

Probably still worthwhile, his textures are a straight up improvement on and remix of the original.

So glad I found this channel and Nerrel’s one. His video on why majoras mask 3D is a bad remake make me realised that the art of the game is in the gameplay. Now when I see people screaming for « hd remakes » for zelda’s 35th birthday is no sens, the gameplay will change! So after that I can just agree on what Nintendo made for the mario 3d collection why mario 64 just in high res. Nerrel’s work on re texturing majora’s mask is insane

50 years ago the internet didn't exist - that would've been the 1970s. 1983 is when TCP was created, the internet protocol you're using right now to see these comments. There still wasn't a widespread infrastructure across the world. It was really just laboratories and universities & other gov. orgs with private LAN networks so that the local machines could communicate. 1993 is the generally accepted date that the internet became popular, although some people argue it was even later in the 90s. It was about 25 years ago that the internet became what we know it as today - give or take a couple years.

@Qimodis yeah ur right and so is the other guy sorry ‘bout that

@@jonny6702 yeh I made a mistake sorry bout it

@@applejambers7674 Ok here I go calling people names again. You are a...unbraining person!

I think it's perfectly reasonable to round up to 30 tbh, especially given it doesn't even matter in the context of the op

Ah, a pain wall?

@@fieratheproud Basically.

don't they call it popcorn wall? it's not made of aspestos though like popcorn ceilings.

@@Greennoob2 Yeah. I think you're right.

So THATS why they used that wall back in my school at the playground backyard, i almost ran head first into one of those, but i protected myself by shielding my head with my whole right arm and my elbow took all of the damage.

...no?

@@leo-zx6xl , imagine yourself as a better person, then come back to reality and weep.

@@leo-zx6xl I think you missed something here bro

@@forgottenfauna7075 lmao.. i just said no?

@@leo-zx6xl You should have said nothing at all.

I'm just here to remind you of your inspiration

​@@dibkle im here to remind you

Who cares

Same lol

@@Mikelica69 lol

this texture archaeology stuff has the same vibe as searching for the minecraft seed of a low-res picture

@@daveroll6463 yeah

Same

Perhaps but many of us genuinely love this era of gaming and want to learn more

It's not about making it sound dramatic, it's about knowing how to say why it's actually interesting

in the end, its all a matter of one thing: presentation.

I once watched a half-hour video on boxes. It was fantastic

The subject was interesting.

There is this one stock sound effect I hear everywhere, but cannot find. It's this kind of of mechanical rumbling with the high pitched air escaping sound at the end. I've heard it anime, videogames, tv shows. Commonly used for mechanical doors, rotating platforms, cannons aiming.

@@uhrguhrguhrg You mean the Doom door opening sound? It came from Sound Ideas.

@@victfv no, not the doom one. Doom one is squeaky throughout

Children yelling, "Yaaaaaay." You know exactly what sound that is.

@@IsomerMashups grunt bday party?

DINO LIHARI Dude you fricking destroyed him

I just looked at ur vids after like 2 years and dude what happened to playing games

@DINO LIHARI make*

HALF AS INTERESTING CONFIRMED??? 😳 😳 😳

omg yass the icon of Club Penguin is here

Why are you still using 2007? Damn

For sure. When I was studying vfx in college we used a lot of these random textures.

@@KawaiiCat2 Another great example is that one bear roar and wolf howl you hear in like every video game

Your dad pronounces "alias" the same way as most humans.

you CANT leave it there. what have you found!!!

Some of us bought them when they were new. They were advertised in graphics/designer magazines or at trade shows. I still have hundreds.

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 The concept of texture CDs or audio library CDs always seemed strange to me, especially the audio side of things. I'm always wondering how they made some of these sounds in the first place.

