Spyro the Dragon Forums / Spyro's yellow nose

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Flapjacks) — Sat, 17 May 2014 19:39:48 +0000

byootiful

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (CuttingEdge) — Sat, 17 May 2014 17:57:27 +0000

Gekoncze wrote:

I'm sorry, I just had to

http://s25.postimg.org/xv2c8yr67/box.png

Omg, i can't control my laugh xD

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Gekoncze) — Sat, 17 May 2014 16:00:29 +0000

I'm sorry, I just had to

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (LocoGuy107) — Sat, 17 May 2014 14:25:01 +0000

I think it's a lighting effect, actually. That yellowish spot is still there afterwards, but it's hardly noticeable when you get back into game mode.

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Ulfbjörn) — Sat, 17 May 2014 08:38:24 +0000

Judging by the first dragon in Dark Hollow as seen here:
I would venture a guess that Sparx is in fact "hidden" inside Spyro's head during these cutscenes. Perhaps try rescuing some dragons with him being blue, green and gone and see if it makes a difference?

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Sheep) — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:59:48 +0000

I've been wondering about that yellow colour from time to time when playing O.o

Yeah, they're certainly not pre-rendered. If it was, they would surely have done something with the affine texture rendering.

Maybe they had two different models for Spyro, a gameplay one, and one rigged differently for more expressive animation, based on an earlier model with a very slight difference in the colour scheme, and then they didn't bother making them look the same in the end?
Or maybe the models have a limited number of colours, and they had to use one of Spyro's colour slots to use on all the dragon models? (I doubt it, really xD)

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Gekoncze) — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:34:49 +0000

Breaking Bad wrote:

Since it's a prerendered cutscene, they treat it as a mini movie. Cut scenes always have better graphics, because the only stress is playing a movie, literally.

I don't think those are prerendered.

btw dat Spywo down thewe wooks cute :3

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Flapjacks) — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:56:33 +0000

You're actually right, Stormy. I don't know if it was used in the case of this game, but a lot of games enhance the graphics during cutscenes, as only during gameplay is framerate imperative to be over 15 - 20 frames per second. If the game is playing a cutscene, they can get away with making the framerate lower, as it's like watching a movie; most movies are in 15 or so frames per second.

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Breaking Bad) — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:14:10 +0000

Since it's a prerendered cutscene, they treat it as a mini movie. Cut scenes always have better graphics, because the only stress is playing a movie, literally.

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (The Black Shadow) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:57:23 +0000

I think I kind of get what you're saying. lol You're saying they may have attempted to make Spyro look more detailed by adding gradients of some sort?

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (Stormy) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:52:39 +0000

Maybe it has something to do with it switching to "cutscene mode" when you rescue the dragons. Like, since they only have to use preplanned animations, they put in some extra shading or something that they thought would make it look better.

I really have no idea what I'm talking about here, so there's a very good chance that this doesn't make any sense.

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (36IStillLikeSpyro36) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:18:49 +0000

oh; i was looking for something way more obvious.

i wondered about that too. combined with the voice, it made it seem kind of like he had a cold.

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (The Black Shadow) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:23:49 +0000

Are you from the US? Maybe this is only a regional thing. That, or I own a messed up copy. lol But I will note that this is the Greatest Hits version. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Screenshot (this happens on a counsel as well):

Re: Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (36IStillLikeSpyro36) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:18:44 +0000

i never noticed that. i'm looking at gameplay right now and it's not happening there, either.

Spyro's yellow nose

dummy@example.com (The Black Shadow) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:45:41 +0000

This was one thing that I always thought was strange. Whenever you would free a dragon Spyro's nose would turn yellow. Was this some sort of glitch?