Hey Guys,

I got a question, how would you achieve such a design?



Sprites, with Outlines ?
-> wont look like that

2D Game
-> easiest for design, hardest for the gameplay

Shader
-> ???

Or another way?

I seriously want to achieve such a design(game) ^^

Thanks in advance,
ReiAyanami

Set up a simple 3D scene that looks like that, position the camera in the appropriate location, and set the camera's ISOMETRIC flag for an orthogonal projection.

EDIT: You can of course set the screen resolution to a small number and use a shader to achieve a simple, flat, pixelated look, like the one we used for GRUNTS.

Ah, you did not get me.

How to set up etc is no problem.

But when I just use a shader to make it pixelated, i cannot be sure that all edges are /really/ drawn D:

Draw it by hand and write 2D isometric level management / colission detection?
You could even do this in code only. Looks pretty straightforward to me. Have a geometric shape, a top surface pattern and a height level, then draw the walls accordingly.

My approach would probably be as follows:
Low screen resolution, isometric camera, simple flat shading, draw_line (the 2D version!) between certain vertices.
The vertices could be set up in a simple selfmade editor or recognize them automatically, what would be a bit more tricky.

First of all - thanks to you


I didnt even know that there was a 2D line function, that gave me an idea - using a 2D only solution (as Joozey suggested), with an 3D-array based level, and drawing the outlines based on the surrounding blocks myself.

Of course a 3D Version would be easier for the movement/collision etc, but upscaling and the "which vertex must connect to another" thing seems to be more work.

Ahh, fu, that wont work as expected... Need to think about something else D:

Still, thank you!

Using 2D as a representation of 3D world.
I mean the level is made in 3D so you still can use the collision/physics/movement/anything you like in the 3D engine, but don't show it to the screen(reset camera.SHOW).
Now get the x,y position from the entities in the level, and use them to put the 2d sprites on screen. You can use some equation to convert the position to isometric coordinates(should be easy).

Thanks, I am going to try that. I can even render it as a standard Isometric view and use vec_from_screen (or however thats called), to get my positions.

Thanks!

very clever.

biggest problem with this 2.5D engine approach is gonna layer rendering. when does a sprite need to be rendered above another (because in 2D, there is no depth perception)