Charlie's Passability Mini-Map, Version 0.4

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Hi. Great work on your minimap. It's pretty cool. I have a suggestion that others may try if they don't want the drab gray map. Now there could be a flaw in this, but so far, it's worked for me. What I did is take screenshots of my map in the editor and stitch them together to make a full image of the map level. Then I play tested both maps. The script automatically generates the gray blocky map the first time you enter that map and then saves a pic of the map. From then on, if I understand it right, it uses the saved pick, named "passmapX" where x is the number index of your level map. So what I did was open those maps in Photoshop, and paste the pretty screenshot maps into the appropriate files. Then I scaled those to fit the small size of the image. From there I flattened the image, saved it with the exact same name, and wa la. In the game the script uses the pretty mini maps.

Is there any way the script might accidentally regenerate a map and save over the nice minimap pics? So far it hasn't but I haven't fully tested it. I think if I made changes to the passibility of the map it might generate a new gray map. So what do you all think?

I do have a question though? I want to make it so that when I hit the Y key it toggles the minimap. But every attempt I've tried doesn't seem to work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Could someone show how to do that? Thanks so much.

Let me include a screen shot of the fancy minimap using the default code, an image for the player, and a pretty map background.


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