I thought about this at one time, but when I did some initial testing
it was troublesome (at best) to get the behavior I wanted. I'll try and
describe the behavior a little below, but if anyone has ever played
"Ragnarok Online" (nice MMORPG, horrible management) -- that is the
behavior I am seeking to duplicate. Another good example are Tactical
RPGs (Final Fantasy Tactics, La Pucelle, etc...).
Those two game styles (simple MMORPG like RO, and Tactical RPG) are
exactly the types of games I hope to support with the engine.
My map is a 3D tile map which is looked at in the 3rd person; the
player's sprite sits in the middle of the screen. The user can spin the
scene around their sprite, and can alter the angle of view some (but
within a rather small range compared to most 3D games). "Star Wars:
Galaxies" or "World or Warcraft", this is not. :)
So, some of the problems I ran into with "flat" 3D sprites...
The spinning causes some trouble, since I have to worry about certain
elements not moving. I've learned more that makes me believe I know how
to do this, but I've thought I knew enough to do other things in the
past too. ;)
The z does change, but the sprite size does not. The changes are small
and the perspective angel allows for the sprites to remain the same size
w/o looking totally screwed.
A small degree of zooming is also possible. Again, the sprites remain
the same size.
Another reason for the 2D graphics would be to draw stats, game time,
buttons, and a chat window onto the screen so the user can interact with
the game.
I remember the author of a pool game mentioning something about a "2D
layer", which might do what I want. I found his new web site at the
link below but haven't been able to find his source on the game's
Sourceforge page. Franck (the author) hasn't gotten back with my e-mail
either. Anyone have the source from his previous page? :)
http://cazapool3d.sourceforge.net/cazapooljws/Pool.html
Thanks again for the help all!
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:19 +0000, Mike Goldwater wrote:
> Why not have flat 3D sprites zoom about the plane z=0?
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