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This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find it in the archives. Why are the building bases laid out in a diagonal pattern instead of squared vertically and horizontally with the buildings themselves still being animated as 3d models?
Probably a stupid question....just curious.
I have wondered this myself. Just kind of rolled with it and never questioned it. I like the 3D aspect of it though.
In my opinion it looks better diagonal, more abstract. That's what most people would do so supercell didn't, makes it more original. I haven't seen it asked before. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by lurrrvs2sp00ge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isom..._and_pixel_art
The answer may be somewhere there but I'm not too knowledgeable in this field so I dunno.:p
It's just an isometric view. Common in all fields as a way of representing 3D objects in 2D. From this view, adjacent objects are less obstructed. If it's a vertical grid and one object is placed directly behind another, the center-to-center distance of these tiles is 1 tile width. In the isometric view, if you put something on the tile directly behind another object, it lies on the diagonal where the center-to-center distance for the tiles is sqrt(2) ~ 1.414 tiles away. So the objects are further up the tilted plane and less obstructed. If you wanted to have the non-isometric layout, you'd need to tilt the plane and be more top-down if you wanted to have equal visibility. But the more top-down you are, the less 3D the image appears (until when you're perfectly top-down and there is no illusion of 3D whatsoever).
It would probably be tough to the make structures 3d if everything was facing towards you