I''m experimenting with and iso engien idea and I''ve come to a little problem. My map is in the form of a 2D array and is plotted as a square map. I want to be able to move my mouse on a tile and place a box around it. At the moment when I click the left mouse button the box just appears wherever I click. Do I need to covert the mouse coors to ido coors? Can someone help me out?

I may be able to help.

I have had a lot of experience with iso and tile based
graphics. I don''t have the code with me now but when I find it I will post it here.

Here is the code I use to translate the mouse position to plot tiles. This function is VERY simple and does not work on floating point numbers.

#define TileSizeX 16
#define TileSizeY 16

void MouseToIso(int *x, int *y);

void MouseToIso(int *x, int *y)
{
*x=((*x/TileSizeX)*TileSizeX);
*y=((*y/TileSizeY)*TileSizeY);
return x, y;
}


Call this function like this:
MouseToIso(&x,&y);


I hope this works for you.

Thanks, it worked perfect for me

Perhaps I am just reading that code wrong, but what exactly does dividing by TileSize and then instantly multiplying by TileSize accomplish?

Btw, why is the function returning x, y? It shouldn''t return anything at all (since it''s a void function)

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