Isometric/RTS example?

darkirk

I'm moving from Unity to Godot and i'm very excited about the engine. I love being able to work exclusively with FOSS (Blender + Gimp + Godot)! I'm working on a small city building game to learn more about the engine, but i was curious about the best way to handle things here.

Is there any example of building placement and isometric grids?

Somnivore

You can download some demo projects off this link, it's towards the bottom.

In there you'll find two examples of isometric games. Although it's not tailored specifically to placing buildings, I'm sure you'll be able to figure that part out on your own if you think the problem through. I would imagine you'd want to learn how to manipulate the TileMap node, since you'll be modifying the city's tilemap at runtime.

darkirk

Thank you for the links. About building placement: is there a function that translates the screen mouse click position into the 3D world position?

Somnivore

@darkirk

https://godot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/learning/features/2d/2d_transforms.html this should give some insight on how to translate between screen and world coordinates, although it's not exactly related to the question of 3D (then again this is the 2D subforum :p )

whooshfrosted

This guy released an open source astar implementation and made some videos on how to use it.

The game they made with it is 3D isometric, so perhaps there is something in his code that will help you.

Trinketos

Tanks of Freedom has god example of grid placement