Question How to scale a 2d sprite on its z axis?

I am trying to make a 2d game, with some 2.5 game objects. As the camera moves, i want you to see different parts of an object. Sort of like this.
How would I achieve this? I tried putting my sprite on a object as a material, but it shows the front on all the side. How would I fix this?

 

This effect is called parallax.

Two ways:

- switch to a perspective camera

- stay with an ortho camera and simulate the parallax yourself

Google for more.

 

those are 3d objects, sorry to say you will need 3d models

 

@karderos oh I just noticed that... you're probably right!!

But I suppose if you were really really really determined you could make a "house of cards" level out of all kinds of little 2D sprites tilted to different angles and placed at different depths!!

So OP: yeah, you "gotta" use 3D to make 3D games, modulo doing some trickery with sprites above.

Here was my 2.5D proof-of-concept mover: feel free to look around and tear it apart.

Full project at:

proximity_buttons is presently hosted at these locations:

https://bitbucket.org/kurtdekker/proximity_buttons

https://github.com/kurtdekker/proximity_buttons

https://gitlab.com/kurtdekker/proximity_buttons

https://sourceforge.net/projects/proximity-buttons/

 

Thanks! I will check it out. What i will probably do is put the same sprite behind it.