How to make a custom loadscreen with "minimap-trick"

[morguhl]

Welcome to my first Starcraft 2 Tutorial: How to make a custom loadscreen
All you need:
Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/ (free download)

So first of all you need Gimp.
Open it and the create a new picture with 1920 wide and 1200 height
Now you can add your Custom Load Screen into it.
After that you have to save it with the name minimap.tga
Ok you´re finished with gimp now (can be closed)

Open the Starcraft II World Editor and open your map.
Open the Import Manager and import your saved picture (minimap.tga) this will replace the current minimap picture ( worse: you cant see the original minimap ingame anymore so if you found another way please tell me )
So we only have to open the LoadingScreen Options and to click on custom then we browse after minimap.tga and choose it.

Ok you´re finished now hope it was understandable and usefull to you
(if you want to have the normal minimap ingame you should try to put the original minimap in the middle of your picture)

Sry if there are misstakes. It´s my first tutorial as i told you ;D

 

[mrzwach]

Seems a lot easier than just replacing the minimap.

 

[morguhl]

hm but i cannot save something into the assets order and so i cant open my own images :/

 

[mrzwach]

Import it into Assets\Textures as the filepath, then save the map. It should appear to work.

Make sure that you convert to .dds first, though. If you don't have anything like GIMP/photoshop, I would highly recommend using http://paint.net/. You can just open your file and save it in .dds format, quite simple.

 

[mjllonir]

Hmmm, seems like a bad method to save your custom loadscreen. I myself use a custom loadscreen an it has nothing to do with the minimap...

 

[X-OMG-X]

Just import your .tga file to the editor and go to loadscreen -> custom and select the name of your file.