Can I create a button to display the map ?

[BuzzLEquerre]

Hello, I would like to be able to display the map the player is in via a button, is this possible?

Or make sure to display the mini map with a button and name a permanent display.

I saw this on Exiled Kingdom.
If you have an idea of how to add a custom button for the map that would help me a lot 👍

[dorkster]

The only map provided by the game is the minimap. If you want a "world" or "regional" map, you can accomplish this by using a MenuBook with the map image as the background. You can then add buttons for places the player can teleport to (if that applies to your game). Ghostlore did this, so here's its books/map3.txt file:

pos=0,0,640,360
align=center
close=604,12
background=images/menus/backgrounds/map3.png
soundfx_open=soundfx/world_map.ogg
soundfx_close=soundfx/inventory/inventory_close.ogg

[event_open]
music=music/world_map_theme.ogg

[event_close]
music=music/town_theme.ogg

[button]
button_pos=306,68
button_image=images/menus/map_marker.png
cutscene=cutscenes/chapter_01_tip.txt
intermap=maps/village_burning.txt,140,99

[button]
button_pos=338,169
button_image=images/menus/map_marker.png
cutscene=cutscenes/chapter_02_tip.txt
intermap=maps/cemetery.txt,29,170

[button]
button_pos=407,107
button_image=images/menus/map_marker.png
cutscene=cutscenes/chapter_03.txt
intermap=maps/plantation.txt,122,138

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You wouldn't be able to map this to a button directly, but you could do the following:

1. Make a script that opens the book file
2. Create a Power and use script to call the script file
3. Create an Item with the power attribute pointing to your Power ID.
4. For each of your starting classes, give the player the Item and put the Power on the actionbar

Then, players can use the actionbar hotkey to open the map

[BuzzLEquerre]

I have a problem on my card, it has the original dimension (3840; 2160) and once in the game it does not appear in full :

• I'd like to know if I can move the map in game with the cursor, and therefore how to do it

• Or if it's possible to place my entire map on the full screen to directly see all the areas

the problem :

[dorkster]

• You can make the buttons invisible by making an empty, transparent PNG. The dimensions will determine the clickable area of the button. The height should be 4 times the width, since buttons have 4 states: normal, hover, pressed, disabled.
• There's no way to move the map around in this context, so you'd need to scale the image down to fit the resolution that the game uses. If you have a large world map, you may want to divide it up into multiple maps. You can then add buttons to each map to switch between the regions.

[BuzzLEquerre]

I cut my map into 4 parts, and if I make buttons that change the background to display the rest of the map, can't it change the buttons for the new areas ?

And how do I set my new button to equip it ?

[dorkster]

You should have 4 separate books, one for each map section. That way, you can define the button positions for match the background image for each map. In addition to the buttons for the points of interest, each map could have 2 buttons to switch the map to the adjacent section.

# North-west map: books/map_NW.txt

# go east
[button]
button_pos=...
button_image=images/menus/buttons/right.png
book=books/map_NE.txt

# go south
[button]
button_pos=...
button_image=images/menus/buttons/down.png
book=books/map_SW.txt

In order to make the map open to the correct region when you use the item, you'll need to use campaign statuses to track which region the player is in. For each map (meaning the map you make in Tiled), you'd need an on_load event to set_status for the region and unset_status for the other regions. Then in your map_button.txt script, you can check the status to load the appropriate map:

[event]
requires_status=map_NW
book=books/map_NW.txt

[event]
requires_status=map_NE
book=books/map_NE.txt

etc...

[BuzzLEquerre]

I did it !

and I would like to display the area when the player clicks on it, is it possible to use a cutscene to display the name and an image of the area in question when the player clicks on it?