Project Zaphod
 

So I was playing around the Z axis filters and got this sort of thing working...

Anyone want to contribute ideas: Was thinking like a large sky fortress on an overworld. With clouds and stuff.

Right now I only quickly threw together a small gmap of levels from classic and angel clan in the sky.

Note: Sometimes my tiles seams pull apart in the video, it's a side effect of how this is accomplished.

Wait a minute... that looks suspiciously similar to flying technology, what are all these stories I heard of such things never existing?
Regardless! I like the idea, and I'm really suprised someone hasn't already capitalised on it. Awesome job :)

How was this achieved?

Really cool

O-M-G, first I was like "yeah I guess thats kinda cool", then *BAM! layer 2 appears* and I'm like
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx...9xg4o1_500.jpg

Seriously.. How the heck did you do this? o_O

I'm thinking maybe this was done using a similar method to how I was rendering gmaps with my Mode7(assuming this is actually being done in Graal)? Basically you prerender each level in the gmap(or in this case the surrounding 3 levels) on a DrawingPanel, then save the renders as images. From there you can stitch them together as individual levels.

So it it two actual levels? When I'm up in the sky looking down, will I see players running around, or just the simple image of a gmap?

Please let me see this in action for myself, looks awesome.

photoshopped

All done in paint.

technically, that would be possible. and pretty cool. not sure if it would lag tho.

I get the feeling this is just stitched together screenshots.. ?

I've been thinking about attempting to make a virtual boy game. This concept would rule.

Nah, do you remember how on some servers (n-pulse?) you can drive around remote control cars/planes and there's a screen limitation to how far you can be from your character. It looks like that in the video.. If that makes sense.