Eli Minimap - Add highly customizable minimap to your game!

Introduction

If your game has large maps or you are making tactical RPG, or if you just want to add a nice minimap on your project, that is your plugin!

Features

• Create mini-maps from images or drawings!
• Highly customizable selection of colors for drawing the minimap: Region Id, Terrain tags, Passable/Impassable, Ladder, Bush, Counter, and Damage Floor!
• Set 4 different shapes for mini-maps! (PRO)
• Put mini-map inside a window! (PRO)
• See a full mini-map on a different scene! (PRO)
• Use icons to represent characters on minimap!
• Change icon zoom, hue, and much more!
• Create icon templates for quick use in events/actors! (PRO)
• Hide/Show the minimap with a switch.
• Add a noise filter to the minimap! (PRO)
• Play common event when clicking/touch minimap (PRO)

How to use

• Please, see the plugin help file since it is kinda big.

Screenshots

Terms of Use
Update Log
There is a free demo to download.
Hakuen Studio Minimap for RPG Maker MZ by Hakuen Studio

Version 1.0.1 - 06/18/2021
- Fixed a crash that happens when a map doesn't have a minimap.

Version 2.0.0 - 08/21/2021
- Changed the plugin command name.
- Need Eli Book 4.0.0 now.

Version 2.0.1 - 08/29/2021
- Fixed a crash that happens when the minimap tries to set up an icon of an erased event.

Is there a Fog of War option?

Hi!
On the minimap? Not yet. But will do sometime in the future to be compatible with my Map Reveal Plugin.

Darn. Thanks for your quick reply though!
I'm trying to find a good minimap plugin for a first-person game, and fog of war is a necessity.

^^
But the fog of war you want is only on the minimap? Or it is on the regular map as well?

Both, ideally.
I used Silver's minimap plugin for MV and it worked wonderfully for this, but as far as I know there isn't a MZ version of that plugin.
You did say that you plan to implement it in the future though, so I'm fine with waiting (and paying if needed).

Ok! I let you know when I've done it!

Version 2.1.0 - 10/09/2021
- Add a new way to set colors on the plugin parameters when using minimap created by tiles.
- Performance improvements.

Very useful plugin :uhappy: but is it possible to get some Plugin Commands to enable/disable the minimap? I'm generating some maps randomly at runtime and need it disabled until the generation is done.

Hi there!
Thanks for using it! :kaoblush:

I did not create a plugin command for that, because there is the switch parameter.


If you set a switch to this parameter, and if you turn it on in-game, you will hide the minimap.
That not worked for you?

Version 5.0.0 is not compatible with my plugins that are below the 5.0.0 versions.

Version 5.0.0 - 02/05/2022

• [MV] Ported to MV!
• Fixed a crash that happens when trying Battle test from Database.
• Code clean up.
• Updated terms of use.

Version 5.0.1 - 03/18/2022

• [PRO] Fixed vehicles not showing on the minimap.
• [MV] Fixed the “setHue” crash error.
• Fixed the minimap icons/sprites not showing centered.

Version 5.0.2 - 04/01/2022

• Fixed vehicle markers showing on every map, regardless they are on that map or not.
• Fixed the player marker step animation not working when the note tag has space characters.

Added demo project for MV and updated the MZ one!

Version 6.0.0 - 04/14/2022

• Completely rewrite the plugin!
• A lot of performance improvements!
• Better code readability!
• Improved plugin parameters!
• Updated help file!
• On events, the minimap marker set by comments will take priority over the one set on their note tag.
• [PRO] The minimap area(Masking) can now also be set with an image.
• [PRO] Added an overlay image to be set above the minimap!
• [PRO] Added a new plugin parameter for the full minimap scene that let you adjust the camera movement speed.

@Eliaquim when testing your Demo out, I tested <MMIcon: 74>
as test purpose.

on TileMap it works, and 2 pages, 1 with the comment tag, page 2 without.
on the image map same event, it doesn't draw the, but did not crash either,
unless you interact with it, this error log pops out of the demo.



I dont know if <MMIcon: 74> is possible on the image map, if its included
in the free version though, because if that is, it can do the trick on what
I want to do on the minimap as I want to use the image + icon on them
when the map is obtained, to show those icons.

so I dont need all the pro version as I dont need them all. ^^

Version 6.0.1 - 04/20/2022

• Fixed an issue that the plugin was creating the minimap even when a map does not have any minimap note tag.
• Fixed an issue where events that start the map with their page conditions not fulfilled, were causing a crash.
• Fixed an issue where erased events would cause a crash when changing scenes.
• [PRO] Fixed a delay in moving the sprites together with the minimap on the Full Minimap Scene.

@ShadowDragon I believe I fixed your issue! Thanks for reporting it! ^^

I cannot download the free demo version + the MZ plugin file = 0kb.
I believe that there is an issue, as I cannot download the free version,
I cannot see if that fix the issue though =)

EDIT:
I tested out the demo and did the same what I did last time,
a simple <MMIcon: 74> on page 1, and none on page 2.
on tile map and image map.

it seems the issue is resolved :)
I might use your minimap plugin, as a simple icon <MMIcon: n> does
the trick I need, it's perfect.