Either fog of war or mapmarkers.....either one is a breakthrough and a welcome addition. Kudos to you Kyoma for continuing this and making our games that much better. And I agree with the aforementioned apprisals...I bet Kyoma is having a devilish good time with this "surprise". You can stop grinning at us now Ky! /wink

It looks to me like it's both:
Fog of war added.
Markers removed.

It appears that he's managed to get the game to render the local map (as it would when you open the map menu) on his behest :cake:

But he's definitely being a tease alright

Looks like he found how the local map renders and put that in instead of the pictures that were made in the old version.


cool

It seems it has become more of a The Day After Tomorrow scenario, sorry about that.

It is indeed what many have mentioned, finally a proper local map with fog-of-war. And without the clumpsy creation of textures all the time, this is, and always has been, what I hoped to create.

The reason it's so big was because I needed a large enough area to clearly show areas with fog and areas without fog. It seems I was not a 100% successful in this attempt. The fact that the current/original minimap is also displayed wasn't intentional. Although I suppose it did aid in explaining what the big picture contained. The various numbers to the right were just leftover debug stuff I forgot to remove. I had to figure out the positioning system from scratch.


Yes, I'm having a very good time, thank you all!




Bingo! Some might have read that I was trying to use the game's own code to make an exact copy of the local map rendering. After digging around a week or so I finally found the stuff I needed. At first all I managed was sort of disable the local map altogether (which was a good thing as it ment I was on the right track) but it didn't take long before I was able to create the very picture you've all see (and memorized I hope ).

I should note that it'll still take a bit of time as I need to wrap up the next MenuQue version first.

To those that thought the "suprise" were mapmarkers then they weren't completely wrong (even though there's no trace of any mapmarker or doors on the big picture.... ) I do indeed plan to add them in next version. A happy coincidence you could call it.



Hmmm, I hadn't thought about it yet. I'll need to think of something then.

-kyoma

Oh, nifty. If you've managed to overcome the need for generating textures on the fly, I'm definitely interested in snagging this when the new version is ready.

Ahh so I was right, I was wondering what was making this huge folder called maps in my texture folder Indeed, I also look forward to this as I'm sure it will help performance by not needing to generate textures like that on the fly.

While looking into the possibility of increasing the 'exploration radius' for the local map I discovered it's already possible to change it. The size of the radius is controlled by the "fSeenDataRadiusUpdate" gamesetting and has a default value of 1024. Increasing it to 2048 greatly improves the exploration area.

Oh excellent. That will make this minimap usable.

I'm curious about something: when is this update gonna be released?