Hi all. I am trying to make an engine very similar to the one used in Jagged Alliance 2. I am new to isometric engines though, so any suggestions are welcome I was wondering how to implement walls, doors and windows, and also crates and rocks which give you cover. This is what I''ve come up with: -have flags for every tile to indicate walls, windows and doors -boxes,rocks,etc. are ''objects'' which are placed on a tile I''ve also been considering going OOP and having different kinds of tiles like ''building-tile'' (with walls, roof), ''rock-tile'' (not walkable), etc. inherited from some generic tile... I was also wondering how to do visibility right. Any ideas on a ''3d'' visibility model? Like, when looking straight onto a rock, you cannot see what is on the tile behind it at ground level, but the tile behind that one is fully visible again. Finally: I want to do a game that is pretty much a clone of the fighting scenes in Jagged Alliance 2. Turn-based sneaking around some woods and buildings, ambushing the enemies, accomplishing certain tasks, playing against bots or over a network - sounds fun to me Anyone interested? (please note though that I am linux-only, so think portable ;P ) Thanx, Christian.

Jagged Alliance 2 is the best damn war game ever created! I played Jag1 and was addicted to that right away! The weapons and the sounds are soo sweet in both games. I knew nothing about guns before playing and after playing, I''m a gun/war nut.

Anyway, Are you looking for help? I too was thinking about making a jagged alliance 2 clone, but I''m learning isometric algorithms with Taansf Isometric Game Programming in DX7 book.

You should also check out JA2: Unfinished Business which has the editor that they used to create the game. Interesting stuff that they do with the outside grasses and terrain.

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