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So I am working on a small isometric thing, and I recently added the ability to delete and place blocks. I built a staircase, jumped on top of it and realized that even though I was on the top it still looked like I was back on the floor, only being able to make out how high I am by carefully looking at overlapping tiles. So I decided to make the tiles that are further down darker, in order to add some sort of depth perception. Problem is, only the first 3 or 4 tiles at the bottom of the map actually have that depth perception and it's kind of faint.
That is what I use to get the 'depth', using it in setColor, z being the z axis ( up and down in my game )
While writing this I was thinking about maybe having the depth relative to the player's z position, but how would that look like in code?
Any ideas?

In isometric view it should be very obvious if you're climbing upstairs, as they'd be "diagonal" and you'd clearly see them. Can you post a picture?

To do the "relative z" you just subtract one from another! Since this will now start at 0 and go positive and negative depending on relative height, you'd probably want to use a sort of sigmoid function to calculate color fade. You'll have to tweak it to get to look right, and the engine doesn't support HDR color since version 11 (which I think was a stupid change) so you'd have to highlight the tiles at elevated level using some other means.

This is what I mean by depth perception issues :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zwv7b87k1143 ... 9.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oikp4c6bv4do9 ... 7.jpg?dl=0

Same elevation, just walked south. I will try your solution and see if it works thank you.

Unfortunately it didn't work , BUT I did find something that works and I could say I'm quite happy with the result.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yo2qypqn69bne ... 6.jpg?dl=0
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Since you know, it's good to have settings. I'm new to the forums, so I don't know how to lock a thread. Could you please tell me how to do so? And if I can't lock a thread, do I just rename it by adding "[SOLVED]" to the title?

Thank you

Welp I just renamed it.