how do you make 2d games with 3Dgs. I want to start by making one of those. I have been playing around with med, wed, sed, and Blender.

Would you just create it all by script and images .

for a side scroller use a locked camera and make sprites with movement on only two axis.... It really depends on the type of game you wish to create... but use sprites they can move and have collision and are 2d....

I want one like a rpg were the camera follows the person into different rooms.

what would i save the image as.

bitmap *.bmp file, you can animate it that way ... read up in the manual about sprites. also for a charcter you will need many *.bmp file one for walk one for stand one for each attack ectt... But I still don't have a clear idea what kind of game you are trying to make is it like a top down 2d zelda ??? can you give us some referance for your style? Y not 3d? whynot cell shading?

Malcie

I will draw up something of what I want to make it look like.

Here are some images of how I want to build it. It's like final fantesy.

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map were you start


There will be alot more maps in here.

As for the top down veiw that is a simple matter of camera placement and not hard to do plus with a top down (birdeye) cam you don't have to worry about collision. Y would you want to make this a 2d game when you could do it in 3d and there is a lot of referance work already done on this type of project? This type of project using all flat 2d images will invovle a lot of code to swap bmaps during the game... I recommend since you bought a 3d engine ' you make a 3d world... you can still have a cartoon effect by using cartoon like textures. Also a RPG is a big project with lots of inventory menus and and combat code.. You might want to think about starting smaller or joining one of the teams that is already working on a RPG...

My two cents
Malice

I will try 3d but im not good at making 3d models.