Like said many times already, we don't want to add 3d map objects other than critters. This means, no 360° view for FOnline: 2238, never ever.
But still.. Critters takes damn much time about modeling and doing death animations for them.
And your point is ??
How Black Isle & Interplay made 2D critters? Maybe there are some programms?
If I remember good I already told you.It's called pixel drawing. Let me google it for you.
They were made in 3d, animated in 3d and rendered to static 2d frames.