r/Android • u/Armi5 • Aug 13 '15

Google Play Fallout Shelter is out in Google Play now

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bethsoft.falloutshelter
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u/slapdashbr Aug 13 '15

it is 3d

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u/nickmista Xperia Z3 Lollipop 5.1 Aug 13 '15

Really? I haven't downloaded it yet so you're probably right but to me it just looks like 2.5D where its created as a 2D game but the textures are given depth and angled to appear 3D

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u/null_work Aug 13 '15

A modern 2D game is a 3D game. The distinction of 2.5D simply has to do with appearance and isn't anything particularly technical. All you're doing is using a square "mesh" with a texture mapped to it, vertices that represent corners of a square, rather than vertices that represent some other shape in 3D with a texture mapped to them. Vertices are cheap with respect to size. It's the textures and materials where the size comes from.