Making the minimap hide an area

[darwin]

I have a map where players enter caves and then are teleported to another part of the map which is the inside of the cave.

The insides of the caves are in the southern part of the map and I would love it if I could cut them out of the minimap. It looks strange to a player when they enter a cave and see their hero teleported across the map. Is there a way to hide the minimap for a while? I tried restricting camera bounds, but that doesn't help with the minimap.

I think this can be solved, I recall maps made with space that use planets in a similar way. Also, it would be good if while in the cave the heroes couldn't see the minimap at all.

 

[Pharaoh_]

You mean you don't want the unit's dot on the minimap to move?
How about hiding the display of your unit (Object Editor field: Stats - Hide Minimap Display: True)?

You can't alter directly the minimap in-game. Why Camera Bounds didn't work for you?

 

[darwin]

You mean you don't want the unit's dot on the minimap to move?
How about hiding the display of your unit (Object Editor field: Stats - Hide Minimap Display: True)?

You can't alter directly the minimap in-game. Why Camera Bounds didn't work for you?

I really just want to cover an area with blackness on the mini-map. Oddly black mask isn't working for me. I'm very new to this area of the editor, so maybe it's a simple mistake. I tried to make a test map to see how black mask works but it seems to do nothing.

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing start as An exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: now
    • Visibility - Enable black mask
    • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Black mask across North <gen>
    • Set north = (Last created visibility modifier)
    • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Black mask across South <gen>
    • Set south = (Last created visibility modifier)

• test1
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing test1 as An exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: 1
    • Visibility - Enable north
    • Visibility - Disable south

When the second trigger fires nothing happens.

 

[Bannar]

Post map =)

 

[darwin]

Post map =)

This is the test map I've been working with:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin_data/le9e05/_files/visibility.w3m

I can't get the black mask to appear at all for some reason. I was hoping to turn black mask on and off as a unit goes in and out of a cave.


EDIT:

<--- just discovered the "masked areas are partially visible" button on the map. I suspect that explains a lot.

 

[Bannar]

Meaby.. Try this?

 

[darwin]

Meaby.. Try this?

Beautiful thanks! That should do it.

I do have one question though. When I add a trigger that limits the camera bounds to the new region the minimap becomes crazy. Basically it no longer syncs to where my unit is. He'll be in the north barrens area but the minimap will show him elsewhere:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin_data/ch9tu5/_files/visibility.w3m

I changed the triggers to fire when he enters the regions, btw.