GameSalad and 3D Depth Maps
Hello, I was curious as to if GameSalad will ever support depth maps or displacement maps. I was hoping they would. A great use of these would be Leo's Fortune. There pre-rendered images with a depth map applied to it to give it... well... depth. I feel this would be a GREAT accessory to GameSalad. Also, how long would it take to implement something like that? Thanks for your time!
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Is that the same as parallax ? Can you not do multiple layers using that ?
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@Thunder_Child Yes but the results aren't as good looking as using the depth map. Take a look at the ground (grass/rocks) in this video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GEY-97pNQ3o
You can see there there's a little depth/parallax in the grounds.
Wow. Never seen that game. That looks really great.
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Displacement maps is a 3d thing, it may have been used in that game to make the graphics, but not for the gameplay. So, nothing in there which you can't do in GS right now.
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I'm sorry it doesn't help the op but,
Going back to the video link xJadonx posted the game has gone far, take a read..
http://www.cultofmac.com/277741/leos-fortune-top-iphone-game/
No reason you couldn't use 3d renders as 2d images in GS. Or achieve a similar effect with matte painting. they also just pre-blur foreground or background for depth of field effect (photoshop should have no problems with this). Cut em up and parallax, voila!