Pseudo 3D (Space Harrier, Road Rash etc)

So I was implementing a pseudo 3D floor, and after coming up with my own way, I did a search and found this sweet page describing the techniques involved in these games. It gives a great breakdown of many games using this style. It's something I thought about for years but never found any decent info on it. Hope someone finds it as interesting as I do.

PSEUDO 3D

Oh, so that's how they did those type of games. Nice link, its pretty informative.

Very cool, Road rash was one of my all time favorites! Cant wait to makes something like this 8)

Very good read. Thanks for the link, procrastinator :)

The odd thing is, a few years ago I was doing a slots game and wanted the reels to curve so they looked the part. I didn't realise at the time I was basically using a similar technique to these games! Although, my method was painfully slow (blitzmax), it did work.

Yeah it's a very nice read. I'd love to see more old games broken down like this.

I saw a game once which used 2D sprites in a top down view to give the coordinates for fake 3d when the 3d is produced.

I used that site as a reference a while back to make a example in Construct Classic.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/outrun-like-racing-game_topic40154.html

is this doable with Construct 2?

I used that site as a reference a while back to make a example in Construct Classic.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/outrun-like-racing-game_topic40154.html

And you kept the site secret from the rest of us eh? tsk ;p

Awesome example though and so few events. If I attempted that, my events would run into the double figures!

is this doable with Construct 2?

Yeah it's possible. You'd just create a line sprite for every "scanline" and adjust the Y, height and width based on it's Z position. I'm actually doing something along those lines, but not a road... should be able to show soon.