The view of my game is always semi topdown. I'm trying to make the contactpoint between characters and the floorplane more grounded without rendering hundreds of sprites.
One thing that I think could work well is to just hide some pixels of every object that is i.e. 2 cms above the floor.
See GIF below of an example I did in Photoshop:
Things that I'm thinking about:
- check the z depth before rendering - if it's very close, then randomly don't render the pixel
- randomly writing "wrong" depth buffer values for the ground plane
- a small layer 2cm over the groundplane that writes z values only - draw this before the character
As I'm still in the research phase, I'd like to also explore other possibilities.
Is there already a well established way to do this?
