Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver…etc. What will the characters look like? Will the old wizard Erasmus get a face-lift?

The characters are created by the art team as both as high resolution pre-rendered talker heads that are used for dialogue, and as low polygon, real time models used for most of the interaction in the game, especially combat.

Dragon Fire’s real time 3D characters have more detail than most realtime games. Because Dragon Fire uses a pre-rendered panorama for the detailed scenery in the game, more polygons can be drawn by the real time engine for characters and objects in each scene. The main character in Dragon Fire is made up of about 800 polygons. The game’s most fearsome monster, the huge red dragon that awaits the player beneath the volcano, was created using about 2500 polygons.