In an attempt to programmatically plot named areas of the maps correctly, I’ve been exploring various ways one might manually piece together the relevant information for doing such a thing. Upon reading and experimenting, I’d like to request a few bits of metadata be added to the Halo APIs. I know that there have been a few other posts requesting similar data, but I am not interested in the correlation of events and coordinates, nor do I plan on incorporating time-series based information into my application. My intention is to make maps and their named areas more accessible to the community.
Problems I’m trying to solve programmatically:
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Display orthographic top down map diagrams - Overlay “named area volume” coordinates onto the diagrams - Plot “named area” labels on mapProposed additions for the
Metadata/Maps/{:id}resource: -
Add metadata for named location volumes
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This would include a list of named location volumes data which included their name, dimensions, and coordinates.* - Add top-down orthographic views of each map
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I would imagine this is the least likely request to be granted, but there is not any pleasant user based alternative I can think of at this time to achieve 2D top-down views of a map accurately; the closest thing I could think of is the ability to manually change camera Coordinates/FOV in machinima mode and stitch together several images, but even then, certain maps would still be impossible to photograph correctly for diagramming purposes due to LOD,* culling and obstructions. - Add map dimensions
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Right now each map’s coordinates are manually accessible to the user from the machinima mode, but adding map sizes (l, w, h) would make computing each map’s 2D diagram much more straight forward.*If some or none of these are reasonable, I would at least like to start a conversation with 343 about how one might make the named areas of a map more visible to the community, hopefully in a way that can become programmatically consumable.