Perfekt:

Perfekt: Workin' on a mini map.
When I finish it, Jacob is gonna add it to NGO.


Rian: I'd prefer a minimap that uses basic colored blocks to represent the world


Perfekt: Lol.
I'm still working on the mini map.
I just started this.


Rian: And also, it should be display more



Perfekt: It will.
It's gonna show the whole map.
I'm working on the small stuff now, then gonna switch it to stretchblt so I can shrink it.


Rian: The whole damn map?


Perfekt: Most of it.
At least twice what you can see now.

Perfekt:
Better?
Lol.


Rian: Jizzed my pants better.


Perfekt: Haha.
It only shows the blocked tiles.

Haha, nice work man.

O.O... I've always wanted to make one of those, but I have no idea on how to go about doing it.

It's pretty simple, after reading this I wrote my own to show blocked tiles and sprites in about 5 mins. I'm gonna put up a tutorial for adding it to my Dx8 engine soon, and I'll add a Dx7 version if you'd like?

your graphics were designed for Direct3D8

Yeah, your minimap is nice.


Spoons took blocked tiles and drew a rid box where they were, a white box where a player was and yellow for NPCs I believe. He later modeled it after Runescapes. It is pretty simple, just parse your map, and if you have a surrounding map system, them as well, and draw accordingly.

There is probably a better way, like doing what Runescape does - drawing a world map, then have the minimap "camera" scroll with it according to the player. Then draw the dots for players and NPCs only.