How to make a minimap? (Displayed on the side, top left, whatever)

[twofoursixeight]

Should I tag this?

• Yes
• No

[cr1sis]

I think you should build the rudimentary framework for the entire map before adding the small/medium details or mechanics into the game.

[twofoursixeight]

Votes split. No change.

[Cryptoraider_Gemkit]

There is currently no discovered way to do this yet. Team Gimkit might add a device to do that (something you’d have to suggest on nolt).

[WhereIsMyHat]

@WhereIsMyHat

You could create an several different emoji maps mixed with triggers that would replace the overlay with a different one with a blue dot for your location. (Not sure if this would work because I’m not able to get on right now but I would love if someone could test this or tell me the flaws in this idea and how to improve it)

This idea could possibly work

[kyro]

not clay institute even though it is a challenging question, minimaps are used specifically and don’t add much to other types of games

[Cryptoraider_Gemkit]

there is no way to detect the player moving yet. unless you use zones(triggers would work also) and have the dots be each zone

[WhereIsMyHat]

@WhereIsMyHat

The triggers would probably only be in certain locations like one at the entrance of a town and no other ones for the town so it would just tell you that you were in the town not exactly where you were.

[kyro]

@Shdwy

First of all, the health remover is very near impossible, but its a clay-institute question.

because this could be used widely

@Shdwy

Second of all, this is absolutely possible using a LOT of properties, text displays, etc.

it is possible, but itd be weird and laggy because you’d have to calculate a lot to have a static ui on the screen while the player is moving, which nobody to my knowledge has done before

[Cryptoraider_Gemkit]

that would probably work, but if you have a large map (like whole GKC building area big) or its an open world RPG, it would be problematic with the memory

[Shdwy]

the way i see it, there are 2 methods to do this.
1: set up a system of game overlays with text editing capabilities / a whole lotta states, then run it off a coordinate system
which is actually not that hard when you think about it

2: set up absurd amounts of text devices so that they reposition depending on the location of the player (could be optimized with camera views)

the game overlay one is actually pretty feasible! low memory too, aside from the coords

[ClicClac]

This sounds fun to make! Just a single game overlay and a bunch of different ways to show or hide parts of the full mini map! I’ll see what I can do!