From the DM Reference for Isometric Maps:
Screen objects (in client.screen) are always drawn on top of all isometric tiles.
This keeps one from adding a nifty background to isometric maps, which are prone to displaying large portions of empty space along their edges.
Could it be possible to have a special setting that would draw a screen object UNDER all isometric tiles?
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 Feb 8 2010, 9:37 am
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Feb 8 2010, 10:34 am
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Ripiz
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There is a way, add objects to players screen, to fill whole screen, and set it's layer to TURF_LAYER-1
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Ripiz wrote:
There is a way, add objects to players screen, to fill whole screen, and set it's layer to TURF_LAYER-1 As Vermolius already said, that won't work in isometric mode. Layering in isometric mode is based on position as well as layer, and screen objects always appear on TOPDOWN_LAYER. Lummox JR | |
It's entirely feasible; the question is specifically how it would be implemented (a special layer like TOPDOWN_LAYER makes sense, but what number that would be would need some thought) and what kind of priority it would have in our to-do list.
Lummox JR | |
The way I got around those large black bars on the top/bottom of the isometric map was to make its width 2x its height.
ex: width=500, height=250 Then just offset the map in the skin to the left of 0 so that it would be centered. To find out how far to move it left, take the difference between the width and height, divide by 2. In this case (500-250)/2 = 125. So set the map's "x" location to -125 and voila! | |