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Content creation => Texturing and 2D Art => Topic started by: frezer748 on November 11, 2012, 04:46:50 pm

Title: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: frezer748 on November 11, 2012, 04:46:50 pm

Hello Modcraft,


Well how I already said in the Topic name, I want to make that the player is located on my custom Continent ( on the World map, where you also can see Azeroth) like If I stay on Kalimdor and the Player is showing on the World map, exactly this I also want on my custom continent, which .dbc I have to change, and what I have to do.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Player location on a custom World map?
Post by: schlumpf on November 11, 2012, 06:23:53 pm

Pro tip: look in the wiki and search for dbcs containing your own keywords. WorldMap* would be a fine start.

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Player location on a custom World map?
Post by: frezer748 on November 11, 2012, 07:42:38 pm

Quote from: "schlumpf"

Pro tip: look in the wiki and search for dbcs containing your own keywords. WorldMap* would be a fine start.

NO really?.... I already look at the .dbc files, but I don't know in which Worldmap dbc I bind the  dbc entry to the path  of the Continent BLP files. And I don't know from what the coodinates are (which are entered in the other entrys).

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Player location on a custom World map?
Post by: schlumpf on November 11, 2012, 08:46:12 pm

Try the worldmap* dbcs?

Title: Re: [QUESTION]  Player location on a custom World map?
Post by: frezer748 on November 11, 2012, 09:43:44 pm

Well it works now, Did it by my own.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: phasemsk on January 05, 2013, 11:21:57 pm

If you solved it, you can tell us how?

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Ascathos on January 06, 2013, 12:07:05 am

Prohably by using the Worldmap* Dbcs ? Which is not that hard actually, doing some research.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Steff on January 06, 2013, 04:26:52 am

Oh man it is ;) hate cords hunt....

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: ferreon on January 06, 2013, 02:38:40 pm

I know is WorldMapArea.dbc but I dont know how get the coords in rows 4 5 6 7...

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Steff on January 07, 2013, 12:44:37 pm

I also not. I get it to work by copy azeroth and try and error the values. If someone get a way to make this easyer it would be nice. :)

Also put the DBCs in a local patch!!!. Best just all of them. There are worldmap DBC(s) in one of the locals that will just overwrite your stuff if you put them in patch-4.MPQ

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: ferreon on January 07, 2013, 04:09:12 pm

If i could understand good, are the coords of the middle of top bottom left and right but it doesn't work. This pic is correct?

(http://i45.tinypic.com/33p4kes.png)

*****the numbers are the rows in WorldMapArea.dbc*****

Thanks to all.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: schlumpf on January 07, 2013, 05:07:54 pm

Why don't you just look at existing entries, then go to the possible coordinates in the client or noggit and you will see?

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: ferreon on January 07, 2013, 05:10:11 pm

I did it ...

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: schlumpf on January 07, 2013, 05:31:16 pm

So does your observation match what you expected? If yes, it is correct. Try custom data. If it works, go ahead, it is correct.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: ferreon on January 07, 2013, 07:52:03 pm

I did it, trying XXYY and YYXX, and it doesn't work.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: schlumpf on January 07, 2013, 07:57:01 pm

Well, looking at the documentation, coordinates are as in the picture. min x, max x, min y, max y.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Steff on January 07, 2013, 08:40:57 pm

No they are not. The 4 valuse size and crop the overlay image in a way i cant reproduce. Its not just left top and right bottom point on map. Then it would be easy.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: schlumpf on January 07, 2013, 08:54:17 pm

Three years ago, I tried, reversed and documented exactly those DBCs myself..

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Steff on January 07, 2013, 09:41:23 pm

And how the crop thing then works. The 4 values sice pos and crop the overlay image on the Worldmap.
For reagions its cords but worldmap overlay works an other way.

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: schlumpf on January 07, 2013, 10:25:08 pm

The overlays are a completely different thing that nobody was referring to..

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Soldan on January 08, 2013, 09:44:39 am

I managed to get it to work...I researched the dbcs and understood them.. It's actually quite easy once you get around the complete mindf*ck that it is..xD

Title: Re: [SOLVED]  Player location on a custom World map
Post by: Steff on January 08, 2013, 12:33:01 pm

Do your reagion overlays also work. I meen like elvynn in Azeroth map  ?
If yes you can give me perhaps a hint what i have missed :)