Iso vs. 3d

I'm not saying that 3d forces your game to be fast paced. It just seems like thats the pattern they all follow.

I completely agree with tanstaalf in this matter, 3d is great for some kind of games but the detail you can achive using 2d iso engines is beyond the current state of the art in 3d engines. Also isometric view is great to me for many games, not only RTS or pseudo-RPG ones, also for arcade (any one remebered Zaxon, Sigma-7, etc..?)

Hi,
you normally should do all the 3d stuff before using the blitting routines. It's just that the hardware normally renders faster than blitting the stuff.

3D ---> AI ---> 2D Blitting

If you don't do it this way, you can get some bad results, I never had this problem, but a guy of Creative Asylum told me, and he never told me something wrong, so I believe him.

It's easy to do, believe me. We use 3D to created craters and stuff like that, it looks nice, and the buildings on it look nice because they're pre-rendered.

CU

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I just thought of two games that combine 2d and 3d, quite well. Think of FF7 and Resident Evil. Instead of creating an isometric view using tiles you could use big pre-rendered bitmaps and draw your 3d objects on top of it. I don't know the specifics of how those games work, but it seems to work well.

Hello everyone,

I've written a small 3D isometric engine which currently has support for floors, walls, and objects. It's by no means complete (just a preprealpha), but should give people some idea on what can be done. You can download at:
http://members.xoom.com/mutex0

Included is a Readme, be sure to read it to get the keys. You can also switch between fullscreen and windowed by pressing 'D' and Alt+Tabbing works without crashing. I don't want to spam the board, so if you want more info posted, just ask =)

- Bao Nguyen

I'm so sorry about that, just a bad link. It should work now (I downloaded it and ran it). Thanks for the notice =) I also found out one of the files (DDFVIEW.EXE) was debug, fixed that. I'm so messy =)

Ditto for the Nine-five.

sorry again, i uploaded the unicode version of ATL.DLL, which probably caused that problem, assuming you downloaded it. anyway i uploaded the ANSI (95/98) one, all you need to download is the ANSI ATL.DLL (~30kb)