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Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:57 pm**

I am very frustrated trying to find a function that won't make my tiles in my isometric game look like this:

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The game draws the tile images via a table of tables, as the title states:

sX = 0
sY = 0
tiles = {}

grass = love.graphics.newImage("grass.png")
forest = love.graphics.newImage("forest.png")

table.insert(tiles,{grass,0,0})

table.insert(tiles,{forest,0,1})
table.insert(tiles,{forest,0,-1})
table.insert(tiles,{forest,1,0})
table.insert(tiles,{forest,-1,0})

function love.draw()
	for i,v in pairs(tiles) do
		local img = v[1]
		local x = v[2]
		local y = v[3]
		
		love.graphics.draw(img,
		(sX+(x*28)+(y*28))+(400-32),
		(sY+(x*14)+(y*-14))+(300-32)
		)
	end
end

And I need a function that will sort the tables by the third value, greatest to least, and the tables that have equal third values will be sorted by their second values,least to greatest. Example:

{grass,0,3}
{grass,0,2}
{grass,3,1}
{grass,4,1}
{grass,5,1}
{grass,0,0}

I just can't seem to find the right math to do this, and it'd be cool if someone could help me.

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:23 pm**

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table.sort(tiles, function(a, b)
  return b[3] < a[3]
end

The table.sort function is your friend. The function tells it how to deal with two items in the table. To quote from Programming in Lua:

This order function receives two arguments and must return true if the first argument should come first in the sorted array.

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:47 pm**

The solution you gave alone wasn't satisfiable, but I screwed around with it and got the desired result. Thanks.

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:58 pm**

What went wrong with it?

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:52 am**

I had this same problem a long, long time ago. Except, Isome has its tiles in three dimensions, making things even trickier.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:26 am**

Is there any reason you're not using a grid?

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tile = {}
for x=0,map_width-1 do
  tile[x] = {}
  for y=0,map_height-1 do
    tile[x][y] = tile_data
  end
end

Then you wouldn't need sorting as you'd just draw from 0,0 to map_width,map_height by looping through the same way.

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for x=0,map_width-1 do
  for y=0,map_height-1 do
    --draw tile here
  end
end

You'd only have to sort objects like characters that can move around the map by their Y value.

Of course drawing the tiles and translating the X and Y's to isometric coordinates would require some more math...

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