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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SMO_Valadorn

#121 Apr 13, 2020, 11:18 PM Source

Hi, I downloaded the minimap plugin version 1.31 and the core plugin today, I think you forgot to define the SE.Params object:
SE.Params = SE.Params || {};
I added it on the line 1078 and appears to be working now.

SilverDash

#123 Apr 25, 2020, 03:41 PM Source

@GethN7 your feature is implemented (compatible with Yanfly's menu).

New updates
Updates v1.30, v1.31 & v1.40:

Code:
* v1.40 (25 April 2020) * - Added a new plugin command: toggle_visibility * - Added a new methods for main menu managers: * - SE.Minimap.Window.toggle() * - SE.Minimap.GetMenuToggleText() * - SE.Minimap.mainMenuToggleBind() * - Added Saving & loading for: * - PlayerBlip graphic * - Minimap visibility * - Map style * - Vehicle visibilities * - Camera follow target * - Bugfix: Non-generated maps now work for deployed projects. * * v1.31 (11 April 2020) * - Fixed a crash when switching maps. * * v1.30 (05 April 2020) [Updated Parameters] * - No longer requires the dependency "SE_Keys.js" but now instead requires "SE_Core.js". * - Added coding standards. * - Added a new Parameter: Suppress Warnings, defaults to false. * - The minimap menu respects the fog of war. * - Events, POI's, etc. are now drawn underneath the fog of war instead of above it. * - Refactor: To comply with the new coding standards as well as for the new JS ECMA that is now supported in RMMV. * - Refactor: Added a SE_Reporter class, which is now being used. * - Bugfix: Fixed an if-statement-assignment bug in the first line of resetFoWCompletion(). * - Bugfix: The fog of war is now cleared around the player when transferring to or within a map. * - Note: Changing the opacity of the minimap doesn't change the opacity of the fog of war. This is known and won't be changed because RPG Maker MV has some blitting limitations, it would cost too much maintenance/performance.

SMO_Valadorn said:

Hi, I downloaded the minimap plugin version 1.31 and the core plugin today, I think you forgot to define the SE.Params object:
SE.Params = SE.Params || {};
I added it on the line 1078 and appears to be working now.

You probably forgot to add my Core script, activate it and put it above the minimap plugin. You should be getting a huge error in your console stating this. On line 40 my core script defines:

JavaScript:

SE.Params = SE.Params || {};

But please update to version 1.40 :)

BrandyMoon

#124 Apr 26, 2020, 11:50 PM Source

Question, would this work with a sort of screen fog of war/black-maps that aren't available to player yet until they step on those tiles, unveiling more of the map over time?
SilverDash

#125 Apr 27, 2020, 08:06 AM Source

@BrandyMoon
I don't understand the question. In the OP in the big screenshot, it shows exactly this. Also, this is literally "Fog of War". So yes it will work assuming your FoW-maps aren't too big.
SMO_Valadorn

#126 Apr 28, 2020, 07:20 PM Source
SilverDash said:
@GethN7 your feature is implemented (compatible with Yanfly's menu).

New updates
Updates v1.30, v1.31 & v1.40:

You probably forgot to add my Core script, activate it and put it above the minimap plugin. You should be getting a huge error in your console stating this. On line 40 my core script defines:

JavaScript:
SE.Params = SE.Params || {};
But please update to version 1.40 :)
Actually, idk how but I downloaded the Core version 1.00, I'm sure I didn't click on "Older Versions"... sorry about that xD
That's why that object was missing here, I see you added it on 1.01, it works with the latest version.

That's an amazing plugin!
GethN7

#127 Apr 29, 2020, 02:25 AM Source
SilverDash said:
@GethN7 your feature is implemented (compatible with Yanfly's menu).

New updates
Updates v1.30, v1.31 & v1.40:

You probably forgot to add my Core script, activate it and put it above the minimap plugin. You should be getting a huge error in your console stating this. On line 40 my core script defines:

JavaScript:
SE.Params = SE.Params || {};
But please update to version 1.40 :)
VERY MUCH OBLIGED! Thanks for going the extra mile on this issue.
Anthony Xue

#128 May 2, 2020, 02:03 PM Source

Randomly thanks (and then realized I'd probably better Like the first entry). I'm going for a game with the FPLE plugin like some of the other posters, where an automap contributes extremely to the player's comfort, so I can confirm it works. Great stuff!

Just two notes: First, I can't seem to turn the player's representation from that questionable chibi figurine to a stylish dot. I've tried the following settings for Player Blip Graphic:
PlayerBlip
PlayerBlip.png
playerblip.png
"PlayerBlip"
"PlayerBlip.png"

...and none of them have any effect. Pretty weird.

Further, it seems that when the minimap starts disabled (Visible By Default = false), I can't seem to get it activated as a minimap again. Calling it via the menu option (with YanFly's Menu Manager) still works, it just won't appear in a screen corner.

