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Digital Awakening
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The type of 2D graphics where you see everything from a 45 degree angle so two sides and the top is visible. I just can't remember the name...


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Isometric

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Zaibatsu
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3rd person view?

top down view?

sidescroller?

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Digital Awakening
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ZC:
Thanks, that's the one


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Quote: "The type of 2D graphics where you see everything from a 45 degree angle so two sides and the top is visible."

Isn't that 3D?


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Posted: 30th Aug 2006 09:09
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Quote: "Isn't that 3D?"


He means in a game like Diablo. It's an isometric view of the world, rendered in 2D.


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This is totally unimportant, but the angle is 30 degrees .

But yeah, the actual rendering is 2D, but you could almost call it "Faux 3D" since it does at least convey a sense of depth.


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45 degress is an auxiliary view, 30 degrees is an isometric view. Diablo, Head Over Heels, Knightlore were all isometric - Ultima 7 I think was auxiliary.

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I think the "Artists Challenge" Thread on the DBP Forum had a load of isometric graphics - things like buildings, etc...

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Posted: 30th Aug 2006 10:24
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parallax isometric side scroller

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Xenon meets Zaxxon?

Ant Attack was the first ever isometric game. Just saying

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ultima 8 was isometric, 7 was a slightly iso one, but more of the top down feel so I'd say auxillary. loved u8. love isometric. loved the isometric version of syndicate remastered

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You can mess with DBPro's projection matrix to make it render everything isometric - rather handy as you can position everything normally in the 3d world, and get it rendered isometrically without worrying about occlusion, etc

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Digital Awakening
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What I meant with 45 degrees is the rotation of the game. So instead of moving vertically and horrisontally you move diagonally.

BTW, looking at the fantastic drawings of Ant Atack I found, isometric tiles should be two times as wide as they are high. Sometime in the future I'm going to add isometric view to SGT.


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was populous before ant attack?

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No - Ant Attack is about 5 years older and 8-bits younger than Populous.

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8 bits lol

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Wouldn't that be 7 bits younger?


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