Holy Cartography!<\/p>\n
This week’s Friday update is all about the Map! \u00c2\u00a0I realize that sounds…well.. boring.. but. it’s really pretty cool. \u00c2\u00a0I never realized that there was so much work put into the map system. \u00c2\u00a0It does sound like TOR’s map system is different from say.. WoW’s.. due to a more dynamic generation.. and, the map will show pretty much everything that’s in the area with you. \u00c2\u00a0One of the screen shots in the article, even shows a forklift sitting there next to the character.<\/p>\n
Quick blurb from the post<\/a><\/p>\n Let me give you an example. Some time ago, resident metrics enthusiast (and Lead Combat Designer) Georg Zoeller posed a simple question to the design team: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Which part of the user interface is opened more than any other when playing\u00c2\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2: The Old Republic\u00e2\u201e\u00a2?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was a simple question, but the answer wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any of the UI parts you might expect: not our character sheet, inventory or the Crew Skills window. No, the winner was the World Map. And it won easily – by more than an order of magnitude. Let me tell you why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Head on over and read it for yourself.. check out the Screenshots too!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edit.. the “breadcrumb” feature of the TOR map, is going to be just plain awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holy Cartography! This week’s Friday update is all about the Map! \u00c2\u00a0I realize that sounds…well.. boring.. but. it’s really pretty cool. \u00c2\u00a0I never realized that there was so much work […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-1f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}