[Solved] How to change character's minimap icon while in game?

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My character has is able to change appearance & I would like the minimap icons to update with his appearance as well, does anyone know how I can change character's minimap icon? I tried

inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon( "insane_mode.tex" )

in master_postinit but it seems that code only works when character is loaded into the world & it has to be in common_postinit I know this is possible since I think players minimap icons change into ghosts when they die I confused that with player avatars oops, so it'd really be great if someone smarter than me can help, thanks for your time have a great day/night !

Edited December 1, 2017 by SuperDavid

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can someone guide me in right direction all I can find in files related to minimap is this in mapscreen.lua

self.minimap:UpdateTexture()

and these in player_common.lua

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inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon(name..".png") -- can't be changed
inst.MiniMapEntity:SetPriority(10) -- no idea what this does
inst.MiniMapEntity:SetCanUseCache(false) -- no idea what this does
inst.MiniMapEntity:SetDrawOverFogOfWar(true) -- player can't see it when it's outside of their map range?

 

and minimap.lua doesn't seem to have anything about player icons?

 

Am I supposed to do something like this?

inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon( "insane_mode.tex" )
inst.components.minimap:UpdateTexture()

I can't try now but when I can it'll probably crash then I'll post ccrash here for more help lol, thanks for your time have good day/night.

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So I looked some more & in atrium_gate.lua it's able to change its minimap icons by

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local function OnKeyGiven(inst, giver)
    --Disable trading, enable picking.
    inst.components.trader:Disable()
    inst.components.pickable:SetUp("atrium_key", 1000000)
    inst.components.pickable:Pause()
    inst.components.pickable.caninteractwith = true

    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_active")
    inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

    TheWorld:PushEvent("atriumpowered", true)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("ms_locknightmarephase", "wild")
    TheWorld:PushEvent("pausequakes", { source = inst })
    TheWorld:PushEvent("pausehounded", { source = inst })

    if giver ~= nil then
        inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/common/together/atrium_gate/key_in")

--      if giver.components.talker ~= nil then
--          giver.components.talker:Say(GetString(giver, "ANNOUNCE_GATE_ON"))
--      end
    end
end

local function OnKeyTaken(inst)
    --Disable picking, enable trading.
    inst.components.trader:Enable()
    inst.components.pickable.caninteractwith = false
    inst:RemoveTag("intense")

    inst.SoundEmitter:KillSound("loop")

    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")
    inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate.png")
    HideFx(inst)

    TheWorld:PushEvent("atriumpowered", false)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("ms_locknightmarephase", nil)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("unpausequakes", { source = inst })
    TheWorld:PushEvent("unpausehounded", { source = inst })
end

 

how come when I try to change minimap icon with " inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("") " it doesn't work? Is there something I'm missing here?

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[TagumonYatsuray]

On 11/19/2017 at 7:51 PM, SuperDavid said:

So I looked some more & in atrium_gate.lua it's able to change its minimap icons by

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local function OnKeyGiven(inst, giver)
    --Disable trading, enable picking.
    inst.components.trader:Disable()
    inst.components.pickable:SetUp("atrium_key", 1000000)
    inst.components.pickable:Pause()
    inst.components.pickable.caninteractwith = true

    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_active")
    inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

    TheWorld:PushEvent("atriumpowered", true)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("ms_locknightmarephase", "wild")
    TheWorld:PushEvent("pausequakes", { source = inst })
    TheWorld:PushEvent("pausehounded", { source = inst })

    if giver ~= nil then
        inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/common/together/atrium_gate/key_in")

--      if giver.components.talker ~= nil then
--          giver.components.talker:Say(GetString(giver, "ANNOUNCE_GATE_ON"))
--      end
    end
end

local function OnKeyTaken(inst)
    --Disable picking, enable trading.
    inst.components.trader:Enable()
    inst.components.pickable.caninteractwith = false
    inst:RemoveTag("intense")

    inst.SoundEmitter:KillSound("loop")

    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")
    inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate.png")
    HideFx(inst)

    TheWorld:PushEvent("atriumpowered", false)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("ms_locknightmarephase", nil)
    TheWorld:PushEvent("unpausequakes", { source = inst })
    TheWorld:PushEvent("unpausehounded", { source = inst })
end

 

how come when I try to change minimap icon with " inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("") " it doesn't work? Is there something I'm missing here?

That's the altrium gate code right? do you have yours?

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My code is simply

local function common_postinit(inst)
	inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("normal_mode.tex")
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
	inst:DoTaskInTime(1, function(inst) 
		inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("insane_mode.tex")
	end)
end

even putting

ThePlayer.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

ThePlayer.components.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

into console doesn't work, I'm so confused what's wrong, I didn't think it'd be so darn hard to change a minimap texture ..

[TagumonYatsuray]

9 minutes ago, SuperDavid said:

My code is simply

local function common_postinit(inst)
	inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("normal_mode.tex")
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
	inst:DoTaskInTime(1, function(inst) 
		inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("insane_mode.tex")
	end)
end

even putting

ThePlayer.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

ThePlayer.components.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon("atrium_gate_active.png")

into console doesn't work, I'm so confused what's wrong, I didn't think it'd be so darn hard to change a minimap texture ..

I don't have a transforming character I can test this with, but have you tried putting

    Asset("MINIMAP_IMAGE", "insane_mode.tex"),

at the top? I noticed that

    Asset("MINIMAP_IMAGE", "atrium_gate_active"),

was at the top of the Altrium gate file. 

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@TagumonYatsuray Bruh, thank you thank you thank you thank you so much it finally works !!!!!!!

[TagumonYatsuray]

On 11/30/2017 at 11:10 PM, SuperDavid said:

@TagumonYatsuray Bruh, thank you thank you thank you thank you so much it finally works !!!!!!!

SERIOUSLY!? I WAS GUESSING.... I just wanted to help you out, since you helped me

For reference, do you have your end result code? I would like to try my hand at transforming characters

Edited December 4, 2017 by TagumonYatsuray