Orange Brat! We don't see eye to eye on politics, but dude your code kicks butt! You roxor!

5 star salute!

OrangeBrat,

I just found this great isometric example of yours. This is wonderful. I was starting to try something similar but it would have taken me a very long time to reach the quality of what you have made.

A question for you. My intention is to make a hexmap style game with 3dgs. I like your squaremap version, but to remain true to the old tactical wargame style, I will be trying to work with this to implement a hexmap. Hexmaps are a big deal with the older SPI style boardgames, as you may know, because there is no distance difference when you move in any of the 6 directions. Have you done anything similar utilizing a hexmap, or even a diamondmap (ala Diablo)?

I will start by changing the square texture to a hex and looking very closely at how you are applying the x,y offsets when snapping the entities to the square grid.

Once again, though - excellent work - and thanks for offering this to the 3dgs community. You just made my project much easier

Ron

Well, I hope you don't run into any problems with it. It still has some issues and I've pretty much abandoned it to the community. See the readme file or first post for their description. Also, the technique used to "turn off" the mouse_to_level clicking may not be the best way...that would be this line, "if(trace(temp2, temp) > 0 && (str_cmpi(tex_name, illegal_texture1) == 0))". I never really fully fleshed out the illegal texture component or really thought of an alternative way to keep an active entity from not moving up vertical walls(which was the intention of turning it off when over an illegal texture).

Also, the part dealing with the grid snapping(in the mouse file) is a mess of an if/else block. Perhaps when we have case/switch instruction it will look better. I'm not really even sure why I had to use all that code but it doesn't work right unless I do it that way. I'm sure someone like Realspawn, Rhuarc, Locoweed, etc could fix it up and make it more efficient or come up with alternatives, but anyway this is the best I could come up with at the time.

Hi Gamesaint762, yeah I have been away for a while. I have been working on some really cool projects. The A6 engine (as you already know) has opened a lot of doors with the awesome power it offers. Makes my mind swim~
I will post some screen shots of the work I have finished over the last 6 months. I have done nothing but work on my game in hopes of getting a project worthy of sponsorship.
So keep your head down while your over there and trust no one... I'll be thinking of you Gamesaint.

always~
Eagle

Thank you for this fine contribution!

Respectfully,

Thank you, Senior Expert !

You're welcome. I got the basics working, but I was never able to successfully complete the click and drag feature. I don't require, myself, and the method I was using may or may not be the best way to do it. It does work, although it has some rough edges which I've documented.

I will try to make a small level editor out of it

That's what I was trying to do. Nothing as fancy as some of the one's that have been popping up lately, though. It was just an idea I had for a side project, and that was the beginnings of it. Keep us posted on your progress, if any.

well at the moment I finished the select of the high level:

thanks for the extrem good basic code orange brat