(NO COMPLAINTS(sp?) PLEASE, IF YOU DONT LIKE THIS DONT BOTHER POSTING)

Now folks, the greatest of the greatest (that's supposed to be me ;)), will introduce to you all, for the first time (or second, who cares?) in the coldstone history: isometric view.

An isometric map is built using small "blocks" that is put upon each other to form a landscape/forest/battlefield/anything. I use this system for my upcoming game (wich I shall not write anything about or I'll get some people biting my arse and telling me that this is not a place to advertise :p).

Right, here is a screenshot from it: (url="http://"http://server5.uploadit.org/files2/040104-isometricshot.jpg")http://server5.uploa...ometricshot.jpg(/url)

This is an isometric map: (url="http://"http://server5.uploadit.org/files2/040104-isometricshot2.jpg")http://server5.uploa...metricshot2.jpg(/url)

And this is a small test: (url="http://"http://server5.uploadit.org/files2/040104-isometricshot3.jpg")http://server5.uploa...metricshot3.jpg(/url)

There is at least one layer under the player wich is the basic ground level (I call it ground1). Then you can add how many layers you ever want, both under and over this layer. Blocks can be deformed in any way to form slopes or holes in the ground.

I guess that's enough information. Just wanted to post this for someone to enjoy (yeah, yeah, I do want to feel best :p).

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Life is a joke - death is testing your humour...

Ledorax, this looks facinating. Was all of this done with Coldstone? Obviously the art is imported from some other app., but the maps don't look like the CGE products. Please tell us more.

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My Doctor said I was having too much wine, women, and song - so I gave up singing because 2 out of 3 is not so bad.
The (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/")Kingdom of Garendall(/url) sectional map is easily printed from gif format pages.
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/damsels.sit?path=pog/addons&file;=damselsV1.1.sit")Damsels in Distress(/url) - A plugin for PoG. (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/RD-DEL.jpg")RD-DEL(/url)

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Originally posted by Rubber Ducky:
**Ledorax, this looks facinating. Was all of this done with Coldstone? Obviously the art is imported from some other app., but the maps don't look like the CGE products. Please tell us more.

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The "blocks" was made using strata3D and appleworks, the maps was made completely in coldstone. Here is a little image of it : (url="http://"http://server5.uploadit.org/files2/040104-insometricshot4.jpg")http://server5.uploa...metricshot4.jpg(/url)

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Life is a joke - death is testing your humour...

wow, Ledorax, this looks like a great idea with fascinating strategic gameplay, like Tactics Ogre. Good work!

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Great work. I have a question. When you were building the blocks in Strata and finally rendered them, what camera angle did you use? I'm guessing between 30-45 degrees.

Pedrith

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Isometric is one of the preset camera angles. Make sure that you are in othographic view as well (the 'eye' slider at the top should be on the left) Using the isometric view allows you to do top down graphics very easily. Just make you graphics in strata and then rotate 45ş and go to isometric.

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Pilky
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Cheesiest film line of all time "Flash I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the earth" from Flash Gorden

Thanks Pilky. I'll give that a try.

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Originally posted by Frost:
**wow, Ledorax, this looks like a great idea with fascinating strategic gameplay, like Tactics Ogre. Good work!

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One question then, what do you mean with strategic? Like a RTS game or what? Any special game elements? Thanks

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Life is a joke - death is testing your humour...

Boring, Will be the same boring game as MSD ( that ledorax also did ) running around and killing machines

Cheers / PixeL^

Ignore him - he is a PC user

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Life is a joke - death is testing your humour...

Well he is right. You are a PC user and you seem to be jelous about the fact that he can make decent games and you can't

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Pilky
(url="http://"http://www.mcubedsw.com")M cubed homepage(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.coldstonerc.cjb.net")Coldstone Resource Centre(/url)
Cheesiest film line of all time "Flash I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the earth" from Flash Gorden

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Originally posted by h4x0r:
Boring, . . . Cheers / PixeL^

Posting spam under duplicate names will not be tolerated on this or any other board here. Your seven other trash posts have been trashed. Goodbye.

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My Doctor said I was having too much wine, women, and song - so I gave up singing because 2 out of 3 is not so bad.
The (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/")Kingdom of Garendall(/url) sectional map is easily printed from gif format pages.
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/damsels.sit?path=pog/addons&file;=damselsV1.1.sit")Damsels in Distress(/url) - A plugin for PoG. (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/RD-DEL.jpg")RD-DEL(/url)

(This message has been edited by Rubber Ducky (edited 01-06-2004).)

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Originally posted by Rubber Ducky:
**Posting spam under duplicate names will not be tolerated on this or any other board here. Your seven other trash posts have been trashed. Goodby
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It seems when you were taking out the trash RD, that your 'e' was taken with it

Ledorax, complaints? I would have never thought to do so. In fact, I was experimenting with isometric as well, and the access tiles just don't seem to line up enough. I think I got a working sidescroll, though. Good work nonetheless. Maybe you can overcome what I couldn't do....

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-The ZeroWarrior

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Originally posted by zerowarrior150:
**It seems when you were taking out the trash RD, that your 'e' was taken with it;)
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To err is human, to be a ZeroWarrior is devine. That dang trash took the puncuation too. :frown:

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My Doctor said I was having too much wine, women, and song - so I gave up singing because 2 out of 3 is not so bad.
The (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/")Kingdom of Garendall(/url) sectional map is easily printed from gif format pages.
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/damsels.sit?path=pog/addons&file;=damselsV1.1.sit")Damsels in Distress(/url) - A plugin for PoG. (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/rduck/RD-DEL.jpg")RD-DEL(/url)

To Be Honest, I do not want to make game, because I aint no computer freak that sit in front of computer all day to learn making games, I dont have time for that, I am out with my friends ( Actually I am on vacation in thailand now ) but anyways, Yes I may be a little jealous, but I do not realy want to make game, And I was only joking with Ledorax I know him in real world, so don't need to fight

Ch33rz

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Originally posted by PixeL^:
I aint no computer freak that sit in front of computer all day to learn making games, I dont have time for that, I am out with my friends.
Ch33rz

But you see, that's most people's rendition of game design. You have to have skill to finish anything, and have patience enough to see it to the end. And thanks to Coldstone, you do not have to be a computer freak to accomplish such a great task.

To RD~
That is why you have to watch where you point your flamethrower; see what happens?

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-The ZeroWarrior

Aw, shucks, RD, you get to do all the fun stuff!!!

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-- Debra
Danillitphil Productions
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Oh, I just said that cuz Ledorax is home, playing computer all day....!

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Originally posted by PixeL^:
Oh, I just said that cuz Ledorax is home, playing computer all day....!

It would be more appropriate for you to email your friend and not post on the board if you are going to write such things. We welcome constructive comments on the board. Thanks.

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-- Debra
Danillitphil Productions
(url="http://"http://www.danillitphil.com/graphics/index.html")www.danillitphil.com(/url)

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Originally posted by PixeL^:
Oh, I just said ......computer freak....!

"Aw, thats not very nice.....he's only a donkey."
(Best line of Shrek)

Leddy, how did you get past the access tiles to line up better? Is that another test you are working on? That and a lackluster of isoimages is what stopped me.....

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-The ZeroWarrior