[ShurikeN]

does SDL support isometric views??

[Hajo]

I feel tempted to answer "Yes". But only in the sense that you can place a bitmap anywhere on the screen, including isometric placement. The position calculation is up to you, though.

I have done an isometric game with SDL, two actually, so I stick to "yes" ;)

[dbest]

I was about to use SDL for a simple isometric demo, but i dropped the idea.


That does not mean, that you cannot use SDL for isometric views. Alll you would have to do is set the position of the surface you are blitting on....

[Hajo]

If i and j are the map coordinates and x and y are the screen coordinates it's something like

x = (j-i)/2;
y = (j+i)/2;

Needs some scaling (tile-size, y-shrink) and so, but that's the basic formula.