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Melan

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

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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SteveL

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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).

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Moonbo

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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.

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Bikerdude

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@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..?

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Moonbo

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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.

But you should walk having internal dignity. Be a wonderful person who can dance pleasantly to the rhythm of the universe.

-Sun Myung Moon

 

My work blog: gfleisher.blogspot.com

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Obsttorte

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

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

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