Alternate Reality - Automapping

I've talked about adding an automap to ARX before and decided I will try and add one into the next release. This will mean a delay in the next release but hopefully the feature will be seen as a positive addition. The original Dungeon game didn't have an automap but it did feature an item known as the Map stone which when used revealed your x and y location.

I think a game like ARX will really benefit from an automap and it could also be useful as a means of teleporting about the map or editing map layouts in the future. Maps vary in size from 64x64 cells to 8x8 so the automap needs to accomodate these. There are likely to be two views for the automap:

• Full screen view which will display the whole (or most of) the current map
• Mini map view located alongside the 3D view

The northeast corner of Dungeon level 1