Journeyman's Minimap - Code Plugin for Minimaps and Fog of

[Zhi_Kang_Shao]

Hey Yun!

@Yun-Kun;740897

Yo there

I feel like a complete beginner. Everything is solved now.

The problem was:

• the component “Area Map View” was offset by 1500 / 200 in the MapBackground actor
• I must have moved it by mistake while I was selecting it for discovery reasons (I click everywhere like a madman :x)

It’s really silly and I feel a bit sorry for the screenshot spam these past two days when it was so simple! But! To make it sure nobody makes the mistake again, I suggest you to set the relative position of the “Area Map View” component to 0;0;0 in the Construction Script.

No problem, I have experience myself with issues that turn out to be that something was moved accidentally. That is a good suggestion, I will set that AreaMapView to (0, 0, 0) in the C++ BeginPlay, as there is no benefit to moving it off center. I won’t make an update purely for this but it will be part of the next one.

@Yun-Kun;740897

Actually I have another question [MENTION=23394][/MENTION]!

I rotated the Widget Minimap by -45 Angle (in Widget, tried both the minimap widget directly and a box containing it). Here are the results (the red Arrow is the character):

You can see the Character Icon is offset by an amount on the minimap but everything else works fine!

Here is the widget setup:

Hmm, if changing the render angle of a parent widget doesn’t affect the children correctly, I think that is an issue with UMG. I had noticed another issue when rotating things in UMG: any canvas clipping is applied before the render rotation so when I rotated an icon that is near the edge of the minimap, sometimes half the icon wasn’t visible (because that part would fall outside the minimap canvas if the icon wasn’t rotated). This is why for this plugin I made a material based workaround. Bottom line, UMG render transform has some known issues. I believe they are going to be fixed as part of UE4.17, because there was a recent Epic blog post about that.

Something you can try instead of using the render transform:

1. Make a duplicate of the BorderedMinimap widget asset and in that, rotate only the border image (not the internal Minimap widget) by -45 degrees. (Edit: I suggest not modifying the existing one because those changes can be lost when you download an update)
2. At the character’s BeginPlay set his MapView to the right world rotation (so that the minimap’s North marker aligns with what you want to be north).
3. Make sure the MapView doesn’t inherit yaw by unchecking the built-in setting, but you’ve probably found that already.

Hope this helps!