Well, here's the thing... I'm almost certain that this is not possible, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Does anybody here ever played Final Fantasy Tactics? well, have you noticed that the way the map is rendered on the screen has a different kind of perspective next to most 3D games that exist?that's because the depth perception parameters of the 3D rendering are simply discarded before they are drawn. That being, no matter how far from the camera an object is, its size won't be scaled to match depth perception. I think I saw somebody call that "orthogonal perspective". That adds a look to the game that resembles old console isometric games, like Super Mario RPG, ir the old Genesis game Landstalker.

Now I ask, is it possible to achieve that kind of perspective in 3DGS? I mean, it being 3D, but still with that "kinda 2D" look?

Perhaps this is helping you?

Code:

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my.scale_x = vec_dist(my.x,camera.x)/250; //Play with the value
my.scale_y = vec_dist(my.x,camera.x)/250;
my.scale_z = vec_dist(my.x,camera.x)/250;

 

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Or did i understand everything wrong?

Mmm... they say an image is worth a thousand words, so look at this screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics:


Noticed that no part of the screen is ever "squashed" due to depth? this effect can be better noticed in this other screenshot, from Breath of Fire 3:


Now, everyone who played these games know that they are made in 3D, and since this is a 3D engine, I wonder if you can or cean not achieve that effect... thanks in advance ^^

I think the term you are looking for is "three-quarters isometric overhead." I was hired to build the client for a game in this style, some eleven years ago, now (different camera angle, but still isometric):



This is typically done by overlaying tiled sprites. However, you can approach this effect in 3DGS by playing with the camera's arc and position. For example...

camera.arc=130

...will give you a zoomed-out fish-eye view, with accentuated perspective, whereas...


camera.arc=60

...will give you a zoomed-in view with less perspective. I believe that, mathematically speaking, an isometric view could be achieved by setting camera.arc to 0, (where there will be no perspective) -- however, at that point, the camera's Field of View doesn't exist, and you won't see anything.

Try setting your camera arc low, and moving your camera's position far away from the subject matter.

thank you so much, that worked like a charm!

I set up a camera arc of 10, and put the camera really far from the player, like 800 quants in each axis.

HOWEVER...

the FPS dropped. a LOT. any ideas why that happened?

Odd -- I just tried the same, but the framerate stayed pretty reasonable. (~60FPS on a complex scene before and after.)

Ah, no worries... after a reboot, the FPS was normal. Pretty odd...

man, my game is looking more and more like a FFT clone... but anyway, that was kinda my goal :P