Faking 3D graphics with a 2D game engine

[@galenerso1594]

Hello Mr.Tirado ! Amazing concept for a game but I wanted to ask if you could maybe point us to some resources where we can learn about the maths used for such graphical calculations, it's very interesting and I'd like to learn more about it. Thanks in advance !

[@mtirado]

I'm so glad you liked it and want to learn more. I would love to point you to the resources / learning material I used to make this, but I don't have a single source where I got all the math / code. They are all scattered over the web, on a few books, and notes from university. You aren't the first one who is asking for that. But the reality is I learned some of this stuff through trial and error, and by rewriting the same code for multiple projects (In fact, the videogame and the animations you see in the video share a lot of code!) I am interested in writing an interactive article where I go in depth and can finally dump all those ideas in a single place, as they are very useful concepts for a lot of applications. If / when I write it, I will share it a link to it on my channel

[@galenerso1594]

@@mtirado That is a great idea! Good luck to you 🙏

[@charliewagner6387]

Those visuals look amazing! Love the aesthetic. Good luck on the game!

[@ByzantineMonk]

A piece of art! A mastery on 3D math! Congrats!!!👏

[@sechmascm]

I don't think any 3D engine is actually 3D, you did great. Plus a great visual of how you can take 2D and make it seem 3D

[@angeldude101]

Every 3D engine essentially does the same math and trickery shown here. The only differences are that that code is already written for you in a 3D engine, and the fact that a proper engine runs much of the relevant code on the GPU rather than the CPU, since the GPU is unchallenged when it comes to performing simple operations countless separate times in parallel, such as once for every pixel in a frame, or once for every vertex or polygon on screen.

[@naiwatchsomethin]

yupp 3D engines are Actually 2d!! in Math and Science perspective A 3D being or a Data of a 3d can see only 2D and 1D While if there is other Dimensions means they can see 3D, 2D and other D than we see same goes to development we emulate Dimension and calculate to create illusions of a perspective to literate 3D using 2d and 1d

[@activediamond7894]

Holy hell another Love2D user on KZbin! Finally!!! There are so few, it saddens me. Love2D is by far my favourite GameDev framework and I only know of 2 or 3 (including you) KZbinrs that use it. I'm really looking forward to more content from you!

[@HiHi-iu8gf]

rly nice visualisation animations when u explain stuff!

[@HiHi-iu8gf]

and ofc rly nice looking game :)

[@sweatyeti]

Your game looks amazing! I really appreciate you sharing your maths with us; it's inspiring =)

[@ThankYouESM]

That is sincerely awesome. There's a 3rd person fully colored maze game somebody made which works perfectly fine with just the imports of tkinter... math... and the random.

[@thiagof414]

This was amazing. Thank you.

[@SeanStClair-cr9jl]

Looks wonderful Edit: Wow, your explanation and animations were beautiful. Very concise and thorough

[@lolabayt]

this is my favorite type of 3D engineering. thank you for the video!

[@1ucasvb]

Great video and that game is looking really good!

[@dikem_]

Great job!

[@DrNabeel20]

What a great video, concept and art style! I löve your work (pun-intended)

[@pmlomb]

This looks great! looking forward to more behind the scenes fakery.

[@stauro76]

Lovely! Great work!

[@ThomasLaverne]

your game looks super cool!

[@samuelchristian2688]

finally a love2d dev 😭😭🥳

[@nikbivation]

wow, amazing work!

[@doodocina]

you are not faking 3d, you are building 3d graphics on top of 2d engine

[@douglasdacosta853]

Interesting! I wonder about the difference in performance between this method and the traditional 3D

[@mtirado]

I would assume it has worse performance since you aren't using the GPU to calculate and render 3D graphics

[@user-ni3qf4oy2d]

nice

[@kairu_b]

Awesome

[@Fangamer1254]

I was trying to make just something like this in Clickteam

[@korigamik]

will you make the source code of the game open to all please?

[@jamaalsineke2405]

Hate maths....love your art though and game looks smooth

[@Uselessdodo]

Is this how Doom's graphics work? if yes, then thank you for explaining this so easily

[@mtirado]

No, Doom's graphics work very differently

[@mohammadazad8350]

Is that Hornet in the thumbnail?

[@mtirado]

I can see the resemblance 😅

[@Trick-dl5kr]

+1 sub

[@cvabds]

I bet you cant do that in TempleOS

[@dirtyleon]

Is this how Doom 1 works?

[@mtirado]

It is not