[Halloko]

Ahoy there,

Just watched the developer interview video available online and I got thrown off when I heard you both used 2D pre-rendered scenes as well as 3D camera moves.

As a developer I'm very interested in how you guys achieved this kind of thing.. I mean, if you don't render your scenes real-time, how on Earth are you able to simulate camera movements in 3D? Is it something like the fake 3D you can achieve with a bunch of 2D pictures in e.g. Quicktime (you know, the thing where you can rotate/pan around in a street or similar).

Hope you have the time to delve a bit down in your actual game system

Oh, and I should probably mention that the characters look great (more on those later, hehe)!

Cheers,

[Martin Gantefoehr]

As a developer I'm very interested in how you guys achieved this kind of thing.. I mean, if you don't render your scenes real-time, how on Earth are you able to simulate camera movements in 3D?

Voodoo.

Actually, Tobias is more competent than I to answer this. And he probably won't, because it's a kind of super-secret supersecret. All I can say is it's a special rendering technique involving alpha channels and camera viewports.

[Halloko]

Originally Posted by Martin Gantefoehr

Actually, Tobias is more competenet than I to answer this. And he probably won't, because it's a kind of super-secret supersecret. All I can say is it's a special rendering technique involving alpha channels and camera viewports.

Aww, really?

After I'd posted the question I almost convinced myself that you actually rendered the scene completely at real-time when doing camera rotations. At least it looks a bit like that in the developer interview video (judging from the detail on the dome thingy).

But seriously, it's really that big a secret? You don't think he'd like to share some of his thoughts and ideas with the indie-world of game developing?
I'm not asking for his solution in code-terms.. just the basic theory

Pleeaaasseeee *sends out a stress signal to Tobias*