Question and/or eventual enhancement for Dynmap

[Psy-Virus]

Hey @mikeprimm, is it possible, to make Dynmap eventually more angle based? I mean modern browsers are able to interact more than only showing pictures, videos and texts. Don't misunderstand me, your plugin is really cool and a big help for navigation. But I thought to myself if it is possible to make it interactive... Browsers can handle vector based pictures like svg, so it should be possible to make a complete rotatable map with a real 3D view, shouldn't it? So you can drag the map around and zoom in and change angle only with your mouse.

I don't know if this would be too hard to make or if it is too much traffic that would occur. Or eventually to read out the map and show it in real time (or like now in 2s polls) in the browser without any "conversation" of the blocks into pictures?.

It's only an idea, but eventually it could be a cool new way of showing the Minecraft world in the browser.

[aMUSiC]

Don't get me wrong Psy-Virus.. but isn't what the game itself is for? =)

[Psy-Virus]

@aMUSiC, tell me a way to see the whole map in game, at once, with markers, and changes in nearly real time and you may be right ^^

My idea has theoretically two big advantages: firstly eventual no big fullrender and secondly not so much memory consumption as Dynmap-(tiles) have now.

All in all it would maybe result in a much better performance and experience ^^

I don't know it completely for real because I'm not that programming guy, It's only an idea and maybe it is something what @mikeprimm likes to do, a new challenge or something. :-D

EDIT: And it will eventually fix my old issue #1481 XD

[ryantheleach]

This sounds a lot like think map.

[ryantheleach]

How heavy is it to generate OBJ files? With sufficiently low resolution, I could see a chunked OBJ browser renderer being a lot more possible then a zoomed out version of thinkmap

[Psy-Virus]

But with the difference, that I don't mean that you can walk around or something. I think more about a map you can grab where ever you want, to rotate it and zoom in or out at any angle you wish. Like a real map with 3d buildings on it. Or like a player cam in a strategy game where you can drag a map by holding the left mouse button, rotate it x or y bei holding the middle or right mouse button and zoom in or out by scrolling. ^^ That would be cool, because you won't need a full render of each direction and a 4 or more times bigger map. Only a grid of a 3d modelled(?) environment that could be turned around to any x and y angle. Like a cup of coffee in your hand :-D

[Psy-Virus]

Still something that would be cool. The OP must have been a genius :P XD

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