How do you put custom pictures in the mini map place on maps? [Solved]

like what FMHV has

Have you ever seen the games, like the tower defense games, were when a unit crosses over the line and SPLATT! appears on the screen? You just extract that, edit it, and put it back in under the same name, but first make sure that you do the triggers and finish the map. That should work.

i dont think you understood me
u know how when ur in a FMHV b.net game and the mini map preview has FMHV and a few buidlings and a dreadlord (probly a screen shot from the game)

i want to know how to do that

After you're done editing the map, open it with WinMPQ or any other type of MPQ Viewer. The file called War3mapMap.blp is the Minimap Image, replace that with the image you want.

As of how to do it, you probably need something that can convert jpq/gif to tga then to blp for it to work. This last part is just a guess, but it looks to be the way to do it.

u need dbnjack's (i dont know his name) image converter, get it in the downloads section

on sweet mother god, dont do that, otherwise your minimap ingame is screwed like hell!! :ggani:

just add war3mappreview.tga in your map, size 256X256. Dont have to be in blp format, tga is good. i recommend extracting a war3mapmap.blp , convert it to tga, and then paste the image you want on it, save. then import.

easy

or if you are lay, just open fmvh map with winmpq, extract the war3mappreview.tga and the n edit.

thanks cookie

:P It worked, but when I enter into the game. The game froze. Can I fix my map somehow for it not to freeze?

In version 1.5ish, i did that, (Doh!) lol, it was horrible. The image was stuck over the minimap, and since the minimap is like your vamp radar, navigation was terrible :P

just thought id share that heh :P

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