Thanks for the native map!

Just a big thank you for the migration to the new map!
Performance, Questing and adventuring is so much better with this map.

Hope to see more scenes integrated soon.

 

Now we need the ability to add labels, icons etc. to it.

 

Yes. Works on Linux and doesn't seem to crash.

 

I was about to post the same! I keep toggling it on and off, it's brilliant!

 

I'm just wondering if/when:

1. The overland map is going to be populated with all the POTs so people can find them.

2. If POT maps are going to be populated with the houses and lots?

3. If POT owners will be able to add roads and markers.

 

I do not think this is going to be possible, means our clients will have to upload their local map changes to port its servers and then share it to the rest of the players?
But hey maybe @Undone has figured that out already.
Could be a multicast or websockets protocol implementation that all clients are subscribed too and stream their data.

 

Ah well, I will take a wait and see attitude before I start LOUDLY questioning the necessity of this change. I'll wait to see if the overland map is fixed to display POT locations as it did in the past and I'll wait to see if the completely blank POT maps get populated with lot information at a minimum.

Jakub White was a genius with what he accomplished as far as the map system goes. I am interested to see if Portalarium can do genius things with it going forward.

 

Sometimes we need to cancel functionality on a system that is just not working out correctly.
I for one think the move to the native map implementation is sooo much better then the map we had. And no, not because I am on Linux. But just because its faster, not dependent on external forces.
No weird "extra" thread spawns for the external binary blob to load a map.
The map should now even work for the "offline" players. Questing with his map is such an big improvement and probably for the better to implement the newer questing system.

 

One reason they had to get rid of the old map system, was because it was loading an external DLL file, and every time Port would report crashing problems, Unity would always point to that external DLL as the problem.

Now that that has been removed (and to nobodies surprise), the crashes people are still getting were not a fault of that DLL. Now the fix to problems falls back on the fault of Unity...

 

Exactly! Now you folks can be like, hey Unity fix this crash - we're not using that zfgamebrowser.exe anymore!

 

Fair enough, but are there plans to populate both the overland map and the town maps with useful information, such as being able to look at the overland map and do a search for the exact location of specific towns? Are internal town maps going to be populated with useful information such as the lot layout and who owns the lot?

I loved the old map system that Portalarium purchased from Jakub White. If the answers to my questions above are "no", can we at least have a compromise and keep the external map going so that we can continue to search for towns on the overland map and POT owners can continue to have maps that aren't blank? How hard would that be and how much time would it take to update it with all the POTs that were never added such as Starfield and Myth Lyatharin to name a few?

 

Would hope that you continue to support an external map, or at least have a way to search out locations in-game.

 

That map i still like to use for reference. But with Pots changing locations and such its not not a very viable or reliable backroad for POTs. Still is sufficient for some adventure zones and Npc towns though as majority of those havent changed in a while.