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cleveblakemore2 years ago (2 edits) (+2)

This was really something. What did you write this in? Are you planning to open source it? I saw what you did there with the height maps. Very clever, ashamed I didn't think of it. Brilliant way to make use of the 3D engine and still keep the faux 2D appearance.

P.S. Are you using flares for the colored lighting? I've been trying this but my fake 3D lighting with flares doesn't even come close to this appearance. I'm also using an expensive stylized shader for the cross hatching of shadows and it still doesn't look as good. Your effort truly captures the original crawlers in both spirit and visuals.

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lepelchannel1 year ago(+2)

From the description it says this is a fully 2D project ;) The 3D is all an illusion.

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cleveblakemore1 year ago(+2)

I've been dying for an update for this engine. I think what he is doing is rendering these panels with height maps in 2D, then going through and cutting out the 2D image which is scaled to represent various distances. That's actually the way old time blobbers do it but here he is taking advantage of height mapping to produce features on the surface of the texture map. Very, very impressive results from very little image data. I believe he is creating the illusion of movement using scrolling and adjusting the viewport in real-time to make it look like we are zooming forwards. The end result is an extremely impressive emulation of the original 2D crawlers.

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lepelchannel1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

I'm pretty sure you're right yeah, I've dabbled in building my own 2D HTML/JavaScript based engines and think you're spot on with the movement. From what I can see he's fading out and in the old and new image but with the zoom used it actually feels like you're moving.

I've also seen some videos on how Doom, Wolfenstein and later 2D simulated 3D engines work and this looks exactly like that, just prettier.

But Sébastien was lead dev on Dead Cells, so I bet he knows some magic. He has a github, might be interesting to crawl through that: https://github.com/sbenard

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