Silvers Advanced Minimap (now with Fog of War!)

SilverDash · 2015-11-24T00:25:06+0900

Advanced Minimap v. 1.41 Author: Squirting Elephant More Screenshots: Spoiler: Screenshots Features: Spoiler: Features - Shows a minimap based on a mapshot or a custom image of the map or based on a generated image based on your tile-tags. So you can now generate your own overworld maps if you want (in FF6-style and whatever you want). - Compatible with Yanfly's "Main Menu Manager". - Can show realtime events on the minimap. It can (among others) show moving events on the minimap as well! - Unless you'd like to use the advanced options, no coding or plugin commands or notetags required at all. - Also has a menu where you see a list of all the events and POI's with an optional teleportation ability and a few more features. - Optional: Renders the actual active/live player graphic onto the minimap - Optional: Blinking player icon - Optional: Only shows the map(s) when the party possesses a specific item - Optional: Supports teleportation to events and POI's. Can be disabled globally and per map - Minimap can be aligned on all 4 sides of the screen, with custom positions - Automatically attempts to load a minimap for each map. - Supports POI's through plugin command (for advanced users) - Has plugin commands to control the minimap - Supports skipping frames for all maps or for specific maps to increase performance for supersized maps - Supports event-notes, event-comment-notes and map-notetags - Optional: Maintain aspect ratio - Optional: has leading zeros in minimap image names - Has 2 map-modes: Autofit and Scroll - Comes with basic debugging options (disabled by default) - Suports manual scrolling. This can be enabled/disabled through a parameter and map-notetags - Adjust the zoom-scale to your liking - Supports a minimap overlay - No known conflicts with other scripts - Use mapshots from other maps for the current map - Supports map-passability overlay (automatically generated) with support for 'impassability by movement direction' - By using comment-tags in events you can effectively remove them from the minimap when switching the event-page. This way an opened chest for example can be removed from the minimap - Etc. Instructions (more info can be found in the help section of the plugin): Spoiler: Instructions 1. Make a mapshot of your map or paint your own map. I personally use: http://forums.rpgmak...orange-mapshot/ but this one probably works too: http://forums.rpgmak...les/?hl=mapshot 2. Make sure the mapshot is a png file (not a jpg!). 3. Rename the mapshot to the map-id and make it (by default) 3 numbers total. Example for map id 1: 001.png Example for map id 16: 016.png 4. Place the mapshots (do NOT resize them) in /img/minimap/ Example: D:\MyAwesomeGame\img\minimap\001.png 5. Place the Window_Minimap.png (see attachment) in your /img/system/ folder. You can obviously also use your own. 6. Copy the Overlay.png to /img/minimap/ (or just disable the overlay in the parameters). 7. Install this script: Silvers Keybinding and make sure to put it above the minimap script. - If you prefer to use automatic generated maps instead, use the map-notetags and you then obviously do not require mapshots of course. - For info on the plugin commands, doubleclick this plugin and press [Help...]. To make it compatible with Yanfly's Main Menu Manager: 1. Download & Install YEP_MainMenuManager.js 2. Configure the parameters as follow: Menu Name: "Map" Menu Symbol: SEMap Menu Show: true Menu Enabled: SE.Minimap.Menu.Enabled Menu Main Bind: this.commandSEMap.bind(this) Script & Downloads: Download v1.41 Required Script (Core Script) Download Master Demo (HIGHLY recommended for new users!) Required&Optional Files: View attachment Minimap default images.zip Old Versions: Spoiler: Old versions Download v1.14a Download v1.13 Download v1.12 Download v1.11 Download v1.10 Download v1.09 Download v1.08 Download v1.07 Download v1.06 Download v1.05 Download v1.04 Download v1.03a Download v1.03 Download v1.02 Download v1.01 Download v1.00 Known Bugs: - Closing the Minimap menu with Fog of War active 'freezes' the game. This seems to only occur on maps bigger than 119x119 and could possibly be an RPG Maker MV bug. License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) FAQ: Spoiler: FAQ Q: I get an error. Help me! A: When the error occurs: 1. Press [F12] in your game and a console will open (goto window mode if you were fullscreen to see it by using [F4]). I need the details of the error from that console + (if applicable) a short description of what you did and possibly the map-notetags. 2. Also try disabling ALL other plugins and check if the error still persists. 3. If you upgraded from an older minimap version (with different parameters), you may have to delete the plugin in the [F10] manager in RPG Maker MV. For some reason MV does not automatically detect parameter changes in plugins and this can cause crashes. 4. Try setting the debug mode para…

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SilverDash

#41 Jan 28, 2016, 09:32 PM Source

killerfer said:
One of my maps is giving this error. Any idea why?

Thanks for the report. Fixed in 1.12. I accidentally switched an x and y variable...

v1.12 (28 January 2016)
- Fixed a crash when the height of the map was bigger than it's width.
nuevocharrua

#42 Feb 8, 2016, 08:40 PM Source

I used this notetag :<mm_generate_overworld>

The minimap was showed all green
SilverDash

#43 Feb 8, 2016, 09:09 PM Source

TheChilliPL said:
Map is green everywhere... ;_;

SilverDash said:
If it's green everywhere either the tile-terrain-tags are wrong (or most likely, not set at all) or you misconfigured the "Map Gen Tag Colors" or "Overworld Gen Tag Colors" parameters.

