Trying to get more knowladge on land types.

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2 comments, last by ZadrraS 20 years ago
Whats the diffrence between isometric, hex, and tile-based land? Are there any more types? Just trying to learn stuff ...
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Well, first hint. All of those are tile-based.

Second hint. Squares, Diamonds, and Hexagons are just three different shapes of tiles. Two of them use staggered columns to close the gaps which are caused by being shapes not aligned to screen axes.

Third hint. There are more good tutorials out there on all three pre-rendered projection styles than I can shake a search engine at. So, here''s two decent search engines for you to shake some results out of.

http://www.google.com
http://www.altavista.com
RIP GameDev.net: launched 2 unusably-broken forum engines in as many years, and now has ceased operating as a forum at all, happy to remain naught but an advertising platform with an attached social media presense, headed by a staff who by their own admission have no idea what their userbase wants or expects.Here's to the good times; shame they exist in the past.
Actually the number of good tutorials/articles on these styles is disappointing. If you (or anyone for that matter) could post a link to one it would be greatly appreciated.


The Monkey is back !
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=44

hehe, this site, in the articles section has tons of tuts on tile games...

http://2dnow.zenzer.net/
http://jnrdev.weed-crew.net/index.php
http://www.2dgame-tutorial.com/index.html

those might have some general help on tile games...

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