Minimap

Minimap

A live minimap in the corner of the screen for How to Fish.

No panel, no frame, just the world in a circle. And it is not a drawing

of the world, it is the world: a second camera looks straight down at

you and shows what is actually there. Islands you have

never been to, custom islands somebody else built, a jetty you put up

five minutes ago - all of it appears, because there is nothing to teach

it and nothing to keep up to date.

What it shows

• The ground under you, live, including the water, so you can always

see where the shore is. Your boat is in there too, drawn as the boat,

because it is a real view and not a set of symbols.

• You, in the middle, as an arrow pointing the way you are facing.
• The way back to your boat once it is off the edge and you can no

longer see it: an arrow on the rim pointing the way, with how far to

go beside it.

• Everyone else in your game.
• North, on the rim.

Controls

| Key | What it does |

| --- | --- |

| N | Shows and hides the minimap |

| Up arrow | Zoom in |

| Down arrow | Zoom out |

All three can be changed in the config, along with the size, where it

sits, how solid it is, and whether the map turns with you or keeps north

at the top.

It sizes itself to the island

The islands here are nothing like each other - the smallest is about a

third the width of the biggest - so one fixed range leaves a small island

as a dot in a lake and shows only a corner of a big one.

So it scales itself. Every island scene carries its own size, authored by

whoever built it, and the minimap zooms to that, which means a custom

island is framed properly the day it is installed without this mod

knowing anything about it. The zoom keys then set how much sea you want

around the shore, and that carries from island to island.

Turn it off with Scale to the island if you would rather have the

same number of metres everywhere.

Installing

With a mod manager (easiest)

• Install r2modman or

the Mod Manager.

• Select How to Fish, search for Minimap, click Install. BepInEx

comes automatically.

• Press Start modded.

Manual

• Install BepInEx 5 x64

into the game folder, run the game once, quit.

• Copy HTFMinimap.dll into How to Fish/BepInEx/plugins.

With the CustomIslands Loader

The two are made to go together, but neither needs the other and this

one does not depend on it.

Custom islands need nothing special here. The minimap renders whatever is

under you, so an island it has never seen before works exactly like one

the game shipped with - there is no list to be on and nothing to install

for it.

The loader used to have a full screen chart on M. That has been dropped

in favour of this, because a camera pointed at the ground is right about

things a drawn map has to be told. If you are still on an older loader

that has the chart, the minimap gets out of the way while it is open.

If it costs you frames

Everything on the minimap is cheap except the render, so that is where

the settings are:

[Performance]

Refreshes a second = 30

Detail = 256

Refreshes a second is the one worth turning down first. Ten is still

perfectly smooth to walk around with. Detail is how many pixels the

view is rendered at.

Co-op

Nothing here is networked and nothing is sent anywhere. Other players do

not need it, and whether they have it changes nothing for you.

A note on testing

This build is tested, but not thoroughly, as I am only one person. There

are a lot of combinations I cannot cover on my own. If you hit an issue,

please DM me on Discord: yoxiui. Tell me what you were doing and send

your BepInEx/LogOutput.log if you can, and I will get it fixed.

Notes

• Contains no game assets. The lettering is the game's own font,

found in memory at runtime, not shipped.

• Nothing is written to your save.

More from Yoxi

• CustomIslands Loader - play custom, community-made islands
• BetterIslands - an island pack: hand-built replacements for the game's islands
• MoreIslands - an island pack of brand new places ou