RFE - Allow Isometric Buildings

[HammerGS]

I've seen requests like this for Isometric buildings quite a few times. I know Arlith had looked into it with no good resolution.

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[SirMegaV]

I think if he turn on the shadows, the building shadow does really tell if a building is high.

On Friday, January 26, 2018, Dave N notifications@github.com wrote:

I've seen requests like this for Isometric buildings quite a few times. I know Arlith had looked into it with no good resolution.

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[mmnet-jackal]

On MMNet, where city environments are pretty common, having issometric buildings would be very helpful.

A big area where it would help is when you want to use a group of buildings for partial cover. For example, a great firing position would be to stand on a level 4 building, immediately behind a level 5 building. Not only would you get PC there, but your opponent also wouldn't be able to collapse the building you're standing on (at least not if they're firing straight back at you).

Currently, finding such positions is pretty time consuming to do. The building shadows don't really help in a dense urban environment because they typically run into other buildings reducing their informational value. Consequently, you have to manually check the height of buildings and this is very slow. Isometric buildings would make this process MUCH faster/easier.

Finally, I'd just like to add my thoughts about implementation:

• Issometric buildings need to be easily toggleable because they'll mostly be a hindrance EXCEPT when you want them
• it might also be a good idea for you to allow iso buildings to be turned on and off individually by right clicking on the building's hex; this would be helpful if a very tall building is blocking the view to a shorter building behind it
• alternatively the iso buildings could be transparent, but this might be hard to read sometimes

Thanks for working on this!