[sldev] Option to make minimap display map data?

[Feilen]

Tateru Nino wrote:
>
>
> 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/
>
That's why it would be useful to make it simply run off images loaded 
from the map database, as it is hardly even useful when it does show a 
few prims and the environment as it has very little to show at that 
point, while the map database has a detailed map of the area around it 
(unless it's one of the sims that purposefully trys to spell out or 
place an image on the overall map).
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