world map, now clickable!

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:17 pm

With many many thanks to woo's generous offer to host a currently unnamed zoom feature for crossfire worldmap, ...

I'm proud to announce a KISS* zoom feature for CrossFire's world map.

Location:
http://dooler.woosworld.net/cf_map/

How To Use:
look, click, look, click

Ingredients:
A bunch of images and a few scripts

How It Works:
a script, an image, an imagemap, a script, a few more images, an url and still more images.
The scripts describes the relations between the images.

In Concreto:
the scripts generate dynamic html pages (i love the word dynamic) and by user interaction (interaction is a nice word too) a set of images is displayed.
This set of images requires more interaction and upon clicking a new tab (or a window for those that uses cursed browsers) opens, containing a 50% view of the world_map of the users choice.

FeedBack:
Yes please!
I am looking for suggestions on improving the whole stuff!

*Keep It Simple, Stupid!

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:46 pm

wow, this is excellent. I just had a poke around and found areas that I haven't ever been to before. I finally have a way to not have to use the java editor for navigation....

one suggestion if I may, a set of arrows, up, right, left, down, to go through the maps at a higher zoom levels.

Ryo · Post by **Ryo** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:08 pm

Nice indeed!

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:24 pm

cavesomething wrote:wow, this is excellent. I just had a poke around and found areas that I haven't ever been to before. I finally have a way to not have to use the java editor for navigation....

one suggestion if I may, a set of arrows, up, right, left, down, to go through the maps at a higher zoom levels.

good idea! and even easy to implement

(i have a working 'proof of concept' at localhost)

would you suggest going n/e/s/w one or two tiles every click?

on a side note: if someone has an idea how i could do

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echo "...<a href="zoom.php?X={$x}&Y={$y - 2}">north</a>..."

having work properly... i would be very happy

NOTE: this line of code is BUGGED, you cant use the {$y -2} part and {($y -2)} or the use of any quotes doesnt evaluate the expression in the quotes

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:52 pm

uploaded a modified CF map zoom (now at version 0.1) that allows one to hop two tiles at once in any direction, so you could get the feeling how it is to skip a map

Please share your thoughts about being able to hop one or two maps at once.

note: at some time i'll change the text links to image links by adding some huge buttons.

note2: i didnt test this version in IE, but the pages are w3c validated

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:10 am

ah, now that is very nice indeed.

It is somewhat disturbing to think it, but I suspect I shall be using this far more than sites that have maps of the 'real' world....

very nice work Mith.

/me wonders if Leaf will add it a link from the crossfire website, and if that server could/would be prepared to cope with the load....

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:18 am

cavesomething wrote:.. if that server could/would be prepared to cope with the load....

woo, what say you?

woo · Post by **woo** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:21 pm

We should be find, I've got oodles of CPU/bandwiidth sitting around.
Link away!

bencha · Post by **bencha** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:07 pm

what a nice job. you can even spot mushrooms

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:08 pm

bencha wrote:what a nice job. you can even spot mushrooms

Thanks

Yeah, this map is a HUGE spoiler... maybe i should put a warning on the page