Yeah, I bet it will look better when I apply some textures to the terrain. Hey Neil, your game looks like its farther along than mine. My dudes, don't move yet :P  Let me know if you want me to send you some sample code on how I set up my camera.

So i've got another problem now. In tactics you can adjust the camera angle up and down slightly. You can use a slightly more overhead perspective, or a straight on perspective. I've tried doing this in my game, but when i move to a more overhead perspective, the terrain just accordions into the ground. It looks like the terrain is ...

Disregard my original post below. The pieces being distorted is just an optical illusion. I put a piece of paper over my monitor and traced a tile. It lined up when i moved it to another tile and when i flipped it upside down. Original Post: I think I'm on to something. After you make your projection matrix using ...

Thanks for all the help guys! The only thing i have left to figure out now is why the tiles towards the back are larger than the ones to the front. I want all the tiles to be a consistent size. I've been reading a lot about Isometric game engines, but most of the articles focus on 2d isometrics :( As i rotate the camera, there is ...

Bingo! But I can't move my camera by changing my view. hmm...  And is it just me or does this look a little distorted?

So I am making a game in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics. I'm also using Tactic's art until I figure out how to draw :P Here is what i got so far: And here is what Tactics looks like: I knew Tactics just used sprites for the characters, but I thought the terrain was simple 3d models. I didn't realize ...

I figured it out. Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(MathHelper.PiOver4, aspectRatio, 0.0001f, 1000.0f, out projection);  That is way too big of a range for the clipping planes apparently. I changed it to 1, 150 and all my problems went away.

I tried only drawing 1 triangle per box instead of the normal 10 and this glitch it still happening. Given this, I am guessing that there is a setting somewhere that is causing this. Any ideas? Thanks for all the input so far. Glad to see XNA has a good community :)

It seems to me that if it were a culling issue then it would be all or nothing right? A given triangle would either draw or it wouldn't. But I am getting parts of triangles bleeding through depending on the angle of the camera. Two overlapping triangles seems much more likely i think. I'll commenting everything out and then adding it back ...

I ended up setting RenderState.DepthBufferEnable = false; and now i'm calculating each piece's depth and sorting them and drawing them in the correct order during each Draw(). This is obviously not a great solution, but it works. This has been very discouraging. Anyone else have any ideas why the 3d primitives look so glitchy? ...