As you may of already seen on the official page, there is new footage of work in progress zones that are ingame already.
The video is a sneak peak of various well known Star Wars planets with a brief backstory from the world designers themselves.
If you look carefully, you’ll spot an early peak at the games User Interface.
Whether or not this is the world development tool or a sneak peak at the character UI we won’t know for a long while yet, but either way it’s cool for the team at Bioware to drop some subtle hints.
The Old Republic MMO UI Sneak Peak
The full video is below, unfortently not available in HD this time around.
It seems you can play the video in HD now, awesome
It could also very well be a screenshot from their world editor.
Yup, you are probably right, but it looks cool as an early peak non the less.
Very sleak!
Why would a world editor need a minimap?
I would assume that the world editor would use it to fly about the map whilst he is editing the terrain / buildings / structures.
If he had his map radar, he could also test if the world he is creating matches the minimap image, like in WoW.