Ortho Map
First, I love the map design and the new real map makes my day.
Is it possible, that radar towers also reveal the map - after activating the in game 1 GB map it starts blacked out?
How about showing the radar tower findings (snails, hdds etc.) with settings in the ortho map?
Cu, Blades
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Ortho Minimap
An experimental minimap using an orthographic scene capture
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Created by Rex
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First, I love the map design and the new real map makes my day.Thanks! Glad you enjoy the mod 😄
Is it possible, that radar towers also reveal the map - after activating the in game 1 GB map it starts blacked out?Some context: the mod works by taking pictures from the sky at the player's position. Because taking pictures means rendering the scene again (expensive), this is only done every second or so for performance. The minimap shows the picture immediately, whereas the big map merges the pictures inside the 1 GiB (16384x16384, 4bpp) texture, stored in the VRT2D (Virtual Render Target 2D, a thing I made to reduce video RAM usage by storing pixels in system RAM). Showing the map around radar towers means streaming in (loading) the world around the radar tower, waiting for streaming to finish and taking pictures of the area. There are several problems with this: streaming in parts of the world takes a significant amount of time and computer resources (so it can cause lag or crashes), and I'm not sure if multiplayer clients can do this without a mod on the server. Right now, the VRT2D contents aren't saved to / loaded from disk, so it always starts empty (black). I have a cheat command to dump the VRT2D contents to disk for debugging: if you're curious, see https://github.com/budak7273/NogsCheats/issues/1#issuecomment-2463925917 on how to use it but disable NogsCheats first (it breaks custom cheats, such as my command). I don't think saving about 130 MiB of pixels for every (auto)save is nice. I'd like to have a unique session identifier but I haven't looked into it. I guess I'll make the saved textures global for now.
How about showing the radar tower findings (snails, hdds etc.) with settings in the ortho map?AIUI this is orthogonal to OrthoMap, i.e. other mods can do this. I believe Crash Site Beacons should work for HDDs, no idea about slugs.
Cu, BladesCopper, @Rex [they/them]
Thanks for the insights. Good to know how the limitations are and what you still managed to produce as a mod.