Making An Isometric Grid

programming flash
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So I’ve built a grid of tiles using a bunch of variables and arrays, but what do I have to do to make it isometric?

As a note, I’ve done a few searches on isometric games, but none of their placement methods have worked so far (I don’t know why).


var row = 0
var column = 0

var columnLocation = new Array()
columnLocation = [0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500]

var rowLocation = new Array()
rowLocation = [0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450]

var tileList = new Array()

var i = 0

var mapContainer:MovieClip = new MovieClip()
addChild(mapContainer)

function addTiles(){
    var tile:Tile = new Tile()
    mapContainer.addChild(tile)
    tileList.push(tile)
    tile.width = 50
    tile.height = tile.width
    tile.x = columnLocation[column]
    tile.y = rowLocation[row]
    column++
    if(column==columnLocation.length){
    column = 0
    row++}
}

for (i; i<columnLocation.length*rowLocation.length; i++){
    addTiles()
}

Does anyone have any solutions?