Any Ideas on How to Make a Minimap

deatherr1

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Anyone have any ideas on how to make a Minimap that displays tiles and actors.

« Last Edit: January 03, 2012, 03:13:56 am by deatherr1 »

cloa513

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Have you tried the minimap resource from StencylForge?

deatherr1

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Yes but I need a detailed minimap that displays tiles and also displays newly spawned actors for enemys. It needs to display unlimitid actors and display newly spawned actors.

« Last Edit: January 03, 2012, 03:20:19 am by deatherr1 »

Alexin

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You can expand the existing version.

The display of arbitrary actors is trivial using  "for each member of group", "for each actor of type" blocks, or with a region.

To display tiles you'll need code to access the Tile API, find out where are tiles and convert that information to the minimap.
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deatherr1

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Yeah but I need help I've never used for each member of group or listing so I need help also I have't used any api stuff like tiles before. Also if you put any stuff from the drawing tab the for each group/type wont go into the always block or any of the 3 main blocks in scene behaviours so how do I make it if you can't do that?

« Last Edit: January 03, 2012, 03:40:18 am by deatherr1 »

Alexin

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Screen Minimap, on StencylForge.

Is shows the player and any other actor on screen (literally).
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Alexin

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Actor Type Minimap, on Forge too.
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deatherr1

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Thanks alot but do you think you could make one that displays tiles too because I dont want to switch my tiles to actors.

« Last Edit: January 03, 2012, 04:18:01 am by deatherr1 »

Alexin

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Download the same behaviors from Forge. They show tiles now (Flash only!).
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