Mapmod (I am SO sorry DX)

[Ryan Crowlife]

I know this has been suggested a LOT, but this is the final time it should be suggested.

I'm thinking of a map mod when you have a mini-map in spot on your HUD, where it shows your current location and allows you to put waypoints on it.

Another keybind opens a World Map, showing only places you've been. There should also be a button to customise your map and another keybind to zoom.

Map: When in gameplay, it'll show the current area, depending on your zoom level, and you use a key bind to open up a menu to let you place a waypoint, kinda like Minecraft's Voxelmap (Zan's Mini-map)

Cave/Interior Mapping: When you're in a house or under something, it'll show you whats under there. Same as this. ^^^

(Optional, and balance-able) Radar: It can show you players, bots, and items.

Before you rattle me out, I was thinking about a server-sided support mod where admins can balance out what features players can and cannot use, which is the most useful for this community to prevent cheating.

Pics:




(Dang, worldmap pic broke! D:)

(Yes, these pics are from Minecraft XP)

/Discuss

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[Khaz°]

the map part seems rly difficult

but that's because i can't script so lolol

[Gytyyhgfffff]

i'm curious to see how the voxel map actually works because it's probably having to loop though thousands of blocks at once while providing a steady fps for the client

i don't think this is do-able for blockland because for blockland when you're looping through thousands of blocks like that it gives off quite a lot of lag. also the amount of gui objects that would have to be used for the map would definatally kill the clients fps

i could be wrong though

[Cypthon]

It could be done actually, BL is just a flat green land. Builds can easily be marked on the map. Unlike minecraft, map is nearly useless unless you know the location where you want, however im not sure if BL worlds are endless, but if so, i think it can still be done.

[Val]

You can probably rig opengl so it renders the map top down in orthographic projection, then just display the result as a texture with a circle overlay. Not extremely difficult, the hard part just getting bricks to render and no other scene objects. Requires a dll mod.

[Ryan Crowlife]

You can probably rig opengl so it renders the map top down in orthographic projection, then just display the result as a texture with a circle overlay. Not extremely difficult, the hard part just getting bricks to render and no other scene objects. Requires a dll mod.

It could be done actually, BL is just a flat green land. Builds can easily be marked on the map. Unlike minecraft, map is nearly useless unless you know the location where you want, however im not sure if BL worlds are endless, but if so, i think it can still be done.

This? :/

[The Resonte!]

all you need is a camera viewport window where the camera is looking down from way up high

[Foxscotch]

all you need is a camera viewport window where the camera is looking down from way up high

the issue with this kinda solution is that you're rendering all those bricks twice

[Ryan Crowlife]

all you need is a camera viewport window where the camera is looking down from way up high

This might lag the game, plus I don't want a playertype or this that just has a camera related to Top Down Player.

[jes00]

however im not sure if BL worlds are endless, but if so, i think it can still be done.

It is technically endless but if you go REALLY far, things start glitching out(search for farlands in gallery).

[Ryan Crowlife]

Bump, because I need more opinions.

[phflack]

in theory, it should be pretty easy with a clientsided and server sided mod
issue is, I only know how to do the server sided part, as I don't mess with GUIs

potentially possible with only a clientsided mod, but not sure how you would go about detecting the bricks without saving all of them and parsing through the file

[ZERØ]

If someone does make it, make it square, circular minimaps look bad.

[Decepticon]

wasn't there a map mod for something like diggy's city rpg that came with one of the clients

it may have just been exclusive to diggy's server but at least something like that could be done

[Ryan Crowlife]

If someone does make it, make it square, circular minimaps look bad.

Ew, at least make it so the player can choose if they want the minimap square or circular, not just one. Everyone doesn't like the same thing.