Editor 2D support about flaxengine HOT 4 OPEN

Why use 2D-in-3D when there are many great game engines out there that have real 2D support with 2D math and 2D rendering?

I recall trying to use the "pseudo 3D support in 2D engine" feature in some other engine. It didn't work well because such a game engine didn't implement it properly, and its 3D features were subpar compared to other more powerful 3D engines out there.

If you have enough experience, creating a 2.5D game with pseudo-depth and parallax effects can be relatively easy using 3D techniques. Simply moving 2D layers along the Z-axis can often achieve the desired effect. In contrast, in "2D" engines the complexity arises from the need to set up and update duplicate objects and properties between multiple layers, which is a major drawback that undermines the alleged usefulness of such a feature in a supposedly "2D" engine. These limitations could have been avoided by solely relying on 3D techniques from the beginning.

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If this were added, I don't know if anyone would actually use it. Why use 2D-in-3D when there are many great game engines out there that have real 2D support with 2D math and 2D rendering?

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That's why the issue isn't asking for a full stack 2D editor, but rather something simpler. Lots of 3D games have little 2D things going on. (Biggest one here being the menus)

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Necro bump, menus are almost impossible at this point, if there are stuff like sprite atlases, then proper UI is almost expected.

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