HQminiMap

Scan your map. Choose your filter. Make a decision.

HQminiMap turns your Transport Fever 3 map into one sharp top-down orthophoto and shows your network on top of it, live: towns, lines, stations, vehicles, industries and warehouses.

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⚠ This mod works with the free HQminiMap app

The mod does the in-game part: map export, scan lighting and live data; the scan images are recorded with the game's Camera Tool. The map itself is built and shown by the HQminiMap desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS, free and open source.

➜ Download the HQminiMap app

Features

• Map scan in seconds: pick a quality (Low, Medium, High, Very high or Ultra). The app sets the output size, grid, camera and lighting for your map and writes the camera path; you record it with the game's Camera Tool.
• High-resolution orthophoto: zoom down to the pixel, rotate, full screen, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.
• Relief: colour the map by altitude, draw contour lines, or both.
• Clean basemap: black background, blue water and map outline, to make your lines stand out.
• Live data: towns with their outlines, lines on their real tracks in the game's colours, stations and stops, moving vehicles with their load, industries and warehouses with their stocks.
• Filters: by name, transport mode, traffic, stock or line; save and share your filter setups.
• Control the game from the map: double-click to move the camera, or to open the in-game window of a vehicle, line, stop, factory or warehouse.
• Export the view as a PNG (×1, ×2, ×4) with an optional legend.

Installation

1. Subscribe to this mod and enable HQminiMap in the mod list of your save.
2. Install the HQminiMap app from the download page.
3. Start the app: it finds the game's data folder and the mod by itself (otherwise, choose them in Options).

How to use it

1. In game, click the HQminiMap button in the bottom bar, then Export map.
2. In the app (GridLab), choose a quality, then click Prepare the scan.
3. In game, open the Camera Tool (if it is missing: game options → Enable Advanced Camera Tool): Load hqminimap_scan, set the output size shown by the app and 30 FPS, then Start Recording.
4. The app takes the recorded images, builds the orthophoto by itself and opens it in the Viewer.

Good to know

• Script mod: it reads your game and sets the lighting during a scan (restored afterwards); it does not change your world.
• No server, no account: the mod and the app talk through files in the game's data folder.
• Live data refresh rates can be tuned in the app (Options → Live data) to keep big maps smooth.
• After a mod update, reload your save: the game keeps the old mod code until then.
• A new line may show provisional parts until the game has computed its whole track.

More to come

Ideas for the next versions: smartphone and tablet support, original game icons, a diagram generator, drawing on the map, richer (cross-)filtering.

Links

• Source code and full guide (GitHub)
• Report a bug or suggest an idea

Open source under the GPL-3.0 license. Transport Fever is a trademark of Urban Games; HQminiMap is an independent fan project, neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Urban Games.