Use hero minimap icon for non-hero

[SAUS]

Is it possible to have a unit appear on the minimap as a the big circle like heroes when the unit is not a hero?

I have bosses in my map and currently you can completely lose track of them. I find it hilarious when my friend and I are scrambling around looking for them, but it's definitely not something that should be part of the gameplay.

My current (unimplemented) idea is to have a dummy hero unit that is moved periodically to the boss (one for each boss - some bosses use more than one unit and you can have more than one boss on the map at a time).

Should I got ahead with my idea or is there a better / easier / nicer way?

 

[Ezekiel12]

Much better ways there, you can even give your boss a custom cool looking minimap icon.

A sort of hacky way would be to look under "Advanced -> Game Interface" and there for "Icon - Minimap xxx" (where xxx would be hero, neutral, resource, resource (entangled) or resource (haunted)). And then make your boss one of those or as you said, move a dummy one of those constantly to the position of your boss unit.

A trigger solution would be to use SetAltMinimapIcon(string path), which allows you to set ONE new icon with a .blp of your choice. Then you can for every unit choose whether it should use that alternative icon, namely with UnitSetUsesAltIcon(unit u, boolean b).

 

[SAUS]

This is working for me thanks! I am using the haunted goldmine icon.

EDIT:
To be a little more clear, I went with the "SetAltMinimapIcon(string path)" solution and just used the haunted goldmine icon in the game already.