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Great, I wanted to see someone take this over! +1

RealBadAngel wrote:I just started to rework gsmanners code and here are the effects:

It's good to see you taking it over.

RealBadAngel wrote:Underground scanner - scans for air:

That could be a nice and useful feature. Seeing where caves and dungeons are could be very helpful.

You might still run into the same problems the mod had from the beginning: either the area shown is so small that it's more or less a floor plan of the tiny cottage next to you, or it takes up a lot of screen space. Orientation in Minetest worlds is difficult, even with a map. Maps are after all abstractions, and there it gets tricky.

He sais that he's completely rewritten the mapper, inspired by this mapper.

RealBadAngel wrote:I just started to rework gsmanners code and here are the effects:
Underground scanner - scans for air:

This is how it works over surface:


Surface scanner - its dynamic and not bound to specific level, areas closer to you get brighter:


How do you like it?

It looks awesome. would you kindly share some some instructions on how to install it on our devices as well? Perhaps you already did it and I missed it?

Press f9 in latest build

Note that the minimap included in official minetest 0.4.13 isn't gsmapper, but a rewrite done by RealBadAngel, which is much much faster.

Noted. :)