How to create a map of my whole level?

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1

Got a 3D shooter which is located on an Island.
The players should be able to press “M” and a map will pop up showing the whole island.
(Not an interactive map, which will show your location in real-time, but just a picture, like an png or jpeg.

Right now I have chopped a map together by “printscreen” and then paste the different areas of the map together, but it does not look that nice.

Is there a way to get a High-def screen shot of the whole level, without having to zoom in the editor and copy paste it all togeter?

Thanks in advance

2

Create a new camera in your scene and position it to frame the Map view you want. Disable all other cameras, then call CaptureScreenshot with supersize parameter in a script: Unity - Scripting API: Application.CaptureScreenshot

3

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/cameras

watch this tutorial … in this tutorial mike gieg shows how to render a camera view onto a plane …

So use the same technique and just arrange camera as if in a topdown shooter and render it to a plane … And just get the material texture from it … that’s it simple as goin to assets folder and locating the material and copy your texture

if you are using pro then your camera can do hdr images and also … add some particle effects and render the plane after a time interval … so that you get those nice cool particle effects embedded on the map …

Have Great day Gaming And Scripting Buddy …

4

You’ll have to code it in, but you can use Application.CaptureScreenShot(). Just something like:

#pragma strict

function Update() {
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.T)) {
		Application.CaptureScreenshot("C:\\ScreenShot.png", 4);
    }
}

Put this on a game object, display your whole map and hit ‘T’. Adjust the path in the call as necessary. What is important here is the ‘4’. It is the SuperSize parameter. I don’t know what limits are placed on it, but it multiples the resolution of the final image. It’s been a year since I played with it. I think I could go ‘4’ on the iPad and I could go larger on my desktop.

Note, last time I check, anti-aliasing settings did not work with CaptureScreeShot. You can “fake” the result by over-sizing the capture and then reducing the size in Photoshop.