How to add a mini map showing all the players

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I want a way to make a mini map on my car game
yall know?

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rendering to texture could be your friend for this
https://playcanvas.github.io/#/graphics/render-to-texture

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im on a school chromebook, and cant get on their could you help me on this please

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sure. what’s the budget?

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What do you mean

but can you help me find a way

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See the example I linked - it renders the same scene into a texture, which is then put into the corner.
So what you can do is to render your level into a texture using some additional top down camera, and then use that as a minimap.

Alternatively, if you dont want to render the same scene into a minimap, you can perhaps create a mesh that represents your minimap, and render it on top of other meshes in the corner?

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Here’s an example of rendering from a camera to texture and applying it to an UI element: Render 3D World to UI | Learn PlayCanvas

You can apply the same idea for minimaps using a camera that is looking down on the world with an orthographic perspective.

It’s a bit expensive as you are effectively rendering the world twice so that’s something to think about

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I’ve added some primitives to my entities and only render those primitives on the mini map camera.

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Let me try this then

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how do you do a map again

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could you provide information on how you did that?

upd: alright, you can simply use the layers on the camera component to determine which objects should be rendered

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im to dumb for this. can someone help me by simplifying this?