In-game Maps

Well, just in case this has already been discussed, I searched the forum and came up with nothing, so now I ask you. I'm planning on making an rpg with someone, and we wanted the players to have maps of the dungeons they're in displayed somehow. I noticed that the preview for that RotD map pretty much has what we want, but we don't think we want it to be that exact or complicated. We just, for example, want it to show maybe the basic layout of rooms in the dungeon and show which one they're in. Does anyone know how to do that? If not, then that's alright. Thx, again. :D

thats a trickeh one. I think its been imported, or its a very long trigger or it could be a leaderboard using a pic file ..im not sure but if everyone knew that it would be in every map no doubt.

That is a large multiboard with icons for each square of the dungeon. It will have to be complicated.

It is not that complicated but it is a repetive triggering issue (you'll need to do a lot of the same)

You first need to know about multiboards and that involves either UMSWE or JASS, then you need a lot of region at every walkable area in your map

Well, yeah, I figured as much (as far as making regions all over the place and using a multiboard and having similar triggers that ever so slightly change the map being displayed as you enter and exit those regions, but could anyone maybe get me started? Thx. :D

Well first

How big is your map?

How big do you want your map tiles to be?

Say your map is a 32x32 (for example's sake!)

You might makeeach slot be 4x4, therfore having 8 x 8 or 64 regions that you would need

Then carve up the land with the regions

Ok, now the bitchy part

Take a screen shot of you minimap, and set it to the size you want
Carve it into 64 square sections(same as your reagions)

there, now all you need is a multiboard with 8x8 with your map up, and have a glowing icon(or whatever) that you use as your location of player.

Now make a trigger that generates the map after one second in the multiboard with the start location lit up.

now, make a trigger so when a player leaves(or enters) any reagion that are used as coordiates remake the map, execpt with the glowing spot moved.

Hope This Helped:D

Hey, thx! :D

Darky said that he calculates all of the rects. He said that saves a lot of code (he codes almost everything in Jass). I can't give you a concrete example, but maybe you can do a loop that generates the appropriate array of rects and you are done. Then you need another trigger that updates the multiboard related to your position.