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Is 3D Asset rendering into 2D sprite cheating ?

A topic by Antoine "Lugioli" SIMON created 37 days ago Views: 79 Replies: 1
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Hi, 

My projet will mainly use 2D assets but there's not side view boat pack (yet? ;p) so I want to use assets from watership pack.
Could it be considererd cheating rendering 3D models outside engine into 2D sprites then using them ? Simply screenshoting 3D previews to thumbnails ? 
Actual solution will be to use dedicated viewports to be fully in-engine answer but I'm wondering how much it could affect performance ...

Thanks for your help

Jam Host

Yes you can render any of the 3D models as 2D sprites