justGREAT! I start off designing some tiles just for practice and one day later I end up with a neat experiment 
I was inspired by the graphics of Dofus Arena and decided to try and create some similar tiles… Spending half a day fooling around with Fireworks I ended up with this image:
Another half a day later I turned the graphics into an animated terrain generator: http://www.powerupmedia.nl/#/exp080302
The terrain is generated according to three small bitmaps (see top left corner). The first one determines the type of the tile. The second one is like a bumpmap and determines the elevation of eacht tile. The third bitmap determines where objects (plants, rocks, gold, etc.) should be placed.
In the future I might create an editor which can write the bitmaps.
Once I designed more versions of each tile-type (4 or 5 different grass tiles for example) the generator will be able to pick a random version of that tile. This way repetition in the structure should be avoided (at the moment the tiles are just mirrored at random).
Very nice!
Very very nice job, I like it !
Do you used a 3D engine, papervision or away3d to do this ?
Tnx for the kind words!
just a small piece of code to turn iso x-, y- and z-values into screen x- and y-values:
No need for 3D engines here though
this.x = this.__isoX-this.__isoY;
this.y = (this.__isoX+this.__isoY)/2;
this.y -= this.__isoZ;
(code snippet from the Tile-class)
No 3D Engine .
I will try to do it
I found a good introduction to isometric transformation (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/isometric_transforms.htm).
It’s a good tut, but i’m not sure why they use the “complicated” cos and sin functions. My calculations give the same result but are much simpler (and therefore much faster when you have lots of calulations).
Anyway, I hope you make some nice iso-stuff. Let me know when you have something on-line…
I realize this is an old post, but just wanted to say you captured the Dofus graphics nicely. Plus, I like your style overall. Cheers!
¡Hi!
you can upload it on png format?, i love your tiles.
Thanx Sergiocarp, you can cut and paste the tiles from the jpg:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/083/0/3/Game_tiles_by_ironiceagle.jpg