Rpg Maker Developers Group

Minimap v. 0.91

Author: Silver

Features:

- Shows a minimap based on a mapshot or a custom image of the map

- 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

- 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 a bit

- Supports skipping frames for all maps or for specific maps to increase performance for supersized maps
- Supports map-notetags
- Optional: Maintain aspect ratio

- Optional: has leading zeros in minimap image names
- The minimap now properly fades out when the screen fades out
- Realtime events on the minimap. This is it's best feature. It can (among others) show moving events on the minimap as well!

- Has 2 map-modes: Autofit and Scroll
- Has some debugging options
- Suports manual scrolling. This can be enabled/disabled through a parameter and map-notetags
- There is a global-zoom parameter which can be overriden by each map through a map-notetag
- Supports a minimap overlay

- No known conflicts with other scripts

Planned Features:

- Enlarge minimap (by buttonpress or via menu) to go fullscreen and allow the player to scroll it.

- Custom minimap size per map using map notetags

- Adding POI's through icons with less plugin command arguments compared to regular POI's (but regular POI's support all graphics).

- Add optional option to teleport to poi's.

Known Bugs:

- Walking on grass causes the player blip to become invisible.

- Pressing the scroll buttons when not on the gamemap or just not having a minimap will cause a crash. Already fixed in the new version but it's not ready yet for release.
 

Screenshot(s):

http://s21.postimg.org/40vkofao7/mmsample2.png

http://s21.postimg.org/q1bx51tc7/mmsample3.png

http://postimg.org/image/lq5x8rys9/

http://s22.postimg.org/guuhx8wpt/minimap_oddsize.png

TLDR Instructions for experienced people:

Copy the attached files to:

/img/minimap/Overlay.png

/img/minimap/DebugGrid01.png

/img/system/Window_Minimap.png

Place mapshots in the /img/minimap/ directory and rename them 001.png, 002.png etc. (matching the id of your map)

Regular Instructions:

1. Make a mapshot of your map or paint your own map. I personally use: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/49711-orange-mapshot/ but this one probably works too: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/49684-mrp-mapexporter-export-your-full-size-maps-11-as-png-files/?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 in <project folder>/img/minimap/
    Example: D:\MyAwesomeGame\img\minimap\001.png

5. Place the Window_Minimap.png (see attachment) in your <project>/img/system/ folder. You can obviously also use your own.

6. Copy the Overlay.png to <project folder>/img/minimap/ (or just disable the overlay in the parameters).

- You also may want to set the last parameter (Debug Mode) to false to get rid of the console messages.

- For info on the plugin commands, doubleclick this plugin and press [Help...].

- To enable the debug grid you'll have to place the DebugGrid01.png in the <project folder>/img/minimap/ folder.

Script:

http://pastebin.com/sNYrQyB6

FAQ:

Q: My map sometimes automatically switches to Autofit-mode instead of Scroll-mode. Why?

A: When the map zoom is so small or when the minimap-area is simply so big that the entire map fits into the minimap anyway, then there is no reason to scroll at all because you can see the entire map w/o scrolling.

Q: The console is outputting debug messages? Help?

A: Set the parameter Debug Mode to false.

Q: Your screenshots do match the minimap entirely

A: Yeah that's my lazy fault. I often don't make new mapshots after changing the level and then I upload them here and they will mismatch. It will obviously not affectyour project at all.