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Besides giving you awareness of the area, the minimap was missing a direction tip. Not anymore.

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Besides giving you awareness of the area (see previous article post here), the minimap was missing a direction tip. We needed to give it some North or Up tip, and decided to carve it into the frame. So, the first thought was simply put the letter 'N' as the north indicator.

weste north

(sorry about the poor lightning)


But of course, N for North is not universal. North origin is somewhere in the "north" of Europe and spread throughout the other northern and western countries (and went over the ocean as well)... But apart from (most of) Europe and America, all other regions have their own "North". So, what to do?

For starters, we have opted for a second symbol, a kanji one. This will be familiar to millions of people, from china to japan, as well as to veteran mahjong players.

kanji


Maybe we will add more "localization" models. Or not. We will see

kanji full


(the full minimap frame model, rendered in blender)

minimap ingame


(in game shot, showing the minimap. The colors are yet to be adjusted)

No more on minimaps, I promise you! (I think ;)

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n1k0p0l Author
n1k0p0l

the idea is the kanji version to be build out of "bamboo" with the parts "realistically" positioned. Currently the parts are just physically overlapping each other.

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drjd24
drjd24

I must say, the 'N' looks better constructed. The kanjii symbol looks kind of out of place. :)

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