Tateru Nino wrote:
Melinda Green wrote:
Feilen wrote:
I've often noticed that the map displays full color incremental
screenshots of an entire sim, while the minimap simply layers on grey
for wherever prims are. Though this can sometimes be useful, the grey is
very often skyboxes or useless data. Could there be an option to make
the minmap display simple map data, for a more static, general but
detailed look at the sim, rather than the current prims on display?
You mean like the "terrain" tab on the main map? Sure, that could be
done but then we start to erase the differences between main and
mini-map. The mini-map is more for seeing symbolic representations so I
suspect that's not a great idea, however it might be a good idea to only
draw gray for prims within some vertical range around your current
elevation.
Certainly, for many sims, the overall appearance of the minimap is
either entirely gray or almost entirely gray. That, in itself, seems
to obviate the purpose of having an image in it at all :)
Over time, though, the creeping gray has more or less trained me out
of really using the minimap (except for spotting campers and bots). It
doesn't provide me enough information to be useful on a day-to-day basis.
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Tateru Nino
http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/
That's why it would be useful to make it simply run off images loaded
from the map database, as it is hardly even useful when it does show a
few prims and the environment as it has very little to show at that
point, while the map database has a detailed map of the area around it
(unless it's one of the sims that purposefully trys to spell out or
place an image on the overall map).
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