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Article #721031Re: Isometric rpg games - Why r The Characters Always The Same Size ?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:32
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:32
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On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:50 -0400, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >Trimble Bracegirdle writes: >>Diablo, Baulders Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights 1st...etc...Fallout >>...etc..Pillars Of Eternity ..etc.. >>Almost entirely because I can't get into the small characters display style. >>I'm constantly aware that I can't see them or what there doing properly. >> >>I've been roaming around looking at many titles & I'm puzzled why the >>characters are all shown about the same (little) size. >>Is there some graphic 'standard' these games are designed to ? > >Well, that's what isometric means, same size. Things don't change in >size as they move about the scene. But that's not what you mean. That's not what isometric means in the context of gaming, either. It refers to isometric projection / isometric drawing, which in engineering is just a method of presenting 3D objects or environments in 2D.
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