about walkable areas

[Klownzilla]

Hey I just wonder if there's a better way to make walkable areas...right now I'm putting a lot of active objects everywhere that works like obstacles. In Adventure game studio for example you can draw out a walkable area and the character can only move on that area...so is there a similiar way to achieve this or do I just have to spread out a bunch of actives and quick backdrops to serve as obstacles? I show you here what I mean


Cheers!

[tompa]

One way is to let you character move around in a worldspace-grid (filled with obstacles), where his position is translated to your isometric view. This can be achieved with the array-object.

[nivram]

tompa. Would you have an example?

Thanks,
Marv

[Klownzilla]

I'd like to see an example too

[Caesar]

Not so long ago, I was making an isometric engine(it doesn't use an array). The rooms, player and objects all operate on an invisible 2D layer(like a top-down game) They are then translated to an Isometric environment that you see.

If you like, I can add an example to my dropbox and post a link here.

[tompa]

aah yes, this example contains only the most vital parts for worldspace collision.

@Caesar: I'd be interested in viewing your techniques caesar.

[Caesar]

tompa, my techniques are probably embarrassingly simple-minded compared to yours. So I can't see you learning anything from it.

I couldn't find the example I intended uploading (originally made for more traditional games like Equinox/Sweevo's world), but I found another I made that's not very well commented.

Here's the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tutomjnidkb8yc/SimpleISO.mfa

[tompa]

sometimes simple is better ^^