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[EmeraldWind]

He probably is asking which iso projection SS is using. Like this:

[cousac]

He probably is asking which iso projection SS is using. Like this:

Japa, EmeraldWind is right...I misspoke (mistyped?) I did indeed mean which isometric projection does Stonesense use. I want my 3d models to look right when rendered into sheets. I know you guys paint your sprites (freaking amazing btw. I'm quite envious   )

EmeraldWind, the image is not showing... What were you trying to show? And thanks for the support! Perhaps I shouldn't write my posts past midnight..I get stupid :p Again EW thanks.

[Rose]

regards to which angle, see, that's a tricky one. I actually had to do some pretty complex math when I tried to figure out how to map it to 3d, and I dont remember what I ended up with.

What I do know is that the tiles aren't cubes.

[Rose]

He probably is asking which iso projection SS is using. Like this:

Fixed that for you, and we'd be using dimretric

[MaximumZero]

regards to which angle, see, that's a tricky one. I actually had to do some pretty complex math when I tried to figure out how to map it to 3d, and I dont remember what I ended up with.

What I do know is that the tiles aren't cubes.

Ey, wot? How'd you come up with that?

[Rose]

The angles are like so:

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    \117°/
     \  /
121.5°\/121.5°
      |
      |
      |
I'm not sure how to convert that to 3d.

[cousac]

Thank you Japa and EW for assisting me in my moment of epic newbiness!

So, Japa does this look right to you?

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I cropped the black block in the objects.png and used it as back image as i adjusted the camera...
I did have to alter the default cube. You are right...it isn't cubed, however only the height needed to be changed...

[Rose]

How to test: render with no anti-aliasing, and zoom into the edges. This one has a couple issues, but not quite enough to really matter unless you have OCD, which I do.

Otherwise, that looks fine.

I'm not sure weather the pink border is intentional.

[cousac]

Ok re: render test.

Re: pink border. Nope was supposed to be pink background..dunno what happened. Checked my image, the pink bg was still there but only a border on img.ie. weird... I'm new to pic posting anyway, could have done something newbish

[Rose]

hint: don't use a pink background. render with alpha channel.

[cousac]

SUCCESS!!

After some tweaking I got it spot on... I loaded the back image and the render into GIMP and as i changed the opacity of the back image it merely appears as if I changed the color the edges match up precisely. Thanks for suggesting I turn off antialiasing. Anyway now that I have a template, The rest should be easy peasy.

Oh and if you want to see the result:

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PS: I'm not quite OCD, but I believe that "close-enough" equals "lack of passion" which is not me

EDIT: Gotcha, I switched the Alpha channel from sky color to straight up alpha. no more pinks
EDITEDIT: I planned on it, just wanted to see if I can match the tile. Now that I have the right setup I may render in 256x instead

[Rose]

just a hint: with current stonesense, you may as well render them at a higher res than 32x32.

[Caldfir]

The current discussion reminds me that I made this thing a while back for something totally unrelated.  I imagine it could be helpful if someone wanted to do a fast mockup of something. 

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For 256x256 SS blocks using the current projection I think thses would be the correct values for 'black.dat':

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h_px 256
v_px 256
v_loft_px 128
v_ofst_px 64

A real 3D implementation would be much better though, since different angle-projections could be made much more easily (this thing just draws a bunch of quadrilaterals on the screen). 

[Rose]

SUCCESS!!

After some tweaking I got it spot on... I loaded the back image and the render into GIMP and as i changed the opacity of the back image it merely appears as if I changed the color the edges match up precisely. Thanks for suggesting I turn off antialiasing. Anyway now that I have a template, The rest should be easy peasy.

Oh and if you want to see the result:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

PS: I'm not quite OCD, but I believe that "close-enough" equals "lack of passion" which is not me

EDIT: Gotcha, I switched the Alpha channel from sky color to straight up alpha. no more pinks
EDITEDIT: I planned on it, just wanted to see if I can match the tile. Now that I have the right setup I may render in 256x instead

Here's something I found:

[orius]

we draw our stuff in paint.

That's a bit impressive.  Paint isn't necessarily a bad tool, but it's a lot easier to make something look like crap than it is to make it look good.