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Submitted by , posted on 03 October 2004
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I've been working in my spare time on an old-school isometric tile engine
in the spirit of Ultima 8 which can deal with sprites of varying sizes.
Right now, the engine can handle the following
algorithmically generate block sprites given 2 projection parameters
depth-sort objects for display given x,y,z and 3D extents
"dirty-rectangle" redrawing (incuding scrolling) -- only
redraw the portions of the screen which need updating (and first blt
most of the screen around if we are scrolling)
Lots of work is needed for the following:
data loading/saving from file (the 'landscape' above is generated
by recursively splitting areas and filling them with blocks)
game logic, etc
non-crappy programmer art
an idea for an actual game
making the depth-sort robust to overlapping objects
The engine itself is scheduled for open source release in the
not-so-distant future. In the meantime, check out my other code projects
at http://www.robo-murito.net or email me
for more info.
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