But... It's not isometric.
Or psuedo isomtric for that matter.
Really, it just looks out of perspective.
The legs and feet are meh.

I really prefer the platform perspective ones tbh.


Nothing lines up with a perspective, I tried "psuedo-iso" too and didn't see where you were going with this.
When working with perspective it's good to have guider lines to point you into the right depth.

Even the characters in the mockup provided aren't in the proper perspective.
Though I guess it kind of works, I remember I had made this same mistake when I first tried iso-metric.


Edited by Souly - 08 September 2009 at 9:16am

Is this the right direction?


I'm considering just leaving the head like that...

Ok, got back to this project. Here's the progress! (more info in the OP).

EDIT: update!



I'm not sure about his left foot, perhaps it should be one pixel lower?




Edited by mikemayday - 30 November 2009 at 2:05pm

Why not to use regular top-down view like in Zelda, Final Fantasy and the rest so you (and player) would not have to deal with diagonals?

I agree with mikemayday, the DF game is much more suitable for isometrics.

Here's the last one for today, after some revisions:

I love the walk :D
The last wall isn't isometric either, fyi, isometric is half as wide as a pure topdown view. I assume you're not using that anyway, but are you sure that the original is cavalier? I thought that cavalier was oblique, but with the projected lines half the true length to imply perspective?

Edited by Jeremy - 04 December 2009 at 6:43am

his right (our left) leg looks much thinner than the other one, animation is looking nice and smooth though.

For now this is just a practice activity :)
Perhaps if I made two animations- walk and run and play the second one for the faster dwarves, while adjusting the animation framerate for the slower ones?

A few issues:

The bg is cavalier and the dwarf is iso or near: will it work together? (Possibly, I dunno in fact)

Is it a good idea to animate the walk without the arms? (same thing)

About the anim:
mostly, the feet look weirdly short, and there are some frames with pixels 'shooting out' at the ankle, see arrows in the edit. Also, it seems from the outlines, that you show the underside of the feet in the leg-forward frames: this is not visible in the anim because it's not shaded properly. I'm not sure you could actually see the underside in proper iso, but it seems to work once shaded.

I did that, also made a longer right (his) foot (first step only), and made a few changes to the frames where the right knee is up. All my changes are far from good, I'm just pointing things that need to improve.

I like the looks of that project, I'm just so geeky about mining stuff anyway.



PS: error message when using the image button, have to use tags.
Why is it that ImageReady turns a 9 kB anim into a 48 kB elephant?

Edit: there is still a weird inside turn of the foot in the backward-most frame, I don't understand exactly what does it so I didn't address it.


Edited by Manupix - 04 December 2009 at 11:52am

Ah, planometric is the word I was looking for, not cavalier. Planometric uses the 45° lines projected straight up, and so it can use a normal circle rather than an isometric one.

Not that that matters.

http://www.minecraft.net/

Update your Java!
Minecraft is a truly relaxing activity :P And it's (in a wicked sense) PA!