Would anyone be able to help as to how to get a similar effect to this character “model”/sprite?
This is a 2d sprite based off your character model, which can be dynamically rotated to show different parts of your model, while still playing animations properly (Although in this game’s screenshot, the animations are on 2’s or 3’s). It’s hard to describe, but the following are a few places I’ve seen it in:
Exodo (Roblox game)
Ena: Dream BBQ, with the Taski Maiden (Free desktop game)
I love this effect, but I can only understand the theory of it (A model has 8 separate camera angles, and the current one on the sprite changes depending on the camera’s angle to the real model), and I struggle to implement it concretely. It would be a great help if anyone was able to help figure out how to apply such an effect in the Roblox engine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I think there is a script that makes the real characters invisible and then uses ViewportFrame to create a fake character and rotates it in your GUI so it looks like it’s happening in the workspace.
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Wow! That’s very interesting - My concern with this is how the GUI would be positioned to properly maintain positioning. As in, what would a formula for making it appear to be in the real world, maintaining the same position, look like? How would scaling work when you get further away vs getting closer. Still, I imagine it’s a method similar to this.
Thank you! I’ll look into this and see if I can get something working
I’m assuming they just slapped it onto a billboard gui and then used some dot products to find which angle to display
Edit: since the characters can clip through the wall, it most definitely is using billboard guis
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local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local gui = script.Parent
local frame = gui:WaitForChild("ImageLabel")
local part = workspace:WaitForChild("Rig").Torso
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local partPosition = part.Position
local screenPoint, onScreen = camera:WorldToViewportPoint(partPosition)
if onScreen then
frame.Position = UDim2.new(0, screenPoint.X, 0, screenPoint.Y)
local distance = (camera.CFrame.Position - partPosition).Magnitude
local scaleFactor = 10000 / distance
local size = scaleFactor
frame.Size = UDim2.new(0, size, 0, size)
frame.Visible = true
else
frame.Visible = false
end
end)
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