Diablo II

For Beginners

Started by Nazrix June 05, 2003 04:12 AM

11 comments, last by Nazrix 20 years, 10 months ago

520

June 05, 2003 05:58 PM

quote:Original post by Nazrix
One quick question:

Did Diablo II use 3D polygons as tiles so that they can do 3D lighting or was it done some other way?

Here is article Gamasutra did on Diablo II.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20001025/schaefer_01.htm

It might have some answers.

Patrick

Anonymous

June 05, 2003 06:04 PM

no it would be stupid and wasteful to store both 2d graphics and 3d. its all 2d, just in 3d the lighting is a bit more advanced.

ChaoticCanuck

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June 05, 2003 06:19 PM

The game itself uses 2d graphics for everything, but when in 3d mode it uses some features of Direct3D to (significantly) improve lighting and such. It also enables the Perspective ( I think it was called perspective) which gave the 2d graphics a 3D-Goggle style effect to imitate 3d graphics.