Feature request: Clearmapmarks button

Doesn't that exist in form of this one? (clears all drawings and markers on click)

ZOMG

Why didn't i see that before? XD

I talked about this with Maackey yesterday, we thought it would be awesome to have that. lol

On my keyboard: Hold ~ (tilde) and wipe with the right mouse button.

also works to type /clearmapmarks into chat

Chilli minimap has a bad history so a lot of people have probably been running with it off for a long time.

I think we need to re-impliment the mapmark system so that they fade over time (Or just expire after a short time). You only really need them as alert pings, and having them linked from chat is really useful and should be more how they operate. They're very ugly and distracting if you're spectating. When you play you sort of screen them out from your vision but they CAN actually block units visually.

I'm not lying. I got more fps with chili minimap off. I didn't know about borderless mode though. Is that new? Gonna give it a try once I get a chance. :D

Anyway, I'd still like those buttons to be independant of the minimap. I want to move them to another position.

Nah, if you know it is there it is just fine.

Regarding the performance cost:
Chili Minimap actually uses engine minimap. It doesn't draw the minimap. If you look at the code it doesn't have any OpenGL call for drawing stuff, instead it only call engine's minimap.

Its really confusing/perplexing on how to make it more efficient than it already is because when you wanted to tweak the widget there's little choice that you have: you either disable engine minimap or enable engine minimap. The chili minimap also didn't draw the border either, it is 100% processed by Chili Framework.

So in conclusion:
Chili Minimap is just a shell that call Chili Framework (draw border) and engine minimap (draw minimap), and doesn't process anything on its own. Its an "empty" widget.

People should also test the performance cost if you hiding the Chili Minimap (click on the red docking bar), becuase that's the only time when Chili Minimap do not call for engine's minimap.

I think the problem was actually with minimap notifications (the little circles that appear on damaged, killed or finished units), which were turned off when chilli minimap was.

I used to see this many many times, people would have crippling lag and white spots everywhere, and it was a 1-widget disable and the issue was resolved.

Notifications werent causing lag but rendering was failing and creating big circles.

People somehow associate minimap notifications with lag, because what actually lags is units doing lots of damage in fights (and thats when you see notifications :)