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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: faizin on Sun 15/05/2005 14:20:54

Title: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: faizin on Sun 15/05/2005 14:20:54
 ;D Can I make 3D Background.I want to make rpg game and the bg and the item is 3D but the character is 2D.Can I make that with AGS.Is it possible?I wanna make the house and the environment with Milkshape 3D or 3D Max.Is it possible?
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: scotch on Sun 15/05/2005 14:24:58
Yes... just render the background into a 2d image and use it.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: faizin on Sun 15/05/2005 14:31:32
But is it that I cant make 360 degree the 3D object in mu game  ???
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: Ishmael on Sun 15/05/2005 14:41:46
Look for the Looping room in the Demo Game, that way you can make 360 degree rooms... the only way to make them with relative ease.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: scotch on Sun 15/05/2005 15:07:05
360 degree backgrounds are... possible, but hard to script, not really worth it I think.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: BorisZ on Sun 15/05/2005 15:25:09
Quote from: scotch on Sun 15/05/2005 15:07:05
360 degree backgrounds are... possible, but hard to script, not really worth it I think.

Why would it be hard to script? It can be easily done with (invisible) character placement or with seting background position.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: Sola on Mon 16/05/2005 07:59:32
Could you explain more concerning:  (invisible) character placement or with seting background position?
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Quote from: BorisZ on Sun 15/05/2005 15:25:09
Quote from: scotch on Sun 15/05/2005 15:07:05
360 degree backgrounds are... possible, but hard to script, not really worth it I think.

Why would it be hard to script? It can be easily done with (invisible) character placement or with seting background position.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: Ishmael on Mon 16/05/2005 11:23:06
Quote from: Ishmael on Sun 15/05/2005 14:41:46
Look for the Looping room in the Demo Game, that way you can make 360 degree rooms... the only way to make them with relative ease.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: TerranRich on Tue 17/05/2005 04:25:38
http://balder.prohosting.com/bfaq/#graphics01

Read that. It's pretty good advice. Unless you're very proficient with AGS, please DO NOT attempt anything that it wasn't meant to do easily. You WILL find yourself in WAY over your head. Thank you.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: Kinoko on Wed 18/05/2005 02:52:09
I may have this completely wrong, but I think what faizan was asking was whether he can actually have 3 dimensions in the game, ie. Have it work like a 3D game in that you can spin objects around and view them from all sides, etc.

If so (again, I could be TOTALLY wrong), that isn't possible. AGS is a 2D game maker. You can make backgrounds LOOK 3D and you can make them loop so you essentially have a "never-ending" room. You could even script it so you look at objects and appear to be spinning them around, by taking a picture of all angles of the object (scripting would be somewhat complicated though). I think from memory they did this in King's Quest 7. That's about as far as you can take it though.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: faizin on Wed 18/05/2005 13:26:29
Yeah kinoko was right but now I get the way how to rotate the 3D pic.How to rendering in Milkshape?I cant get to render it like 3D Max.Maybe I should put this to another topic but I want to get help in this topic.
Title: Re: Can I make 3D Background RPG?
Post by: Ishmael on Wed 18/05/2005 15:08:44
Well, you shouldn't, not on this board... but as maybe just a very few have ever used MilkShape, I suggest you (http://koti.mbnet.fi/tk-/img/RTFM.gif) and whatever tutorials there are for MilkShape. :=