Minimap zoomed way the heck out

ssquared · 04-14-12, 09:22 PM

Title says it all, really. This has been happening all week. The minimap is zoomed out to the whole world, which makes quest-doing rather difficult as I can't even see myself.

Yes, I've done all the pulling the plug of all the other addons and slowly adding them back - My minimap w/o carbonite (round) is not zoomed out, though everything else is a clusterf*ck since everything I have is revolved around carbonite lol.

Any quick fixes?

jeffy162 · 04-14-12, 10:55 PM

First things first: Carbonite has one map and it is either maximized (large, like Blizzards World Map) or minimized (minimap sized but NOT the minimap). Blizzard gives us three maps: The Minimap (found in the upper right corner of your screen), the World Map (the big map) and the Zone (sometimes referred to as the Battleground) Map. A technicality, to be sure, but it occasionally helps to use the correct terms when explaining something.

That being said: Zoom your Carbonite minimized map to how you want it to look. Hover the minimized map with your cursor and right click a non-icon area of the map. In the menu that pops up choose "Save map scale". From that point on any time your minimized map isn't zoomed right, right click the map, and choose "Restore map scale" in the menu. You can also set a key bind to "Restore Saved Map Scale" in the default Blizzard key binding interface. Simply open the key binding interface and scroll down to the "Carbonite" heading to set a key bind.

ssquared · 04-15-12, 03:44 PM

Okay I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

ssquared · 04-15-12, 04:31 PM

Yup, that worked! Thanks a lot!

jeffy162 · 04-15-12, 07:41 PM

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

Kreelor · 04-25-12, 11:29 AM

I had an issue with zooming a few days ago. Although it's different than the original poster's problem, I'm going to mention it because it may help someone else.

I had just finished the "Ride Fiona's Caravan" quest, arriving at a new location. When my char popped off of the caravan, my map was zoomed so far out, that my char's avatar was only about 5 pixels high! Ha ha. I couldn't even find it at first. Using my mouse wheel to zoom in didn't have any effect. The mouse worked; I could click on NPC's, etc. and walk around. I tried numerous things, such as logging out of the game, and rebooting the system, etc.

Finally, I replaced the batteries in my wireless mouse. Only 1 of the 2 batteries was dead -- it controlled teh mouse wheel. Everything worked again.

Just thought I'd pass this on.