A renderer, not a filter.
Most custom FiveM minimaps are the stock map with a colour overlay dropped on top. Ours are produced by a pipeline that takes the map apart into semantic layers — water depth, coastline, terrain, three tiers of road, labels — and rebuilds it from those layers in whatever palette you pick. That is why the twelve themes look like twelve different maps rather than twelve tints of the same one.
How a map is made
The source map is decoded and upscaled two times with Lanczos resampling, giving a 12288 × 18432 master. Everything after that happens at that resolution and is only resampled back down at the very end, which is why coastlines stay smooth instead of stair-stepping.
From the master we derive twelve channels: land and sea masks, terrain relief, directional hillshade, three road tiers, labels, water depth, coastline, coastal glow and bathymetric contour lines. Those channels are cached once, then every palette is a cheap recolour of the same structure — which is what makes twelve consistent themes possible at all.
Three sources, one family
The postal and no-postals styles come from black and white base maps where the alpha channel carries water depth. The Google style is different: it is a flat-fill colour street map, so road classes, water, parks, beaches and buildings are segmented by nearest-colour classification against a measured palette, then re-lit with the elevation relief of the base map. All three end up sharing the same ocean, coastline glow and depth contours, which is why they read as one family.
What we care about
- Legibility at radar size, not just at full zoom
- Smooth edges — no aliasing, no compression blocks, no crusty labels
- Identical file structure to the stock map, so nothing on your server changes
- Honest pricing you can compute in your head
Who this is for
Server owners who have noticed that the minimap is on screen more than any other asset they will ever buy, and that it is still the default one.
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No support desk, no ticket queue robot. If you ask a technical question you get a technical answer from the person who wrote the renderer.