[Solved] Q: Why is my Warcraft map thumbnail marked as "?"

[SenPie69]

i did imported already and renamed it "war3mapPreview.tga"

 

[Bangsgaard]

Having the same issue. I have followed all tutorials step by step and still my preview is just the regular map.

 

[TriggerHappy]

war3mapPreview.tga no longer works. You can replace war3mapMap.blp (with a mpq editor) instead.

If your map has the question mark preview you can disable it in the map options.

 

[Bangsgaard]

war3mapPreview.tga no longer works. You can replace war3mapMap.blp (with a mpq editor) instead.

Thank you. Do you know if there is any tutorial on converting replacing tga files in the MPQ editor?
And is it the same procedure with loading screens?

 

[TriggerHappy]

Thank you. Do you know if there is any tutorial on converting replacing tga files in the MPQ editor?
And is it the same procedure with loading screens?

Just open your map with a MPQ editor and replace the file, there's not much to it.

 

[SenPie69]

Just open your map with a MPQ editor and replace the file, there's not much to it.

just woke up lol, thank you~

 

[Bangsgaard]

It doesn't work. Whenever i open the file in the MPQ editor and convert the file it goes back to .tga in my editor.

I also tried replacing the already existing war3mapMap.blp file with my own but it just makes the map icon black. I have tried converting .tga, .png, and .gif files in both 256x256 and 128x128 sizes.

 

[SenPie69]

in my-case all i did was untick what @TriggerHappy just said + i repeat to import & rename to war3mapPreview.tga and it works, as for the war3mapMap.blp, i tried it and even renaming it on mpq editor wont work for me

 

[Macadamia]

You need to convert it to blp before importing in the map.

And you don't need an MPQ editor (but you can use it), you can use the Asset Manager and manually change the path.

If you just rename the imported file without converting it, it will simply not work.

@Nibba : You can use BLP Lab : BLP Lab v0.5.0

 

[TriggerHappy]

You can't use the asset manager because saving the map will overwrite your minimap.

 

[Planetary]

I used https://gaming-tools.com/warcraft-3/mpq-editor/ to do this to my project this morning. Took less than 2 minutes. Pretty easy.

Open your map with the tool. You will see war3mapMap.blp in the directory right away. Delete it. Click 'add file' at the top and select your customized war3mapMap.blp.

However, you will then need to run BlzChangeMinimapTerrainTex('yourMiniMapImage.blp') in your init trigger with the actual minimap image to make sure the in-game map is not your map preview image (since you literally overwrote it to a custom image). You could do this by saving a backup of the original war3mapMap you overwrote (extract it from the MPQ before deleting it) or by creating a custom one.

 

[Macadamia]

Yes sorry I forgot about that detail.

Pity we don't have a native to change the minimap preview as well, it would make things much easier!

 

[DarkePacific]

I used https://gaming-tools.com/warcraft-3/mpq-editor/ to do this to my project this morning. Took less than 2 minutes. Pretty easy.

Open your map with the tool. You will see war3mapMap.blp in the directory right away. Delete it. Click 'add file' at the top and select your customized war3mapMap.blp.

However, you will then need to run BlzChangeMinimapTerrainTex('yourMiniMapImage.blp') in your init trigger with the actual minimap image to make sure the in-game map is not your map preview image (since you literally overwrote it to a custom image). You could do this by saving a backup of the original war3mapMap you overwrote (extract it from the MPQ before deleting it) or by creating a custom one.

Thanks for the SOLUTION Planetary. Been having this issue for months going to try it out.

 

[Ilexa]

Sorry if this is considered Necroing but I attempted to follow the steps listed here and replaced the war3mapMap.blp image with my own but it ends up with the starting locations and neutral buildings plastered all over it.

Any advice?

 

[Drake53]

Sorry if this is considered Necroing but I attempted to follow the steps listed here and replaced the war3mapMap.blp image with my own but it ends up with the starting locations and neutral buildings plastered all over it.

Any advice?

Delete war3map.mmp or overwrite it with a dummy/empty war3map.mmp file.

 

[Ilexa]

Delete war3map.mmp or overwrite it with a dummy/empty war3map.mmp file.

Thanks, works like a charm.