Custom MiniMap?

ok another noob question, and im sorry if this was already somewhere within easy reach on the site, but i looked for a whil and couldnt get any info.

i would like to know how to make the minimap for your map [like when ur in a chat room and theres a pick of the map] a different picture or something unique. thank u for ur time.

Search for this, you would have found it, but I'll answer anyway. I'm not too hard on you, the search thing is overrated, it's cluttered and hard to sort through data.

You have to import a war3minimappreiview.tga or something, the exact path escapes me, but just draw something, save it as a tga, import it in the import manager, and use the custom path. I'll brb to see if I can find the path.

Edit: Ok the path is
War3MapPreview.tga

You might be able to use a blp file, but I'm not sure. Try with both. If you used a blp file, the path would be;
War3MapPreview.blp

Use .blp for everything. It's smaller and it's better.

Warcraft 3 Map Utilities

ok wait - if i have the pic completed and saved as .tga/.blp where do i apply it to the map at once ive imported it? like, does it work automatically or is there a place where i select the custom one? [like how u edit the loading screen under scenario]

And you didn't test this before asking, why?

No, you just import it and it works.

Regards
Dead-Inside

i must have messed up then b/c i DID test it and it DID NOT work, but im gonna keep trying

use the Monolith as an example, it WILL tell you EXACTLY what to do in its triggers because it was made by Blizzard, and i have a question of my own,
Lets say your playing a game, and you look at the minimap for your location and crud, how do you "change" the minimap, like in Pyramid Escape?

alright im angry now roar! i think i have it working or something's happening (by working i mean its using it as the minimap p.) but now when i go into custom game and click on the title of the map (which would mean it now had to show the custom minimap) it crashes! it minimizes, says there was a critical or fatal error or something and then thats it, i press ok and nothing happens except warcraft closes.

im very sorry to be such a burdden on you people but once you teach me how to do this i can teach other people and eventually you wont be annoyed. think of it that way i guess. plz respond and help me argh!

thats happened to me lots of times, its DEFINANTLY NOT the .tga or .blp or whatever, its your game, did you change some collision values? or maybe did something and was fatal because wc3 couldnt "reconize" it, i did one where it had no collision value but somehow i did it so that it also had collision value,(trust me, there is no way that can happen in the game) and it did the fatal error. 5 games, 30-50% done, that i had to delete cuz i couldnt find the problem till my zergling blood game.

i have changed one on the world tree doodad cuz i made it smaller. but ive tested that and it worked. i saved the game tested it, and everything worked. then i changed ONLY the 2 custom screens and now it crashes. i have a really big feeling thats why becuz it only crashes when one of those 2 would need to be shown.

but u may be right so imma check anyway.

nm about that it wasnt collision that i changed, it was pathing. i fixed that but IT STILL DOES NOT WORK! ARGH! plz continue with ur comments they really motivate me to keep trying at this.