Website & Forums Better World Map

So here's the idea currently the world map is good but it not great. it certainly can help you in a lot of situations.
Its not perfect though. would we be able to:

• Be able to rotate the map
• See other dimensions e.g. Realm of Light and the nether
• Birds eye view of map

I'm not sure how they would achieve this but I'm pretty sure it can be possible

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Bring back guild map?

 

Although those features would be nice, it is probaly way too time-consuming to implements them, and there are other things (e.g bugs) to be fixed now

 

I think the other dimensions would be easy to implement unless you have a bunch of stuff that needs to be hidden there

 

What we have now for the map is actually a big, rendered picture you can look at. If we were to make this rotate-able, we would need to make it an active 3D program.
Well, we could just add 4 views from each corner.

 

I think that all I'd want is the ability to see other dimensions.

 

The problem is many of the dimensions are inside caves. To render them as the map currently does would require the builders to splice the cave, so as to take a massive picture of it. This would ruin the build though, since some of it would be missing.

And if they wanted to create a more interactable, fully 360° rotatable map, it would require a complex 3D rendering system, which would require data on every block in the game that can be seen, which would probably be easily exploitable, so it isn't a good idea. But taking pictures from the 4 corners would be nice, to get a different light on things.

A bird's eye view. Would it be that useful? It can only display so much in its pixelated state, and many things lie under trees or inside caves, so a vast portion of the world would be lost in the viewing.

 

This can be sort of achieved using the Gavel/Wynn minimap project.

 

It can be achieved, yes, but what good would it serve? Maybe some interesting visuals of cities, but nothing truly helpful.

 

That would probably work just as well
Because right now some parts of the map are blocked by the mountains
Toss in a bird's-eye view too if you can

 

Thats sort of what I wanted. Just to be able to get e better view on things currently hidden behind mountains or whatever

It would work alongside the other views

Also It would be nice to have the guild map back. You wont need to make the 4 views because the areas would be labelled

 

The map was AJ's project, if I get time I'll look into it.

 

Well now AJ is gone, so everything's your responsibility.