[DustyPorViva]

Well I feel I'm crippling the potential of this by doing it on my own. I'm not that great at math and I have absolutely no experience with 3D projection. This is my first attempt and I don't feel like I'll be able to accomplish my end goals.

So if anyone familiar with 3D projection wants to hop aboard and collaborate, I would absolutely love it. My goals are to:

1) have a fully customizable camera with roll, pitch, height so users can easily adjust the view.
2) Make the 2D to 3D transition smooth and hassle-free. Ideally I'd love to see a command that takes any position in the 2D world(in this case a level or gmap) and return the values needed to render it to the screen in a 3D space.

The two above combinations would make it insanely easy to share this functionality with others, and I'd love to have this sort of thing easily available to other developers to play with.

If someone with the math skills can help me out here and pull this together into a proper mode7 effect(instead of a hacked together version) then I'd be truly grateful. The functionality and backbone is already there, I just need the 2D -> 3D projection and camera smoothed out. I know there are at least a few scripters floating around with the experience to do this.