hello,
iam trying to make a minimap ,read tut and forum but i cant figur out how to get the minimap_prefabs (script_orgin)(targetname / minimap) in, one tut says place them outsite your skybox one upper left one lower right ,one says place them in playeble area ,and one says plac them in playeble erea but just under your sky all 3 dont work when i type this in the game /set scr_minimap_height 10000 i dont get the minimap from above i stay on the ground please help its doing my head in ..
thanks
wouter


edited on Jan. 19, 2010 03:26 pm by vettevictor

edited on Jan. 19, 2010 03:28 pm by vettevictor

You must place the minimap corners inside the skybox. It wont work outside it.

As for playable area, this depends on the size of your map. If you have a very large map with a lot of area never played on by players, then its best to place the minimap corners over the playable area, otherwise you will have a whole lot of minimap that isnt really relevant to game play.

If, on the other hand, you have a smallish map, placing the corners over the bounderies of you map will work fine, as only a small amount of the map wont get played on.

Finally, to get the minimap dvar commands to work (i.e. /set scr_minimap_height), you must run the map in devmap mode, developer set to 2, and with developer_script set to 1.

tnx it worked
greets
wouter happy mapper :p

You get a lot of bad info given out in tutorials. Its par for the course. But the info Ive given you is as kosher as salt beef.

I can create my minimap, but i cant get it to work in the game. I set up my gsc file and zone file to load the material and i just get an error when i run my map (couldnt load compass_map_crownfort) :(

Buzza writes...

That usually means the materials file isnt compiled into your zone fastfile properly. Check to see if the materials file is appearing in the asset list for your map - zone_source\english\assetlist\mp_yourmapname.csv.

If it isnt there, you need to re-trace your steps to make sure you did everything properly.

DemonSeed writes...

Hi, I have the same problem like Buzza...but what you mentioned doesn't work for me. I tried the tutorials from the official ModWiki (InfinityWard) and from ModsOnWiki (ModsOnline). But it still crashes during the loading process, and, because I use Vista, without any error message.

But I know what it says on XP:

"Couldn't load image compass_map_mp_mymap"

I even reinstalled the game! I don't know what's wrong with it...

I also changed the settings in Asset Manager to what the Tutorials told.

edited on Jan. 23, 2010 02:25 pm by sgt_cold:

Could it affect the process of loading the minimap image if I have the european version of the game? Which version do you have?

But I already have read a tutorial here on ModsOnline which said I should zip an images folder up, call it mp_mapname.iwd
and put it in the mods\ folder.

That poo-poo doesn't work!

yeah there were 2 tutorials on MODSOnline one was different to the other, cant find the second one at the moment.

I still cant get my minimap to work, followed the tutorials again and tried different formats, still no joy.

Run your map with a mod, in the mod folder is your maps IWD, in the IWD is your IWI (image file).

If you don't run your map using the IWD how is the game supposed to know what image to load when the map loads?

It creates an error "couldn't load image compass blah blah" because it can't find it. It was looking for an IWD with it in it, and couldn't find it.

Run the map with a mod that has your maps IWD in it.