NJG Minimap [Released]

1.5.4 version has been released to the store:

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8339

- NEW: Map Zones can now generate the texture map on trigger. Added toggle to the MapZone component.
- NEW: NGUI 3.6.4 support.
- NEW: Updated Demo scenes.
- NEW: Optimized shaders for mobiles.
- NEW: Performance optimizations.
- NEW: Switched to LeanTween for better performance and more platforms supported.
- NEW: Simplified the prefab. All you have to do now is drop it inside your UIRoot.
- DEL: Removed "Layer" option from NJGMap inspector since its no longer needed.
- FIX: Fixed some issues with inspectors.
- FIX: Fixed a bunch of issues with the prefabs.
- FIX: Render camera will work fine on unity 4.3 with occlusion culling.
- FIX: FOW shaders will change properly when FOW its turned on.

 

Hi! I just finished ripping out another Minimap middleware and replacing it with your extension. I have a couple of quick questions though if you could point me in the right direction:

1) Fog of War with a very light color doesn't seem to work well (black works perfectly well though). Ideally I'd love to see a version of the shader that allows FoW to reveal away a texture (for say a parchment map that gets drawn into as opposed to a black map that gets revealed). This is no big deal, just a quick request if it's easy.

2) Is there any way to quickly determine what % of the map is revealed? This I definitely need since I have a gameplay feature that requires it, but I can hack this in myself if need be (if there is an existing method that's great though).

Thanks!

 

Hey thank you for getting my minimap.

1. Yeah I've planned a few new features shader wise including this.

2. I was curious about this feature then I just found out it was pretty simple to add so I added it, coming to the next update, but you can send me your invoice # and I will send this small update.

 

Thanks for the prompt response! PMing you now!

 

I've got this working almost perfectly, but I'm having one final issue. Icons on the map don't seem to update properly under fog of war. I believe the problem is related to this line:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. UIMapBase.cs - 968
3.  
4. item.isRevealed = (item.revealFOW ? true : NJGFOW.instance.IsVisible(pos)) && (item.revealFOW ? true : NJGFOW.instance.IsExplored(pos));
5.  

This seems to be returning false for both IsVisible and IsExplored in situations where it should be true. Zooming the map in and then back out again seems to force all of the icons to update properly.

 

Hi hiupter, how to change icon type through code and runtime? e.g. When player is dead I would the the marker type changed from "Player" to "Death", how can I do it?

 

What its happening exactly? Icons doesnt dissapear under FOG?

NJGMapItem mapItem = GetComponent<NJGMapItem>();
mapItem.type = 0; <- here you set whatever type you have setup on icons section whithin the NJGMap inspector

 

This is exactly what I've tried but end up with a weird problem: if i change the type with mapItem.type = 2 in Start() function it works just as I expected. But if I do this at runtime after game starts, maybe in Update() function, the icon won't change at all. Any idea?

 

The opposite actually, they don't want to appear. I believe it's related to the 'pos' variable being sent to IsVisible and IsExplored being a 'Map' position, but IsVisible and IsExplored expecting it to be a 'World' position maybe.

 

Are you using the latest version 1.5.4?

I will take a look at this.

 

No I'm using v1.5.3. I will take a look at the newest version.

 

@hjupter

I just updated via The Asset Store and received an error:
I tried a clean install but the error still is there.

Error appears: Version 1.5.5 via The Asset Store

File: NJGTools.cs (104,37) "errorCS0103: The Name 'UICamera' does not exist in the current context"

It was working fine before the update, .....

 

I don't know when he decided to change the whole setup and not really provide instructions or info on it anywhere, but the new setup requires you put the prefab under your normal NGUI UICamera. It no longer has its own camera in the prefab.

 

Let me take a look at that.

I mentioned that on the changelog, I decided to do this to simplify the prefab hierarchy and to avoid to have 2 UIRoots and UICameras. If you guys want I can provide another prefab which have everything as before.

 

Hi,

Okay I will stand by and wait for a fix.

 

I just fixed this on a new update.

PM me your invoice number and I will send you the new version fixing this issue, I'm going to submit it to the store soon anyways.

Here are the changes so far:

1.5.6
- NEW: NJGMapItem now reacts properly with FOW showing and hiding if its covered by FOW.
- NEW: Added a new prefab standalone prefab for NGUI version if you want to use outside of your UI.
- NEW: Added a new scene for standalone prefab.
- FIX: Fixed an issue with NJGTools.
- FIX: Fixed a small issue with NJGZones.

 

Where is the logic / checking for when an icon is going to appear on the screen? Since I have my own XYOverhead version, I kind of have to stand on top of something for it to activate, since the setting is XYSizeScroller. Can't seem to find where this is set. Thanks.

 

Hmm I modified a few scripts, any chance you could send me your version via PM or email so I can integrate your changes?

 

Well, I save my player's rotation and use it to rotate everything more or less, so it's not so easy to integrate as you'd need to find the target's rotation. I guess you could get it somehow from the "me" icon, taking the parent's Z rotation or something like that. I'll see if I can pack up what I've done.

