RTS Isometric in complete 2D (tileset+ sprites) (à la Age of empires I, starcraft I)

[THORONGIL]

I have searched around for tutorials and was able to work with the tilesets (create a sidescroller) & sprites (animate my character) within UE4.
What I’m wondering now is how I could make the camera isometric onto the tileset and move a character around just like you would in games like Age of empires, Ceasar, Stronghold etc.

[MaggiFX]

What you need is an orthographic Camera.

As you can see an orthographic projection doesn’t have any perspective.

For example:

This is my completely original Character Shmono from my completely original game Chrono Shwigger:
Let’s set him up with a “normal” Perspective Camera

Ingame it will look like this:

Now we simply change the camera to a Orthographic one in the Camera Settings

Which gives us this result:

The orthographic camera is what you want to use.

EDIT:

Here, one more comparision, this time with buildings.

[DEDRICK]

Hah Chrono Shwigger