Creating a mini map
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| I'm looking at creating a mini map at the bottom right hand corner of my screen and still showing the full playing screen under the mini map, something like what they have on the grand theft auto games. If anyone can help me out with this it would be appreciated, and thanks. |
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| Hi, some food for thought: http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=88671#1006786 |
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| Phoenixx>>What i would do is to render the scene twice, once from the player view, once from above the level to below. I would use only one camera and 2 pivots, one pivot for the player view, one pivot for the minimap view. Each frame, i would position rotate the camera with the same position and orientation than the playerview pivot and render the scene. Then, i would position rotate the camera with the same position and orientation than the minimapview pivot and render the scene. Then either apply the textures to 2 quad meshes (one for each view) or directly draw the 2 images on the screen, the minimapview image on top of the playerview image, of course. |
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| You might consider fighting entropy, and not even having a map. I say that not to be a dreamsmasher, but because sometimes discarding such modules ahead of time can save you a lot of effort. Shattered memories had no heads up display whatsoever, and it was actually quite wonderful. |
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Here's what I have on my game. I'd be happy to explain how I did it. :D Btw, Making a circular map involves using two different color-masked images. Default masking color is 0,0,0 : Use MaskImage Image,ColorR,ColorG,ColorB to change the color that becomes transparent within an image. |
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| Delete. |
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| Wow, that is nice looking Omnicode. |
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| Thanks, I might post an example code of how to make a circular map. I won't just give that away, i'd like to hope Phoenixx could also understand how it's derived in the process. |
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| Why not pivot a plain to the camera and draw a sprite there for your map? |
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| maybe render-to-texture ? |
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| Render to image is what i used. Being that i could move it around on the screen with relative ease. |
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