A few Q''s I would like A''s to: I was wondering if there are any good, heavily commented, open source Tile tutorials for the beginner tile based engine programmer? Is DirectX REQUIRED for programs of this sort? If your just working with 1-2 sprites, Collision Detection, and basic tiling technique. Basicaly what I am looking for is a tutorial that explains the following in their entirety (sp?) and supplies a working example of each. Again heavily commented.. Map Arrays Map Layers (Base,Object,Fringe) Collision Detection Sprites I''ve read almost all of the Tile tut''s/articals on GameDev and they are either Too advanced or too vague. Thanks, Kedaeus ICQ 121067763

Hiya mate,

Have you checked out the IsometriX project? - It''s a cool open source tile engine, you can find it at www.isometrix.org

DirectX isn''t needed to produce tile based programs but can help a great deal. Check out the new Isometric Game Programming with DirectX book by Ernest Pazera (Prima Publishing; ISBN: 0761530894) you can find it on Amazon etc.

Hope this helps,

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FireFly

That book (Isometric Game Programming with DirectX 7.0) uses DirectX 7... =( Isn't there a book on Isometric game engines for DirectX 8? Where you can learn to use the cool 3D effects in "2D"? Like alpha blending and such...

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Edited by - Seriema on June 15, 2001 4:21:41 AM

The Scrolling Game Development Kit is an open source VB layered parallax scrolling tile engine. However, the tutorial it includes is on how to use the program, not how to write the program. Still it might be of *some* help. BASIC is practically English anyway, right?

"All you need to do to learn circular logic is learn circular logic"

Thank you..

I believe I have downloaded this once before.. I''m not sure. I downloaded something and it wasn''t commented at all.. So I had no clue what was happening.

Also.. I checked out the one in VB in the tutorial section a while back, it was nice, but I''m trying to put VB behind me.

-Kedaeus-