Replacing the Minimap

I looked, and I couldn't find a previous thread on this topic, and If I didn't look hard enough, then forgive me. I would like to know how to replace the minimap in the loading screen and before the loading screen. How can I change it from the minimap to a picture? Like they did for Footman wars, TOB, and so on and so forth. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. :D

1. The actual Loading Screen and the minimap prewiev when hosting a game are 2 different stories.
2. import in the worldeditor a .TGA picture. The following MUST be true or the game will crash as soon as you want to open the map:
- File name: war3mappreview.tga
- Pic size 128x128
- tga file can be 256 colors, but must have these alpha channels.
usually if you make a screenshot from the game or editor, and dont convert it but just cut to the size, it works.
3. after importing, just change the CUSTOM path and delete the "war3imported\" stuff. Oh and the pic must be in the wc3 game directory.

- EvilPitlord

this probaly has been asked before but no worries i ask repeat questions 50 times a day.
first, you need to import an image file. if you need help with that check the downloads section for the image cropper
what you do is go to scenario > map loading screen. check use custom screen and select the one u imported.

There's one problem with that though. It wants a model file, not an image. The only thing available from my impoted files is a model fiel I imported. Thanks for trying though.

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Wow, somehow I didn't see your post when I posted this Lord, sorry. Thanks.

On a similar kind of topic dose anyone know if its possable to remove or replace the minimap ingame for maze like levals?

If by replace, you mean to put in your own picture, than do what EvilPitLord said to do.

To remove it, you can always just have the "hide minimap" thing, but I think that can be overridden, so you might just want to put in a picture.

works for me fine!