hi pplez, have questions here hope sumone can help mi. i basically understands how to draw isometric map onto the screen, but then..i was tinkin..lets say i have a very large map [1000x1000tiles x 32x16pixel] ..and my mouse points to screenpixel (200 , 200) on a 800 x 600 screen, how do i determine whats the xy map coordinate of the whole map am i pointing at ? can someone pls give me some advice ? i've read sum articles but i dun realli understand. thanx alot Edited by - ReDair on June 5, 2001 11:17:34 PM

What you have to do is add the top left hand co-ordinate of the map onto your mouse co-ordinates. Its that simple. It should go
something like this.

x = mousex + mapx;
y = mousey + mapy;

can u pls explain more elaborately . thanx alot.my whole map is shaped like a diamond.

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can u pls explain more elaborately . thanx alot.my whole map is shaped like a diamond.

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my whole map is shaped like a diamond. can i draw the map diagonaly down as folowing the map coordinate or will it be better to do it left to right ? any advice ?
thanx

You have to have some kind of viewport x/y positions for map viewport. Like, ur map starts at 0,0 and your viewport is size 800x600 right?
So, your mouse coord in tiles will be:
xtile=(getmousex+viewportx)/sizeoftilex;
ytile=(getmousey+viewporty)/sizeoftiley;

So, u can get ur tile if ur map is like map[1000][1000], so to access tile ove which ur mouse is over is map[xtile][ytile]

Tans has a really good article in the GameDev forums about mapping the mouse coordinates to a map coordinate. I highly recommend reading that article.

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