Is there a better way to make a minimap?

[smguyk]

I'm making a 2d platformer and I'd like to have a minimap. I saw this tutorial (see the bottom of the linked anchor) where the world is drawn to a view, and then it's drawn again but to a smaller view, the minimap.

Is there a better way to do it? It seems like it's not very efficient to draw the world twice? Or am I overthinking it

[Laurent]

You can draw it once at loading time into a render texture, and reuse the produced texture with a simple sprite.

[smguyk]

Nice idea, I'll do that. Thank you!