MINETEST MINIMAP MOD
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There are four possible 2x2 mazes, which are the four possible rotations of a U shape.

I chose 2x2 rooms at all nesting levels for simplicity, because that simplifies a lot of things. So, instead of removing a wall of the big maze, what is removed is a passage-sized section of the outer wall of the smaller, room-sized maze, at a random location.Īpplying this concept recursively, we can build a big maze out of smaller ones. Well, what if each room is not just an empty space, but is also a maze in itself? Since every maze allows travelling between two arbitrary points, a room and a maze are equivalent. A maze basically consists of taking a grid of rooms each with four walls, and removing certain walls between the rooms until you get the maze. The one chosen is the recursive nested maze. There are very few algorithms that are suitable for generating mazes that are big in two dimensions and keep locality. Placing a wall at a certain location could divide the maze into two areas, and it's not possible to know whether it does without at least some knowledge of the structure of the rest of the already generated part of the maze.Īs a consequence, standard generating methods necessarily need to keep the whole maze in memory, which of course is not feasible for a 61000圆1000 maze in Minetest. Generating a maze is a very non-local process. However, due to the method of generation, I believe that within the 16385x16385 square that goes from 0 to 16384 in both directions, it's guaranteed that there's always a path from any point to any other point. Therefore, if a path from an arbitrary point A to another arbitrary point B needs to go through the area outside the 61840圆1840 map, there will be no path to go from A to B. The coordinates are truncated because the maximum size of a Minetest map is 61840圆1840. The maze is a subset of a bigger, 65537圆5537 nodes maze.

It is intended to give the visual impression of an 'infinite maze', while keeping some degree of credibility. This maze is not intended to be solvable.

MINETEST MINIMAP MOD

To use, create a new world and activate the mod before entering the world for the first time. Sorry, I don't understand.Maze MapGen: Generate a world that consists of a 2D maze extending to the world's limits. Perhaps have a way to ask the minimap to display objects with custom object properties in such-and-such a fashion.Īllow 'clipping' a minimap to a portion of the map I guess you could move the responsibility of managing such a list to a mod, but that gets convoluted quickly. Also this is getting dangerously close to a graphics library (which I'm not saying is bad, just hard work)ĭeprecate the object property show_on_minimapĪ reasonably computationally efficient way to gather objects for displaying on the minimap has to still exist.

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Just from the user perspective at least, maybe it can become readable like the sneak key etc and we get a free extra key out of it (or does that just alienate mobile users further again like the AUX button?)Īdd markers on minimap with API and custom styling (color, size, texture, etc), maybe even inside the hud definition?Įxtended features of the HUD+formspec element once the core work of moving the minimap out of the engine is done. Also non-negotiable to me is the 'V' (default) keybinding to operate the minimap has to stay. If the minimap just disappears, you're going to get a lot of angry comments. and also available on ContentDB, and it has to be compatible with any game. The best way to transition is probably to make a mod that has a minimap in the old style, and provide it both inside Minetest Game etc. Remove/Deprecate the builtin minimap players can toggle Therefore you could also include it in formspecs.Īllow customizing the minimap appearance (size, mode, overlayed tint, etc WITHOUT allowing player to change it)Īnd also while allowing the player to change it in a formspec like the inventory if the game/mod author wants to allow it Manage minimap as a HUD element, allowing to add multiple onesĪgree that it should be a reusable component, one with help from the engine side like the 3d model element for formspecs.

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