how to create minimap for Flash AS2?

what im trying to figure out is how exactly do you create a minimap that can register each object location

below is an example to show what im talking about
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4717/samplebz.gif

hi,

first, a question: do you use AS3?

for your problem I see 2 possible solutions:

1. either you duplicate the big movieclip and resize it to a minimap
2. or you draw the object twice, once in the big movieclip and once in the minimap - for this you would have to do the coords translations something like

if bigMC- object in the big movieclip with coords:
bigMCx,bigMCy
and width/height of the big movieclip:
bigW,bigH

and the corresponding minimap obj
smallMCx,smallMCy

minimap sizes
smallW,smallH

you have the following translations

ratio = smallW/bigW = smallH/bigW
//the minimap obj scale will be
small._xscale=small._yscale=100*ratio;
//the resulting minimap obj coords inside the minimap
smallMCx = bigMCx*ratio;
smallMCy = bigMCy*ratio;


hope it helps

I'm guessing the objects are going to be moving. I would use onEnterFrame to continually update your minimap.

For the mini-positioning, I would make scaled-down positions for the objects. Like miniPoint1._x = bigPoint1._x/10; for a 1/10th scale mini map. The mini-map would be in its own movieclip, so the coordinates will be localized to the movieclip.

Hope that makes sense.