So make sure you set some tile-id's on the tileset for those tiles so that the minimap knows what colors they should be. Green is the default color for tiles with tile-id: 0. Which is the default tile-id for tiles.
killerfer

#44 Feb 8, 2016, 09:55 PM Source

@SilverDash

If I may suggest a couple features (nothing really necessary, just to make life easier xD):

1. There could be a parameter in the plugin to set if I want to show or hide the minimap by default. (my game uses map like diablo, I set the map to the size of the screen and only make it appear when the player press the map button. Right now I set one event in auto-run per map to hide the minimap, but it would be easier to just set the default to not show)

2. Since the map generator uses hexcodes as colors (which is awesome), it would be nice to select the color by region instead of terrain tag (because the tags limit the developer to use only 8 colors in the map). We could set something like [regionId, hexcode; regionId, hexcode; ... ; regionId, hexcode]. This way there could be up to 255 different colors.

I must say it's really fun to mess with this plugin, I'm really enjoying. Thank you very much.
SilverDash

#45 Feb 9, 2016, 12:09 PM Source

I uploaded v1.13 with Killerfer's suggestions. Parameters were changed.

It supports tile-tags and regions simultaneously. But regions take precedence.
nuevocharrua

#46 Feb 9, 2016, 12:43 PM Source

Thz, works fine!

Is there a way to show where are the vehicles?
SilverDash

#47 Feb 9, 2016, 02:22 PM Source

No there is no way to do that (unless you're inside one). You can show events but vehicles don't have event-pages. So I guess I gotta add this feature in the next version.
killerfer

#48 Feb 9, 2016, 07:28 PM Source

@SilverDash

Thanks for the update, it's looking awesome :)
moldy

#49 Feb 13, 2016, 11:22 PM Source

Im not quite sure which images are supposed to go to which folder, as they're named as random letters when I try to save them.
SilverDash

#50 Feb 14, 2016, 07:43 PM Source

Good point. I removed the images inside the OP and replaced it with a zipfile instead. Now the folders and filenames remain intact:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=31760
moldy

#51 Feb 14, 2016, 07:51 PM Source

SilverDash said:
Good point. I removed the images inside the OP and replaced it with a zipfile instead. Now the folders and filenames remain intact:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=31760

Zank you :)

Is the Window_Minimap supposed to hide behind the minimap? I notice if I make the minimap slightly transparent, I can see the Window_Minimap image behind it like this:
SilverDash

#52 Feb 14, 2016, 09:52 PM Source

Seems like a bug. I will look into it next version. For now you can probably use a fully transparent one to fix it.
Johnboy

#53 Feb 15, 2016, 07:48 PM Source

Love the plugin, but I do have an issue I can't quite seem to fix.

If I run a playtest it loads my mapshots for the maps just fine. but when I deploy it doesn't generate any maps and I can't seem to get it to use the mapshots. Not sure what I've missed. If you could help it would be appreciated.

EDIT: I should also mention that I'm not using notetags either.

EDIT2: When I deploy, it actually puts the data in a different folder structure than you playtest out of. <project>\www\img\minimap instead of just <project>\img\minimap. Don't know if this is an issue but trying to provide as much info as I can.
SilverDash

#54 Feb 15, 2016, 09:59 PM Source

When generating a map the minimap plugin will not create map-images. It will just calculate the map at runtime upon entering it by analyzing the gamedata directly. The folder-structure should not cause problems.

However, it does indeed seem that deployment bugs the minimap. And there is no console in deployment mode to debug... I will look into this.
Johnboy

#55 Feb 16, 2016, 04:33 AM Source

SilverDash said:
When generating a map the minimap plugin will not create map-images. It will just calculate the map at runtime upon entering it by analyzing the gamedata directly. The folder-structure should not cause problems.

However, it does indeed seem that deployment bugs the minimap. And there is no console in deployment mode to debug... I will look into this.

Thanks. I wasn't 100% sure if it was a bug or my own stupidity that was causing it.
SilverDash

#56 Feb 16, 2016, 11:17 PM Source

<deleted> wrong topic again...
SilverDash

#57 Feb 17, 2016, 02:26 PM Source

Update v1.14a (17 February 2016) [Updated Parameters]
- Fixed a bug that refused to render the minimap mapshots when the project is deployed.
- Added support for vehicles including new parameters and plugin commands for this.
- Fixed a map-generation-color-bug that I accidentally caused in v1.13.

- Updated the FAQ in the OP with more info for reporting bugs.

- Removed a circular reference from v1.14. RPG Maker MV is just not compatible with those...

You can now show your vehicles (that you are not currently driving, the one you drive was already supported) on the minimap and in the minimap menu with custom-sizes. You can also use plugin commands to hide the boat for example and only show the airship. Some support for custom vehicles was also added.

Sorry for the delays and such. I'm wasting too much life playing XCOM2 and Path of Exile...
orges

#58 Feb 25, 2016, 08:36 PM Source

im trying to get your last plugin update the Mini map v1.14a but i cant find the link to it also the "how to use it" but i think this last thing i will fin in the lugin help
SilverDash

#59 Feb 25, 2016, 09:30 PM Source

Download link is in the first post and it's working. The "how to use" is located in the plugin help yes.
orges

#60 Feb 25, 2016, 09:32 PM Source

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