Scratch

Short answer:
Yes, but not like modern "3d" games.

Scratch can do the math necessary to draw points in 3d space, ([urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection]3d projection[/url])

Here's tech demo for a 3d tank game I'm working on.
You can move the camera around a object.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddZero/129124
Scratch can't draw solid colored shapes (polygons), just lines.

Scratch is good at drawing sprites. by making the sprite bigger it seems closer and smaller- farther away.  But, as far as I know there's not an easy way change the order (z-sort) of the sprites, so closer objects are in front.  I'm working on that.

You can make a sprite that has pictures for every direction it turns then change the pictures depending on what angle it is viewed. 
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddZero/127846
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/dingdong/107889


Longer answer:
Well, we need to define "3d"

All "3d" games and cg animations are 2d on your screen.  They're flat illusions.  They use tricks to emulate how our eyes see objects, with perspective, lighting, textures... When objects are big on the screen we think they're closer, and when they're smaller, we think they're farther away...

In the early days of 3d games, before fast computers- programmers had to use simpler, clever tricks to draw "3d"... 
Wolfenstein 3d  drew sprites like Scratch can. when objects are closer they are bigger.  But to draw the walls it use "raycasting".  I bet it's possible for Scratch to do a form of this, just not textured walls, fast.

Ahh, I'll keep the long answer short for now.


Here's my 3d gallery.
http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/14803

Last edited by AddZero (2008-03-28 00:09:41)

Yes Scratch is limited, but that just makes us have to be more clever in finding solutions.  Not everything has been explored yet. 

You can find 3D sprites for your projects @ http://reinerstileset.4players.de/englisch.html

Why, yes!

There is software called Blender that allows you to make 3D objects and take screenshots of them, turning them into sprites. The URL for the website is:
http://www.blender.org

It also involves scripting, for the more advanced ones. I know how to hack into the Smalltalk code that Scratch is written in, and add scripts to my 3D project. This gives me full control over my sprites and backgrounds, music, and allows me to do things that you just can't do with the regular Scratch features. This is essential for some 3D games.

Whew. I have a lot of things to catch up on on the Scratch website, so I'd better get going. Bye all!

Sakani wrote:

Thats my goal to make a 3d game. Just I need Someone to make the sprites that look 3d and Ill script it

A practical way to create sprite costumes from a variety of angles is to take screen shots of an Alice object while rotating the Alice object.  Just do the following:

1. Open an Alice world.
2. Select an object from the gallery and add it to the world.
3. Take a picture of the world.
4. Make an interactive method call to turn the object around its vertical axis by, say 15 degrees.
5. Go back to 3, take another picture, and continue looping until you have pictures of the object from all of the desired angles.

Do the same thing again by rotating the object around the horizontal axis if you also want views from those angles.

Import the pictures into Scratch as costumes for a sprite.

Edit the costumes to erase the background and you have a set of costumes for a sprite viewed from a variety of different angles.

I have a new 3D game out now http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/the_guardian/169865
It's really just 3D images moving on a 2D plane, but i think it looks good.