Automap Enhancements

[kphoenix137]

Adds the following to the automap:

• Important Objects
  • Orange
  • Diamond shape
  • Only in explored area
• Town Portal
  • Blue
  • Cross shape
  • Shows even in unexplored area
• Red Portal
  • Red
  • Cross shape
  • Only in explored area
• Towners
  • White
  • Arrow (red X when dead - ala Slain Townsman)
• Golems
  • Gray
  • Arrow
  • Shows even in unexplored area
• Berserked Monsters
  • Yellow
  • Arrow
  • Shows even in unexplored area
• Players
  • Arrow (Red X when dead)

Showcasing objects and portal on the automap:

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Towners on automap:

Dead players turning red on automap:

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Golem on automap:

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Pentagram:

Transparency:

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Fixes #6515

[AJenbo]

Please target new features to the development branch and not master until 1.5.1 has been released.

[AJenbo]

Probably use a white (or light gray) for towners so they don't look like lava monsters.
Bonus points for creating a cross shape for there indication.

I don't get why all the objects in laz chamber are on the map?

[kphoenix137]

Same reason there are markers for every other quest object. Makes them easier to find. I can attest that I personally forgot how to complete the SP lazarus quest previously, because I didn't realize there was a teleporter at the spawn location. Map icons would have instantly helped me figure that out.

[kphoenix137]

While observing Diablo 2 automap, I noticed that they used that cross shape for players, towners, and portals, and minions. For consistency, I'll be changing portals to use this cross shape, although do you think players and minions should also use the cross shape, or stick with the arrow? If we stick with the arrow, in a way I think towners should also use the arrow for consistency.

[AJenbo]

Keep the arrow for the player, maybe cross for the corpse?

[kphoenix137]

Keep the arrow for the player, maybe cross for the corpse?

What about this instead?

Desktop.2023.08.27.-.16.17.51.13.mp4

[kphoenix137]

Also, I'm not sure how I feel about the cross shape, it's honestly massive, and there's no way to reduce the size of it without manually drawing pixels, and I'm not sure how nice it would play with automap scaling.

[AJenbo]

Did you not draw it manually with pixels?

[kphoenix137]

Did you not draw it manually with pixels?

no. I drew lines. The automap also appears to have it's own specific grid and lines drawn are aligned to that grid.

[kphoenix137]

I'm going to continue working on everything in this PR, and when it's satisfactory, I'll begin extracting specific things to their own PRs so the implementations can be made one by one in smaller increments. For now it feels more appropriate to keep everything in a single branch as some of the changes rely on other changes.

[julealgon]

Just wanted to mention that that pentagram on the map looks really good, damn.

[kphoenix137]

Just wanted to mention that that pentagram on the map looks really good, damn.

After I rebased to get the correct map offset, I noticed it fits perfectly. Couldn't ask for better than this! Courtesy of GPT 4.0

[kphoenix137]

[kphoenix137]

Desktop.2023.08.30.-.23.32.24.31.mp4

[kphoenix137]

Just wanted to describe the minimap a bit here. I removed toggling transparency mode when toggling automap, and instead made transparency mandatory for the automap and used opaque pixels in the minimap. Toggling automap now goes between automap and minimap.

How it works is it draws a box on the top right of the screen. The size of box is as follows: height is your screen height divided by 4, and width is the height times 2. The map gets rendered only within the bounds of the box. The default zoom level depends on your screen resolution. Generally it tries to keep the same viewing distance from the player location regardless of screen resolution. For example, 480p will start the minimap at 25% zoom, where 960p will start the minimap at 50% zoom. (Keep in mind the mind the absolute dimensions of the box in 960p will be double that of 480p)

[FitzRoyX]

Just a few things to report if you weren't already aware:

1. The preferred scale setting for each map type isn't saving between toggles, it just keeps resetting back to default.
2. The white arrows for the towners are being drawn outside the minimap, and there is a false arrow on the northern edge of the map.
3. Transparency doesn't seem to be getting fully applied to arrows.
4. Mouse scroll wheel currently moves the map up and down while ctrl+scroll does scaling. I think scroll wheel should directly control scaling with no ctrl modifier, and map movement should be left to the directional keys.

[kphoenix137]

Just a few things to report if you weren't already aware:

1. The preferred scale setting for each map type isn't saving between toggles, it just keeps resetting back to default.
2. The white arrows for the towners are being drawn outside the minimap, and there is a false arrow on the northern edge of the map.
3. Transparency doesn't seem to be getting fully applied to arrows.
4. Mouse scroll wheel currently moves the map up and down while ctrl+scroll does scaling. I think scroll wheel should directly control scaling with no ctrl modifier, and map movement should be left to the directional keys.

1 is intentional.

I'm aware of 2 and 3, just need to find a good solution for it.

4 sounds like a good idea

[AJenbo]

4: it scrolls left and right if your mouse supports that

[kphoenix137]

I'll revert the change to reset the zoom level each time but I'll also have to add another global zoom variable specifically for the minimap

[kphoenix137]

4: it scrolls left and right if your mouse supports that

Good point, that might be an issue as we take away control from the player as they can no longer use left and right on the scroll wheel

[AJenbo]

Maybe it's just because i'm used to ctrl+scroll from firefox

[kphoenix137]

Should we draw the pentagram on dlvl 16 as well?