Get an Epic Experience with Premium

Chinchilla Minimap

Map & Minimap Login to Add Favorites
  • 35 Likes
  • World of Warcraft
  • 9,616 Monthly Downloads
  • Supports: 5.2.0
  • 1,324,940 Total Downloads
  • Updated 03/23/2013
  • Created 07/10/2008
  • 2,412 Favorites
  • Project Site
  • Comments
  • Release Type: Release
  • License: All Rights Reserved
  • Newest File: v2.5.14
or
Support development! **
Donate

About Chinchilla Minimap

Chinchilla Minimap alters the Blizzard Minimap in a way to provide much nicer features and other niceties.

Appearance
Allows changing of blip size, border style, shape of the map (doesn't have to be circular, or even square, lots of options are available), size, etc.
Compass
A more flexible north-east-south-west indicator.
Coordinates
Show your location coordinates.
Expander
Make the minimap very big temporarily (good for gathering or finding a tough-to-spot enemy).
Location
Show the name of your location more flexibly.
Move Buttons
Move the buttons around the minimap to wherever you want (even off the minimap entirely).
Ping
Show which team-mate pinged the minimap.
Position
Position the minimap and frames around it.
Range Circle
Show on the minimap where your range extends to.
Show / Hide
Show or hide various frames related to the minimap.
Tracking Dots
Change the dots on the map to a different set of images. Very handy, especially if you suffer from colour-blindness
Zoom
Use the mouse-wheel to zoom the minimap and zoom out the map automatically after 20 seconds (or so).

Click here or leave a comment to submit a bug report or request a new feature.

Click here to help with translating Chinchilla Minimap into your own language.

tag v2.5.14
8ef20ad2525fcac680a619cb827dd70eca00cc95
Ethan Centaurai <stevenblanchard86@gmail.com>
2013-03-23 09:44:08 +0000

Tagging as v2.5.14

--------------------

Ethan Centaurai:
    - Revert "Remove some unneeded code."
    This reverts commit 5e562b40315af00c67d6175d443de68a77615832.

Comments

First Previous Page 2 of 65 Next Last
  • #1198

    hey just thought I'd send a clearer image showing the size change for me with this addon, the dungeon finder tooltip is a lot bigger since the latest updates. http://i.imgur.com/WYSFDXk.jpg

    maybe the issue is it scaling with the minimap, prior to the latest versions the dungeon finder tooltip was the same size whether chinchilla was on or off. I play on a 50inch lcd from about 3 or so metres away and it looks really out of proportion for a tooltip. It's not a huge issue though and hope you enjoy your holiday :) just something to look into maybe an option to not scale the tooltip at some stage.

  • #1201

    The tooltip scaling with the minimap would make most sense though it confuses me why that would happen. All I did was change the point where it "anchors" to the minimap button. :-\

    I'll poke it again after my holiday but I can't promise anything yet.

  • #1204

    no rush :) the addon is still awesome

  • #1196

    Run into an odd problem recently... Not sure which is causing it. I use Handynotes, NPCScan overlay, Tomtom and Routes, and Chinchilla to embiggen my minimap and make it square... lately, (previous to this last update, so this didn't cause it) the map icons, lines and overlays have been flashing and moving oddly when I'm inside an area (indoors or a cave, anywhere it has a smaller map). I kind of suspect it has something to do with the main map itself, (not chinchilla), as Tomtom doesn't put anything on the map unless a waypoint's been set up, and I didn't have any, and the coordinates were flashing from numbers to a line of dashes (like in a dungeon) and back. Any idea what this might be?

    Last edited by Azaram on 3/25/2013 10:11:49 PM
  • #1202

    I've noticed this a few times with SilverDragon and HandyNotes icons when I enter the Shrine of Two Moons but I don't know if it's Chinchilla's fault or not. :-\

    Chinchilla only changes various artworks and moves/resizes various UI elements on the screen so I have a feeling the problem would still happen without Chinchilla.

    I'm tempted to blame a bug in Blizzard's code, LibMapData or LibAstrolabe as zones behave differently in Pandaria. Or perhaps it has something to do with minimap scaling? I honestly don't know and haven't tested this extensively enough.

  • #1205

    Yeah, I'm kind of suspecting something funky in Blizzard's code too. Someone on the project site for LibMapData says that some parts of Pandaria seem to have their distances multiplied by 10, and some divided by it. Not blaming Chinchilla for it. :) Just happened to be here when I thought of the problem, and you respond quickly...

    There's an alpha of LibMapData that's newer than the release I had installed, so I nabbed that. I don't have LibAstrolabe. (Installs and tests) Hm. The icons were still flashing (it seems to think I'm out of the cave for an instant, then back in) but they were staying in the right place instead of sliding around, as was the one NPCScan Overlay mark i could see while in that particular cave. So I think you're right, it is Blizzard's stuff giving flaky info to mods.

     

  • #1193

    Also, since 2.5.13 or 2.5.14, the LFG minimap button doesn't have the option of being shown when you hover over the minimap, it's either always shown (gold tick) or never shown (empty box), there is no silver tick option.

  • #1194

    I have removed it for now as it caused problems elsewhere with other buttons and the tracking menu.

  • #1191

    cheers for the great updates, the only issue I have no is the tooltip when LFG random dungeons or scenarios is really big and was behind everything strata wise, fixed this by making the miniap a different strata but this issue didnt exist before the recent updates and still wondering why the tooltip is scaling so large.

    image of dungeon finder tooltip size increase http://i.imgur.com/SX2aQFD.jpg

    update: also the strata for ping messages that say who pinged the map are now on a different strata for me and are behind the minimap :( I can fix this by putting the minimap on a lower strata but then things like the tooltip for dungeon finder strata is an issue again.

    Last edited by stereoxstasy on 3/24/2013 9:23:05 AM
  • #1195

    The tooltip is set to the "TOOLTIP" strata (funny that!) so setting the Minimap's strata to Background, Low, Medium or High should fix the tooltip getting hidden.

    The tooltip size looks perfectly fine to me. It isn't "bigger" as such, it's just in a differerent position now.

    I'll look into the Ping frame later. I won't be able to push out any immediate updates for a few days as me and my girlfriend are going on holiday over Easter.

    Last edited by ethancentaurai on 3/25/2013 12:36:34 PM
  • #1192

    Same issue here with the lfd tooltip behind everything. really annoying

  • #1188

    Thanks so much for the fix, truely your a god amoung men! Now if I can just find a fix to clcdk.

  • #1187

    v2.5.14 should fix the positioning problems a lot of you were experiencing.

    Sorry about that!

  • #1186

    http://www.wowace.com/addons/chinchilla/files/768-v2-5-13-1-gf280ff6/   version works fine.

  • #1185

    Same here after the update, my position is defaulted to the upper left hand corner. I can't get it to stay where I want. :(

  • To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Login to Curse

Don't have an account? Create One.

Get an epic experience with Curse Premium
  • Faster addon downloads
  • Premium-Only Beta Giveaways
  • Ad-Free Curse experience
  • Premium Curse Client
  • and many More Features
  • Learn More »

Infinite Crisis NA

Get Your Preferred Access Code!