Compass/mini-map

[rkynick]

Wouldn't require engine changes to work.

Basically what you said is what Ephi said. Engine changes might speed it up, but it could work without them.

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[Ephialtes]

- every 50 ms - updating image with new player positions.
 - every 5 seconds - updating image with new brick positions, removing old ones, adding new ones

Uh, a 5 second delay in updating bricks? Thats pretty crappy. You can't do this effectively without engine changes.

[Zerosan]

Yeah, it would require effective talk between server and client to realize the changes of bricks, this would remove the problem of checking every block again and again, looping and looping^^

[Mike951]

Didn't the tribe's games have decent mini-maps and compasses? Our best best for least lag (in my opinion) is that Badspot makes a mini-map/compass himself, although I suppose if you think about it, pretty much any add-on would probably be better if people had the source code/files.

[Zerosan]

Didn't the tribe's games have decent mini-maps and compasses? Our best best for least lag (in my opinion) is that Badspot makes a mini-map/compass himself, although I suppose if you think about it, pretty much any add-on would probably be better if people had the source code/files.

That's not really true, yeah, sometimes it would be nice to have some more possibilitys, like changing the physics a bit (toggling gravity for objects, or freezing objects and players for example in mid air), but most add-ons really don't need it, and wouldn't be better with it.

[Mike951]

Ahh, well, just shows how much I know about Torque. Anyway, compass/mini-map, do want.

[infomaniac]

Like the map the just picks up players,admins,sadmins like on the bac's mod pack for rtb that whould be cool.

[laremere]

Considering that Badspot won't allow a healt bar, I highly doubt he'll do this...