If anyone has a solution for the first problem, I'd be quite grateful. I can live without the map showing up in a random corner. Thanks once again!
hsumi

#129 May 2, 2020, 03:32 PM Source

Anthony Xue said:
Randomly thanks (and then realized I'd probably better Like the first entry). I'm going for a game with the FPLE plugin like some of the other posters, where an automap contributes extremely to the player's comfort, so I can confirm it works. Great stuff!

Just two notes: First, I can't seem to turn the player's representation from that questionable chibi figurine to a stylish dot. I've tried the following settings for Player Blip Graphic:
PlayerBlip
PlayerBlip.png
playerblip.png
"PlayerBlip"
"PlayerBlip.png"

...and none of them have any effect. Pretty weird.

Further, it seems that when the minimap starts disabled (Visible By Default = false), I can't seem to get it activated as a minimap again. Calling it via the menu option (with YanFly's Menu Manager) still works, it just won't appear in a screen corner.

If anyone has a solution for the first problem, I'd be quite grateful. I can live without the map showing up in a random corner. Thanks once again!

Hopefully I can help a little here. I use MV3D instead of FPLE, but the solution should be the same.

A workaround if you can't figure out how to change the player icon to the default red dot is to change the sprite of the player character, since you won't be able to see them in first-person anyway. I made a custom arrow sprite sheet that works to also show the direction the player is facing and personally think this looks much better than the red dot anyway.
Anthony Xue

#130 May 2, 2020, 03:54 PM Source

Good point! Actually I'm also with MV3D, was just mixing names up. I'm going to try that. Thanks!
hsumi

#131 May 2, 2020, 04:01 PM Source

Anthony Xue said:
Good point! Actually I'm also with MV3D, was just mixing names up. I'm going to try that. Thanks!
I also suggest using this patch plugin if you're using the most recent version of MV3D, since it fixes a facing issue.
Anthony Xue

#132 May 2, 2020, 04:16 PM Source

Thanks again. Incidentally, does the "Global Map Zoom" setting of the minimap plugin work for you?
hsumi

#133 May 2, 2020, 04:24 PM Source

Yes. If it doesn't work for you, make sure you have the map style set to "scroll".
Anthony Xue

#134 May 3, 2020, 06:46 AM Source

Well, it is set to "Scroll", as it says in the comment, but it doesn't change anything... I still have very small map tiles and a very big arrow pointing through them. I'm fine with the big arrow, but I'd like the map to be displayed a little larger (2x zoom would be fine).
hsumi

#135 May 3, 2020, 01:02 PM Source

In that case, try setting the global map zoom to 0.5.
Anthony Xue

#136 May 4, 2020, 09:42 AM Source

hsumi said:
In that case, try setting the global map zoom to 0.5.

That was indeed the first thing I tried. Actually, I tried numerous values from 0.1 to 2.0, and nothing changed.
hsumi

#137 May 4, 2020, 10:06 AM Source

That's strange.

You mentioned that you couldn't get it to appear in the corner if you had it disabled by default, and could only view it by calling the map. Does map zoom also not work for you when you have it enabled and functioning as a minimap rather than just called via the menu?
If this is the case, then you need to adjust the "menu zoom" values rather than the "global map zoom" values.
hsumi

#138 May 4, 2020, 10:58 AM Source

Oh, I have a question of my own actually, now that FoW works on the menu map.
When calling the map, is it possible to disable shown events as Points of Interest? I have certain events set to be visible on the map that I don't necessarily want to appear as PoI on the menu map, such as shortcuts that only appear after you discover them (by toggling from an event page with no sprite to one that has a "shortcut" sprite as shown below).

I don't want this to appear in the map menu at all, as this gives it away before the player can find it. If that's not possible, then is it possible to disable the map menu altogether so that calling the map just pulls up the large map without a list of PoI? I tried setting the left window width to "0", but hitting the up and down keys still cycles between PoI on the map even if the menu itself is invisible.
Anthony Xue

#139 May 5, 2020, 11:02 AM Source

hsumi said:
If this is the case, then you need to adjust the "menu zoom" values rather than the "global map zoom" values.

Thanks! That did it.

hsumi said:
Oh, I have a question of my own actually, now that FoW works on the menu map.
When calling the map, is it possible to disable shown events as Points of Interest? I have certain events set to be visible on the map that I don't necessarily want to appear as PoI on the menu map, such as shortcuts that only appear after you discover them (by toggling from an event page with no sprite to one that has a "shortcut" sprite as shown below).

Hmm. If nothing else works, you could go the "brute force" way and manipulate the image on which the minimap is based. I will certainly do so with my minimaps for just this reason.
SilverDash

#140 May 11, 2020, 05:53 PM Source

I'm sorry, I'm busy with other stuff (gotta get some income) so I don't really have time to look into certain questions or fix/add features for my plugins.

@hsumi
Off the top of my head, I don't know if it's possible (aside from some 'brute force hacks') to hide it without scripting an additional option for this but I guess it's not possible.
hsumi

#141 May 24, 2020, 06:30 PM Source

Then is it possible to disable POI altogether while still having certain events show on the map?
Really, all I'm wanting is to be able to show the full map when the Map button is pressed, with minimal interactivity.