[General] Custom Minimap

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How to make it?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Use an art program like GIMP to paint your mini-map. Perform a colour space conversion (part of colour management) to convert it from sRGB (normally what you paint in unless you are a professional in which case it is probably adobeRGB) to linear RGB. Then use a BLP tool to convert the image into a BLP texture. Finally import the texture into the map over the existing auto generated minimap image texture.

Minimap textues do not use mipmaps and should generally not need alpha.

 

[WaterKnight]

Overwrite war3mapMap.blp or war3mapMap.tga. I think 128x128 and 256x256 are allowed.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think 128x128 and 256x256 are allowed.

I believe they can be any size like any UI button and texture. I have no idea where this "power of 2" nonsense came from. The only restriction is that the dimensions have to be in the range of 1 to 512.

 

[WaterKnight]

I made that statement because I recently opened (4)Monolith.w3x and it says in a trigger comment:

In order to use a custom image in place of the minimap in the game menu screens, you should import your image as a 128x128 or 256x256 TGA file called war3mapPreview.tga. Make sure it has a custom path in the Import Manager (it can't be under any directory, including war3mapImported).

This one's talking about the preview ofc.