Well this was a pretty constructive thread until these last four posts.

Does that include yours, or not?
Because I thought my suggestion was a good one.

Epic job once again Grif. You might want to try getting a circular one though, as that looks more radarish. You would probably have to get the zoom feature first though, as naturally all the maps are rectangles and you wouldn't see as much. Alsoalso, the huge map room idea someone mentioned a bit ago would be great.

I love it. Now I can play without peeking the enemies with the E key I do that a lot.

This is revolutionary. You can even make a radar room with a bigger version of the mini-map, i mean your generic HQ big screen type of thing.

I second that idea, would be even cooler than it is now

SceneMan:ShortestDistance works better on maps with X warp.

Maybe you could have preloaded, scene specific backgrounds for the radar? It would just replace the checkerboard background we have currently with a shrunken version of the map. EX: Grasslands Radar, Tutorial Bunker Radar, Zombie Defense Radar, etc? They wouldn't change as the terrain deforms or anything special, they wouldn't even show bunker modules, but it is just a thought.

Amazing, grif. Good job.

Haha nice, you beat Data to it.

Does it show stuff on any other team than red or green? Sometimes there can be stuff on team -1 or any other. It could show those as grey, yellow or purple dots (unknown).

It'll display neutral team as red; it's an if actor team ~= self.team for red dots, and then else it's green dots.

To everyone asking for larger screens: It's quite easy to do, I just need larger sprites and some kind of bunkermodule to put them in.

So here's my todo list at the moment:

Zoom
Larger screens (seriously, this is quite easy, just gimme sprites)
Actor selection
Damagable radar, either the screen itself or some kind of "sensor" array. Bonus points if it has to be on the surface.
Indications of whether an AI is firing or not, and possibly AIMode. This would require a larger screen, though; the current one is much too small.
Getting the screen data to show only relative to the map's position.

What exactly would it zoom in on?
And make it zoom out only when your units spread out all over the map.

Heck, Grif. You really did it didn't you? I was eagerly expecting for you to release this. Insta dl'd.

The map?

Here's what I'm picturing, given I can get this working:

You "select" the screen. Press the primary button, you zoom in. Use your movement keys, and it pans around the map. Press your secondary button, and you select the nearest actor to your cursor (which might be designated on the minimap).

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I approve of War Room-esque map room.