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I want to develop some RTS/simulation game. Therefore I need a camera perspective like one knows it from Anno 1602 - 1404, as well as the camera scrolling. I think this is called isometric perspective (and scrolling).

It should look like this or that

But I honestly have no clue how to manage this. I tried some things I found on google, but they were not satisfying.

Can you give me some good tutorials or advice for managing this?

Thanks in advance

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isometric usually means "orthographic" you could try looking up Unity info on orthographic cameras – Jimmy Nov 6 '12 at 20:44
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Also - Unity3d has it own site as well you can probably get much better unity specific answers there... answers.unity3d.com/index.html – Feltope Nov 6 '12 at 22:20

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I don't always play RTSs, but, when I do, I fail miserably. As such, I can offer general implementation ideas based on my understanding of RTS camera movement/mechanics.

The isometric perspective could be fairly easily achieved by setting your camera to orthographic and finding a rotation that looks down at an angle that "feels right" for your game.

Scrolling around the world in this style is just movement on the world's XZ plane; you would not change its height at all.

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