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Can an isometric perspective be mimicked with traditional square tiles? Can't the effects of the 45-degree overhead view simply be "drawn in" to the square? How would this work?

Picture this: the tiles themselves are square (not diamond) but all objects placed on them (sprites, terrain objects like trees, buildings, etc) are drawn from isometric view as if they were on diamonds.

This might be a silly question to ask, but I'm having difficulty understanding isometric perspective.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Why don't you make a mockup in Paint/Photoshop and see for yourself? ;-) \$\endgroup\$
    – Kromster
    Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 20:06
  • \$\begingroup\$ I actually planned to to do that if I couldn't find the answer on Google but happened to not have access to photoshop right now :). \$\endgroup\$
    – Chris Scott
    Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 22:24
  • \$\begingroup\$ also, it would be hard to test the reprecussions using purely photoshop. what about how movement is affected on the x/y axis? i would really like someone with experience to comment on what I'm trying to do here. there must be good reasons why devs use diamond tiles and maps for isometric games. \$\endgroup\$
    – Chris Scott
    Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 23:02
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    \$\begingroup\$ That was a constructive comment, because at the moment your question is still unclear. \$\endgroup\$
    – Kromster
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 5:36
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    \$\begingroup\$ Sure, you could add isometric sprites to square tiles. But since sprites are diamond shaped and the tiles aren't you're going to have a lot of "dead" space around your sprites, unless you position sprites in a way, that they can overlap more than one tile (but that kinda defeats the purpose of a tile-based game). Traditionally, the isometric sprites take up the whole tile, that's why tile and sprite have the same shape. \$\endgroup\$
    – bummzack
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 7:50

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