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ugh. I have an idea for a game and I don't know if it'll work and to find out I'd basically have to make the whole game, which would be technically tricky. I don't think I can easily prototype this at all, and I really don't want to spend a week coding a non-game

maybe I can heavily fake it for a prototype

basically I want to build a game out of 3D Movie Maker's camera system, by changing the controls to let you move a character around the world, and have the camera change to match as you move around. basically making a game like the original Resident Evil with the fixed camera angles?

then I have an idea for how to make a game on top of that, but I can't really make the game unless the above works

I think I can fake it in, like, a godot project: use some off-the-shelf biped instead of the 3dmm actors, and have some code to load the camera angles out of the exported camera chunks from 3DMM + the exported backgrounds

The good news is you can probably use Godot’s servers for that somehow? They basically let you access the low-level API so it should be possible with SOME trickery

Or, for extra fuckery: make a thing that takes a texture and a z-buffer and turns it into a model

that was in the new renderer project where I wrote a program to pull the loaded BRender data out of the RAM of a running 3D Movie Maker instance. obviously this nonsense happened BEFORE we got the source

I have spent an incredible amount of my life reverse engineering some software that's just open source on github right now, it's a slightly weird position to be in