How would I make a minimap like this? I dont want to use RoRender as it gets annoying to rerender the image for every new image and map and then wait for image be accepted, etc its a makor hassle in my view?
You could use a viewportframe.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/ViewportFrame
This vodep will def help you my guy good luck.
That will lag the game. I do not recommend
Well its the easiest method to make a very good looking minimap, and no its doesnt lag the game if you do it right
i did it for my big big game and it laggex hardcore my pc and iphone 11 could NOT play
(stupid mobile autocorrect)
Hm, well then I dont know what else to tell you, you mightve had a memory leak somewhere.
No. Using a ViewportFrame to make a minimap will impact your game’s performance heavily.
The given example has perspective (isn’t a projection onto a plane, but to a point). This means that the minimap was rendered real-time since the perspective changes as the point moves. The only way to do this on Roblox is using the viewport frames. To speed it up, you may want to create a simplified view of your map for rendering in the viewport frame.
Or you could just use an image?
The only methods that exist as of now are:
- Rendering an image of the full map & moving it around using SliceCenter
- Using ViewportFrames to create a dynamic map, for which I recommend using a simple map & only including objects inside the view. It’s also not meant for big maps.
- File a feature request for this feature
Sadly the easy options aren’t as performant as the time-consuming ones. It’s a tradeoff you have to choose. If you have any questions about the methods, feel free to ask.
For the reasons I explained, the given example cannot be made with an image.
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Which given example are you talking about?