FA maps with minimap enabled?

I am looking for custom maps for Forged Alliance that has a working minimap.

Oh, and yes, I am aware that many seem to not use the minimap at all, however for me it is essential, I do my building/fighting zoomed in a bit so I can enjoy the gfx, but still want to be be able to keep an eye out for attacks on my expansion bases.



I've now downloaded dozens of maps that look great, I get all excited to play a new map, fire it up only to find yet another black minimap and not being able to play it.



Someone have a list of nice maps that have minimap enabled, or is there a way for me to manually edit the maps that don't have one to include it?|||Every map has a minimap, as the minimap is rendered the same way as your main view, it just has cartographic enabled by default in FA.

The reason some maps don't seem to have minimaps in the vault is because people upload them wrong.



GreetZ ThaPear



EDIT: Sorry, read your post too fast, i've never had the black minimap issue..? Could you name an example map?|||Dragon Fly|||OK, thanks!

So we have a homemade (HazardX) editor which DO support minimaps, but lacks a lot of other features, and the official which does not, but has more features and is the one prefered by people.

I am guessing that the obvious solution (make map in official, load in HazardX to get minimap, save) does not work?

Perhaps it would be possible to make a custom tool that solves this by loading a map made with the official editor essentially treating all chunks as unknown binary blobs, autogenerates the minimap (anyone know how it is built up, is it bitmap image for example?) then saves the entire thing again with all chunks intact and minimap inserted.

This however only works if the .scmap ineed IS built around a standalone chunk format that allows modifications like these. Trying to reverse engineer the entire format sounds like it would be way too much work.

Is there anyone who knows the fileformat well enough to provide the details? if the format is simple enough I could probably write the util myself.|||Sdw