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2D All the way! / 2d Characters in a 3d World

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Cian Rice
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Posted: 4th Sep 2006 22:15
I have been planning a new turn-based RPG for awhile now. The battle system is complete, and so is the overall engine, however this is all in 3d. What I want to do is have a 3D world, but with 2d characters in habiting it. What would be the best method? I've tried to do it with plains, but I'm not sure how to get it to work. >_<

Help would be appreciated. If more info is needed I will try and elaborate.

Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 13:03
You should probably billboard the characters, but fix the Y and Z plains, in addition to having a fixed overhead camera. Given freedom on the X axis and a non-rotating camera, the camera could pass over the billboards and you wouldn't see that they were just plains, they'll just look flat.

Although, when you want to animate your characters, you'll be presented with a new challenge. The best way to create animated 2D characters is to export all of the frames of a 3D model. Someone wrote a WIP project that does this. Although, if you have a 3D world and pseudo 3D characters, you probably ought to use the real 3D models. They'll just look better.

Why exactly do you want 2D characters?


Come see the WIP!
Cian Rice
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 19:54
Well, I just thought that it would give the game a unique aesthetic factor, and my human modelling skills are crap.

Moondog
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 21:26 Edited at: 5th Sep 2006 21:32
here, check this out, it might help ya, or not. a mini game i was making a while ago.

its 2d characters on 3d...hope it does help


whats kul is there are 500 enemies being animated, and they all act indipendent, lol. enjoy

moondog

p.s. the fps is set to 30 so the animation is set to the correct spped...so i get no slowdown.

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Cian Rice
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 23:03
Thanks. From the looks of the screen it looks to be what I'm looking for.

Gamedesign er20
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 23:47
The download dosn't work, can you put it in a zip file?

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
Moondog
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Posted: 6th Sep 2006 06:30 Edited at: 6th Sep 2006 06:31
it's an ace file, i dont use zips cuase i prefer winace. Just do a google for it, it's a free download.

though, heres the code if ya want to see what i'm doing to make this happen:





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Posted: 7th Sep 2006 02:50
i googled it and do you know how many games are called Zombie hunter/

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
Moondog
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Posted: 7th Sep 2006 19:05
1 BILLION!!! google winace, not zombie hunter dorkmunger...j/k

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Posted: 16th Nov 2006 14:58
this is so freaking awesome!!! >D

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