Video game graphics

video game genre

2.5D (basic pronunciation two-and-a-half dimensional, two-point-five-d) perspective refers to gameplay or movement in a video game or virtual reality environment that is restricted to a two-dimensional (2D) plane with little to no access to a third dimension in a space that otherwise appears to be three-dimensional and is often simulated and rendered in a 3D digital environment.

graphical perspective

video game narration technique, from pre-recorded video files (often captured with motion cameras in studio)

controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world

computer graphic

electronic game that uses text as visualisation

video game perspective in which avatars within the game world are fully visible to the player

type of video game graphics and video game perspective

video game genre

thumb|Cube with a simple lightmap (shown on the right). A lightmap is a data structure used in lightmapping, a form of surface caching in which the brightness of surfaces in a virtual scene is pre-calculated and stored in texture maps for later use. Lightmaps are most commonly applied to static objects in applications that use real-time 3D computer graphics, such as video games, in order to provide lighting effects such as global illumination at a relatively low computational cost.

thumb|Low-poly characters are rendered in real time and composited on top of higher-poly, pre-rendered backgrounds in [[3D Movie Maker.]] In computer graphics, pre-rendering or offline rendering is the technique of rendering images before playing them back at a later time, often on another computer system. It is contrasted with real-time rendering, where images are rendered and displayed within a time constraint, usually quickly enough to produce the illusion of motion.

Animation presentation technology