Adventure-map HUD: Sanya, Portal of Glory

Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition · Campaign / World Map

About this game

Developer: Dotemu · Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: HD-2D & retro 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The whole turn-based loop on one screen: the map is the game, and the chrome never leaves it — the minimap and compass orient, the right column holds every verb, the hero card holds the army, and the resource bar holds the economy, all readable at once while the hero rides a visible blue path to the Portal of Glory. The status line names whatever the cursor is on, so the map itself is the menu. Frame at 30.0s in Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam); the scene-change pass missed this shot, it sits inside a slow wipe. No trailer burn-in, caption, or logo on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay top-bar portrait-row status-row action-bar map-overlay bottom-dock

Components

Parts on screen.

Map Minimap Compass Resource bar Action bar Portrait Nameplate Clock Slots

Screen inventory

a green overworld with the hero on horseback and a blue movement path
the Portal of Glory, a castle, a church, a tower, a treasure chest and an ore cart
a compass minimap reading N, E, S, W at top right
a hero portrait, eight action buttons and town icons in the right column
a Sanya hero card at bottom right reading Attack 1, Defense 0, Power 2, Knowledge 2, with two army rows
a resource bar reading 27 wood, 10 ore, 27 mercury, 10 sulfur, 10 crystal, 7 gems, 8750 gold
a status line reading Portal of Glory and a date reading Month: 1, Week: 1, Day: 1

Top 3 colors

#2d4e19 33%#6e5b3e 20%#263915 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Dotemu / Ubisoft Entertainment, Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition screenshot: Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition - Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam) — Dotemu / Ubisoft, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Ubisoft Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: full-res 1920x1080 review; minimap and compass, action buttons, Sanya hero card and both army rows, resource bar, Portal of Glory status line and date legible; settled-hold aHash+dHash dists 182 (29.5s) and 205 (30.5s) are the map viewport panning slowly under static chrome, not a transition — dense frames 29-32s show the same HUD, and there is no static adventure-map moment anywhere in the trailer; aHash+dHash 183 vs nearest manifest item (timberborn-1); keeper-vs-keeper distances 217-298; no Heroes of Might and Magic III entry in manifest (1331 items).

No direct Dotemu video-use policy found and no live Ubisoft video-use policy found (searched 2026-11-06). Ubisoft's old standalone video policy page (help.ubi.com/video) now redirects to the Ubisoft homepage; the policy text survives only in a secondary source, theaveragegamer.com (Dec 2013): free to make videos (walkthroughs, Let's Plays, reviews) with Ubisoft game content, do not distribute assets separately, non-commercial use unless approved, do not charge viewers, do not sell or license videos, YouTube Partner Program monetization allowed, violations may lead to removal. Secondary, thirteen years old, not a live official page. Ubisoft's current Terms of Use (https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/termsofuse/en-US, verified live 2026-11-06) bars infringing content but contains no creator/video-use permission. A Steam EULA result surfaced in the Dotemu search (eula/657900_eula_0) cannot be attributed to Dotemu or this game (appid 657900 returns success:false from appdetails) and is not relied on. No Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition-specific fan-content guidelines found. Partial fit, stated plainly: the historical policy covers gameplay videos by individual users, not stills from official trailers on a fan study site. Fair-use fallback for Phase-2: frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, each with a study note (commentary), unofficial, not endorsed, copyright (c) Dotemu / Ubisoft, takedown honoured within 48h. Note: the underlying 1999 original is New World Computing (3DO, defunct) art and design, remastered by Dotemu for Ubisoft — a third rights layer that does not change the fallback.

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