man this is killing me, i''ve done this for like a week and got nothing, all the stuff you guys have posted have been helpful but i need a good tut. I would like to buy that book but don''t feel like spending money... doesn''t anyone know alot on the subject and want to talk on aim ?
I''ve submitted an article a while back on using 2d Isometric tiles with a height maped mouse map, and I''m still waiting on a reply about when / if it will be shown.
If you are still needing help drop me an e-mail and I will try and help you out.
The amount of tutorials out there are numerous, and I''ve looked at most of them. I still think that TANSTAAFL''s book describes it best and in the simplest form.
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A nice solution that Civilization 2 uses is a bitmap with various colors for the different parts of an isometric tile. I assume it calculates where the mouse is on the bitmap, finds what color is at that position, and uses that to determine the tile location.
yeah, that is what I am going to use in my game. The game sees an iso tile as a bunch of overlapping rectangles. When you click, it calculates which rectangle you clicked on, then calculates the click coordinates relative to the rectangle. It then compares the relative coordinate on that click to an iso tile in memory, where each section is a different color. Based on the color it can detrmine the tile.
