It appears I have\u00a0started the new year with a bang… the bang being my brain exploding as I try to convert the games tiling map code over from the easy peasy orthographic style of mapping to the much more head hurting isometric style.<\/p>\n
It’s taken me a couple of days to really get anywhere solid, however now the game is rendering the map on screen in “roughly” the correct position and updating correctly as you move, hurrah! I think I may have even developed a new technique for rendering tile maps as the usual\u00a0diamond\u00a0and staggered ways weren’t quite cutting it, I feel an explanation of that will be coming later. There are still some kinks to work out before I can tick it as done but it’s nice knowing that I will soon be able to get working away on some decent world art tiles.<\/p>\n
Here’s a comparison of the place holder\u00a0orthographic\u00a0art along with my rather neater looking isometric art test. Can you guess which is which \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
![\"Tile](\"https:\/\/firingpingames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tilemapconversion.jpg\")
<\/a>How the world is changing from orthographic to isometric<\/p><\/div>\n
Until next time… Over & Out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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