Sneak-peek: 0.0625x World Map Zoom WIP
Added 2021-02-28 19:56:45 +0000 UTCHello there,
I am finally at a point with the world map zoom update where I can show you some actual progress. I could've posted something very similar quite some time ago but back then I wasn't so sure if such a high zoom-out would actually be possible to deliver. I didn't want to end up disappointing anyone, so I decided to keep working on the update until I felt confident enough. I feel pretty confident now.
I chose a relatively small map to showcase the zoom because I think it makes it easier to compare the scale differences. Zooming out a map of this size would perform ok even if I simply removed the limit and made a few tweaks to the rendering. However, this is not even close to what I have managed to achieve. Due to a massive amount of optimizations and restructuring of the mod, as well as other changes, even if I filled up the entire screen with discovered map at the 0.0625x scale, it would still perform great. That is 64 times more map to render than at a 0.5x scale. The framerate I would previously get under such conditions would probably be around 5 FPS. The giant map I use for testing is pretty ugly and consists of a ton of copies of the same region, so this is definitely more pleasant to look at.
As the title suggests, this is still very much not final. Although, the map looks much better zoomed out than before the changes (ignore the video compression), there are still some visual imperfections when scrolling that I want to fix. And there is still a lot of non-visual work too, for example I still need to finish a new type of cache that will significantly improve usability in real gameplay conditions. It should be worth it though!
Thank you very much for your support! I honestly would not be able to do this without you.
