1) Ability to hide minimap by pressing keys 2) Render a grass in minimap window (gray background isn`t looks good) 3) I think it will be better to do minimap smaller.

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A regular fullscreen map would be cool!

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You saved me a lot of time, thank you ☺

Bro your a FUCKING LEGEND. I spent so long trying to figure that shit out then I read your comment a it fixed it for me. Cheers mate

I'm glad the video helped! Thanks!

Same. I watched this video about a year ago and I am now just working on a minimap system for my game. What a fantastic resource!

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Many thanks! Glad you like them!

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I'm not familiar with hammer or blender, I mostly work in 2D. Cheers!

Since we set things up to use a different layer you can go to the top right hand corner, click on the Layers dropdown menu and hide the Minimap Layer. It will still be rendered in game but won't show up in scene view. Cheers!

Hmm you could do it just like you would do normal fog of war, except instead of hiding the normal visual object it would only hide the minimap sprite. What I built in the prototype for my recent DOTS RTS game is based on a mesh that constnatly draws to a texture, then that mesh is used as a mask to create the fog of war. kzfaq.info1BoKNH7faM0

@@CodeMonkeyUnity thank you !

The masked object needs to be a child of the mask, look at the hierarchy

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thanks

Glad you found the video helpful!

I don’t think that you can get this one without the minimap but you can just delete everything from the minimap or take another game scene similar to this one on another CodeMonkey video

Im not sure what you mean by separate every game object? Do you want the icons to only use a single game object? If you had thousands of objects and needed a more performance minded solution you could make the icons into a single mesh drawing a quad for each icon. Would be faster but more complicated to implement.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thank you for answering if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have a minimap and even if I did, I would've had to separate every game object and it would've gotten all complicated. Thank you so much for the help! :))

I just manually resized them. Selected the various icon gameObjects and doubled their scale. In the next video I do it through code based on zoom. Cheers!

Thanx for the reply. Hope towards to the next tutorial

Yup everything here still works great nowadays, it's still how I build a Minimap

Using this method you would place a Quad or Plane beneath the units with your map texture and make it only visible to the Minimap camera.

Hmm interesting, what specific part about a quest system would you like to see? Maybe I could look into making a generic class to keep track of events or something.

Code Monkey like when you picked up a 10 stone for example, the quest would be complete and another quest will pop up.

What kind of buttons? In the video after this one I create some buttons to modify the Minimap kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irWpmsijxqnWdYU.html If you mean clickable buttons right on the minimap that's a bit tricky since you can't capture clicks directly going through a RenderTexture. You could make the sprites clickable then put the minimap in full screen and capture the clicks as normal.

Are you making an android or webGL build? Those can sometimes have some issues with render textures but it should work Check the logs on the build, maybe there's some error stopping it from running

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Managed to fix it, had to change the depth stencil format to D16_UNORM for the android build. Thanks for the help!

You can do pretty much the same thing as here, except instead of having it always in the corner of the map you would show and hide at the press of a button. Then also perhaps keep the Minimap Camera fixed instead of following the player.

​@@CodeMonkeyUnity thanks for the thoughts...and I should have spellchecked my first post...lots of grammar mistakes...lol

@@CodeMonkeyUnity ...if I have a fixed minimap camera, I guess I would have to do some type of coordinate update to show the characters location on the 'treasure map'...as he moves across the map???? thanks again for your quick reply...

What part of rendering? Graphics programming isn't my strong point but I can do some videos on the absolute basics.

If you can , all parts... but if you can't make it ... maybe a garbage collection tutorial ... i think it will be more useful for everyone than rendering graph... ty .

Make sure you're changing the layer of the object that has the rnedering component. If you have the SpriteRenderer on a child object but you only change the layer on the parent it won't hide

The objects rendered in the minimap are based on what the camera sees. So you can scale up or down the icons based on the minimap camera settings.

Sure, none of the functions are related to the device

@@CodeMonkeyUnity actually the eventhandler utils helps me a lot especially whenever i point to an object and move it around..

Did you make the Minimap icon a child of the player?

Change the object anchor, by default it's on the center

@@CodeMonkeyUnity thanks very much, Now i Got it :)

It is a child of your player?

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Yes Output Texture does the same thing, what exactly doesn't work? I have a more recent video here unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=Ah2862Gz3_s

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thank you. Nothing would render on the texture but a restart did the trick. Your dope as hell though for answering me.

Unity no longer supports JS so everything is in C#

I got it ages ago so don't remember exactly which one it is, there's tons of free ones on the Asset store

What problem are you having? Just changing the Sprite field should work just fine. If it's a spriteRenderer you just need to change the spriteRenderer.sprite If it's a Quad you need to change the material.mainText

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I was changing the spriteRenderer.color < - will eventually be changing the spriterenderer.sprite but I'm just in the prototyping stage and have not drawn my sprites yet. I think what the issue is, is that the object that I have the script on is the parent of the parent of the object with which I am trying to change, oh and it's also part of an array. This is why it's so complicated for me!! Side note : I did not expect you to respond thank you so much for even inquiring as to how you could possibly help me

Maybe change the resolution of the render texture or disable anti-aliasing

@@CodeMonkeyUnity i tried different resolutions and anti-aliasing was disabled by default but didn't make much difference

Are you talking about the characters? My system is based on dynamically generated meshes, I covered the basics for how it works here unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=11c9rWRotJ8

@@CodeMonkeyUnity You are the best :)

As the title says this is the simplest implementation possible, if you need something that is extremely performant then you need a more complex approach.

What shader are they using? 2D Lit? If so add a 2D Global Light to the scene and make sure it's hitting that object on that layer

@@CodeMonkeyUnity yes, that was it , made it unlit, its working now, figuring out how to pan the map using the mini atm

Not sure what you mean, the map can be any size you want. You can zoom in or out with the minimap camera.

Are the canvas objects in the UI Layer?

@@CodeMonkeyUnity im fixed the problem, anyways thanks 😂

Yup, just use a 3D camera, I covered that here unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=Ah2862Gz3_s