Micro-3D movement possible?

well the z depth or xray/alpha mask thing may be the most sane way to remedy the clipping part, i dont know the specifics of implementation that would need but having that 2d feel of magically being in front of and inside a platform at the same time cause sprite layers can do that would be a cool thing to try out, the only caution i could see is can you do that without miriam suddenly changing size with z depth because shes now moved closer to the camera or is it a trick of rendering, and is it a property that can be added to the platform itself and not an entire mechanic that needs a ton of extra codework that would slow down work on something like combat or movement? is the alpha mask/xray effect doable to where it only effects certain platforms and not the candles, enemies, or interactables because i know alpha masking can be used to hide certain things in second life, but the original implementation was rather indiscriminate so they had to move to a different kind of masking by giving character textures an alpha mask (only affects the portion of the character its supposed to hide) as opposed to giving an external object the alpha mask (might make an entire room of people and things disappear if you looked through it)

im sure theyre aware of this issue, and they may already have a solution for it planned, it just may not be programmed yet because this game is still in development and they havent gotten to that step yet, so please, calm

Rixuel
Thats interesting, looks like the already implemented something like what we were suggesting. It is basically an x ray effect.

Astaroth
The z-depth trick doesnt physically change the position of the object it is applied to. It is just a rendering trick. It is similar to an xray effect only you do not use a special shader to show what is being x rayed, you use the original one.
And as far as I know, in unreal, only the things you want to be able to have the xray effect will have them. It needs to be added to the shaders of the elements you want 'xrayable'.

I like to think that what we saw in the demo footage is still a work in progress and that the 'dropping through the platform' and the 'transparency' will be eventually ironed out. Don't get me wrong, the raw footage and animation looks terrific but the these two flaws need to be addressed because they're slightly off-putting. I don't recall Mirror of Fate having these particular issues and so I expect the same from Bloodstained.

My preference would to just make Miriam render in front of the platform like Alucard does in 2D.