Minimap

[OPSPESH]

Im currently working on a game and i was wondering if there was some way to make a minimap. my first thought was doing wome thing with a camera that was way up in the sky that just followed the player around and desplayed it in a game object locked in the top corner of the screen. Not sure if this is effeciant or not just wondering. Thanks

[selimanac]

You can render you existing camera to separate texture and apply it to the plane(model).

[OPSPESH]

thanks ill have a look

[selimanac]

Also there is an other suggestion, example render script might be old but gives you an idea:

Minimap tips, should I make a special camera? [SOLVED]

You need to have a custom render script. If you don’t already then copy the default.render_script and default.render from builtins and modify default.render so that it points to your copy of default.render_script instead of the one in builtins. Next change in game.project so that your copy is used. Add a print(“hello”) in the update() function to make sure it is running. Next step is to modify the render script so that you do what @Ivan_Liljeqvist did. The part of the default render script tha…