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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

ugh godot might make this hard because of the 3D trickery we'd need to be doing with the background. I've loaded the backgrounds before (they have a pre-rendered zbuffer, to make them act like they're 3D), but that was in some manual OpenGL

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