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

[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?

[BuzzLEquerre]

Good evening, I worked on the world map and I managed to make the system of describing the zones thanks to your advice, only I would like to know if it is possible to lock the button when I select an area so that the player sees the area he has selected. Is this po

ssible ?
NE.txt

[dorkster]

Buttons can be enabled/disabled with requires_status and requires_not_status, just like text and image blocks. The main difference is that the button will still be visible if it's disabled (it will use the graphics for the disabled state).

Just to clarify: Which button do you want to "lock"? The square map tile that was clicked on?

[BuzzLEquerre]

yes I would like to lock the tile buttons, so that the player sees which tile it is.