Use Opengl, and just tile the texture infinitely, and use a perspective view matrix. ;-)
I actually tried OpenGL some time ago for isometrics. I was even able to get "billboarding" (sprites) working to some extent, and I liked being able to rotate the thing to any angle. But the framerate was bad even after I tried to do that pre-compiled geometry trick (GL_COMPILE or something like that), and it just didn't look very good. Screenshots:
Isometrics in Pygame, using 90x45 Photoshop-drawn tiles: http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/iso060601.png Isometrics in OpenGL, using textures on 3D shapes + translucent water plane: http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/bluecolony02.jpg http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/bluecolony02s.jpg [Small] http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/bluecolony01.jpg http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/bluecolony01s.jpg [Small] Title screen w/obligatory spinning translucent crystal: http://kschnee.xepher.net/pics/bluecolony00.jpg Kris
