WT map is a Chrome extension that modifies the browser-based map in War Thunder. It can be used with multi-monitor setups or on a different device from the one running the game. The purpose of the extension is to help improve situational awareness by adding a level of nicety to the map presentation.
Using WT map is currently within the Terms of Service of the game.
- Different plane icons for fighters, bombers and attackers
- Plane icons show plane orientation
- Close to real-time update rate
- Automatic map centering and zooming on player
- Configurable plane icon size
- Option to reduce CPU load
- Summary of total map objects by kind for both teams
- Automatic optimal map sizing
- Options to enable or disable state and indicator panel updating
- Disables less useful panels like chat, HUD messages
- Ground units never obscure plane icons
- Info about spotted enemies, distance to closest enemy and number of allies in title bar
- Off-screen aircraft are displayed at the map edge when zoomed in:
The extension can be installed from its Chrome Web Store page.
The enhanced map can be opened from the extension options page. It's recommended to bookmark the map page for easy access. War Thunder needs to be running for the map to work.
To use the map on a different device from the one running the game, the correct map location should be set in the options. For instance, if the local IP address of the PC running the game was 192.168.1.1, the map location would be http://192.168.1.1:8111/. The game process (aces.exe) may need to be allowed through the firewall. If one of the devices is wireless and the other wired, the local network needs to be configured to allow them to connect.
By default the extension only has permission to access http://localhost:8111/ and the permissions to access other map locations are requested separately if needed and removed if not used.
The extension works by monkey-patching the code used in the original map. It doesn't modify the map in-place but recreates it in a special page because the Chrome content scripts can only access page DOM and not their JavaScript environment.
The features added by this extension mostly don't depend on Chrome-specific functionality and should be easily portable to other platforms.
The idea of making this extension comes from the War Thunder tactical map Android app.
The icons for the planes are P-39 for fighters, IL-2 for attackers and Ju 88 for bombers.
0.2.6 [2013-12-18]
- Fix title info not updating properly if player is not spawned
- Fix map scale resetting after map info updated
- Display map size and scale and grid size in map panel caption
- Decrease CPU usage
- Make it possible to disable or enable panels in-line
- Add separate map object totals for allied an enemy objects
- Make panel layout automatic, map always tries to take the maximum space
- Usability tweaks
0.2.5 [2013-12-18]
- Add support for the new "state" panel in 1.37
- Fix an issue with persistent zoom levels
0.2.4 [2013-12-18]
- Display off-screen aircraft when zoomed in
0.2.3 [2013-12-17]
- Fixed zoom bug
0.2.2 [2013-12-17]
- Added advanced options to disable cockpit gauge, chat and HUD message panels
- Significantly increased polling rate of map objects (configurable)
- Added automatic persistent zoom instead of a configuration option
0.2.1 [2013-12-16]
- Removed proximity alerts
0.1.7 [2013-12-16]
- Made it possible to set proximity alert volume or radius to 0 to disable it
- Fixed the centered map panning out of bounds
0.1.6 [2013-12-15]
- Added relative alert levels
- Various fixes
0.1.5 [2013-12-15]
- Added configurable map centering and zooming on player
0.1.4 [2013-12-14]
- Initial release
The project is available under the MIT licence.