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What method do you use for making maps/mini maps?

I'm currently kind of stuck on this, And the method I am attempting to use seems really long and redundant.

I would love to hear how you guys do/have done it!

Well how are you doing it?

Anyways i just save binary data using structs.

This is my Object struct just handles basic stuff for now but can easily expanded in the future

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struct OBJECT
{
    int ox;
    int oy;
    int oAnim;
    int flag;
};


Here is the save and load functions for writing and reading the data

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void loadLvl(char* LoadSaveTag)
{
    int j;
    struct OBJECT o[LevelSize];
    FILE * lvlF;
    lvlF=fopen(LoadSaveTag, "rb");
 
    if(lvlF)
    {
        fread(o, sizeof(o), 1, lvlF);
 
        for(j=0; j<LevelSize-1; j++)
        {
            if(o[j].flag==1)
            {
                CreateActor("Object", "ObjectSet", "(none)", "(none)", 0, 0, true);
                object=getclone2("Object", j);
                object->x=o[j].ox;
                object->y=o[j].oy;
                object->animpos=o[j].oAnim;
            }
            else
            break;
        }
    }
    free(o);
    fclose(lvlF);
}
void saveLvl(char* LoadSaveTag)
{
    int j;
    struct OBJECT o[LevelSize];
    FILE * lvlF;
    lvlF=fopen(LoadSaveTag, "wb");
 
    if(lvlF)
    {
        for(j=0; j<oACTORCOUNT; j++)
        {
            object=getclone2("Object", j);
            o[j].ox=object->x;
            o[j].oy=object->y;
            o[j].oAnim=object->animpos;
            o[j].flag=1;
        }
        fwrite(o, sizeof(o), 1, lvlF);
    }
    free(o);
    fclose(lvlF);
}


I just grab the x y and animpos from the objects when i open the save and load menu in my map maker, i store them in the struct and save them to an external file so i can read back later.

If you have trouble understanding let me know!