Is there a "smart" way to handle the drawing order?

Question

I'm working on an isometric game. I'ts been going pretty well so far. One of the key features is a cam that can rotate 360 degrees around the player.

However, this makes depth calculations for handling the drawing order very hard. I basically have to switch the order of the for-loops depending on which way the camera faces (i.e. which two faces of an isometrically rendered cube are visible?)

I wonder if there is a smarter way to do this. If not, I'll have to use a lot of code that is very similar.

Answer 1

The smarter way would be to use OpenGL.

• If you are using C++ or C, then just search only for the DLL libraries and import them into your project.
• If you are using Java, then take a look at either LWJGL or JOGL.

All the libraries etc. are completely free to use, and you can use them in any way you want.