Making a RTS game #15: Adding a minimap and fog of war 3/3 (Unity/C#)

Today, let’s continue our RTS programming tutorial and finish up our minimap and fog of war features!

⬅️ Tutorial #14: Adding a minimap and fog of war 2/3| TOC | Tutorial #16: Introducing a sound system 1/2 ➡️

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These past few weeks, we’ve been working on the minimap and the fog of war systems for our RTS game. They allow us to get a bird’s-eye view of the terrain and to distinguish unexplored, already explored and in-sight areas. We have a little UI indicator to better materialise the part of the map currently in view of the main camera and some game parameters to easily change the settings of the fog of war.

In this final part, we’re going to wrap this up by adding some final touches:

• a mechanism for direct camera “teleportation” when we click on the minimap
• a small “fade-in” effect on units FOV so we transition a bit from dark to light when we place a building or create a character unit
• conditional rendering for the scene objects depending on their type and on whether they are…