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Mmap 1.0 released

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Mmap is a GameMaker asset pack that provides powerful, flexible, easy to use mini map functionality.

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Features:

  • Easy to use, Beautifully coded! Source code thoroughly documented, very easy to understand, modifiable.
  • Great performance.
    • 2000-4000 mappable instances in HTML5
    • 10000+ mappable instances in Windows (YYC).
  • oMmap object
  • oMappable parent object
  • Four types of mmap:
    • Basic
    • Radar
    • Sonar
    • Static
  • Identify Friend-or-Foe (IFF) color code system
  • Fully customizable!
    • colors
    • alpha transparency
    • screen size
    • detection range
    • zoomable
    • refresh rate
    • blip tracking
  • Tested on Windows, Windows (YYC), and HTML5 builds

Live Demo in HTML5

Documentation

Buy it at the GameMaker Marketplace

Radar demo now in HTML5

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I got the Radar demo working in HTML5, finally. In order to do it, absent a better debugging methodology, I created a new project and meticulously re-built the demo line by line. I’m still not entirely sure why this works while the first one doesn’t — I still need to look at it more closely.

The resulting project isn’t feature-complete yet, but the only missing feature is color coding for IFF, and isn’t where the problem was. Once I’ve finished adding that feature, I’ll update the source download.

For now, here’s an in browser preview of what the radar demo looks like in action:

Radar demo update

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I’ve made a number of really nice enhancements to my earlier Radar demo.

The improvements:

  • The original demo used collision_line() to detect when the radar sweep collided with the radar blips to refresh them. This meant that the collision detection could skip over smaller objects at great distances from the antenna, since the space between steps is not scanned. The new one uses an approach based on the angle difference between the mappable object and the sweep’s current and previous positions, and is therefore much more accurate.
  • The original radar used a classic looking monochrome green radar screen. The new one implements IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) color coding. This system is flexible in that it allows you to change the value of the color variables used in the color key, or even a unique color if desired. oMappable child objects must have two instance variables, blip_alpha and blip_color. The demo only uses color for IFF, but for colorblind players it would be helpful to modify the routine to use shape as well as color to identify the blips.
  • I’m particularly proud of how understandable and well-commented the code is, so if you’re a developer and want to modify it for your own needs, it should be quite easy to do so.

I still can’t get it to run in HTML5 builds, so a screen shot will have to do.

Radar Demo by csanyk

Download radar_example.gmz

Radar

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I’ve been messing around with mini maps, and after a few different approaches, I have come up with a cool demo that simulates a radar screen. The screen even has a sweeping beam that lights up the blips, which fade over time. Only instances which inherit from an object called oMappable are drawn on the radar. The size of the blips is based on the width of the sprite of the oMappable child, so objects of differing sizes will be shown in scale relative to each other.

radar screenshot

It runs quite well, with up to 4000 simple objects (~30fps on a 2.0GHz Core2 Duo).

Demo (.zip)

Project Source (.gmz)