Patent ID: 7173618
Filing Date: 2007-02-06
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An image creation program for causing a computer to perform a process of creating an image to be viewed from a virtual camera in a 3D virtual space having arranged therein objects, by performing a projection transformation of a scene in the 3D virtual space onto a projection plane which is based on the virtual camera, and rendering the scene in a rendering region, the program allowing the computer to act as: object reading means for reading a first object and a second object from a memory, the first object being composed of at least one polygon and in a planar format and the second object being composed of at least one polygon; first arrangement means for arranging the read first object to rise on a horizontal plane in the 3D virtual space; second arrangement means for arranging the read second object in an opposite direction to a direction in which the horizontal plane looks towards the virtual camera, and substantially parallel to the horizontal plane with a space between the horizontal plane and the second object; texture reading means for reading ground texture and character texture from the memory, the ground texture used in representing a ground in the 3D virtual space and the character texture used in representing a character to be displayed in a position which is in contact with the ground; and rendering means for rendering the image in the rendering region by performing a projection transformation of the first object and the second object onto the projection plane, mapping the read character texture onto the first object, and mapping the read ground texture onto the second object.