Ingame Minimap

[InfinateAnswers]

Ive played games where the ingame minimap was completely black. Like you couldnt see anything on the minimap youd have to navigate blindly, how would i go about doing this?

 

[aki15]

I think i just went to Game Interface and wrote "noone" on hero minimap icon path..
It worked for me, but i don't know if u want to see heroes on minimap .

 

[InfinateAnswers]

changing that made your whole minimap black...? No terrain, no nothing.

 

[aki15]

changing that made your whole minimap black...? No terrain, no nothing.

Yeah it's in my map Forsaken Arena... Minimap was black fully...

 

[InfinateAnswers]

It didnt work look. I set them to none, and my minimap is normal.

 

[aki15]

It didnt work look. I set them to none, and my minimap is normal.

Do you want to make your minimap explorable?

 

[InfinateAnswers]

i dont want anything to show up on the minimap.

For example, the map defiance's ORPG

 

[Dr Super Good]

Import a custom minimap over the standard one. I did this in my green circle TD version and I assure you it works.

In this case, you will want the custom minimap to be a blank image. The image format is the same as all other textures in WC3, a .blp.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

i dont want a minimap preview, i want the minimap in the game to be blank...?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Import a custom minimap over the standard one. I did this in my green circle TD version and I assure you it works.

In this case, you will want the custom minimap to be a blank image. The image format is the same as all other textures in WC3, a .blp.

That is the solution.... There is a minimap image inside the map archive which has nothing to do with the loading screen. Check out my Green Circle TD if you think I am wrong...

 

[InfinateAnswers]

i hope we are talking about the same thing, can you give me the image and import path? And any other things i have to do to get it to work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

war3mapMap.blp

Any valid blank .blp should do what you want.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

do i have to name it war3mapMap.blp or is that the custom path?

 

[Dr Super Good]

That is the path string it must be given when you store it in the MPQ.
File paths in MPQs are illusional. Although we like to think that we are placing something in a folder in a MPQ, it is nothing more than a path string that is stored along all other files in the MPQ.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

Lmao it caused wc3 to crash.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You must have done something wrong then (like a broken .blp instead of a .blp of a blank image matching the required specs).

 

[InfinateAnswers]

oh... yeah it was a broken blp, i dont have a blank image....