Circular Minimap for Fun

[HandupOnYoHip]

If you had to make a circular minimap (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/4/47/Minimap_example.png), what would be your method?

Keeping in mind this is completely unneeded/unpractical/etc. without masking. If it was me, I would make a circular border on a higher layer, then make a bunch of showimgpart peices of varying width's to cover the entire compass space. Using a variable to denote the player's position on the minimap, showing which peices to draw(in this example, the minimap being a large enuf sized map, bigger then shown on screen).

[Spooon]

It is very possible. You can use a image and just show the parts you need. Multiple images for zooming maybe.

[Downsider]

Showpoly and math. Unless it's for an RPG that needs a complex map, in which case I would use the same method you use, which is essentially the only method practical.

[Shiny]

Ya, I can't think of many ways to actually display a circular cropping of an image without manually doing the cropping with multiple showimgs.

[Agret]

Just get your image, open it in photoshop. Cut off the corners, save it as a transparent PNG and set it as your minimap. Bam, all done. Now use whatever minimap script you watn.

[Spooon]

That's not what he meant, Agret.

[Agret]

My bad, he wanted a WoW style minimap.

[Spooon]

It was around before WoW >:|

First used in shooter games.