 

Would be easier if you simply use the UIMinimap target property then get the rotation from that.

 

Then make a third option for XYOverhead and have it grab the rotation from the map target. You'd solve all my issues, and anyone else who uses a XY Overhead. As I stated somewhere else, the 2D physics only work on XY plane (for now) so I can't be the only person who ran into this issue.

I have it set to XYSidescroller currently.

When I rotate my camera, I have to anti-rotate (just opposite direction) all 2D objects in my game that need it. I just use my cached Z rotation value and apply it to everything as needed, including the map items. I have the north icon, map rotation, map locking, icon rotation for player/others all working. Arrows currently are flipped 180 degrees, but I'll figure that out. Icons for other things don't appear until I'm right on top of them, so I think it doesn't quite know what's going on. Fog of war works splendidly too.

Also, I had to turn the bounds settings off else it just didn't work. Still, when I get to the edge of the map it will draw some line forever on the map, but I figure if I put enough 'dead space' of a tilemap that a player can't access on the edge, I'll fix that, so no big issue. Also had some depth issues with my project, but figured it out. Weird stuff, map going black at times if there's a depth conflict with other NGUI stuff.

So just wondering where the map icon enable is set so I can make it work. Since you pretty much know what I'm doing for a solution, not sure if me sending the files would help or not. I just had to find where you were determining rotation and change it to my static rotation variable.

 

Would be easier if you couId send me your changes so I can add it theh XYOverhead mode.

 

Have you switched back to UITexture yet for maps? I'm not sure why this was reverted to the method that is used now, but I use UITexture in many places with no issue. Can you move back to this paradigm? It is much cleaner in terms of NGui.

 

I removed UITextures because something changed since NGUI 3 and everytime I update the matrix of the material and new icon appeared the UITexture matrix resets to 0,0,0 then back to the original position so it looked like the texture was shaking, but few days ago found out that I can get back to UITextures if I put them into their own panel that will make this small glitch disappear. I will see what I can do for the next update.

 

Hi hjupter!

I found a little bug with the FOW Icon revealing.
I need different distance revealing values for my gameobjects. The global value works perfect.
For this example I have a player with a map item, that has reveal FOW activated and overrides the global value.
The other Icons won't appear on the world map, as long as the value is overriden. If I change the reveal distance to something like 30, which is of course way to big for map revealing, all the icons that i missed suddenly pop up on the world map. As far as I can tell, for global and overriden, the isReveal variable on the map item will be set correctly for the mapItems, but the visible calculations of the mapItems themselves seem to be off. Could you please take a look at it?

I did a bit more testing and even with the global value the same problem occurs, if the object is instantiated far away. Here a little picture of my problem. On the mini map it works fine, but not on the world map.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mn8kp1v8l3lfgy0/missing_icon.png

 

One more thing I found out. The double click on the mini map gives the wrong world position back (method: MapToWorld). I suspect that it doesn't work well with NGUI. I needed it also for the world map. Here is a solution I came up. I use the localScale (from NGUI) of the _MapTexture to calculate the mouse position. This code can be used for both maps (world, mini)

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.        public void OnDoubleClick()
3.     {
4.         //find the position of the world map on the screeen
5.         Vector3 F_screen = UICamera.currentCamera.WorldToScreenPoint(planeRenderer.transform.position);
6.         //calculate the mouse position on the worldmap
7.         Vector3 F_mouse = new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x - F_screen.x, 0f, Input.mousePosition.y - F_screen.y);
8.         //apply the scale of the world map vs screen and the zoom
9.         F_mouse = new Vector3(F_mouse.x * NJGMap.instance.bounds.size.x / planeRenderer.transform.localScale.x / zoom, F_mouse.y, F_mouse.z * NJGMap.instance.bounds.size.z / planeRenderer.transform.localScale.y / zoom);
10.         //apply paned position
11.         Vector3 v2 = WorldScrollPosition();
12.         F_mouse.x = F_mouse.x + v2.x;
13.         F_mouse.z = F_mouse.z + v2.z;
14.  
15.         if (onMapDoubleClick != null) onMapDoubleClick(F_mouse);
16.     }
17.  

 

Ok, I will take a look at this.

Thank you, I totally forgot to disable this since did not had time to finish it, I will add this for the next update.

 

Hi,

i have the version 1.5.3 and don't want to update to 1.5.5 because it needs the newer Unity version. Everything looks fine, very simple first steps. I drag and droped one of your minimap prefabs in my scene, and somehow it just worked, whithout assigning the terrain, that i did later by the way. I have just some questions before i hack around your code:

(I use it with NGUI)

- Is it possible to change the size of the icons on the map when i zoom in and out? (smaller icons if the whole map is visible, larger if i zoom in) I working on a starategy game, where all the icons should have the collider
size (x,z) in the best case. Probably you have already a solution for this problem.
- In your NGUI examples you have a NGUI root (i guess empty) and then you have another NGUI root which comes with the minimap prefab. Is it the way how we should use the minimap, or is the right way to have just one NGUI root? My idea is to merge together your NGUI with the available NGUI part.

