Got the mini map working (Thanks Big Time to *UWS*ThisGuy)

But in game on the mini map Im not in the same location as I am on the map? Its way off!!! Any thoughts to what it could be??

The red arrow is the location were the mini map says I am but the yellow arrow is were I actually am.

I believe that depends on the height from which you take your screenshot

what height do you all take it at??

I fallowed this tut
http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-483.html

can anyone tell me what height they take their mini map screen shot at??

Hi m8!

every one i've seen say 10000, go on youtube and look up War111 he does a video tut for a minimap from start to finish, oh yeah! its in 2 parts, I think this is the link

Minimap

Hope it helps m8!

Ian.

edited on Mar. 3, 2009 08:46 pm by arachnofang

I think I took mine at like 15000 and that worked the best for me as far as lining up well. not 100% on target but I may just be to picky LOL

My friend Stufz found this


Basically, the error is saying there is something wrong with the aspect ratio of your minimap.

Zeroy hazarded a guess that it might be the size of your .targa/.dds file. Was it 512x512?

Speaking personally, I think it's more likely to do with the placing of your minimap corners. They must be placed when facing north, with 1 going in the top extreme left-hand (northwest) corner, and the other going in the bottom extreme right-hand (northeast) corner.

Make sure that no part of them is outside your skybox, not even a little bit of it.

Then, take your minimap screenshot from a height of - which is the minimum (default) height:

set scr_minimap_height "2100"

You xan make it higher if you like, but making it less than 2100 will throw off COD5's minimap aspect ratio.

Lots of people are taking their screenshots from the COD4 height of 10000, which doesn't fit the aspect ratio of COD5. Even the RGN Wiki is slightly incorrect in asigning the height to 20000

Hey guys -
I have not played around with this much in WaW but did in CoD4.
Assuming the minimap corners are placed in opposite corners (as explained in previous post). What matters is the size of your skybox or I guess I should say the ratio between the length and the width of the map.
After you have taken the screen shot it is important to crop the image so that it is equal in length and width and if you do this to the nearest pixle, e.g. in PS the minimap will be accurate and this you do before you resize the image. Yes this sometimes means that parts of the minimap are outside of the playable area but you can just color that (if you don't like it black). After you have cropped your image so it is exactly equal in width and height then you change the size to the required 512 x 512. Doing it this way the minimaps in 4 we did were very accurate.