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Hey I was wondering how you guys went about your minimap. I am going to add one to my game I am working on and was wondering how you did yours.

Did you take the map and then just shrink it to that... or did you just load up an image for that map... or...?

Currently the minimaps are just drawn by hand, by scaling down the map so that one pixel represents a single tile and drawing over the relevant edges.

I guess your maps include information what tiles are walkable and what tiles are not. When you are lazy you could use this information to create minimaps automatically.

Yeah I was thinking of just making one for each map, could also do something that takes the map and shrinks it done using directx but im not sure how nice that is... I will have to mess around.

Exactly how our minimaps are created is described in detail on the wiki:
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/ ... _a_Minimap

ok I will take a look at that. I have decided against it until I add scrolling maps if I do so.