[Feature Request]Minimap auto zoom close to mines

Would it take much coding to have the minimap automatically zoom all the way in when you are on foot and enemy mines are detected on it?
And have it zoom back to what you had before when you leave the spotting zones of the mines.

I mean currently it is a half assed feature that we can actually see mines but the average player always has his minimap zoomed out to notice the actions on the rest of the battlefield.

 

in change zoom? wtf is that?

Anyways... I keep it zoomed out most of the time so I can notify the rest of my team who almost invariably ignore the damn minimap that THERE ARE ENEMY IN OUR BASE!

I only zoom in to catch scouts.

 

The 'n' was unintended. "I change zoom all the time"

 

Would be nice to have 2 minimaps. noe always szoomed out and a smaller one next to it zoomed in

 

or like, a hud based notification like in metroid prime, with an exclamation mark or something.

 

Actually this.

But GUI work, so it'll probably never happen.

 

BTT: making the minimap smarter should not need GUI work, adding an option to settings to let you choose if on or off would though.

 

Your idea wouldn't need too much, I was referring to Hamster's idea, which I do like, but know won't get done

 

Autozooming whenever you get close to a mine? Sounds pretty annoying to me ...

 

and you don't see any benefits?

 

When I'm in situations mines matter I zoom in the minimap manually.
IE Escort/Crossroads/District as grenadier.

You don't see mines as any other class anyway, besides that, mines are easier to see on your screen than on your minimap 90% of the time.

 

Imo we should just make mines flash for Grens. Sounds a bit mad but that's what happens in CoD if you take sitrep, and it's pretty fair there.

 

no, no, no to do it properly half-assed empires' way we need turquoise text in chat yelling "MINES AROUND HERE! WATCH OUT FAGGOT!" whenever you are close to a mine.


EDIT:
Seriously can we have a particle applied to mines that only Grens can see?

 

we need to do way in change zoom

 

You can do a texture that does that, but idk how it can be made Grens only.

 

Build it off of the code you currently have for the mine detection. If you can't, I'm guessing it may be because the code just detects mine entities, and that the mines are not in an array where individual mines are reacting. If the mines are in an array, then all you'd have to do is when the detection thing is going off to just have the mines being detected spout out rainbows or whatever you want. Actually I'm now guessing that you already took that into consideration, and that the real issue is that source does not allow particles to be hidden or shown to specific players. Of course you can just do what you just said about COD, making mines flash, by doing a HUD element similar to targets. When a mine is detected just do something like the target square, where it places a white sprite is place on your hud shaped like a mine.

But all that sounds like it would create a ginormous window of error, cause I've never seen all of the code in it's entirety (dunno = a), and that even the most experienced coder on the team will fuck it up in the process and we'd be forced to play stackoverflow-pires.

 

The same way only engineers with revive upgrade can see the dead people sign?

 

My point was that this can be done with a material only fix (i.e. no code required) but the part that makes Gren only get it, would require code, and that's where it gets more complex.

For me personally, Grenadiers would have that by default. But I just don't know how much work it would be code-side to allow one class to see the same model as others with a different texture.