I think I remember a dev saying the Abe model in NnT was not converted from the original Abe model (which they had access to), it was a recreation based on the original model.
However, the original models for Abe and all the other characters from Oddysee still have a much higher poly count than the ones used in New N Tasty, as you can easily tell by looking at some high-resolution promotional screenshots. I think hardware still isn't powerful enough to use such detailed models in a real-time situation. I think it would be interesting to know the actual polygon count on both the original and the New N Tasty models.
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