[General] Goldmine Minimap

[DarcReaver]

Hello


quick picture for explaination:

I have made another type of Goldmine for normal melee games. And I want the minimap to show it in a different color (so players can see if the map has only normal gold mines or enhanced mines aswell).

For this I tried to replace UI interface icons on the minimap - circle of power with the new "blue" gold mine icon. But it does not show up ingame. The Circle of Power used to make a small dot on the map, but it seems like it's not there anymore. Question is now how I can override the yellow gold mine icon with something else.

edit: creating the enhanced gold mine from another unit is out of the question though, as I'm pretty sure it will result in abilities like entangle gold mine or building haunted gold mines on it won't work anymore :/

 

[BloodSoul]

Have you considered using these?

• Actions
  • Neutral Building - Change the special minimap icon to Your_Custom_Icon
  • Neutral Building - Turn special minimap icon On for Your_Specific_Enhanced_Gold_Mine

Edit:
You can add only one new custom icon for your minimap though. It has been used in the Founding of Durotar bonus campaign.

Here's blizzard's code:

• Init 04 Environment
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Special Minimap Icons --------
    • Neutral Building - Change the special minimap icon to UI\Minimap\Minimap-Entrance
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units of type Zone Indicator (Custom Campaign)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Neutral Building - Turn special minimap icon On for (Picked unit)

 

[DarcReaver]

Just tried, doesn't work for goldmines it seems. Also made a dummy unit on top of the goldmine and used the special minimap icon on it. Doesn't show up aswell :/

 

[BloodSoul]

Simple, hide the gold mine icon from the minimap:

Then use the very same Zone Indicator unit created by blizzard, and place one on top of each custom gold mine using triggers. Something like this would solve your problem:

• GoldMineUI
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Neutral Building - Change the special minimap icon to UI\Minimap\Minimap-Entrance
    • Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to Gold Mine
          • Then - Actions
            • Set point = (Position of (Picked unit))
            • Unit - Create 1 Zone Indicator (Custom Campaign) for Neutral Passive at point facing Default building facing degrees
            • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_point)
            • Neutral Building - Turn special minimap icon On for (Last created unit)
          • Else - Actions

 

[DarcReaver]

Tried, the goldmine minimap overlaps the custom Zone Indicator icon. Even though the minimap icon is turned off for the mine...

 

[BloodSoul]

Are you sure you're trying to hide the icon from the correct unit type? I've just done it successfully.

 

[DarcReaver]

Okay was my fault, I accidentally deleted the path from the minimap special icon that's why it didn't show up correctly.
Now all I need is to remove the dummy unit from the game when the mines deplete (and make a custom minimap to show the different mine colors on the starting lobby) - and then it works almost entirely as I want it to be, thanks!

 

[BloodSoul]

You could take advantage of unit groups to detect the Zone Indicator when a gold mine dies, or use a hashtable in order to associate each other.

Regarding the map preview from lobby, you could use some image editor in order to add those icons to the minimap, then save the image as tga format, and rename it as war3mappreview.tga. Also, it is possible to obtain your minimap file from the editor: File -> Export Minimap... -> Mark: Preview Icons.

My example:

Then:

Now:

 

[DarcReaver]

You could take advantage of unit groups to detect the Zone Indicator when a gold mine dies, or use a hashtable in order to associate each other.

Regarding the map preview from lobby, you could use some image editor in order to add those icons to the minimap, then save the image as tga format, and rename it as war3mappreview.tga. Also, it is possible to obtain your minimap file from the editor: File -> Export Minimap... -> Mark: Preview Icons.

My example:

Then:
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Now:
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Thanks again, works as intended.
Edit: does this import work with .blp files aswell? I'd like to keep the map sizes as small as possible. TGA is 250kb and the blp is only ~46kb.



About removing the Zone Indicator - since I'm using regions around the new gold mines to detect/upgrade the haunted/entangled gold mines it's fine. I simply remove them if the the adjacent goldmine depletes:

• Mine 1
  • Events
    • Unit - Mine 0059 <gen> Dies
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Remove Zone Indicator (Custom Campaign) 0164 <gen> from the game

Since I have to prepare the minimap files and the gold mines on the map anyways, I can just aswell use those triggers to remove them. Most basic solution I could think of.

 

[BloodSoul]

Save it as 24-bit tga file, and its size drops to 192kB. I don't think War3MapPreview supports .blp - I remember that I tried to do so a few times, but no success so far. Though I know that War3MapMap.blp is possible. However it also affects the in-game minimap.

 

[DarcReaver]

Okay, I'll do that then. 500 kb size for a map isn't too bad anyways. Thx for the tips, helped me a ton!