Im trying to create a game on a 3d plane but with 2d objects. I have a perspective camera and the ground plane drawn. I can't seem to get sprites onto it.
I am trying to render the sprites, then to rotate over the x axis up into the 3d world. Is this even possible the way I'm trying it? If not how can I go about achieving this?
What I'm going for is almost like a Paper Mario look for the game objects, but on a larger 3d plane.
The trick is to read more libgdx documentation.
I found that Decals work like sprites and do exactly what I want. They can be created from TextureRegions just like Sprites, and easily displayed with a DecalBatch.
// Load a Texture Texture image = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal(imgPath)); // create a decal sprite sprite = Decal.newDecal(w, h, new TextureRegion(image), true); // create a DecalBatch to render them with just once at startup decalBatch = new DecalBatch(); Displaying is as easy as adding to the DecalBatch, then flushing the DecalBatch.
spriteBatch.add(AssetLoader.starDecal); spriteBatch.add(AssetLoader.bgDecal); spriteBatch.flush(); 