A paperboy scrolling room

[piraatlife4me]

Does anyone know if there is a way in Ags to have the room scroll like the background in the game paperboy? Or have a good idea on how to simulate it? Also is there a way to to diagonally set baselines in a room, because I have this fence in my game and it is really hard to get walkbehinds to look right on it?  If anyone knows how to do these things that would be super.  Please let me know
thanks

Daniel
Winebarger

[Kweepa]

For the scrolling, use SetViewport(int x, int y) to move the corner of the screen along a line parallel to the isometric line.

For the fence, you could check which side of the fence each object is on ([edit] say by using walkable areas) and set the baseline appropriately. I did that for the jail cell bars in IIISpy (*plug*). But this is a big problem with writing isometric games - generally they get away with it by one of the following methods:
(a) all objects are approximately the same size, so an appropriate baseline is easy-ish to calculate.
(b) put objects into an axis-aligned BSP, and split objects into pieces when they are "hard" to order.
(c) use a z-buffer.
(d) something else I'd like to know
[edit] I guess what I'm saying is that a general solution is not likely to be achievable in AGS, without a pretty tricky plugin.

Steve