[Minimap Colours]

Resurrecting a dead thread to address backlog ticket 763:

http://trac.wildfire....com/ticket/763

Summarizing the above points and some others from IRC we have the following suggestions:

• 1) Fix the colours to be more unique
  
  • Should be implemented regardless of chosen solution
    
  • Further contrast can be achieved by outlining dots with black (see screenshot above of starcraft minimap)
    

  [*]2) Key resources to have their own icon, along with major buildings (civic centres).

  [*]3) Map filters like in Aoe2, buttons adjacent the minimap to toggle modes and data displayed.

  • Resource specific filters permanently visible
    
  • Tooltip menu to enable disable
    
  • Rightclick menu to enable disable, or scroll to scroll through modes whilst mouse is over minimap
    

  [*]4) Minimap zooming in and out (scroll mouse action) to increase minimap resolution.

  • Icon size should scale or pop in/out with zoom level of minimap (if icons are implemented).
    

Additional features for multiplayer: Map pinging and drawing?

I'd like to rekindle the design discussion for this ticket, I'm thinking of having a crack at implementation as a way to familiarize myself with the project. I'm a professional embedded systems programmer and hobbyist game programmer...Been lurking in the shadows a long time all the way back to SCNPunk and the Rome Total Conversion era...

So folks, filters? Zooming? Black and white minimap? What'll it be?

[[Discuss] Memory aka game slowing over time.]

The code is a little too fresh for me to contribute much in this discussion, other than to say this slowdown issue makes playing this game completely impossible for me, on a modern gaming machine. I cannot stress enough how important the work you guys are doing in this thread is!

Cudos and great work!

*edit*: +1 Cookie for Redfox