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flashing snall
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Posted: 29th Apr 2007 04:41
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hello all. Im making an rpg STYLE game. it is going to be a 2d game aswell, similar to commandoes 2/ (i think that was 2d) however, i cant figure this out.


in fps games, your health bar is sprite because even though the camera is looking up/down/right.left, the image stays in the same spot because it is on the 2d plane, not the 3d plane with the fps level is on.

in a game like baulders gate 2, the player AND level are 2d. when the player moves, he stays in the middle of the screen as he moves around. how do you do that? the character moves off the screen if you move it around to much. i thought that mabye the level itself moved around, but then monsters would clipped and stuff. is there a way to make a camera track a 2d image? or just move on the 2d plane, and not the 3d plane, because even when you move it up, and you move the sprite up, the sprite goes off the screen.


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flashing snall
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Posted: 29th Apr 2007 21:44
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does any one know?


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Jerok
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When you move the sprite you want the screen to follow, you instead move every other sprite in the opposite direction. Thus if you were to move the character sprite up by one unit, you instead move all the other sprites down by one unit.
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flashing snall
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Posted: 30th Apr 2007 05:35
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but then dont enemy characters get 'clipped' by the terrain?


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TDK
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Posted: 30th Apr 2007 05:48
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Quote: "it is going to be a 2d game"


If it is, then where does the terrain and camera come into it?

A proper 2D game will usually have a 2D tiled 'landscape' and sprites (ignoring the fact that DBP sprites are actually 3D for the moment), so when your character moves, all the sprites and the tile array moves together. If the tiles are isometric, then it looks 3D - but isn't.

If you have a camera to control then you are talking about a 3D game...

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Jerok
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Posted: 30th Apr 2007 17:12
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but then dont enemy characters get 'clipped' by the terrain?"

no because they will be moved down along with the terrain sprite.
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flashing snall
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Posted: 30th Apr 2007 21:38
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OOOOOOO. i get it. now i feel really dumb. thanks for helping me out guys.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st May 2007 21:59 Edited at: 1st May 2007 21:59
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I wrote a tutorial yesterday to help someone else out, but you might find it useful in getting your 2D map started.

http://zimnox.com/?page=dbTutorials


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