Will the map be full screen only?

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In addition to full screen, modern WoW blesses players with the ability to show the map in a smaller window, allowing both the game world and map to be seen at the same time. However, all legends know that this luxury was not available in vanilla WoW. The map was full screen and full screen only.

So what will classic do… adapt the modern method of having a windowed map in addition to full screen, or go the hardcore route of full screen only? Only time will tell…

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Given all we know about the aim of rebuilding the client to act like Vanilla… yes.

However, given that addons were capable of showing the map in a smaller box (this is where the base game change came from) , they may decide that its not necessary to recreate that aspect.

I haven’t found anyone with the Alpha Client in a sandbox who’s willing to talk about it yet though, and I really haven’t been bothered to search the Interface components because there’s so much not yet complete. IIRC the current 8.1-1.13 interface changes haven’t included removing the map size adjustment button.

TL;DR: We don’t know yet, but if anyone has a source, bring it on.

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Azeroth is flat! Press M for proof

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The map should work the same way it did in Vanilla.

That said, it is possible Blizzard devs might forget that windowed map mode wasn’t available in Vanilla and leave it in the client. If this happens, they should be educated so they can pull it out of the final version of Classic.

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It better be.

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They have a 1.12 exact reference copy, so I doubt they’re going to forget much. Though we post enough things for them to double check that I’m sure they will.

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Cartographer…

Thank me later

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They’ve said they’ll probably leave in pure Modern UI conveniences that addons can easily replicate.

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Is there any guarantee that old addons will be supported?
One will be made pretty quickly anyway

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Questie…oh please

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I like the full screen better .

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Windowed mode is required for leveling a paladin. You have to be able to watch YouTube while in combat three minutes per mob.:sunglasses:

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who cares? not a game breaker either way.

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It should be full screen only, and I should get an addon to fix that.

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No old addons will work on the current API. There’s been far too many changes.

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I only ever use fullscreen. And that’s what’ll be in Classic.

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Silly Twiinkedd, you forgot what true paladins watched in vanilla. We paladins are much more sophisticated than this…Youtube you speak of. Well, unless we want to flex our mighty muscles.

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There will be add-ons to change this, i don’t think it will matter very much.

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Well, you’re not wrong. There’ll be a fullscreen option.

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Ooh ooh, I can answer this now.

Looking at Blizzard_WorldMap.lua in the Classic builds, they’ve removed the branch for “IsMaximized” instead culling it all back to show or don’t show.

They’ve completely removed the Min/Max button, the setup for the button, and the effect of the button click.

QED World Map will be full screen only.

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