Community Suggestion: Have maps automatically switch as you move along a timeline.
Have maps automatically switch as you move along a timeline.
Feature Upgrade · Chronicles · Created by Lawdreekris
declined
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
When making a chronical geopolitical changes can occur, wars, nations being founded, civil wars occuring, empires falling ect. To show these things occuring visually the readers will have to manually switch to a different map. It makes it challenging to show the ebb and flow of the boarders of the world, the progress of a war and the rising and expansion of new nations for the chronicle.How does this feature request address the current situation?
If map switching could be tied to certain events, or dates in the timeline it would make it possible to show how the geopolitcal situation of the world changes with time. The readers could see how the new nations of the world grew and the vaccum a nation falling could create. If one wanted to make a detailed timeline of a war they could use it to show the effects different battles had on the war and the changing zones of control. There probably will be some challeneges however with this change though. It may be data intensive to process the switch, and i am not sure the effects this would have on markers. It probably will be a bit more challenging than just coding it to switch the background after a certain date is passed on the timeline.Follow up
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! Linking maps to events is already possible:- Make sure your maps have markers
- Create/edit an event and link it to a marker on the map you want to change to
Current score
39/300 Votes · +6505 points
Votes Cast
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+1
by Masha Medov
on 2024-02-26 02:16 -
+300
by thepocketGM
on 2024-02-26 01:05This is a great suggestion. In fact, when I first saw Chronicles as a feature, I thought for sure that this was one of the intended uses. One work-around for the time being for any interested is using a pin/marker to signify an event, tie an event to it, and make sure that the pin/marker is on the map you'd like to advance forward to. As long as the player/viewer clicks the next event in the timeline it will pan/load to the map the pin/marker exists on. Example: Event 1 -> Event 2 (pin/marker is on the second map in the chain) -> Event 3 (pin/marker is on the third map in the chain) Inelegant, but it's what we have for now. I remember some video discussing this *specifically* for weather and seasons when Chronicle first debuted.
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+1
by hoku
on 2024-02-24 22:59 -
+1
by James_the_DM
on 2024-02-23 20:54 -
+300
by tabshier25
on 2024-02-23 19:05 -
+300
by M. Dixon Games
on 2024-02-22 07:10 -
+300
by SoulLink
on 2024-02-20 17:34 -
+100
by Sown-rel
on 2024-02-20 07:26 -
+100
by Squiggletag
on 2024-02-18 11:03 -
+100
by Alecto92
on 2024-02-17 10:35 -
+300
by Goose80
on 2024-02-16 05:13 -
+300
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+300
by SergeantBlack
on 2024-02-13 22:41 -
+100
by Adcheryl
on 2024-02-09 11:49 -
+100
by Fallen114
on 2024-02-09 10:46 -
+100
by Shmatterling
on 2024-02-09 06:59 -
+300
by drkpotter
on 2024-02-08 19:47 -
+300
by MelissaPlaysRPGs
on 2024-02-08 16:45 -
+300
by SilverReaper45
on 2024-02-08 07:00 -
+300
by Phyko
on 2024-02-07 21:02 -
+100
by Belial Onthra
on 2024-02-07 19:54 -
+300
by Mournblade94
on 2024-02-07 15:58 -
+300
by tofistig
on 2024-02-07 14:50 -
+300
by SrSpaceCadet
on 2024-02-07 05:27 -
+300
by StardustScrapper
on 2024-02-07 04:53 -
+300
by sunnybirdboi
on 2024-02-06 22:44 -
+100
by MasterTamari
on 2024-02-06 22:06 -
+100
by MKirk17
on 2024-02-06 12:58 -
+100
by masquerin
on 2024-02-05 15:10 -
-300
by A Lusty Orc
on 2024-02-05 13:40 -
+300
by Bambam57
on 2024-02-05 03:02 -
+300
by Kuba13805
on 2024-02-04 16:34 -
+1
by tjtrewin
on 2024-02-04 12:06 -
+100
by Freaktonia
on 2024-02-04 01:14 -
-300
by A Adorable Bananafolk
on 2024-02-03 04:17This is how chronicles work already
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-100
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-02-02 20:21Isn't this just chronicles? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is the whole purpose of that feature.
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+300
by JoellaKay
on 2024-02-02 18:59 -
+100
by ekkonoel
on 2024-02-02 18:18 -
+1
by Henrybear2
on 2024-02-02 18:08 -
+300
by Lawdreekris
on 2024-02-02 16:56
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