Is it possible to make a game with 3D Mesh?

[XStar]

Wait, so you have one 3D object and a bunch of 2D objects that trick you into thinking it's 3D?

[Fanotherpg]

Pretty much yeah. That's what they were doing. Due to hardware limitations amount of objects which was rendered in real time had to be reduced, so only characters/enemies and interactive objects were rendered and rest was prerendered (2D)... Trust me it was part of my bachelor's to analyse that sort of tricks how to place camera to make it seem to be 3D

[XStar]

Oh that's funny! Is there any examples like that somewhere? I still don't know how to make it all look "3D".

[Konidias]

As far as I know, this cannot be done with MMF currently. I wish it could though. I had to stop working on a game project of mine because of this very reason. You just can't do 3D models on top of 2D artwork objects... All I've found is that you can do 3D objects inside a 3D window... which doesn't help. You can also render out the 3D objects and bring them in as 2D art, but that can be incredibly cumbersome if you have a lot of animation.

I do believe it is possible to have a 3D object appear over 2D stuff in your game, but the big problem is that it's not optimized at all, so don't expect to have many 3D characters/models on your screen because it isn't optimized for HWA and running it in anything else just crawls.

[XStar]

What about mixing 3D Mesh and Mode 7EX?

[happygreenfrog]

That might work. It would be interesting to see if that would work, and if it does work, how well it works.

[XStar]

I'll try somethng! I'll get back to you guys soon!

[Fanotherpg]

Draq and Mr Knife used to play with 3D Mesh back in 2008-2009 making Resident Evil clone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=PL&hl=pl&v=gJ5uD8tMbag (sorry there is no playable version of it recorded).

[Konidias]

3D mesh isn't HWA optimized... so it's gonna be slow

[XStar]

There's no .mfa record or anything of the Resident Evil Clone?