Forever Minimap
A bigger, sharper minimap you can drag around and zoom far out, drawn from the game's own tiles. Waypoints, pings and map pins for your group, coordinates under the cursor and your addons' marks.
Screenshots
What it does
A bigger, sharper minimap that you can drag around and zoom far out. The game's minimap always stays on you, has six fixed zoom levels and ends at 150 yards. Forever Minimap draws the world from the game's own map tiles, so you can look at the next zone over without opening the big map, and one click brings you back.
- Sharp at any size. From 140 to 700 pixels, resized from the corners. The tiles are drawn at full resolution.
- Drag to look around. Hold the map and pull. The cross hair button or a right click brings it back to you.
- Zoom far out. The wheel goes past the game's last step, up to 6400 yards, which is most of a continent.
- Grow under the mouse. If you like a small map, a setting makes it grow to the left and down while the mouse is over it, by 10 to 100 %.
- Coordinates under the cursor. Point at any spot on the map to see its zone coordinates.
- Waypoints. Ctrl + click sets a waypoint at the spot: a TomTom waypoint when TomTom is loaded, otherwise the game's own. Ctrl + right click clears it, and it clears itself when you get there.
- Show your group a spot. Alt + click sends the spot to your party or raid as the game's map pin, with the zone and coordinates. A click on the link sets the pin for them. Out of a group, it goes into the chat line.
- Ping anywhere. A click pings the spot, also on the dragged or far zoomed map.
- Your group on the far map. Party and raid members show as dots in their class colours when you drag or zoom out.
- Your other addons come along. Questie, GatherLite and TomTom marks stay on the map, in the right place, with their tooltips, while you drag it or zoom far out.
- A tray for addon buttons. If you want, other addons' minimap buttons go into a tray behind one button at the map's corner. Leave it off if a taskbar addon already holds them.
- Three shapes and seven borders. Square, rounded corners or round; none, thin, thick, gold, silver, bronze or your class colour.
- What you need to know, under the map. Coordinates, heading in degrees, zone name and clock, each with a switch. Compass letters and a line showing where you face.
- Send your location. A Shift click on the strip puts
Bloodhoof Village, Mulgore 45.7, 64.8into the chat line, ready to send. - Out of your way. Separate opacity at rest, while moving, in a rest area and in combat. Opacity 0 in combat hides the map and lets clicks through. It can zoom back by itself after a time you choose.
- Lock it. A setting stops the mouse from moving or resizing it. Dragging still looks around.
- For collectors. With Forever Curios installed, the collectibles you miss show as pins on the map.
How to use it
| On the map | What it does |
|---|---|
| Drag | look around |
| Click | ping the spot |
| Ctrl + click | set a waypoint |
| Ctrl + right click | clear the waypoint |
| Alt + click | send the spot to your group |
| Cross hair button or right click | back to you |
| Mouse wheel | zoom |
| Corners | resize |
| Shift + drag | move the map |
| On the strip under the map | What it does |
|---|---|
| Drag | move the map |
| Right click | open the settings |
| Shift click | put your location into the chat line |
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/fmm |
open the settings |
/fmm center |
back to you |
/fmm shape square \| rounded \| round |
the map's shape |
/fmm size <px> |
the map's size |
/fmm reset |
reset size and place |
/fmm debug |
print what the map is doing, for bug reports |
Good to know
- Made for the Forever client (Interface 16001).
- The own tiles cover Azeroth and Kalimdor. In instances, inside buildings and on other maps, you get the game's own minimap at its own zoom.
- While you drag or zoom past the game's last step, the map shows the tiles, your arrow, your group and the marks of the addons named above. The game's own blips come back when you return to you.
- Marks of other addons work through HereBeDragons, so an addon that draws its pins another way may not show them on the far zoom.
- Old TomTom waypoints belong to TomTom:
/way reset allclears them all. - Settings are saved per account. A new addon needs a full client restart, not only
/reload.
Changelog
0.1.24 current
Features
- With Forever Gather on, its herb and ore nodes show on the map in every mode, also dragged or zoomed far out.
Changes
- The map costs far less of your frame time. Tiles, pins, herb and ore nodes, marks of other addons, the route, flight points and the coordinates under the cursor are laid out again only when you move, turn, zoom or drag the map, and four times a second otherwise; group dots ten times a second. The look stays the same.
/fmm perfmeasures for ten seconds and prints how many milliseconds each part takes per frame.
0.1.22
Features
- Flight points (yours and neutral, discovered or not) and dungeon entrances on the dragged or far zoomed map, with a tooltip of name and distance. The mouse wheel glides smoothly between far zoom steps (can be turned off). A group dot's tooltip also shows level, class and whether they are dead or offline.
Bug fixes
- The coordinates under the cursor name the zone again, not the continent. On a round or rounded map, the Shortest Path route no longer draws past the map's edge. After the map grows under the mouse and shrinks back, Questie, GatherLite and TomTom marks no longer stay at the grown size, doubled beside the game's own icons.
