Pseudo 3D?

[animatrix]

I want to ask how do you create the pseudo 3D effect?

How do you combine a 2D sprites plus a 3D rendered environment

[Alucard483]

What you see is not what you think. The backround is exactly that. Your character and enemies are seperate layers off of the backround. Everytime you change screens a new backdrop is loaded and your character onto the backdrop. The code of the game dictates where your character can walk not by the backround but by limits put in the code. This is why you can glitch a game to walk through walls or on water. Its not that you passed through a wall or became jesus, its that you did somthing to fuck with the code so your character can now move on an area of backdrop that was previously limited. Take away the backround and you can still move about and view your character, other sprites (such as the octopuss in the pic) you just have no visual referance of where the code can limit you to go. You could hypotheticly load the backdrop of a room of chairs onto the code of an open space. You would then be able to "glitch" right over the chairs.

So to answer your question it is all a matter of loading the right backdrop for the right code.