a nice rpg movement using height

enjoy this fake 3d isometric engine
it uses an overlay for height mapping
you can walk run, jump, push objects...
it's not perfect but that's a good base

firstly i planned to release it after the complete game, but as i can't find enough time for the game i post this part of the engine sooner

please tell we what you think, and report problems if there is, i'm sorry for may crappy english, I already have difficulties to comment it in french so imagine in a language which is not mine ^^

to finish, please put my name in the credits if i helped you with that

http://sylnade.click.free.fr/alphasia_moteur1ang.mfa

Nice engine. :)

The best way to do this is with an array being the terrain. Otherwise, it gets complicated very soon :S

Using overlay is a better method I through.

using overlay you don't have to make the terrain look geometric which is i think impossible with an array
and i've seen awasome isometric engines using array (much better than mine) but they were much more cpu consuming, and it couldn' do terrain with curves for exemple

i think both method are nice, but it depends on what you want the terrain to look like

Seems I missed a working link, hehe.

Link gives "Service Unavailable".

Try this one which is in French : http://sylnade.click.free.fr/alphasia_moteur1.mfa

strange... the link works fine with me

cool engine :)

Very nice engine! I was thinking about making an RPG game in the future (after my current project) and this provides a great base for what I intended on making! I will definitely put you in the credits

thanks ^^

if i really can't progress in the developpement of my game maybe someday you'll see the source of the fight engine ^^
not yet anyway

you must have noticed one big problem in this engine: when you push something against a wall, it doesn' stop and "jump" on the wall i haven't fond yet a way to avoid it without too much lines (i don't like using too much line for uch things) so i let you think about it...

by the way, for the guys who want to create a rpg, if you have 8 direction sprites, you should all make the guy turn direction by directon when changing direction (not diectly from right to left etc...) it's detail but everyone shold do that as extension such like advanced direction help for it ^^

Hi,
Can you please re-upload you engine again. I would like
to take a look at it.
Thanks,
Paul

404 file not found.
On every link I clicked.

Could you please re-upload the example, as I'd like to see it.

Hi,
I wish I did have the sample, but I also am looking for
it to be uploaded again. I have been doing alot with Isometric
and what to see this person sample of what they did.
Let me know if you get it.
Thanks,
Paul

Dead link :'(

sorry guys i lost the file, i'll redo the exemple asap
(if someone dowloaded it and can send it to me it would save a lot of time to me :) here's my mail: sylnade0@hotmail.com )

here's the new link of the page with exemples (but some are missing) http://sylnade.click.free.fr/site/fr.htm (you can find here my exemples (in french). for the moment the french version of the tutorial you need should be available

and for the english version of the rpg engine i'll do my best
sorry

I do hope someone can bring back this example, I'd really like to see it, been looking for something like this for a while now.

at the momoment i have to work a lot (3 weeks and it's over) if if you can wait that long i promise I'll retraduce it and probably add features ^^ (not sure)
else you have the french version available or maybe someone still have it on his computer and can send it to me...

I'd love to use the french version, but the french version link ( http://sylnade.click.free.fr/site/tu...ia_moteur1.mfa ) gives me a 404. If that can be solved I could at least have a look at it :-)

I remember seeing this a while ago, so I sort of remade it. It has some bugs, but it shows the basic concept of it.

Looks cool, but it doesn't have isometric movement at all.... I'm especially interested in it because of the isometric part.

I RETRADUCED IT !

hopefully i was too tired and hadn't enough motivation to work tonight so i traduced the tutorial instead ^^

here is the link:
http://sylnade.click.free.fr/site/tuto/alphasia_moteur_eng.mfa

i didn't had anything though
maybe later

Cool thanks!