Add support for height-maps / per cell y-offset
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Description
Allowing a per-cell height offset would allow maps like this to be edited in Tiled:
http://lanebrownart.blogspot.de/2011/12/isometric-game-art.html
Though, it would also require a stack-based rendering order.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing how Tiled stores and edits per-cell data and how isometric maps are rendered; the feature would need per-cell height offsets and a stack-based rendering order, with editable height-map scenes providing the completion check.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- devtools, game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100