Landscape for isometric RPG

#1 Personally I'd stay away from trying to render an entire terrain in bryce for an isometric rpg, because of how random it can be. Maybe it'd be good for inspiration of the general world characteristics.

I'd try to come up with a set of slopes and specific isometric tile standards, ( flat basic, marble madness style) and then either create individual tiles in bryce or use some other method (to make graphically nice versions, for different climates etc), but following the set of basic standard tiles.. so that you can freely edit the world without having to re-render a huge random terrain and try to manage it with collisions and foreground background objects etc..

that might not seem as easy, but I think in the long run it will help as far as making everything behave nicely together when scripting the game.

#2 World Creator, available at www.inet2inet.com/, is specifically designed for creating isometric tile graphics.

It has a rather unusual set up in which the user 'models' isometric graphics using by laying out a color-coded template in a flat 2D image. This 2D image then gets rendered into a isometric image with textures applied. You kind of have to see it to believe it, but it's worth a look.

#3 Thank you Michael, I actually saw that program last night by luck.

It is looking really good at least for a start.

#4 Thanks for posting that link - the free version is nice and I'll probably end up getting the pay version when my credit card cools down!