2d Sprites in 3d environment

With the node billboard for 2d sprite in Firefly.

just to clarify a few things, a billboard is a image in 3d space that always turns to face the camera, we also have primitive planes that do not turn to face the camera also. while you could call it a sprite it doesnt have the ability to automatically change the picture unless you code the change in yourself, it is a sepreate object in and of itself so while not exacty an active object they do have some of the same features as an active object, in that they can be moved on 2 of their 3 axis by movement routines such as bouncing ball or whatever.

so yes in your scenario you could have 3 different images on 3 or more different z planes.

NO. the 2d scene and the 3D scene are 2 different "worlds"

it kinda depends on the way you phrase your question.

you can have a "sprite" move within the 3d world but not an sprite object - as you can only have nodes in a firefly world so you could have either a 2d image (or images) in the scene or a 3d image (or images) in the scene.

to better explain it maybe i should post this video which is a direct conversion of 2d sprites into the 3d world.

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which as you can is sprites but they are not sprites as they are 2d images on a 3d primitive plane.

Any tips on how to make that 2D sprite conversion into 3d world please? (with frame animation)

zetcon - try in our discord -> Please login to see this link.

Thanks to Triadian for support!

Frame animation on Firefly primitive: plane example (it can be billboard too)
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i had a lil play with your guy as an example for someone else - hope you dont mind - Please login to see this link. - tree art by windybeardgames

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i had a lil play with your guy as an example for someone else - hope you dont mind (...)

No problem simple but good example. Is it possible to share here the .mfa?

not sure that windybeardgames would want his art out there - draw me a tree and ill give ya the mfa

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not sure that windybeardgames would want his art out there - draw me a tree and ill give ya the mfa

How well does it work with camera rotation?

Why not just throw some free graphics in?

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How well does it work with camera rotation?

Why not just throw some free graphics in?

i have asked windybeardgames and they have approved the tree for release -> Please login to see this link.

also added rotation and zoom features as requested

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also added rotation and zoom features as requested

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Triadian, thank you.

I see you fixed an odd jitter issue from the other version as well.

I've been wanting to make a grandia-style battle engine for a long time, but a purely topdown perspective does it no justice. Mode 7 didn't work because it was too hard to calculate angles of sprites and there were also a lot of graphical glitches that were just caused by the nature of Mode 7 . . . also the performance issues. P3D might work, but it isn't easy to use imo.

This looks great and is smooth. I will probably end up referencing this example if I ever get to work on this.