frosch wrote:

If with "minimap" you mean the regular viewport, I believe you want the feature which you get by Ctrl+Clicking on the first icon in the vehicle view.

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Milsa wrote:

Look at the image. I mean this minimap.

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Alberth wrote:

Can you explain why you'd want that, and how centering the main view at it is not sufficient?

I do think that changing the semantics of a button based on state of a totally unrelated setting is a bad move, we'll get all kinds of bug reports like "button does not always work".

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Milsa wrote:

Sometimes I need to find a vehicle on the minimap. Especially on large map (1024x1024). Zooming the map isn't the most comfortable.

I don't want change but adding functionality.

Now it works like this (first icon on vehicle's view):
Click - center vehicle in main view
Ctrl+Click - center vehicle in main view and follow it

Example of new functionality:
Shift+Click - center vehicle in main view and center in minimap if opened (not follow it)

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Improving interface is a current goal for OpenTTD, however this request is too niche to be implemented currently. An alternative option might be to have a button/hotkey to center the minimap on-demand always, but that would be scoped to main viewport location, not a vehicle.

Cleaning Flyspray as there are an overwhelming number of issues, which is inhibiting development, so closing this one. Thanks for the suggestion.

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dp wrote:

There are 2 options currently to find the vehicle on a minimap.

1. Stop the vehicle and double click, that will center minimap
2. Jump to vehicle location and reopen minimap, it will center on viewport.

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