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GUI Map and your location

by Kevin Lee · in General Discussion · 11/20/2007 (8:05 pm) · 3 replies

I've been looking through the forums and I have seen alot of things talking about GUI Maps, but could someone tell me what would be the best way of making a map popup and show where I am at on a map for an interior with different levels. I am looking for the kind that you see in the game Thief where it shows the different rooms and highlights an area of the map that you are in at the present time. This would be a fullscreen map and the game will be paused while the map is showing.
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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#1
11/21/2007 (6:41 am)
If you only need the room highlighted, you could do it with a trigger and then have your GUI bitmap have two states (in and not-in). I'm just thinking out loud. I haven't seen anything quite like that in the resources section. Most are more oriented towards realtime map updates for military-esque games.

Torque Owner Kevin Lee
#2
11/21/2007 (11:51 am)
Thanks for the info. I didn't even think of using the triggers, but I think that is what I will be using.

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#3
11/21/2007 (2:49 pm)
If your regions are non-rectangular, you might be interested in the SimSpace resource, which lets you aggregate several triggers so they act as one.