[sldev] Option to make minimap display map data?

[Tateru Nino]

Melinda Green wrote:
> Feilen wrote:
>    
>> I've often noticed that the map displays full color incremental
>> screenshots of an entire sim, while the minimap simply layers on grey
>> for wherever prims are. Though this can sometimes be useful, the grey is
>> very often skyboxes or useless data. Could there be an option to make
>> the minmap display simple map data, for a more static, general but
>> detailed look at the sim, rather than the current prims on display?
>>      
>
> You mean like the "terrain" tab on the main map? Sure, that could be
> done but then we start to erase the differences between main and
> mini-map. The mini-map is more for seeing symbolic representations so I
> suspect that's not a great idea, however it might be a good idea to only
> draw gray for prims within some vertical range around your current
> elevation.
>    
Certainly, for many sims, the overall appearance of the minimap is 
either entirely gray or almost entirely gray. That, in itself, seems to 
obviate the purpose of having an image in it at all :)

Over time, though, the creeping gray has more or less trained me out of 
really using the minimap (except for spotting campers and bots). It 
doesn't provide me enough information to be useful on a day-to-day basis.
-- 
Tateru Nino
http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/

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