0.1.21
Features
- The Shortest Path Forever route stays visible on the dragged or far zoomed map, in the right place and size around you. It shows as much of the route as Shortest Path draws on the game's minimap, about 150 yards around you.
0.1.20
Features
- The settings show the Forever Addons Discord link, ready to copy. This release also brings everything since 0.1.15: a tidier settings page; zone coordinates under the cursor; Ctrl + click sets a waypoint (TomTom when loaded) and Ctrl + right click clears it; your group as class coloured dots on the dragged or far zoomed map; an optional tray for other addons' minimap buttons; a click on the far zoomed map pings; the map can grow under the mouse; Alt + click sends the spot to your group as a map pin.
Bug fixes
- The gold diamond no longer covers TomTom's own waypoint mark on the dragged or far zoomed map; it is only for the addon's own waypoint and a map pin shared with the group. Since 0.1.18, Ctrl + right click also clears a waypoint that went to TomTom.
0.1.19
Features
- An optional setting grows the map to the left and down while the mouse is over it (by 10 to 100 %). Alt + click on the map sends the spot to your party or raid as the game's map pin link with the zone and coordinates; out of a group it goes into the chat line. A map pin you got from such a link shows on the dragged or far zoomed map too.
0.1.18
Features
- A click on the dragged or far zoomed map pings that spot (the game ping your group sees, plus a green ring on your map).
Bug fixes
- Ctrl + right click now clears a waypoint that went to TomTom; before, the map forgot it and only TomTom could remove it.
0.1.17
Features
- The zone coordinates under the cursor; Ctrl + click on the map sets a waypoint (TomTom when loaded, otherwise the game's own and a gold mark), Ctrl + right click clears it; your party and raid as class coloured dots on the dragged or far zoomed map; an optional tray for other addons' minimap buttons (off by default).
0.1.16
Features
- A tidier settings page: two columns with sections, the game's own sliders, shorter labels with tooltips, and the help no longer runs off the page. "Zoom back after" shows "never" and combat opacity "hidden" at 0.
0.1.15
Bug fixes
- Questie marks far from you show their tooltip too; Questie had faded them out and showed nothing.
0.1.14
Bug fixes
- Questie, GatherLite and TomTom marks show their tooltips also after you drag the map or zoom far out.
0.1.13
Features
- The shape and the border are dropdowns in the settings.
Bug fixes
- Sharp rounded corners on the border and the map at any size; they were blurred on a big map.
0.1.12
Features
- Borders around the map: none, thin, thick, gold, silver, bronze or your class colour. The Border button in the settings goes through them, or
/fmm border gold. - One switch turns off the whole strip under the map; zone, coordinates, heading and clock still each have their own.
0.1.11
Bug fixes
- No more lines between the map's tiles when the map is see-through, such as while you run.
- Tiles drawn after the start now keep the rounded corners too.
0.1.10
Features
- First release on CurseForge. A bigger, sharper minimap you can drag around and zoom far out, up to 6400 yards, square, rounded or round, with coordinates, heading and the marks of Questie, GatherLite and TomTom.
Bug fixes
- Fixed huge fish marks far from you on the zoomed out map.
0.1.9
Features
- A Shift click on the strip puts your location into the chat line, ready to send.
0.1.8
Features
- With the rounded shape, the strip under the map has rounded corners too. A right click on the strip opens the settings.
0.1.7
Features
- A third map shape, a square with rounded corners. The Shape button in the settings goes through all three.
0.1.6
Features
- Combat opacity can go down to 0, which hides the map in combat and lets clicks through.
0.1.5
Features
- A setting locks the map, so the mouse cannot move or resize it. Dragging still looks around.
0.1.4
Features
- Questie, GatherLite and TomTom marks stay on the map, in the right place, while you drag it or zoom far out.
0.1.3
Features
- Drag the strip under the map to move it.
0.1.2
Features
- The tracking magnifier moved onto the map, next to the cross hair. The game's addon button with the number is gone; ForeverTaskbar opens the same addons. While you drag or zoom far out, no mark sticks out past the map's edge.
0.1.1
Features
- The game's zone bar, clock, calendar and day and night dial are gone from above the map. The cross hair button to come back is always there, and also returns from a far zoom. Any corner of the map resizes it. While you drag or zoom far out, the map covers Questie's and other addons' marks, as they would not fit. Your painted icon.
0.1.0
Features
- A new addon, your own minimap. Bigger and sharper, square or round, resizable and movable. Drag it to look around and click the arrow to come back, zoom far out past the game's limit, with coordinates, heading, zone, clock, compass letters, a facing line, opacity by state, and pins of the ForeverCurios collectibles you miss. While dragged or zoomed far out it shows no blips.
/fmm.
Help and feedback
Questions, bugs and ideas are welcome on the Forever Addons Discord: #help for setting it up, #bug-reports when something is broken (the addon version and the error text help a lot), #feature-requests for ideas.