In Game Minimaps

I plan to use camera bounds almost 100% of the time for my map, and I don't want the minimap showing up. Is there a way to cover the minimap with a picture (the in game one, not the loading screen one) so it doesn't matter? All I know how to do is the loading screen one and I can't find anything that deals with the in game minimap.

Also whenever I try to use the DISBTN of icons (I converted the original that works to tga with yobgul's converter, then inverted/disbtned it with w3m Map Utilities and finally imported it with w3u Enhancer), it showed up as seethrough (by seethrough I mean its black on the selection screen and when the hero dies you can see through to the terrain where the icon is supposed to be) icon and thats it (no it isn't green so im assuming it is supposed to be working). Does anybody know why? if it matters the DISBTN is used for Hero Icons, and im assuming it is messing up with the w3m map utilities since its outdated (the wierd thing is that it previews fine with all other programs).

yes, the problem is when w3m map utilities saves the icon as a .tga/.blp it saves a black alpha channel meaning it is completely opaque. take a look at the skinning forum or do a search on alpha channels to figure out how to fix it. lol i JUST fixed this problem in my map like 5 minutes ago.

Twistar is right, if its a TGA it can be fixed simply by flattening the image in photoshop. Warcraft 3 viewer will automatically put in the correct alpha channel if you convert the tga to blp, you can find it in the files.

Also for the minimap you can go to scenario -> map options and check the 'hide minimap in preview'.

In the WEU Enhancer there is an option to import the in-game minimap. But I have never tried it out.

Alright got both problems fixed, thanks for the help (Also didn't use wc3viwer in the end, I used PSP to load a new mask and save it to an alpha channel and it worked find.) Reputation points all around!