Published: September 26th 2023, 10:18:48 am
Some sprites have to be buried halfway into the ground for their shadow to work properly. It is needed for characters which are supposed to be flat in the ground, because they are actually vertical billboards. Cool, right?
And that's why most companies abandoned the 2.5D style, or use tricks like fake shadows, or fixing the camera and light source. Since we decided to have free camera movement and allow light from any direction, we have to go that extra kilometre to look tridimensional.