Black MiniMap Display

[PiCkstix]

Can somebody please tell me where I can go/what I can change to make the minimap permanently black?

Thanks,
PiCk

 

[wd40bomber7]

Try Visibility - Turn Black Mask On. I'm pretty sure thats what your looking for. I really don't have time to look into it right at this moment. But give me about 8 hours and I'll be right back. lol

 

[PiCkstix]

I can wait. I will be looking so will post if I find it.

I meant to kep the minimap perma-black, not for a little bit of time.

 

[Need_O2]

if its only minimap
umm repleace the minimap models with empty ones
and import a black minimap texture

 

[wd40bomber7]

A 'model' is only used for the loading screen. However you can overwrite the minimap picture file. I'm not sure if an import will work for this because the minimap is regenerated every save. It might though. The path is "war3mapMap.blp"

 

[Need_O2]

or war3mapMap.tga
Im sure tga works but didnt try with blp

 

[wd40bomber7]

A tga file will work but you need to import the new file over the old one. The old one is called "war3mapMap.blp"

So if you import it with a .tga extension the game won't read it and you'll have gotten no where.

The game can read tga/blp files interchangeably.

 

[Wraithwynd]

The very best I can do for you with a trigger function is a one liner:

• Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Black mask across (Playable map area)

If you need it for all players then you would use the integer function:

• For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for (Player((Integer A))) emitting Black mask across (Playable map area)

This is what it does:

Explored areas will turn black after the unit(s) move on. On a doodad empty map that is flat the seen part of the map is just a circle of light around the unit. With doodads, cliffs and what not that circle becomes jagged. Below is an image I took from my game after having explored a chunk of my map. There is a player owned unit near the teal team's base. Lower right hand is another player's unit.

If I shared the vision with another team I would see all of their units and their circles of vision only.

If that is not good enough then you will have to play with the artwork as outlined above.

 

[wd40bomber7]

The next step with that would be to disable the black visibility modifiers. This should reset what terrain a player has seen and what a player hasn't seen. Test it and see. Or you could just try to import over the normal minimap as we discussed before...

 

[PiCkstix]

Like in maps suc as, say, Uthers Party. I think it was an imported model of a black square which he set as the Ingame Minimap using WEU (which I am not going to use).

That could be helpful and worth it...

Thanks

 

[Need_O2]

btw 'model' = like the shop icons in minimap are model files AS I KNOW
and Im sure about the unit minimap icons are mdx models

 

[HINDYhat]

If you want the units to not display on the minimap, go to the "Game Interface" and set one of the minimap image pathes, like a neutral building, to literally " ".

 

[Need_O2]

I think with my way you can disable that white box too umm nvm xD

 

[I34w90_238j]

Maybe it should be done like in HeroLineWars - theres an image instead of the map |on minimap|. I think its an imported texture places instead of the minimap. If thats true then you could draw an image that is black, import it and place instead of the minimap.