For sure! I have a story that might interest you, and others who also enjoy these sorts of videos. It's a long story but it starts like this: I used to watch this one VHS as a kid - the last time I watched it, I couldn't have been older than 6 or 7 years old. My mum sold it as I grew older, or gave it away, and claimed to have no memory at all of the video. But I clearly, clearly remembered parts of it - a 2d animation, sort of grey-looking with muted colours, and no dialogue, of a boy with a kite who looks after an injured white bird, and a live-action short film of a bear that gets trapped in a wooden cage in the woods and mice that rescue him, with character voiceovers of the animals. I thought I would never, ever find the videos I remembered, but I googled it over the years now and again and eventually, FINALLY, after over 20 years of searching, I finally found what I had been looking for! The VHS - and I grew up in the UK so I have no idea how we came by this - was a collection of short films by The Film Boards of Canada, a sort of government-run short film production company, from what I understand. You might also have heard of the band Boards of Canada, who I was a fan of and it was googling them that took me to the Film Boards website, since they take their name from the Canadian company. After searching the film boards archives, I finally found the two short films I remembered from my earliest years. I found the bear video first, and that is what confirmed for me that I was on the right path to find the animated video as well. But even knowing this, it took me a long, long time to find, because I wasn't sure, I didn't have the search terms I needed (like the title) and there were so many videos on the website that I would give up and come back to it every couple of years. I was probably around 21 years old when I found the bear video, but I didn't find the animation of the boy and the kite until I was around 28 years old! I was overjoyed! And when I linked it to my mum she was shocked that I even remembered it, let alone had managed to find it. But she remembered it too, once she saw it again, though she had not thought about it since I was very young. It's incredible what we can remember and what the internet can preserve and help us find. One of the biggest mysteries of my childhood was answered that day, and it had taken me well over 20 years to find it! But as long as websites continue to preserve as much as they can, I'm sure many people all over the world can reconnect with these half-remembered parts of their childhood, which can only be a great thing.

@@Eilavamp you should drop a link to those if you still remember where you found them.

This kinda already happens, in fact it has a page on TVTropes called "Real Place Background." My favourite must be GTA V because a lot of the houses are replicas of real houses and there are people trying to find the buildings on GTA Forums

Im writing this one down in my "dumb but amazing game design ideas" notebook

Or eight now if you are a game developer

*right

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

@@mooniejohnson Indeed. There is something extra charming on that fact, like it seemed a lot more organic now

@@yisussb exactly

Almost makes me wonder if Minecraft, a game made up of low resolution textures, has any of these downscaled stock images as a base for a texture. I kinda doubt it because they don't really look it, but I do wonder now.

@@RAndrewNeal Nah, not even the Indev version had any textures that looked like they were ripped from somewhere. And now all the textures have been remade from scratch by Mojang.

it already became it

@@SommerSen except it’s less audio, more..texture.

Agiri best girl.

the Wilhelm scream of videogames is the squeaky door sound effect from Far Cry 3, pay close enough attention and youll start hearing it in every game/scene with a heavy/rusted/squeaky door

@@ther6sshieldmain937 no audio*

Dude, I know I'm a year late, but I love your avatar - legit thought it was a pale face with dark lips and eyes and 80s huge goth hair - I'm so here for it!

wdym

i hope it becomes the texture version of the wilhelm scream

it's fucking amogus again

Illuminati

@@albingrahn5576 that's a better comparison

@I'm Self Aware please lmk if you find one! :D

@@jolszi8322 yes pls do

. dotting if you find any

That would be awesome

@@veggiet2009 e

Was it this one? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ESs-7ZTQAo.html

I had a lot of stuff on gta garage! shout out to those days

In times when I got no internet, I repainted and replaced all gta 3 textures with ms paint. It was, um, coroful.

We are still doing it for RoSA Project Reborn, there is a texture hunt channel on our Discord.

yeah I am now learning graphics programming and I thought I'd have to learn how to make textures (because I dont want to buy pre-made ones and I also don't intend to pay for artists at this moment). Although I want to learn texture making, it's not my goal now, so it was pretty cool to see that professionals in the area just used actual photos, now I'm thinking of doing something like that.

@@dionyzus2909 Have you heard of cc0textures? I don't know what I'd do without it ahah

I've always wanted the non compressed voice lines. Especially the scientist screams and HECU words.

