Mini Map Preview (Ingame)

[Airandius]

Oke, so you have the map preview you get to see when you are in the map's 'lobby'. You also have a map displayed on the lower left corner while playing the game.
What side, format and path do I need to use so the image will show there?

 

[-ALPHA-]

I believe the path for the ingame minimap is: war3mapMap.blp Size is 128x128.

Hope that answered your question...

 

[bounty hunter2]

You can always use search, it seems that the same question has been asked four days ago

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums...h-rep-changing-minimap-custom-picture-126783/

 

[Airandius]

Search function is broken >< you type in: minimap and you'll get threads about how to create a multiboard.... Just a random example.

It keeps crashing for me though, as soon as the game finished loading I get a bug.
When I remove the image it does not crash. Why?

It tried it for both tga and blp, at the size of 128x128, with the correct path...

 

[-ALPHA-]

How about 256x256?

 

[Airandius]

256 works, but now i have to import a 420kb size image twice >.>
can;t i make it so that i only have to upload once and give it two paths? one for preview and one for map?

 

[Vizel]

Probably not. That sounds a lot like Blizzard! But that's usually why people don't use images as minimaps probably. You can have the "black" minimap and not take up a lot of space with another image, though as it can be done in the WE options

 

[-ALPHA-]

Can't you just change the map preview image somewhere in the Map Options?
Or was that in the Campaign Editor... I always forget..

 

[Silvenon]

Can't you just change the map preview image somewhere in the Map Options?
Or was that in the Campaign Editor... I always forget..

Yeah, but not imported ones, just presets. If you want an imported one, you need to override the path in the Import Manager.

Well, yeah, you can't use two paths for a single imported file. That's too bad, isn't it?

 

[Ricardo Irving]

Its simple. Go to import manager. Image can be:

128x128
256x256

Double click in import manager on the file. Click on Use Custom Path or something like that. Its a tick box. Then, delete everything before the filename. Replace the filename with war3mapPreview.tga (of course, leave .tga there. Re-do it if it isn't targa!)

MAP OPTIONS:

"Hide minimap" tick box will instead have a blue minimap screen with a big yellow ?. If you have a custom minimap screen, it won't show up. If this helped more then others + REP, or plus rep the person that helped you most (that is... if you got it working)