Collision Minimap (Diablo3 Style)

Unity Engine
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Hi there

My team and i are in a discussion about our minimap.
The best option would be a to create a minimap like in Diablo3
where only the passable fields are drawn grey, the rest black/transparent.

does anyone know how to create such a map?

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I have not played Diablo 3, but

Have simple boxes on a layer that is only drawn by the mini map camera should work fine.

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Hi,
You can use the popular KGFMapSystem.

There is a create and save photo feature that will create a top down photo of your level and save the textures in your project filesystem. You can then open this textures in photoshop and paint all stuff you want to walk on grey the rest black.

The KGFMapSystem will then render only your photo instead of the scene, which saves performance and looks cool!
And we will of course help you integrate it if you need help.

If you have any other questions, just contact us directly on support@kolmich.at

Best wishes,

Michal

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wrote a mail to you :slight_smile:

@kolmich: How easy is it to create our own Skin, icons…etc for the Minimaps?

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Hi Chaosgod_Espér,

Its very simple, you just have to replace some textuers. :slight_smile:

You have two possibilities:

  1. If you are using the KGFMapSystem without NGUI you will have to drag and drop your textures into the slots i marked on the screenshot:
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  2. If you are using the KGFMapSystem with the KGFMapSystemNGUI plugin you will have to replace the textures in the NGUI atlas:
    1289257--58897--$icons2.png

Each mapicon is represented by a simple gameObject. Here you can change the texture for the icon, the texture for the arrow, and the color. I marked the corresponding fields in the screenshot below:
1289257--58898--$icons3.png

The KGFMapSystem comes with 4 precreated skins and lots of precreated icons so its really easy to quickstart and then just replace the textures.

Best wishes,

Michal