2011-01-13, 04:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-13, 04:33 PM by SaptaZapta.)
Fiel Wrote:You would have to create a cross-platform and portable scripting language that runs on the client's computer from a webpage. So that necessitates javascript. Javascript runs through the browser and not all browsers support the same version of Javascript especially when it comes to file reading. Then you have to have the files in a standard place and run AES decryption through Javascript and image unpacking and repacking into a PNG... uh... no. How about if you code it. That would be an absolute mess.
Ah, sorry. I'm a Unix/C++ programmer, myself. All I know of web/javascript programming is that it's *supposedly* platform-independent and all the other nice buzzwords. Guess it doesn't work that way in real life. Ah well.
You might consider hosting a scaled-down rendered map. Not as small as the mini-map, but not 3-5 mb either. Render the maps and then resize to, say, 1/16 size (25% height and width) before storing.
Anyway, for me, it would be enough to have maps like hidden-street does. Tiny, but with the portals and warp points clearly marked.