A specific 3D perspective technically defined as having all 3 axes being exactly 120 degrees apart. In early video games, it is often slightly off to account for smoother pixel lines.
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Drawing isometric walls
I'm having some trouble with isometric walls.
I'm drawing isometric floor tiles using the back to front rendering method, and it works fine. I also keep my floor tiles lined up properly in a nice ...
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Isometric Tile maps in Cocos2d-x
Is there an specific isometric tile map handler in cocos2d-x? I can't find any.
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How to render axometric/isometric tiles that are a 2d array in logic, but inclined 45º visually?
I am making a tile-based strategy game which i plan to have 2.5D visuals in an axometric/isometric fashion.
Right now i'm programming it's logic and rendering it as a literal 2-dimensional array ...
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isometric buildings
after switching to a third person view I was intrigued to make my new project isometric. Since I haven't really started yet this isn't much of a problem. Work so far was merely testing movement and ...
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HTML5 canvas screen to isometric coordinate conversion
I am trying to create an isometric game using HTML5 canvas, but don't know how to convert HTML5 canvas screen coordinates to isometric coordinates.
My code now is:
var mouseX = 0;
var mouseY = 0;
...
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Is Edge by Mobigames 3D or isometric 2D?
I'm trying to make a similar to http://www.cultofmac.com/edge-for-iphone-controversy-rumbles-on-game-again-pulled-from-app-store/13115, but I'm not sure if it's real-time 3D or just really good 2D. ...
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Getting isometric grid coordinates from standard X,Y coordinates
I'm currently trying to add sprites to an isometric Tiled TMX map using Objects in cocos2d. The problem is the X and Y metadata from TMX object are in standard 2d format (pixels x, pixels y), instead ...
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Tile based isometric depth sorting on different size objects.
I am creating a tile based isometric game.
The problem we are having is with depth sorting, we tried a lot of methods but none work.
They all do a great job but its not perfect, they seem to bug ...
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Checking if an object is inside bounds of an isometric chunk
How would I check if an object is inside the bounds of an isometric chunk? for example I have a player and I want to check if its inside the bounds of this isometric chunk.
I draw the isometric ...
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Isometric to screen, screen to isometric for irregular projection
I have isometric assets that unfortunately can't change and need to work out the projection for those. Here is how a tile looks like:
The tile image width/height ratio is 0.(6) (height/widht = ...
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How do I apply pixel shader to specific sprite in XNA 4.0 in a spritesort FrontToBack?
I have a set of sprite drawn in FrontToBack sortmode. In XNA 4.0, the effect must be as an input argument of Begin() function of SpriteBatch. However, If I reinvoke the function, then the sprite ...
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Can anyone explain step-by-step how the as3isolib depth-sorts isometric objects?
The library manages to depth-sort correctly, even when using items of non-1x1 sizes. I took a look through the code but it's a big project to go through line by line!
There are some questions about ...
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Calculating the number of tiles shown on an isometric map
I'm currently changing an existing computer game from a top-down view to an isometric view. The map consists of an infinite number of tiles. Only the tiles which are currently visible in the players ...
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PyGame custom isometric engine : caching or not?
Sorry if this question about is a bit broad.
In the game I'm making, I need an isometric view with some altitude, which means players can go behind a hill, and be partly or totally hidden. To avoid ...
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How to handle slopes/bridges in a 2d grid turn based strategy game [duplicate]
I was wondering about the following:
In a 2D turn-based strategy game (using some grid(i.e. tiles, isometric hexagons) as movement), what techniques do they use to determine where a character moves ...
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Non-square Isometric tiled maps
I'm beginning to make a tile-based 4x game, but I ran into a conceptual issue: My inspiration for this game are the Civilization games, particularly Civ 2, and I noticed something I was interested in ...
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How to draw Isometric game Back to front
What is the for loop or algorytm for a 2D array of tiles that I would render the tiles back to front like this:
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isometric tile - How would I apply effect on only specific part of a sprite?
How would I apply a mask for pixel shading effect to restrict it only to some part of image? For example I have a height tile:
Now I want to apply the effect only on the tile-shape of this ...
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A* pathfinding for an isometric map
I am making an isometric tower defense game in XNA and trying to implement the A* pathfinding algorithms for my enemy AI. I am quite new to programming, especially AI and pathfinding, so please excuse ...
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How do I find which isometric tiles are inside the cameras current view?
I'm putting together an isometric engine and need to cull the tiles that aren't in the camera's current view. My tile coordinates go from left to right on the X and top to bottom on the Y with (0,0) ...
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How to extend Tiled and Cocos2d to create an Isometric map that supports elevation
I've been looking and looking and looking, and I cannot seem to find a solution out there for making a game that uses cocos2d and Tiled to make an isometric map that supports elevation.
I am not ...
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How to know the boundaries of an isometric tile?
In a 4x4 square tile, it's easy to know which pixels are inside the tile's boundaries. I know immediately that the 4th vertical pixel is supposed to be drawn but the 5th isn't.
However, on a ...
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Choosing the correct isometric character facing direction
I am currently building a 3D game presented from a 2D isometric viewpoint.
The 3D coordinates start at the top left corner of the screen with x and y increasing towards the right and bottom edges ...
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Javascript Isometric draw optimization
I'm having trouble with isometric tiles drawing.
At the moment I got an array with the tiles i want to draw.
And it all works fine until i increase the size of the array.
Since I draw ALL tiles on ...
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How can I cull non-visible isometric tiles?
