3D Games? Is It Possible In MMF2/TGF2? :confused:
3D Games? Is It Possible In MMF2/TGF2? :confused:
Simple answer: No.
But you can do all sorts of tricks to create a pretty awful looking game which feels a bit 3D.
But don't expect to make a load of lovely 3D models and have them dance around in a beautiful 3D world.
Yes its possible, but I assume from your question you are new to MMF2 in which case it is very improbable that you will be able to pull it off. I wouldnt try it and I have quite a bit of MMF2 experience. If you are not new to MMF, by all means try, but it is very hard to pull of fake 3D and real 3D has only been accomplished once with a HWA Pixel Shader, and that is difficult i itself to learn. I would advise you not to try......or if you do, dont try anything really big, because there is a very low chance that you will succeed.....and that goes for 2d as well......dont try anything big until you know how to do everything.
How many times has this question been asked? Anyway, OneWingedAngel, if you can find Chansey's old tutorials, he had some good faux 3d effects. But they didn't look 3d-- they merely positioned and scaled your sprite on the screen to imitate depth. Anyone know where Chansey went? That'd be good for the klikcast "where are they now" feature...
The best example I've seen so far was Werbad's example, it shouldn't be too far down in the File Archive, it requires HWA and is called "3D Engine using HWA" if I'm not mistaken.
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I'm just trying to stop a large discussion
We really need a section of the forum where people can make big massive posts about a subject like this, answering as many of the common questions as possible. This gets asked so many times, and there are so many threads people could read and get so many different answers I think it'd be best just to have a sticky somewhere that explains the reality behind making 3D Stuff within MMF.
This could then apply to other common questions that have to be answered time and time again. Then if anyone actually does post about it, you just give them the link to the related post.
I guess it could go in the articles sections, but it's not really a "how-to" thats needed, just an explaination.
Simple answer: Yes.Originally Posted by Nick
But it won't be simple, and not really "programmed" in MMF2: http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=84049#Post84049 .
Or probably use Werbad's shader 3d example, that will also require some kind of programming as the objects aren't updated in realtime (AFAIK).
Or also if you want some simple 3D things you can go with 3D actives , Mode 7 object or 3D mesh object.
However, my greatest suggestion is to wait and see what the future brings us...
My 3.1415926 cents.
Possible, but not practical. MMF2 and TGF2 were not designed for it. But it seems to be a hot topic, doesn't it? IMO games were better before 3D became the commercial game standard.
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And even if you could get a successful 3d engine running, I am not sure you could make a whole game out of it. That would take a really long while to do. Go for the 2d stuff, you can make really cool games out of it, especially using your own graphics.
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