https://github.com/greenstack/monopaper
An experimental library for Paper Mario-esque rendering in MonoGame
https://github.com/greenstack/monopaper
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An experimental library for Paper Mario-esque rendering in MonoGame
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/greenstack/monopaper
- Owner: greenstack
- Created: 2025-07-01T02:32:06.000Z (10 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-07-04T20:54:15.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-04T21:35:02.099Z (9 months ago)
- Language: C#
- Size: 25.4 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# Paper3D
An experimental project design to emulate the graphical style of the classic _Paper Mario_ games.
## Goals
The goals of this project are as follows:
- Have a re-usable codebase that can be dropped into any MonoGame project for rendering
- Understand the 3D rendering process in MonoGame
- Enable Spritesheet animations with the target plane
- Have this all ready before August 9, 2025 (the start date of Magical Girl Game Jam 12)
While it'll be nice to be a drag-and-drop solution, some setup will be required by the project. Furthermore, understanding the content [here](https://docs.monogame.net/articles/getting_to_know/whatis/graphics/WhatIs_3DRendering.html) will be crucial.
And while I'm at it, I might learn Gum, too. That's a UI library for MonoGame.
## Requirements
- Good performance is a must. Many of the games I'll release using this rendering engine will be published on web, which is slower than native apps.
- MUST Render to a render target. This will make resizing the viewport easier in the long run.
- MAY support custom 3D models.
- MAY support 3D animation, but that's left as an exercise to the reader. I'm not doing that.
- MUST use an index buffer for its built-in objects/rendering. This is for performance's sake.
## Supporting Libaries
Okay, it won't be completely drag-and-drop. We're going to rely on MonoGame.Extended's ECS for rendering 3D objects.
## Resources
https://gamefromscratch.com/monogame-tutorial-beginning-3d-programming/