Hi there !
 
I have a few questions about settings, so I thought I'd explain them here.

The idea

Two days ago a few friends asked me to compile for them the latest rev from the repo (qt-no-old-ui branch, rev 456 to be exact), since they wanted to test/see/play a little, even knowing that the UI is not finished.
That was also a good means to let me see if the path settings I had committed some months ago would work, and how users who don't know anything about the new system would react.
 

Problems encountered

Auto-detection of the Wow version installed almost always fails

The reasons are as many as there are potential users, which means a lot of hassle for everyone (imho).
 
Lots of people, especially those interested into modding, have multiple Wow installs, of different versions, sometimes with different locales. So there's no way to detect the right install at first try, it's just pure luck :
 

- Me : more than 40 full Wow clients archived, 8 installed on my main HD (alpha, 4x 335a, live, ptr, mop beta).

- One of my friends : Cataclysm install with 2 different locales, several 335a with only one locale, Mop.

- Another friend : Cataclysm, 335a at least.

Locale problem

Friend 1 had Cataclysm detected automatically with enGB locale. I told him to manually enter in regedit (which really is bad means to do and should never happen >.<) the path to his 335a. After that Noggit seemed lost and couldn't find most of his files... until we found out he only had frFR locale on his 335a.
 

Changing folders

Imagine someone defines a proper Wow install. Everything works fine for a while.
Then the person moves his Wow install for whatever reason. There is one install defined so Noggit will try to load the files, but the install has disappeared, so there's a big chance it won't load at all, and thus the user can never reach the settings button to change the path.
On the contrary, it would probably not be really comfortable to have the settings popup at every launch.
 

Conclusion (my opinion on all this)

Definitely, when there's no install defined, i.e no previously defined config, the settings should pop at first launch before anything else (yes Schlumpf you're right, I remember you told me about this). That would also mean remove any auto-detection attempt.

It would probably be better to ask which locale people want to use in case they have several ones, and allow them to change it manually later... ?

I'd also like to add the fact that if install is not valid (files don't load/are not found for whatever reason, even though there are settings defined), the settings windows pops again.

Finally, I'd also like to reload the maps lists/tabs when paths are changed, to avoid problems (attempt to load files from an invalid/previous location). And if there's a map window loaded, maybe it's possible to disable paths changing until it's closed ? Idk.
 
What do you think ?
 
If you're ok I can change the settings behaviour to take this into account... no promise on delay though, some things are harder than others in what I've listed above. But I feel better now when looking at the code, so I think I'll be faster than 5 months

It's there : viewtopic.php?f=48&t=611&p=4157&hilit=Hex+editing#p4157

To be completely honest, I have only one 335a test install to run run both Noggit and the client.

So now this exe change is saving me a lot of copying / packing steps : when I want to see my files ingame, I just close Noggit, (very often copy my files in another place to keep intermediate saving steps), and open client, as simple as that.

That also saves a lot of path potential errors, since both programs work on the same files.

The only thing I really have to remember is to not open both programs at the same time.

If I'm not wrong you have two steps to go :

- Add m2 and wmo number for the chunk in mcnk header (should be 0x10 and 0x38).
- mcrf is mcrd followed by mcrw. So I'd try just pasting content of mcrd and then mcrw.

To go from 3.x to 4.x I've split the mcrf part into two without altering content, so the contrary should work I guess.

"EdEdited" .... So pretty much no name yet

I have no idea at all xD
My first idea for this map was just to make a kind of show off video with a very basic scenario allowing to show every interesting angle of the island... I didn't really expect it to end up on a server.

I can think about it, but since the island is very very small and probably won't contain a lot of houses, I imagine a kind of sanctuary / remote place where inhabitants like to be a little isolated. The general feeling i want to keep is a very peaceful place (yes i know, that makes it hard to have a scenario if everything is alright and everyone happy).

And i'm not really sure about having elves there... I've used wow elves buildings, but it's not wow, so... I was thinking about humans. But if you prefer elves, it can be elves.

Have to go now, i think about all this

It's on the picture :



"pack" means "make a mpq containing your modified dbc", nothing fancy here <!-- s:) --><!-- s:) -->

And it's not necessary to change server dbc here.