Arx Libertatis Bug Tracker ~ [OPEN] #1017 - Higher-resolution (mini-)maps

Arx Libertatis Bug Tracker

OPEN Enhancement #1017 - Higher-resolution (mini-)maps

Posted Jun 14, 2017 - updated Jun 15, 2017 Shortlink: http://arx.vg/1017

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The map textures shown in the player book and HUD were rendered from 3D level data. The code to render these maps was included in the AF 1.21 source release as Sources/DANAE/ARX_carte.cpp. We should restore this code to optionally render higher-resolution versions of the map textures.

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This is probably to slow to do every time we start the game so the map textures need to be cached.
The engine can currently only load one level at once but the book displays maps for all levels. We need to either render the maps before the player is in a level, fix the loading code to not rely on globabls so that we can load levels in the background, or only generate high-res maps when the player visits a level (this should be ok as the book only shows maps for levels the player has discovered).