Hopefully a simple question

[Mike Bonner]

3/4 view?  Same as iso view?

Oh cool, just looked up toroid (didn't know what it was believe it or not)
got a visual of how that would work now, thx!

Setting things up with buttons now, and simply using labels to mark terrain
types for the moment so I can get a basic movement system running, still
looking at graphics options.  Thanks much for your pointers.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> You might consider using buttons, not for any button functionality, but to
> reference images.  Lay those out as you need.  They will be in the same
> coordinates as your sprites and arrows and things.  You can butt those
> against each other.  Adjust the margins if buttons have them.
>
> If you go to 3/4 view, tiling will still work and you can even have a
> little overlap.  Just layer them right.
>
> Your game world might be a toroid.  That is, left and right wrap and up and
> down wrap.
>
> Dar Scott
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
>  Finally am getting back on my feet(health stuff, long story) and want to
>> try
>> and learn some new things.
>>
>> I'm looking at making a very simple overhead view rpg, and my thought was
>> to
>> use tilesets and set the imagesource of the chars to the desired tile
>> based
>> on letter. (meaing w for wall, f for floor b for building etc)  The
>> viewport
>> will be a small 9x9 area with the current 'map' held in a variable.
>>
>> Before I go too far down this path, does anyone have any
>> tips/pointers/warnings or better direction for me to go?  My thinking was
>> track the current position of the character against the map file, then on
>> move, update the char postion (which will always be centered in the
>> viewport) and use that to get the chars in the surounding area, lock the
>> screen, update the field contents with the areas text representation and
>> set
>> all the image ids, then unlock.
>>
>> Would a datagrid be a better method for this? With a row template of 9
>> tile
>> size images viewing 9 rows, and use fillindata to choose what imagadata to
>> set each row tile to.. I was thinking this might work pretty well as I
>> will
>> only have to worry about the charoffset for each data row, and the
>> datagrid
>> will handle which rows are displayed.
>>
>> Other methods? At this point i'm not even really worried about collisions
>> or
>> anything of that nature.  And  I'm still determining if the map should
>> bind
>> edge to edge (making around the world trips possible)
>>
>> Any and all hints would be welcome.
>> Thanks!
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