Dimaspy
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In this tutorial, I'll go through how you close in your camera, and making the minimap become all black - except for a small area.
(This is a basic tutorial for beginners! dont comment about being too easy!)
If you ever have played a game called pyramid escape, you'll recognize yourself in this tutorial. As in pyramid, the camera will lock into a region, and the other parts of the map will be black as the night.
1. Regions - Four parts of one map
On my map, I will first split up the map in four regions.
Three of them will be black (this thing is called 'Black Mask'), and the other one - on the top-right side - will be visible at all times.
2. Checkcheckcheck - An' uncheckcheckcheck
Open up your Scenario > Map Options and uncheck 'Masked areas is partially visible', because we dont want that.
This is how the minimap will look if we dont do the following (in this picture I have already made the triggers.):
Check 'Use Terrain Fog' and change Z start to 1000.
3. Triggers - And.. Activate!
At least, now the black mask works. Now we just need to activate it.
Open your Trigger Editor.
Now, let's make three of the regions be black, and one which is visible at all times.
This will make one region be all black.
This below this text will disable the black mask for a region, which is exactly what we want:
Now, the map should looks something like this (notice that I've walked with a few units):
This code below will make this disabled area be visible at all times:
And now, to close down to a region, we use a simple trigger:
Now, the map should look like this:
Okay, this was my third tutorial. Might look like a bit of a rush, but theres not much to say about all those triggers. If you can't understand it, go through it slow, and you'll understand.
Good luck!
(This is a basic tutorial for beginners! dont comment about being too easy!)
If you ever have played a game called pyramid escape, you'll recognize yourself in this tutorial. As in pyramid, the camera will lock into a region, and the other parts of the map will be black as the night.
1. Regions - Four parts of one map
On my map, I will first split up the map in four regions.
Three of them will be black (this thing is called 'Black Mask'), and the other one - on the top-right side - will be visible at all times.
2. Checkcheckcheck - An' uncheckcheckcheck
Open up your Scenario > Map Options and uncheck 'Masked areas is partially visible', because we dont want that.
This is how the minimap will look if we dont do the following (in this picture I have already made the triggers.):
Check 'Use Terrain Fog' and change Z start to 1000.
3. Triggers - And.. Activate!
At least, now the black mask works. Now we just need to activate it.
Open your Trigger Editor.
Now, let's make three of the regions be black, and one which is visible at all times.
Code:
Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Black mask across Region 000 <gen>This below this text will disable the black mask for a region, which is exactly what we want:
Code:
Visibility - Create an initially Disabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Black mask across Region 001 <gen>Now, the map should looks something like this (notice that I've walked with a few units):
This code below will make this disabled area be visible at all times:
Code:
Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Visibility across Region 001 <gen>And now, to close down to a region, we use a simple trigger:
Code:
Camera - Set the camera bounds for Player 1 (Red) to Region 001 <gen>Now, the map should look like this:
Okay, this was my third tutorial. Might look like a bit of a rush, but theres not much to say about all those triggers. If you can't understand it, go through it slow, and you'll understand.
Good luck!
