Mini map like "A Boy and His Kite"

Development Programming & Scripting UI
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Hi. I’m trying to make a minimap of total game area, like that one on “A Boy and His Kite” in this video you can see the minimap https://youtu.be/QUGauCFca6U

I have been searching for tutorials but I did not find somethin like that. many of the minimaps that I find just works on axis X and Y, not Z like minimap of “A Boy and His Kite” or use a camera and texture to make the minimap wich shows just a limited game area, not total game area

Do you know any totorial, it’s possible to make this with blueprint? any help is wellcome
This is the project that I’m developing where I want to put the minimap https://youtu.be/qXk_FQ0NaCk

Regards

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There’s no axis Z in Kite’s demo map.
It’s just a widget that interpolates player’s position on world map to this rectangle space, nothing fancy.

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Any idea how to do this?
sorry if my question is dumb, I’m still learning a lot

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There’s a Kite example in Learning tab of the launcher.

But in short:

  • Assume world dimensions You have
  • Make UMG widget rectangle in proportion
  • Get player’s position
  • Put player icon in proportion of Player position
  • Get player’s rotation
  • Set player icon rotation

Don’t do that on tick. Make a timer.