Going the diamond shape is by far the 'nicest' approach...
if you use matrices for your view transforms.
If your tiles are 40*20, then you render them like this (pseudo-code):
viewmatrix = [[20, -20] [10, 10]]for ( x = 0; x < mapwidth; x++ ) { for ( y = 0; y < mapheight; y++ ) { p = [x, y] p' = viewmatrix * p blit( tile, p' ) }}
A basic grasp of linear algebra is needed though.
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so...in this vein i created my tile map....which does exactly that.
now since then I have seen others (everyone else) render their tile maps like this:
Can one of you ISO pros shed some light on this for me.
Which is better (probably the latter due to its popularity) and why?
Thanks!
[Edited by - nex7 on June 16, 2006 2:25:46 PM]
