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Advanced isometric engine, demo and tutorial

Author:	RedHades	Submitted:	1st December, 2006	Favourites:	1
Genre:	Engine	Downloads:	1090
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Edited By RedHades on 2/6/2010

This is the first version of my isometric engine that features:
- Free movements and ultra-precise collisions.
- Real 3D environment, with conversion to 2D coordinates.
- An efficient layer sorting process for objects moving under, over and behind other objects.
- Support for grouped objects and multiple object instances.
- Moving objects of variable sizes.

This is a demo and a tutorial, so it has a lot of comments in the code.
And I also made a large document that explains all the tricks and theories used in the engine. It explains everything you need to know to exploit the engine and expand from it.

But it’s still aimed at experienced MMF users.
So you will need to good knowledge of all these things if you want to understand how the engine works:
- Working with loops, nested loop and loop index.
- Working with arrays, 3D array coordinates and their relation with array index.
- Working with the extensions used; Isometric Grid 2 and Layer Object.
- Understanding how MMF selects object instances with conditions.
- Understanding special functions like abs(), int(), min(), max() and mod.
- Basic 3D math for volumes, distances and coordinates.

The demo show small rooms without scrolling, but it can still support large environments.
You can get the needed extension with the MMF bonus packs.

* MMF2 only, sorry

Review This Download

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4510070/MMF/RedhadesIsometricEngineV1.zip (512 kkb )

Posted by Torava

2nd December, 2006

Wow, this is very useful engine! Thumbs Up

Posted by Hempuli

2nd December, 2006

hmh? Where's the engine?

Posted by Retired Kliker Lazarus

2nd December, 2006

Very good.

Posted by Peblo

3rd December, 2006

Nice, I haven't looked at the code yet, but it runs pretty nicely, though the second example ran slow on my machine. More comments later after I've actually seen the code.

Posted by RedHades

3rd December, 2006