How to achieve a 2.5D effect

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I want to achieve the same 2.5D affect within this game cart ride for corndog - Roblox
How would I go about it, I currently have a 3D rig withing roblox studio, so could I use a viewport frame to achieve the effect, or is there another solution? Thank you!

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@Fr0ggity

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Are you talking about an ISO camera?

some pics help instead of asking us to check out some game..

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I want to achieve an effect similar to this

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um ya, that looks like an isometric camera angle..

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I’m talking more about how the players are portrayed as 2D cutouts with the direction they are facing corelating to how they are shown. Basically I’m looking for a 3D → 2D cutout effect like one in the early DOOM games or baldi’s basics.
Sorry if there was any misunderstanding.

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ah.. I see what you are saying…

since it is animated, it is not a static decal / image or such…

can you do different things, like jump, spin around and jump, .. are the players all different.. play emotes..

like you are not forced to use a custom player…

Just wondering if they squashed the player flat when they load and have key binds , so like when it is A they do one pose, then W does another etc…

l’ll see if I can play the game now..

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for some reason I get this error, which I have gotten on others today..

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Yeah basically, they are using something that renders the player as a 2D image but according to the camera position relative to the player/objects they are presented differently. (ex if you are looking at a player to their left, it will present them at them looking left as a 2D image.

Btw there are videos on this game on youtube that showcase it a little better then my crusty capture of it can do. so if you need a little more clarification on specifics, those might be able to show you better than I could explain.

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umm, are you saying you see the player differently then how they actually are? like for above, what if the player was running away from you? do you see their back , or still there left side moving away…

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you see their back.

sorry for the confusion I’m not good at explaining things well.

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relating to above, does that mean your own avatar is what you see in the game , but with the effect of 2.5d ish

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yeah, as well as the avatars of others when they appear in the game.

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you prob need 3 custom resizing , when a player enters … and or when the player moves, you change their size on the fly… then on keybinds you change the size of all of their parts such as there is 1 that shrinks all the Z size to say .1 for the S and W keybind.. that looks like this

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left is another , and perhaps they mash in the parts so they are close…

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right would be another…

prob with custom animation…

I would have to play the game to see how the player is from different views, movement and camera rotations.

above I just added as a starter player a block dude, then in Play mode messed around with the Size values…

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although looking at your video again, at the end where you rotate around the your player , the view of the player starts the same from all angles, which would lead me to think that it is not parts that are resized,

so instead I think they somehow have an image that is forced to face the camera, and thus from any angle it it shows the same pose

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ChatGPT is saying

They’re using a classic billboard-sprite character:

  • The “body” you see is not a 3D mesh at all—it’s an ImageLabel inside a BillboardGui that’s attached to the player’s HumanoidRootPart (or Head).
  • A BillboardGui in Roblox always faces the camera, so the picture looks flat and never rotates when you orbit around the player.
  • They swap the image (or a sub-rect of a sprite sheet) based on the player’s move direction to show “front / back / left / right” (and walking frames), while keeping the character’s real rig invisible for collisions and movement.

How to do it (core idea)

  1. Invisible rig: Use a normal R15/R6 character for physics, set all part Transparency to 1 (and/or use a capsule hitbox). Humanoid.AutoRotate = false so the rig won’t spin.
  2. Billboard sprite: Create a BillboardGui (AlwaysOnTop = true, MaxDistance set as needed), add a square ImageLabel for the character art. Parent it to the player’s character and set Adornee = HumanoidRootPart.
  3. Directional frames: Keep 4 (or 8) directions, each with idle/walk frames (either separate images or one spritesheet using ImageRectOffset / ImageRectSize).
  4. Switch by movement: On the client, read Humanoid.MoveDirection. Compare it to the camera axes to decide which facing (front/back/left/right) to show and cycle frames while walking.

But if you are saying your own custom character is converted into it then that add an pickle to the recipe.

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yeah the main issue is the custom player characters

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move the camera really far away then set the focus to a small number

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This is very likely made with ViewportFrames. You’ll have to learn how to do some camera magic with them, but it should give your desired effect. I would recommend putting it on a SurfaceGui and rotating it towards the player’s camera on the client.

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You can probably use viewport frames to get the actual player character