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Unreal Engine to move to using Y-up (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by Justdaveisfine@midwest.social to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine you’re drawing a level or a city or a landscape. Wouldn’t you want to work in X and Y for this? Precisely because you’ve learned the X and Y coordinates in school. Then you add Z as the height.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, for cases like maps it works, but most everyone that draws don't do bird eye view drawings. I'm just saying, I think it's more natural for people to draw scenes on 2D planes, and converting that to 3D Z as "depth" makes more sense. Although all the reasons I've heard for Z as height also makes sense to me now.