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The default view of the old forum map was facing north-east.
Currently the dynmap 3D view has a locked orientation facing north-west.

This suggestion:
Change the dynmap 3D view to be locked facing north-east instead of north-west.

Why? Some builders as myself choose to orientate our builds to look great on the forum map, when the default orientation changed when dynmap was introduced, some of the builds lost some of their awesomeness.

Thanks for reading this suggestion.

I was just about to post something about that!

Arcane Orb got covered by a gold farm: The Arcane Dragon now looks like a tail-less rat: That is why I personally would like to have the default orientation back.

Redkiller123 wrote:Arcane Orb got covered by a gold farm:

Voted yes, but in all honesty, if these kind of superficial things matter that much, put your gold farm underground next time. This server and its struggle between outward vanity and immense "wealth" is incredibly amusing to me at times.

I get your point, redkiller. At the same time, it is nice to see some other builds in a different light than before. My preference would be to a) return the ability to change the orientation manually and b) to have the default orientation change every so often (monthly?). I voted no to this particular suggestion because I don't like the limitation of the map being forever locked in 1 orientation.

jeniansmom wrote:I get your point, redkiller. At the same time, it is nice to see some other builds in a different light than before. My preference would be to a) return the ability to change the orientation manually and b) to have the default orientation change every so often (monthly?). I voted no to this particular suggestion because I don't like the limitation of the map being forever locked in 1 orientation.

I agree I don't like it locked either but if I recall there is no orientation changing with dynmap. Only way to change it is completely re-render the map to the locked orientation you want it. Monthly's probably not a bad idea though.

I support changing it to a north-east orientation, both because it is more familiar to most and also because many builds have been created to look best from that direction.

+1

Ofcourse I would like it not to be locked, but the code of dynmap limits it to a prescribed orientation.



Read more about it here.

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Monthly orientation change would require Intelli to change the thingy each month, but that suits another suggestion that I also would vote yes for. Of course Intelli did probably find out a way of making it automatic.

I voted yes cause I liked the old default view of the map other then that building projects based on the view of the map seems cheesy since most like to explore just by wandering and getting their views of projects on the ground.

How difficult would it be to have the orientation change every so often? If it's too much work, then I say pick a direction and keep it. If not, the 1x a month thing sounds pretty cool.