# Creating a Bird's Eye View Map

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**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/creating-a-birds-eye-view-map/32108 "2015-06-09T21:51:17Z")\
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I myself am trying to do something similar. I’m trying to have a 2nd monitor act as a birds eye view of the level, and then I want to overlay some 2D shapes on top. So far I’ve put together that I can use a camera called SceneCapture2D to get the 2D birds eye view image:

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And that I can use something like ProjectWorldToScreen to get pixel coordinates of stuff on screen incase you want to put a HUD icon over an actor on the screen or whatever:

[![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/1/3/b/13b005e01e07c7947de798525b7dfe0cf41a2927.jpeg "WTF Is? Project World to Screen in Unreal Engine 4 ( UE4 )") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3K0oWUEj8)

I think the last bits of knowledge that I’m trying to piece together is how you go and create a 2nd monitor to display the birds eye view, and how to go and set the altitude of the SceneCapture2D so that it captures the whole level and nothing else.

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