Tile Based Minimap

Description

A system that allows the creation of minimaps based on images broken into a tile grid; fully customizable with icons and GPS route support!

Tile Based Minimap (TBM) lets you:

• create ingame maps of your levels based on prerendered images that are taken in editor and then broken into tiles that are loaded dynamically during gameplay

• render top down images of your levels within the unreal editor, allowing you to use them directly or export them into an image editing software.

• easilly create blips and icons for your objects using data tables & a single function from the provided subsystem (or helper actor components). Multiple widgets can source the blip's information at once
  

• easily change the map widgets shape, rotation mode (either fixed or dynamic rotation), zoom, tilt and set optional overridable tile texture path per minimap (different textures for the same grid)

• create multiple grids in the same level so that the system will dynamically switch between them based on the player location (perfect for interiors or varying heights!)

• replicate blips either statically or dynamically thanks to the Blip Replicator component. Client blips have the ability to bind to their client-side source if it exists, or use the replicated values if it does not

• not require to use any actors for the blips. Blip tansform is sourced directly from scene components. Blip/Tile UI calculations can be done directly through the material (for non interactable widgets)

• take an array of locations within the world and draw a route on the grid based on them, similar to how a GPS would create a route for the player to follow

• mark locations on the map, from placing icons and symbols to plotting out entire zones

• use optional material based transformations for both the grids and blips at the cost of interaction, greatly reducing pixel jitter

• set blip scale and opacity based on their distance to the border of the minimap so they can smoothly fade in and out

• easily extend; the whole plugin is exposed to blueprints, allowing you to customize it with the only limit being your imagination!

Technical details

Features:

• Minimaps based on tile grids

• Capture tile images in editor

• Dynamic grid switching (interiors)

• Dynamic tile loading

• Blips (Replicated)

• Circle or Rectangle zones

• GPS draw route support (no route calculation; only draw support)

Code Modules:

•  TileBasedMinimap (Runtime)

Number of Blueprints: 3

Number of C++ Classes: 26

Network Replicated: Yes

Supported Development Platforms: Win64

Supported Target Build Platforms: Win64, Android