Pixel Joint Forum: Problem with ship rotation

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   Hey All, 

I am in the process of creating a side scrolling shooter (like r-type), and am currently trying to do a banking rotation as the ship moves up and down.

I am really struggling in terms of getting the perspective right!  Does anyone have any good resources or ideas about how I can improve on this area?  So far I have been making aero plane ships with my hands lol

This is the ship I have been working on... (I'm still very new by the way)

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Pixelmoon Seaman Joined: 21 March 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Topic: Problem with ship rotation Posted: 27 June 2013 at 8:55am
	Hey All, I am in the process of creating a side scrolling shooter (like r-type), and am currently trying to do a banking rotation as the ship moves up and down. I am really struggling in terms of getting the perspective right! Does anyone have any good resources or ideas about how I can improve on this area? So far I have been making aero plane ships with my hands lol This is the ship I have been working on... (I'm still very new by the way)
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Kurieta Commander Joined: 25 May 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 141	Posted: 27 June 2013 at 11:33am
	I think this should be in the WIP section, no?
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DawnBringer Commander Joined: 11 August 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 568	Posted: 27 June 2013 at 1:23pm
	Maybe not as good as I remember them, but here's the ships from Project-X (the hardest shmup ever created...virtually nobody ever got past level 2)
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Pixelmoon Seaman Joined: 21 March 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Posted: 28 June 2013 at 1:44am
	Apologies if this was the wrong location - I was more or less looking for resources / references to try and get the perspective right, but then placed the model so you knew what I was on about. I cansee why it should be in the WIP forum. @DawnBringer - thanks, that actually helps a lot. Does anyone know where I could get hold of a sort of 3d model viewer?
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KingGorillaKong Midshipman Joined: 29 June 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 55	Posted: 29 June 2013 at 1:06pm
	Pixelmoon, I would suggest looking into Star Fox for the SNES for examples on how to do this. The graphics were so bad for that game, but they do a wonderful job with perspective and depth on their 2D/Wanna-Be-3D graphics.
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