Canvas Player Setup

Two things get the minimap on screen with the player showing up on it:

• A Dungeon Canvas Item component on your player pawn, which draws its icon and reveals the fog of war around it
• Your UI with the minimap widget, created from your player controller

Note: Check the canvas samples for reference: Dungeon Architect Content > Showcase > Samples > Features > Canvas > CanvasExamples

Add Components

Dungeon Actor

Select the Dungeon Actor in the scene and add the DungeonCanvas component to it

Player Pawn

Open your player pawn and add the Dungeon Canvas Item component to it. This gives the pawn an icon on the map, and reveals the fog of war around it as it moves

Set Item Type to Player and check Explore Fog Of War

Property	Default	Description
Icon Name	empty	Names the icon drawn for this item, looked up in the canvas theme’s Overlay Icons list. Leave it empty to draw no icon at all
Fallback Icon	empty	Drawn when Icon Name isn’t in the theme’s list, so an actor can bring its own icon without anyone editing the theme. A theme entry under the same name takes over from it
Override Icon Tint	false	Draws the icon with the tint set below, instead of the tint on the icon itself
Icon Tint	white	The color to draw the icon with. Lets many actors share a single icon and differ only by color, e.g. one key icon tinted per key color. Author the icon art in a neutral color, since a colored icon won’t tint cleanly
Item Type	World Object	Player entries follow the fog of war share mode set on the canvas component. World Object entries ignore it - visible to everyone when no team is set, or only to their team otherwise
Explore Fog Of War	false	Reveals the fog of war around this item. Enable it on player pawns, and on world objects that light up the map like a shrine or a watch tower
Fog Of War Explorer Enabled	true	Turns the exploration on and off at runtime, e.g. keep a shrine’s explorer disabled until the shrine is activated. Mark the component as replicated if you toggle it on the server
Fog Of War Settings		How far the item reveals the map and how soft the shadow edges are. See Fog of War & Multiplayer
Team Id	-1	The team this item belongs to. -1 means no team
Orient To Rotation	false	Rotates the icon to match the actor’s rotation
Occludes Fog Of War	false	Blocks fog of war reveal, so this item casts a shadow on the map
Hide When Out Of Sight	false	Hides the icon when the item is not currently visible
Z Order	0	Higher numbers draw on top when icons overlap. Bump the player icon up (e.g. 1000) to keep it above everything else

The same component works on any actor, not just the player pawn - see Fog of War & Multiplayer for world object explorers, teams and how exploration is shared between players

Show UI

Open your player controller and create your UI widget and add to viewport

This will make the UI show up when your game starts. The Dungeon Canvas widget you placed in your UI will auto register itself when it constructs. So there’s no more setup required here on the UI side