Re: Abandoned Archive water reflections

[dawn locust]

Short version: the reflections should just be a flipped sprite with a constant offset from the object

Long version: given how the sprites of stuff in the game look, I'll assume the camera is very far above the room, slightly south of the centre. If you imagine yourself looking at a reflection of something in front of you, in a mirror on the ground in front of you (between you and the object), you'd expect the reflection to also be between you and the object.

The angle before reflection should be the same as the angle after reflection, so whatever the angle is between the camera and the floor should be the same as the angle between the floor/reflection and the original object.

However, because the game has no vertical depth/perspective, the angle between the camera and the floor is always constant, so the reflection should always be a constant distance from the object.

The current implementation is actually closer to a standing mirror than water reflection (if you swap where the object and the reflection).

Also, excluding some spelling mistakes, I forgot to mention that the current implementation is upside down??? so the camera would have to be north of the player, which is impossible because the camera looks forward at the sprites, not from behind

[ebon delta]

The problem is understanding, or even deciding what the camera angle is supposed to be.

As in is it straight top down or slightly pointing upwards

[dawn locust]

1. There is no depth so the reflection should be a constant offset,
2. The objects are definitely not on the ceiling,
3. You are looking down on the room, the room doesn't warp as you move so the image is definitely depthless, all the sprites show the head above the feet so the camera has to be south of the player

[ebon delta]

Would you say it could be something similar to old pokemon water reflection?

[dawn locust]

Re: Abandoned Archive water reflections

[dawn locust]

Hopefully fixed up image