Mapping questions

Mapping questions

Can you do a map in 2D?
And can you make it so models look at a excact point all the time ?

What do you mean 2D? Warcraft is a 3D game. And you might wanna be specific with the point facing. I think there's a trigger to turn the turn and make it face a specific point of position of something.

Well the idea i had was making a map thats like the good old tekken game.
Where you view it the same way and stuff..

ofc you can, its hard to get the animations to look good thou.
Ive made two halfdone 2d game emulations in wc3, you can check one out here:
http://www.clancbs.com/board/showthread.php?t=792

My bad. I just didn't understand what Polar_Bear was talking about. Well, you can altar the camera, that way, it will look like 2D, well, sort of.

Only use vertical slopes, and wrap the model's skins onto Elevators, thus making the units flat >.>

Also field of view to low value for ismetric-like effect

Well guys im sorry it werent quite the way i was hopeing it to be...
It should be more like this :

http://xboxmedia.gamespy.com/xbox/image/article/533/533599/street-fighter-anniversary-collection-20040726054250021.jpg

Wc3 cant do everything, so I don't think you'll be able to do much more than mimic that.

This is an interesting idea...I've tried to do it myself, but fell short because of my lazyness : /
I lifted the camera to look down at a bird's eye view, had a (non-leaky) trigger to constantly make units fall downwards...The point of this was to represent gravity. The idea was a Super Smash Brothers engine. I raised the cliffs for ground and also used flat modeled boxes textures as the side of walls for the floor. I placed a small, flat region on those walls. If a unit was in that region, it would not fall. To give the flat effect to units, I simply rotated them. That's where I ran into my problem...
The unit's head is upward while facing left, but the unit is upside down while facing right. I was too lazy to make a seperate set of animations for facing right. You could try other techniques for units, but other than that, the idea of Tekken would take a bit of work.