Thanks in advance

 

*cough cough* I did my part and sent my changes to you... so... Where is the logic / checking for when an icon is going to appear on the screen? I haven't had time to look at it myself, but it looks like I'll have to do it I suppose.

Any word on new version?

 

How do you call the world map on mobile as my players can't hit any M key?

 

Well if you could upgrade your Unity that would be the best.

1. Right now the only way to change the icon size on zoom is to play around with NJGMap.instance.iconSize.
2. On the latest version there is 2 prefabs a standalone version which comes with its own UIRoot, camera etc and another that is ready to drop it inside your own UIRoot.

Yeah I'm still trying to find a good way to integrate this. Sorry about that I've been uber busy doing lot of things at the same time.

For the new version I'm trying to get back to UITextures to avoid certain z-sort issues, there is also a few new cool features coming.

For the NGUI version there are some scripts ready for buttons to handle zoom, open world map and other stuff, you can check out that on the example scenes.

 

Hello , I try to use NJG MiniMap to make a mini map , but I don't know how to make a map like this picture just show the road and the background is transparent , can you teach me ? My mail is linw1225@gmail.com , many thanks.

 

Hey there,

Is it possible to not have the minimap showing but still use the worldmap? I have tried but am left with the player icon still visible ...

FYI - I have used the relative offset in UIAnchor in the Minimap prefab but wondered if there was a more elegant solution

Thanks

 

@vitah - I thought I read that the picture was made in photoshop or whatever, used as the background, and the minimap just moves the player icon along it. Something like that.

@nigel.moore - Have you tried: UIMiniMap.instance.Hide() ? What about disabling the gameobject, or even just moving the map off-screen?

Lastly, I asked a good while ago (6 weeks it seems) about where the logic is for revealing icons. I'm given a reply that, oh hey it's going to be changing so hold on. Well, it hasn't changed yet, the code isn't really a secret obfuscated DLL so perhaps you could just actually tell me where this logic is at rather than me having to spend another 4 hours wading through everything to figure it out. I would really appreciate some information.

 

All I did on that map was just put the road on a separate layer then generate an image at editor time and then edit the texture in photoshop.

So you want to use only the world map? I actually have not tried that but on the new version I'm revamping a bit the code so there is only one map script so you can use as mini or world map but its the same thing.

You can find that on the UIMiniMapBase.cs inside the UpdateIcon method.

 

Thank you.

 

First off, I really like this package. It works great and is intuitive. I do have one issue that I'm having an issue solving. I'm working a sidescroller and everything works fine except the map is stretched on the y-axis. Looks to be about 2x that of the x-axis. Any idea how to fix this?

 

Hi
I am developing a game using NJG Mimimap Asset.
But has a problem.
resolution 2560 * 1440 does not create a mini-map on the cell phone.
I hope you tell us how to solve.

 

Maybe you can try setting custom bounds manually.

This is odd, are you getting any error?

 

Hi
I am developing a game using NJG Mimimap Asset.
But has a problem.
the cell phone does not create a mini-map.

Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A SM-G906S
Display size : WQHD(2560*1440)

I hope you tell us how to solve.

 

This only happens on your phone? I'm not sure whats going on but I think I've never tried with that resolution.

 

Is any plan for supporting uGUI in Unity4.6 ?

 

Yes I'm working on it

 

Hi !

I'm having some problems with the minimap. I'm using a circled shape, but the elements are showed in the corners (I've attached a screenshot). The symbols that are showed outside the minimap bounds aren't arrows. Any tips?

 

I hope this support for uGUI of Unity 4.6

 

Try increasing the culling radiu on the minimap inspector.

Yes it will support uGUI

 

When you release with uGUI support version ?

 

Hello, I have a huge problem with this Mini-Map Asset. I would really like to keep using it but it is causing major performance issues with my game. Please see screenshots below, when I have NJG Mini Map enabled I only get about 90FPS, but when I disable I get about 130FPS or more.... I have even disabled all of the other game objects in my scene to test the MiniMap alone with a Camera in my Scene and still I got the same results.... Why? Please Help...

NOTE: I am using FPS Graph to Report the FPS as Unity Statistics is not accurate at all... see the FPS at the Left Side, Toward the Bottom Left in the FPS Graph UI.

NJG Mini Map Enabled = 90 FPS

NJG Mini Map Disabled = 130 FPS

 

Hi Kuroato I think this might be a small issue with the inspector can you try the same but without having the NJGMap object selected? Also the profiler is better to find out what is going on with the performance of your game. There might be something updating on the inspector that its causing you this so its nothing to worry about I encourage you to open your profiler so you test properly.

I have battle tested this asset with many devices and there is a lot of users using it for mobile devices even re-generating the map very often.

 

I have no ETA on this but probably early next month.