Map Imrovement

Ok, this is just a little fix so don't expect a big thread. The thing is pretty self-explanatory, just the ability to be able to rotate the angle of the map. Now that the ocean has been expanded in the other direction, it would be nice to see it from the front. I do not understand how the map is made, but if this is possible I think it should be added.

 

put in general suggestions you scrub

@Pretzule Can this be moved to the appropriate collumn?

 

Not sure if this is possible with the current map they use. If they switch to another one, then it can be done. Problem is the web devs are pretty inactive, seemingly.

 

Do you mean the web map? Because I don't think we can.

 

I brought this up before. Due to the map just being a giant render of the world, it can't be done.

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/a-few-various-suggestions.109802/

That's the thread. Excuse the bad formatting, its an old thread. Please don't necro.

I think what the mods said was it cant be rotated. Getting the render from a reverse angle would in theory be possible, but take a lot of work.

I remember a popular thread a while ago that had maps of all the different areas top-down. I had it saved on my old computer, so I cant like it. That could be useful. (If people know what I am talking about, I would love that link)

 

Since this is a render of the map, why couldn't they make four renders, one in each cardinal point. Then they would insert them into the map, but not directly, we would have the view of the map we have right now but there would be an option to change the view. What it would do would be to make the render which is a cardinal point which is 90 degrees in the direction chosen appear. This would mean we have 4 rotations, which would be more than enough for all our needs.

 

In theory it would work. But theory is not always the same as actuality.

 

But the actuallity is doomed to be based on the theory.

 

Actuality is not based off of theory. Theory is based off of a perfect actuality.

 

Here you go

 

doesn't have more recent additions like Corkus borders or Fruma gate
or revamped towns caused by gameplay update

 

That's just not an option with the current map program.

 

The obvious solution then, is to change the current map program.

 

Yep. I've seen maps that can rotate before. It does require switching the program, re-scanning the map and syncing the two, though, so it's still not exactly a cakewalk.

 

OMG THANK YOU

 

Nothing in this life is a cakewalk but it would be a great addition in my opinion. Now with Corkus, and Fruma it is nearly necessary to do it.

 

It's honestly not necessary to have different rotations, and after we added the ability to see you and your friends on a given server I don't think we want to force the devs to recode all of that over again because of a different program for the map.
We probably won't switch because it will be more work in the end when there are minimaps that can do the same thing or user projects that can do it.

 

The base of the Wynncraft map is highly likely made with overviewer, which does support rendering from all 4 directions. However with all the add-ons to it (e.g. Player tracking?) I'm not so sure