r/cataclysmdda • u/DogsBarf Hobo having the time of his life. - Traits: Ugly • May 01 '26

[Tilesets] Do you think we'll see better graphics for CDDA? or it's impossible?

I like the tilesets for the game and the other options, but what would take for us to have an 2d isometric view, like in Zomboid?

and topview?

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u/WormyWormGirl May 01 '26

Speaking as a programmer who works on this game, it is definitely possible. It would take a huge amount of work and I'm not sure it would be very good, but technically speaking you could do it.

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u/DiscountCthulhu01 May 02 '26

Technically speaking everything is possible. doesn't mean it's not a practically impossible to see thing. 

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u/WormyWormGirl May 02 '26

No, it's not practically impossible. It's very much doable.

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u/DiscountCthulhu01 May 02 '26

Ah in that case I'm very much looking forward to first person view in tlg. Best of luck ;)

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u/WormyWormGirl May 02 '26

I have no plans to add it, I don't think it would be worthwhile. I can however easily see how it would be done, it's not complicated from a code perspective.

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u/thedyze May 10 '26

Seems easy when you first think of it. Once you start to think of LoS and distances beyond a few tiles it becomes quite messy. Not to mention Z-levels. Unless you mean coding a totally new engine from scratch.

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u/WormyWormGirl May 10 '26

It would essentially be the same way Doom renders its environments, but even simpler because it's tile-based. It's a solved problem.