3d transformations

Can somebody give me a few references on how to apply a side view or pitch/yaw to a regular sprite distortmap?

Im aiming for some type of perspective view that can be rotated.

Trying to make a game like "fez"?

Nothing that extravagant, no 3d collisions, or z height changing for characters, just a simple iso type view for terrain, or buildings.

this is literaly meant to be used for an first person adventure game. shame i too never could wrap my head around it.

Then again - if Newt has problems with this - then I wont even come near by <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Its not that bad really. I have my z heights via a height map, all I need are some expressions to move that around a bit. All I found so far is stuff about using matrices... not that easy to plug into Construct.

you need to define an origin, and rotate each point around that origin in xyz space, rotating the points additively in 3 steps. roll, rotations applied on YZ plane, then pitch on those rolled coords applied as a rotation on the XY plane, then yaw applied on those coords as a rotation on the XZ plane. theres no real "right way" but this is how i usually go about it for euler angle style rotation

I found this page pretty helpful, I think it shows how to do what you want (in both equation and matrix form).

Thanks Jayjay I'll give it a go.