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Fake 3D sprites

Escorter at 2006-06-07 03:51
In all BUILD games, the player can "walk around" the enemy sprites, and they look like they're 3D, because the engine changes the sprite when the player view it from a specific angle. How can I made this feature in the vanilla BUILD engine? I think it can't be hard, because al BUILD games has this feature (even Legend of Seven Paladins, which is a horrible game from amateur programmers).
Sporb at 2006-06-08 09:42
AFAIK it should already have it - theres a seperate sprite for each direction.
JonoF at 2006-06-08 23:54
In Duke3D's game.c file you'll find a function called animatesprites. In here there's a bunch of code for doing things like hiding parent-mode tiles etc, but also for doing the fake 3D sprites. If you look down around half way in the function there's a a block of code that begins with:
```
if( actorscrptr[s->picnum] )

{

    if(t4)

    {
```
This is the the code to set the proper viewpoint for the enemies in the game (stuff defined in the CONs with actor or useractor) and includes the logic to handle a variety of viewpoint counts, from two to eight.

Jonathon