@Merraine Half-Life 2 takes basically all of the Citadel ambience from Zero-G's *Altered States* library... citadel_drone_loop3.wav, citadel_drone_loop4.wav - Overwhelming Feeling citadel_drone_loop5.wav - Leaving the Gas On citadel_drone_loop6 - Winter Bus Shelter, 45% slower field_loop2 - B-Movie Drug Head citadel_ambient_voices1.wav - One Too Many at the Fete, 40% slower citadel_ambient_scream_loop1.wav - Insect Infestation citadel_hit1_adpcm - Physco Train (sic?) 45% slower Basically all of the citadel_strange_talk sounds are short clips from Winter or Space Mission. Even the AR2 alt-fire sound is from this! Specifically Computachat 2, about 3 seconds in.

Metroid Prime music is completely, or nearly completely, stock and pre-set sounds. It’s all about what you do with the tools, eh.

it's literally still like that though

@@jimmybean420 except now it looks more real then real life

@@ValcomDrifty That's what they said at the time as well.

Yes but this time it’s true

@@jimmybean420 ah yes, mario games today are really realistic

Yeah that happened.

I don't get this video acting like nobody fucking realized. It was blatantly obvious when I was 5. It all added to the uncanny feeling.

Kids will always find it weird when other kids are really "observant", even though it's really obvious thing like a commonly used cobblestone texture. I know this from first hand experience

@@undersc0r Nothing ever happens 🙄

I never thought twice about the game textures, but I did notice sound effects. When I realized that Duke Nukem Zero Hour's spider enemies (if I remember correctly) used the same sound that Turok 2 used for smaller dinosaurs, I figured out that game developers don't make new sounds for every single game they make.

Synchronicities. You were tapping into the collective consciousness or something

I have no idea what you just said but true

Google knows what you look at

I know for certain that google is listening to what you say, given the ads that pop up when browsing our phones with the conversation subject me friends just had sometimes and we've never looked it up before

@@Hewesesm i think they just use voice assistant or something not like a real person actually listens to you but a bot listens

Nope

@@wagiqwq yes

That's cool and all but photoshop classes EXIST?

@@HMN134 i did it for one year in highschool

@@HMN134 sex ed exist so why not

@@s0uls4nd Sex ed at least is helpful. Noone should use Adobe products on their own free will :D

@@manuelweiss4327 I hate to say it but, there really isn't any better alternative currently for Premiere and certain Photoshop features.

I played a lot of allied assault and didnt found any of those .-.

@@46896936 Then you obviously never played it. - No you didn't. - Shut it. - Reported

@@rembramlastname3631 damn bro

@@rembramlastname3631 You butthurt?

@@MilkIsTheOne Are you intending to intrude into my privacy?

YES!!! Start a new field: Synth Sound Archeology

yeah

With some speech therapy, sure

@@bbbbbbb51 What

And some of the monster sounds are camel calls slowed down 🤣

one of the flesh wall textures is straight up a devs forearm

@@MyNameIs8Ball not as bad as a picture of actual poop being used as a texture in one of the spongebob games

EDIT: this is why you don't comment before finishing the video (though I'm pretty sure I watched this before a while ago so I may have been remembering it *from this video* lol) The original half life textures are interesting as almost all were sourced from pictures that one of the developers took around the area of valves offices They recently got either leaked or shared and they're all psds from 1996 (dont know if the file creation dates are accurate though)

Only in that time period

And how you thought they are made? Created pixel by pixel in paint.net? They are just only snapped and cropped to the resolution for cappable hardware to handle. Yeah and made to look seamless wich is not hard to do

@@marosis99 I expected images to be drawn in some way. Like how the enemy's and characters are designed from scratch. It's not a hard leap to think an artist drew a rock pattern or something.

@@dylandreisbach1986 yeah characters are biggest problem. I thing in old games they are created via panoramatic view somehow and then a bit changed to not looking like a person from real life. But in latest games they are using 3D graphics for that

@@marosis99 actually textures can be painted pixel by pixel, Minecraft's textures look crisp because they are hand drawn

@@thisdanguy of course but we are not talking about this

Just go in the reverse, take the palm tree frond texture and tint it brown

Go to a bathroom

I mean we could look at the image coordinates in the info.