Thats a large tileset! .

lol you should be right to start celebrating for next year .

Will this project require animated tiles?

The Desolate rewrite is 8lvl grayscale and runs at the same speed as 4lvl lol, but the data requirements for that would be outside the scope of this project. I think you guys need to lock down what kind of game this will be before deciding, like turn based or action game etc.

I implemented the better sorting technique and gained over 1fps for the dark link model, about a 14% increase which is pretty good imo . (also fixed some bfc issues too).

lol yeah i always have a hard time finishing stuff. When i get free time ill see what i can do about a proof-of-concept to see if something is even possible at all.

So will this be for a realtime scene? Or to render a tilemap from a given perspective and then do stuff, like a battle or something?

Though i do have a mode7 engine lying around that might do the trick? It would have to be amended to take out some of the accuracy shortcuts (that were used for speed):

The only issue i would have with that is probably the fact that there is no texture mapping so to speak, so you cant really have 3D tiles other than tiles filled with a pattern? This would still be pretty cool imo .

Also to answer your other question, its 5 bytes per face/triangle. But 3 of those bytes are a vertex index, which are another 3 bytes each. Vertices are often reused in a 3D model which means that the size is not fixed, but related to how 'reusable' the vertex list is ... if that makes sense lol.