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Looks pretty cool! Can this be used for other types of games... say "Double Dragon" or "River City Ransom" type games — and not just isometric vantage point?

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Animated tiles are definitely possible without much modification. You would need to change "force animation frame" to "change animation sequence" in the floor and walls in the "Update" group.

Hello again. I got the animations working like this for the tiles. Problem is when moving around with scrolling enabled the animations start over from the first frame. Tried enabling and disabling the "compability" (Do not reset frame duration when animation is modified.) So I am not sure what to do. Maybe creating a system that saves the number of frame to an array and loads it could do the trick.(not sure how to implement it)

Thank you!

With the directions I have the same problem

Thanks again solarB for swift reply and the effort to try this out! Unfortunately trying those did not help. I am just guessing but when you tested with numbers did you have same amount of frames per direction as well? I just copy pasted the same animation to all directions (so identical amount of frames) and it started working, but with different amount of frames in the directions of animation I get the same issue. So running the directions in same speed and same amount of frames will make it really difficult for me to have animated tiles. Although its highly likely there is something else wrong with my events. Oh also I am using the "walls" animated as well so this might bring up some more problems aswell.

Thanks so much! I guess ill try to make something else meanwhile (because i was designing a puzzle based on the animations of the statue in the game.)

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Ah yes you're right I did have the same amount of frames. I'll try to implement a frame storing system since that seems like the best workaround.

Have you had anytime to look at this? or any pointers how you would do it? I have not been able to fix this

Thanks for getting back to me. I've also wondered about parallax scrolling backgrounds and the like? how would I implement those since the conventional scrolling is not used?

Any plans to make a 2D Topdown lighting engine of the same kind of style? Something that could be used for 2D zelda-like games?

I'd like to implement some fancy lighting into my games dungeons some time in the future.. I could do it myself.. haha but if you can adapt this to a 2D lighting engine, I'd be interested in doing less work myself!

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Hello again. There has been happening some slight frogress, a short gameplay video:

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At this moment I am struggling to implement smooth scrolling that is not entirely locked on the player. Ive tried the easing object but experience lot of back and forth stutter. IF you have time and some ideas your help would be greatly appreciated.