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[Geeze]

As the title says, I wanna make a yet another GM tut. Not too generic, I like writing specific tuts, like my two previous tuts,
Surface deforms and Motion trails


Any ideas? Any experience level will do.
(Then I'll turn this thread into a tutorial, to keep thread pollution down)

[Desert Dog]

drawing with primitives is always tricky, and as it's not something I do extensively, I often have to refer to tutorials/scripts when needed.

[sedna16]

how about a tut for isometric games?

jumping into platforms, moving, placing tiles, etc.

[Geeze]

how about a tut for isometric games?

jumping into platforms, moving, placing tiles, etc.

Hmm... Seems interesting. Like isometric platformers/action games (XYZ) or topdown game with isometric perspective?(XY, fake perspective)

[sedna16]

how about a tut for isometric games?

jumping into platforms, moving, placing tiles, etc.

Hmm... Seems interesting. Like isometric platformers/action games (XYZ) or topdown game with isometric perspective?(XY, fake perspective)

yeah, I wanted to create my personal final fantasy tactics/LAN 

[ink.inc]

Isometric games aren't too hard to set up.

The way i do it is set up an array of tile 'z' values.

The player moves in the x/y plane, and then the player object reads the z value of the tile it's on.

Then the player's y value is lowered (made higher up on the screen) depending on the z value (height of the tile) it's currently on.

[Geeze]

True dat. Isometric games are quite trivial, as long as they're not action games. I think I'll do an isometric platformer tutorial. Sprites might be a problem but well.

An isometric platformer tutorial it is.

[Desert Dog]

Programming an iso game shouldn't be very hard, although I seem to recall that drawing at correct depths can be trickyish.

@Geeze: I haven't tried this program, but it looks like it should be handy for banging up some quick gfx for an example:
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=520577&st=0&p=3848860&hl=isometric&fromsearch=1&#entry3848860