Posho
Member
Hello
I've been trying to figure out how to do 3D with billboarded sprites. I've been reading a bit into how GMS2 works and found out everything is already being rendered in 3D. Turns out you can draw regular GM sprites in the XY plane and adjust their "Z" by using the layer's depth instead, which is useful if you want to draw regular sprites and be able to use all of GameMaker's sprite functions instead of having to rely on vertex buffer indexing.
The only thing I need to figure out is how to turn the layers so I can make a "billboard" effect with some sprites. I've looked everywhere I could think of, but it seems it's not really possible to rotate layers. Felt like I should at least ask the forum before giving up.
Does anyone know if it's possible at all?
I've been trying to figure out how to do 3D with billboarded sprites. I've been reading a bit into how GMS2 works and found out everything is already being rendered in 3D. Turns out you can draw regular GM sprites in the XY plane and adjust their "Z" by using the layer's depth instead, which is useful if you want to draw regular sprites and be able to use all of GameMaker's sprite functions instead of having to rely on vertex buffer indexing.
The only thing I need to figure out is how to turn the layers so I can make a "billboard" effect with some sprites. I've looked everywhere I could think of, but it seems it's not really possible to rotate layers. Felt like I should at least ask the forum before giving up.
Does anyone know if it's possible at all?