Chinchilla Minimap - WoW AddOns

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

Appearance: Allows changing of blip size (useful since 3.1), border style, shape of the map (doesn't have to be circular, or even square, lots of options are available), size, etc.
Auto zoom: Zoom out the map automatically after 20 seconds (or so).
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 colorblindness.
Wheel zoom: Mousewheel to zoom the minimap

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- #54
BambisFaline Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:28:23
Good add-on. Far less buggy than SexyMap.
- #53
ethancentaurai Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:33:43
@sdgoe: Right-click on the minimap or type '/chin'.
@khariv: I'd ask the DXE guys, as they provide their own boss frames.
@creepy_inc: Seems fine for me. :/

Last edited on 23 Jan 2010 by ethancentaurai: Whoops
- #52
sdgoe Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:26:55
sorry to be such a novice, but how do i access a configuration menu for chinchilla? is there a slash command or something? NOTE: first time i installed, /chin didn't work nor did right clicking. i also couldn't see it in Options ~~Interface~~ AddOns. But i deleted it, redownloaded and installed again and all is well. thanks!

Last edited on 23 Jan 2010 by sdgoe
- #51
khariv Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:18:18
Is there any way to hide the boss frame completely? I use DXE, so the extra gunship frames don't do anything for me.

Thanks.
- #50
creepy_inc Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:26:22
I don't seem to be able to get the calendar to show on the minimap, any idea what could fix it?
- #49
ethancentaurai Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:22:02
Chinchilla can move the boss frames... kinda. There is a bug where the boss frames revert to their previous position. I'll hopefully fix this sometime after Christmas.
- #48
Whist34 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:36:58
I'm looking for something that can move the Gunship boss frames.

I'm hoping Chinchilla will be updated so that it and other boss frames can be moved. They appear right below the minimap.

If anyone knows of another mod that can move them please let me know.

Thanks
- #47
Azzurus Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:23:51
Hey, first off - love this mod, it's been my Minimap of choice for a long time now! Very recently though, since v2.1 I think, I've been having a serious problem with it. Chinchilla simply will not save my settings. I configure the minimap how I like, moving buttons and the quest tracker, changing it's shape, and everything else.. Then I log out, and log back in, and my minimap is reset to the upper right corner with all the default starting settings.

It doesn't matter if I make a new profile, or try to copy from one I already have; everything is back to it's defaults: shape, buttons, positions, everything! It's quite a frustrating thing to re-configure the minimap every time I log onto a character.

Anyway, I was hoping (praying!) that there was some kind of fix for this out there, or if this has been a common issue since v2.1?

Thanks again for this awesome addon!

Last edited on 21 Dec 2009 by Azzurus
- #46
Skizelli Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:10:32
Oh, I see. I must be blind, haha. Thank you, sir.
- #45
ethancentaurai Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:28:33
I haven't removed the option, I moved it to the MoveButtons module. Having it in the Position module caused display issues. Honest!
:)