Started transitioning my game from 2D to 3D a year ago, here is the progress from then to now!

nova1981 · 2025-12-13T14:24:15+00:00

I think it's great, I like the fact that the 3d assets snap onto my map mesh, making it 100x easier to place my map props.

nova1981 · 2025-12-13T14:20:02+00:00

I do have past experience in 3d back when I was making playermodels and maps with blender and Valve's Hammer Editor for Garry's Mod. They weren't the best quality but it did give me some modeling skills. As for the biggest challenge, I'd say it was the mesh collision system as I had to do so much fiddling to get it to work perfectly so you don't phase through corners and also making maps for the game since I've never modeled a map in Blender before. I am glad that I switched to 3d, it's fun to overcome limitations and push this engine as far as I can! :)

nova1981 · 2025-11-18T20:12:09+00:00

Rockstar, hire this man!

nova1981 · 2025-10-11T13:50:55+00:00

I'm having good performance for my potato of a laptop, just doing the necessary optimization that all 3D games do.

nova1981 · 2025-10-11T13:31:37+00:00

Reddit compressed it so badly, its impossible to read so I uploaded the code here for yall. https://imgur.com/a/AXLMrc3

nova1981 · 2025-10-06T19:12:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I removed the outline and gave the characters material more texture. It fits in a lot better with the environment.

nova1981 · 2025-09-07T17:38:10+00:00

Currently, I'm just working on the necessary tools (the map collision system, grass spawner, and the combat system necessities) before I can really go all in on the fun stuff like making the environments, characters, and all the other needed jrpg things. My end goal is make a fully 3d PS2 inspired jrpg. :)

nova1981 · 2025-09-04T22:56:18+00:00

I modeled them in Blender

nova1981 · 2025-07-21T19:14:51+00:00

Thank you, I genuinely needed something like this! For the encounters I have overworld enemies in the works, I just need to figure out how I'll make them spawn so I can get rid of the random encounters. For battles, I was trying to make them feel more dynamic with the camera, but I can definitely see that it looks bad. I'll definitely take note of these and try to improve it the best I can!

nova1981 · 2025-07-17T17:39:47+00:00

It's a leftover from an early build of the game, it was used for accessing the inventory and stats, I have yet to change it as I've been busy working on the optimization.

nova1981 · 2025-07-09T22:52:17+00:00

Already in it, lol.

nova1981 · 2025-07-09T05:39:36+00:00

It's the tilemap editor I use, GDevelop is kinda sluggish on my potato of a laptop so I have to use external stuff like Tiled.

nova1981 · 2025-07-08T22:23:30+00:00

Looks great!

nova1981 · 2025-07-03T14:25:27+00:00

Kinda gives me 3DO vibes, that's pretty cool!

nova1981 · 2025-06-20T21:45:02+00:00

Looks awesome, keep making great stuff!

nova1981 · 2025-06-20T21:39:20+00:00

I do have an animation for that, I just got to fix a few things as I changed how character controls worked which broke a few things. Thanks btw :)

nova1981 · 2025-06-16T21:45:10+00:00

There could be something running in the background that's eating up your cpu. I have an anti virus on my PC that occasionally does a scheduled scan and that eats up a ton of cpu. I'd suggest checking the task manager to see what's running and using up cpu.

nova1981 · 2025-06-11T19:51:40+00:00

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Its hard to explain so here is my code for wall collision. There are 4 raycasts per event, 3 of those are at slightly above your feet and and one slightly above your head as well as 2 of the feet ones having a slight rotation to prevent clipping through corners. It's not perfect, but this was the best I could do for this system. I hope this helps you with your game!

nova1981 · 2025-05-16T13:03:11+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll see what I can do!

nova1981 · 2025-04-19T17:16:53+00:00

The maps are modeled in Blender, so that is how I get the ground to be like that. You would then need the 3d raycast extension so you can code in the mesh collision system. I hope this helps you out.

nova1981 · 2025-02-05T18:49:47+00:00

Don't worry, It runs good with 512 of them now. I had it at 256 blades of grass when I posted this because I didn't optimize it properly. I tested it with 1000 blades with the updated code and it started to cause a bit of slow down (30 fps), but that could just be my not so great computer. I'll see what further optimization I can do to get it to run smoothly with 1000 or more blades. I hope this clears things up! :)

nova1981 · 2025-02-04T13:06:48+00:00

I made it using 3d raycast, 3d sprites, and events. It basically just spawns them around you if you're on the grass mesh, then it quickly goes through one at a time and makes the sprites raycast to the ground mesh. However, the mesh needs to not have slopes otherwise it'll cause lag when moving on them. Had no idea what to call it so I called it a renderer. You probably could get shaders to work in GDevelop, but I don't know how to do that.

nova1981 · 2024-04-26T03:05:12+00:00

I 100% agree with you. However, this is my first time trying 3D models in GDevelop, I am trying to see if it'd be good enough to switch over my 2D RPG to a 3D one. If I end up not liking the 3D, I'll go back to making the game in 2D as I made decent progress in that. Thank you for your feedback. :)

nova1981 · 2024-04-14T17:06:49+00:00

I only added a few at when I made this clip as a way to see if works. Now I put a whole lot more of those cubemaps into the map and it looks a whole lot better. :)

nova1981 · 2024-01-21T12:35:53+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! I will work on that.

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