Question: custom in-game map

[Bikerdude]

Can someone remind me which mission didn't start with an in-game map, but rather the player has to pick it up..?

I ask because I am looking to place map inside a building, and only want to player to have the map at that point.

[Frost_Salamander]

20 minutes ago, Bikerdude said:

Can someone remind me which mission didn't start with an in-game map, but rather the player has to pick it up..?

I ask because I am looking to place map inside a building, and only want to player to have the map at that point.

Both Lieutenant 1 and 4 have that feature.

[Bikerdude]

So the maps in Lt1/4 and Displacement, are all single page maps. Is it possible to have a single map entity that has multiple pages, like a book or a stack of sheets..?

Edited June 29 by Bikerdude

[Moonbo]

It's been a long time but I believe A House of Locked Secrets had maps you pick up (more than 1 page in the pickup).

[Jnon]

https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=In-game_Map_Entities

The Wiki entry on In-game Map Entities focuses on just one page maps (replacing a dummy custom inventory item with a map_of item), but the script could be modified to simply add multiple "map_of" entities simultaneously from one frob, I think. That would result in multiple map pages from the player's POV (multiple presses of m would just shuffle through map pages), even though they'd technically be multiple individual map items in inventory.

[Wellingtoncrab]

18 hours ago, Bikerdude said:

So the maps in Lt1/4 and Displacement, are all single page maps. Is it possible to have a single map entity that has multiple pages, like a book or a stack of sheets..?

This strikes me as not the best idea maybe. You should consider treating each "page" of your in game maps as a different item.

Then you avoid the issue of have to design your gui to have page “turn” indicators and you avoid the annoyance for players of have to "flip" to the map they actually want whenever they open it.

Plus when you have multiple maps in inventory and you have one open, the page turn command already works to cycle through available player maps.

[Bikerdude]

23 hours ago, Wellingtoncrab said:

Plus when you have multiple maps in inventory and you have one open, the page turn command already works to cycle through available player maps.

Baal mentioned this command also, I have never really used it in all these years, till now. So checking the menu its the M key. But for me it isn't working as intended. When I hit the M key it brings up the first map, then when I hit the key a second time it brings up the in-game cursor but not the second map.

Edited July 1 by Bikerdude

[Wellingtoncrab]

@Bikerdudeturn page is usually something like mouse wheel. If you have multiple maps in inventory you press M or use the map inventory item, and then use the mouse wheel to cycle through the different maps.

[Baal]

Thanks for the input. It's working as intended now. Ball fixed it.