Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of...
by polishdude20 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @02:48PM
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That second link shows controls but does not have any water effects?
Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of...
by gregsadetsky on Thursday January 22, 2026 @02:50PM
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As far as I can see, OP tried to implement water shaders but then abandoned this idea.
Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of...
by cannoneyed on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:18PM
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that's right - it worked very nice, but the models to generate the "shore distance mask" for the water shader weren't reliable enough to automate, and I just couldn't justify sinking any more time into the project
Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of...
by gregsadetsky on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:24PM
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0 shade (hehe), the project is extraordinary as it is! cheers
gemini 3.5 pro reverse engineered it - if you use the code at the following gist, you can jump to any specific lat lng :-)
https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/c4c1a87277063430c26922b...
also, check out https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/?debug=true ..!
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code below (copy & paste into your devtools, change the lat lng on the last line):