Map Drawing Tutorial:

[Bikerdude]

Found this over on ttlg and there is no reason why the same technique can't be used to make maps for TDM -

 

http://dromed.whoopdedo.org/dromed/maps

 

From this -

 

To this -

[Melan]

It is a good technique. That's how I have always been doing it.

[Bikerdude]

Would love to see the auto-map (highlights your location on the map) feature used in TDM.

[DeusXIncognita]

Would love to see the auto-map (highlights your location on the map) feature used in TDM.

Thats possible?

I always wonder about that, because I somehow miss it, and thought its just not in TDM.

Good to know, reading it in the wiki now.

[SteveL]

Thats possible?

I always wonder about that, because I somehow miss it, and thought its just not in TDM.

Good to know, reading it in the wiki now.

 

I don't think "you are here" markers are supported by TDM right now but I might be wrong. Obsttorte created a map gui that fill itself in as the player explores, so new areas of the map appear only when you visit them. I don't think it had a current position marker but he might know how to do it (assuming he hasn't already of course).

[Moonbo]

I have a thief style automap working in my WIP which highlights which room the player is currently in. Its just a modification of obsttortes script and not that hard to set up, only tedious because you need to create unique guis for each room and make each room a unique location in dark radiant.

[Bikerdude]

By room you, do you mean info_location zones..? if so thats not that tedious.

[DeusXIncognita]

 

I don't think "you are here" markers are supported by TDM right now but I might be wrong.

I haven't tested it yet (and probably won't till i have functioning architecture to use it on), but the tutorial here:

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Creating_Automaps

Says it is possible to highlight the room.

[Moonbo]

@biker, yep but it was tedious for me

[Bikerdude]

@biker, yep but it was tedious for me

I think I'm not seeing the whole picture, lets say we have 4 info_locations, outside, inside, basement, sewers. What do you need to do for each gui for those 4 locations..? are you not able to use copy and paste in notepad++ to streamline the workload..?

[Moonbo]

Oh yeah, the actual gui def is just copy pasting, but you need to create a unique image to go along with each room. So for me I wanted to recreate the effect in thief where the room you were in would highlight on the map when you were in it, so I had to create a light blue image the same size of each room so that the appropriate highlighting would occur when you stepped into various rooms in the house.

[Bikerdude]

Ah yes, that bit would be tedius, but if the in-game map was made with that in mind you could then just colour fill that section or do a magic wand select of the area in gimp and do a colourize.

[Obsttorte]

Reminds me to update the wiki article and explain the whole workflow.