Chinchilla Minimap

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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

Go to http://www.wowace.com/projects/chinchilla/localization/ to help with localizing Chinchilla Minimap in your own language.

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  • Avatar of Kupotek Kupotek Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:02:45

    Having a problem. I set it to square but it stays circular. Having to have advanced tracking enabled really sucks, since every timer you scroll over it the huge window appears, and who the hell wants to see that all the time?

    Ugh, I thought I had found the perfect minimap but it looks like it's back to the drawing board.

  • Avatar of xtoq xtoq Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:45:03

    You might try this, the SUI forums suggested it for SexyMap and SUI, but I've used it on other setups.

    Make a macro, and put this in it:

    /script WatchFrame:SetHeight(400)
    /script WatchFrame:SetWidth(300)
    /script WatchFrame_ClearDisplay()
    /script WatchFrame_Update(WatchFrame)
    /s banana
    

    (The /s is because it doesn't work for me without it. You can try it both ways.) Then you should be able to disable or enable the tracker. Hope this helps!

  • Avatar of toxidlotus toxidlotus Tue, 26 May 2009 20:17:19

    So after more messing around I finally got it to work. I had to disable the position feature on chinchilla then check the advanced objectives tracking, then move it and resize it, then re-enable positioning in chinchilla. I have to keep the objectives tracking enabled though. So I just locked it.

  • Avatar of toxidlotus toxidlotus Tue, 26 May 2009 20:06:48

    Hmm. I keep having issues with my achievement tracking. I've tried the tricks listed below but still keep getting the error about not being able to track anymore achievements. I found that when I disable the position feature my achievement tracker pops up with the achievements I tried to track. However I obviously can't move my minimap. :/ When I enable it it makes my achievement tracker disappear again. When I try to use moveanything! to move the avhievement tracker it says it can't find the frame. Any ideas? Is there something I have missed?

  • Avatar of xerawx xerawx Thu, 07 May 2009 18:52:03

    Rebuilt my UI the other day and ran into the quest tracker bug, and came across Eilenda's suggestion which didn't quite work for me but after some mucking around I found a similar method which did. Logged in with no addons loaded, disabled advanced objectives tracking, shift-clicked a quest in the log and the frame appeared in the default spot. Re-enabled advanced tracking, relogged with all addons loaded and it seems to be working fine now. Strange bug, definitely related to the advanced objectives tracking somehow though.

  • Avatar of eilenda eilenda Wed, 06 May 2009 07:49:35

    For those whith a tracker problem try this : its working fine for me. Press escape to bring up the system menu, select "Interface" then "Objectives" and turn advanced objectives tracking off entirely it will give you a popup to warn you all current settings will be lost... click okay... then turn advanced objectives tracking back on and make sure the "disable mouseover' is unchecked and close everything out. If mouseover is *disabled* then nothing will pop up.... you need to uncheck the "disable mouseover" option before you'll be able to see the objectives window when you do mouse over it.

    Once you have done that, you should see the window when you place your mouse in the upper left area of the screen (not in the corner, but the general area. Once you "see" the window. right click the title and select "unlock window" so you can resize it. Give it the size you want, then go back to interface/objectives and check on the disable mouse over function : you will not see the tracker anymore but this time you can track correctly without getting "You don't have space to track any more objectives, stop tracking some first"

  • Avatar of ethancentaurai ethancentaurai Wed, 06 May 2009 07:45:17

    Brinna, you say you have no control... as in you can't move it or resize it?

    In the Objectives menu of Blizzard's in-game options make sure that "Disable Mouseover" is unchecked. After doing that, right-click on the watch frames title bar (the grey bit with "Objectives" written in it) and click on "Unlock Window" if it's there.

    Then you will be able to move and resize the watch frame.

  • Avatar of Trixie1971 Trixie1971 Wed, 06 May 2009 01:38:43

    I am experiencing the same problem as Brinna. Please fix this - I love this addon and don't want to have to switch to another minimap addon.

    Thanks (I am also using v2.0.4)

    EDIT - I just downloaded Mappy from Curse to try that to see if I can track Achievements with it, and I get the same error - You cannot track any more achievements, so it appears to be an issue with the transfer from the Blizzard Minimap and the minimap addons

  • Avatar of Brinna Brinna Wed, 06 May 2009 00:04:12

    Advanced Objective options are enabled yet I have no control over quest/achievement tracking. I have no tracking frame and "You don't have space to track any more objectives, stop tracking some first" even though I am not tracking anything. I get no error reports when it comes to achievement or quest tracking but I still cannot see any quest/achievement tracker. Currently using v2.0.4.

  • Avatar of dr dr Sat, 02 May 2009 18:15:44

    Thanks for the respond. I ID the problem as a conflict during the update, a delete and fresh install with the new changes fixed all.

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Date created
10 Jul 2008
Category
Last update
18 May 2009
Development stage
Release
Language
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License
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