I have a problem which I am struggling to solve. I have a large map of around 100x100 tiles which form an isometric map. The user is able to move the map around by dragging the mouse. I am trying to ...
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Collision Detection on floor tiles Isometric game
I am having a very hard to time figuring out a bug in my code. It should have taken me 20 minutes but instead I've been working on it for over 12 hours. I am writing a isometric tile based game where ...
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Which isometric angles can be mirrored (and otherwise transformed) for optimization?
I am working on a basic isometric game, and am struggling to find the correct mirrors.
Mirror can be any form of transform.
I have managed to get SE out of SW, by scaling the sprite on X axis by -1. ...
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Isometric game data structure and rendering
I'm starting development of a 2d isometric(tiled, roguelike) game and i'm brainstorming wich kind of data structure i would use to store runtime data like tiles and entities, but i don't want to use ...
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Diamond shaped selection on a staggered iso map
I have a staggered isometric tile map and want to do a selection that aligns with the diamond shape of the tiles.
This is what I mean:
So I got two points on screen and their map cell coordinates. ...
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Smart terrain generation to avoid unconnected tiles
To make this clear from the get go;
I'm not looking for HOW To randomly generate a terrain (I know I can use Perlins noise for that).
I'm looking for an algorithm that can help with the terrain ...
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How can I improve my isometric tile-picking algorithm?
I've spent the last few days researching isometric tile-picking algorithms (converting screen-coordinates to tile-coordinates), and have obviously found a lot of the math beyond my grasp.
I have ...
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Back to front drawing in an Unorginized array of tiles
I have an Array of tiles in no particular order. How would I do a isometric back to front rendering on it? Do I HAVE to order it?
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Collision Detection with Isometric Map
I'm using the "Zig-Zag" approach to drawing my isometric map (as seen here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/892811/drawing-isometric-game-worlds). Now I need to do collision detection on the ...
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How do I do random isometric paths?
I'm working on an Isometric city generator, and I am looking for a little push in the right direction. I'm looking to randomly generate roads on a isometric plane. I have never done pathfinding ...
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How would I translate screen coordinates to Isometric coordinates?
I have a function isoToScreen(x, y) that converts Isometric coordinates to Screen coordinates.
var tileW = 16;
var tileH = 16;
var isoToScreen = function(x, y) {
var posX = (x - y) * tileW;
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Class design for instantly switching between free-roaming world to/from battle world?
I plan to have an isometric world, which can be freely roam around. However, I desire the system to instantly apply the grid onto isometric world for battling system on any random encounter. ...
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help a 2D image onto a 3D cube
I am just diving into the Stage3D APIs for Flash Player 11. I am trying to figure out a simple way to display isometric 2D content that gets blitted from a sprite sheet onto a 3D cube. The idea ...
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Quarter turn sprite sheets?
I'm having trouble finding sprite sheets that have the characters turn in 8th movements, so that you can see back, front, left, right, and in between. What would be a good term to search for when ...
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Any ideas on reducing lag in terrain generation?
Ok so here's the deal. I've written an isometric engine that generates terrain based on camera values using 2D perlin noise. I planned on doing 3D but first I need to work out the lag issues I'm ...
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HTML5 Canvas Depth Sorting
I'm have problem with Isometric. I'm don't know how to name this "problem", but I'm show you some sceen what I get and what I'm need to get.
My code now drawing something like: ...
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Are 3D textures used for ground tiles in 2.5D games?
In an isometric system, each tile can be painted with texture. Normally, (if I recalled the technical term) the fastest method to paint these ground tiles with appropiate texture is to use something ...
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How would I achieve diablo like 2D isometric projection?
I am in the process of coming up with an idea for a game, and I would like it to be isometric like Diablo. The problem is I have no idea how it achieves the effect of height like in the following ...
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Isometric Optimization in javascript
I'm having some issues with my optimization of my game.
I have a simple tile map looped like this in my case the images are 64 by 64 pixels:
for (i=0; i < 50; i++){ //horizontal
for (j=0; ...
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How do I do 3d collisions in isometric game?
I've wondered how to get basic collision detection working in an isometric game. I'm using panda3d which has very comfortable support for bullet, ode and a small builtin physics framework. The problem ...
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Use mouse to control view like zoom in and out
I would like to ask how would I go about using the mouse to zoom in and out of my current isometric tiled map, not only that but I would like the tiles to be in the center of the view when the ...
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Sorting cube depth correctly with an isometric engine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I sort images in an isometric game so that they appear in the correct order?
I'm starting work on a simple isometric engine. Everything thing is going great ...
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2D isometric picking
I'm trying to implement picking in my isometric 2D game, however, I am failing.
First of all, I've searched for a solution and came to several, different equations and even a solution using matrices. ...
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Using tilemaps for an isometric football game with cocos2dx
I am writing a simple soccer game in cocos2d-x and recently found out that older iOS versions do not support cocos2d sprites larger than 1024x1024px.
I was thinking about using isometric tilemaps to ...
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HTML5 - Does it have the power to handle a large 2D game with a huge world? [closed]
I have been using XNA game studio, but due to private reasons (as well as the ability to publish anywhere & my heavy interest in isogenic engine), I would like to switch to HTML5.
However, I have ...
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Staggered Isometric Map In Javascript
I'm trying to create a staggered isometric map in Javascript.
var x, y, row, column, top, left,
width = window.innerWidth, height = window.innerHeight,
tile = {width: 64, height: ...
