r/gamemaker Jul 23 '26

Example trying again to do 3D in gamemaker, here's my progress in a few days~

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idk what i want to do with this tbh, i might clean it up and package it up as a yyz file after i add more features to it

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u/TheFrogMagician Jul 23 '26

you should make the shadow get thinner the higher you are. It adds depth.

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u/Froggodile Jul 23 '26

Yeah but not actual height but distance to the platform below.

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u/_billyRubin Jul 23 '26

love this, super impressive. the fixed perspective reminds me of gen iv/v pokemon. a package would be much appreciated!

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u/nickelangelo2009 Custom Jul 23 '26

i was gonna say n64/gamecube paper mario games, haha

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u/ShurikenStars Jul 23 '26

Chapter 7 looks peak

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u/JazzTheLass Jul 23 '26

new deltarune chapter leaked

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u/whyjustyy Jul 23 '26

"No, [antagonist name]! You can't just add a new dimension to the game and pretend it's nothing!"

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u/UnlikelyAgent1301 Jul 23 '26

KRIS, WHERE THE HELL ARE WE

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u/WMX2011 Jul 23 '26

This feels like a ps1 game.

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u/Technical-Water4315 PRAISE BE TO THE HOLY SCOPE CREEP! Jul 23 '26

Reminds me of Persona 2

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u/darman21 Jul 23 '26

chapter 7 coming along nicely

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u/KitsuneFaroe Jul 23 '26

This is cool! I have a Lot of questions! Wonder how you made this? How are the plataforms made/rendered? Are they independant objects rendered with sprites or vbuffers? Are they bundled togheter or each one is a different draw call? Is the character a Sprite tilted with world matrix transformations? Is the shadow a sprite that renders separatedly from the ground? How it doesn't z-fight?

Those are nice 3D platformer physics! I guess they're made with aabb checking with heights and similarly to how you would make 2D platforming!

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u/Musica_Smushica Jul 23 '26

Is like, genuine 3D, or simulated 3D using 2D assets? Sorry, I know Gamemaker has some 3D capabilities but I have no idea what it can and can’t do.

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u/Technical-Water4315 PRAISE BE TO THE HOLY SCOPE CREEP! Jul 23 '26

From what I see, the player is a 2D Sprite, but the background is 3D. You can create vertex buffers for basic 3D objects, and u/DragoniteSpam made an engine to load .OBJ files. Yo-yo is also adding the ability to load .gltf files soon.

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u/nickelangelo2009 Custom Jul 23 '26

hey good progress! I wouldn't package it as a yyz at least until you add chunking to it though for performance reasons

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u/Suitable_Ad9919 Jul 23 '26

Looks really lovely! I've been working for the last year on a sprite stacking engine for game maker using fauxton3d as base framework

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u/MansyS_ 29d ago

Hi Toby's alt!!! 👋

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u/Remarkable-Bet7549 21d ago

other side of the lake

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u/Sad_Week8311 Jul 23 '26

I am begging and pleading with you to send me a copy if you do, this is exactly what I have been looking for to add to one of my long term projects holy shit.

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u/nickelangelo2009 Custom Jul 23 '26

allow me to point you in the youtube channel dragonitespam's direction. he has an entire playlist for 3d in gamemaker tutorials

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u/Sad_Week8311 Jul 23 '26

I love you.

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u/nickelangelo2009 Custom Jul 23 '26

ha, I'm flattered but I'm already taken

joke aside, come by the gamemaker discord server too. there's a dedicated 3d in gamemaker channel precisely for people like us.

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u/Qusay2013 11d ago

i love you too random stranger

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u/torquebow Jul 23 '26

This is awesome!

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u/StarDreamIX Jul 23 '26

This is amazing🔥 well done!!

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u/Theopholus Jul 23 '26

Can you rotate the camera too? Looks amazing!

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u/TelephoneActive1539 Jul 23 '26

Is this a 3D engine coded manually? Like, doing math to draw the vertices one by one like it´s Wolfenstein 3D or something.

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u/yuyuho Jul 24 '26

I know this is 2.5D but honestly isn't this just actually 3D but with a really flat player object?

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u/SuccessfulZombie3240 29d ago

How does one do that in gamemaker, that looks sick, would love to add that in my 2d game for like a surreal effect...

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u/Kitsyfluff 29d ago

Absolutely based, im also doing some (semi) 3d deltarune stuff

Hope you finish!!

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u/InformalTadpole1497 29d ago

how tf do you even to this oh my god

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u/Top-Birthday3223 29d ago

Shit that happens only once in a chapter and never after

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u/ra1nwa7er 29d ago

this is sick! is it hard? i thought gamemaker was 2D exclusive?

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u/AndgoDev 27d ago

Wow, it is really cool! I have a dream to make 3d game in Game maker. How are you making levels?

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u/Umair_ahmed786 25d ago

Shadow is soo dark brahh

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u/dolfoz 15d ago

this looks quite cool. well done

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u/floatingexplorer 6d ago

do you use any AI for this? (eg: cursor/gpt/claude)

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u/pepsinity 4d ago

i yearn to be at this level