This tutorial shall end in us having horde and alliance graveyard zones for our custom map.
Right lets get down to buisness.
Tools:
Dbc editor. (I used 'mydbceditor')
Sql editor. (I used heidi)
Noggit. (You guessed it, I used noggit!)
I will assume that if your reading this you have, a custom map.
Else, get outta here and go make one!!!
Below I shall quickly brush upon making an zoneid, just incase you havent done so for your custom map, if you have then skip on down to 'Worldsafelocs.dbc'.
Your custom map will have its own map id, we shall be using this.
Also if your using a dbc editor that is zero based. Simply reduce the 'columns' in this Tutorial by 1.
Areatable.dbc
1.In areatable.dbc we clone a line to a new entry. As you see I made mine 4999.
2.We put our custom map id into the 2nd column.
3.Then we change the 4th column to a unique id.(i went with 3899)
4.We name it what our zone shall be displayed as.
5.Save and done.
Map.dbc
1.We have our custom map entry, we go to column 23 and type in our 'areatable.dbc' entry we just made.
2.Save and done.
Mapdifficulty.dbc
1.We make a new line here and input our custom map ID into the 2nd column. (Else being on this map and inviting another to group on the same map shall make our server crash!)
2.Save and done.
Noggit.
Paste your dbcs into your noggit dbfilesclient folder. Open your map, click on the areapaint tool and hit X.
If you managed the above steps correctly and have placed them into the dbfilesclient folder of noggit, your zone name should appear. It did? Great! Paint away. Finished? Awesome. Save it and put it into your patch and also server dbc folder.
If you did the above correct and go ingame to your custom map and type .gps it should be listing your zoneID.
It did? Incredible. Lets get down to the graveyard part.
Worldsafelocs.dbc
Open Worldsafelocs.dbc and make two new entrys, with obvious names for horde/alliance.
Change the 2nd column to your custom map id.
Go ingame and move to where you want the alliance players to 'be ported to'(the graveyard location) when they hit 'release'.
Type .gps.
Enter the X Y Z numbers into worldsafelocs.dbc of your alliance entry Columns 3, 4, 5 (3=x 4=y 5=z)
Now repeat the above but for the horde graveyard.
Write down the two Id numbers of the worldsafelocs.dbc entrys you made.
Again put into your patch and server dbc folder.
Almost there! (quite simple isnt it)
Now open your database, expand the 'world' category, browse on down to 'game_graveyard_zone'
Make two new lines.
Enter into the first field your 'worldsafelocs.dbc entry ID's you made.
Enter into the second field the zone id you made.
Enter into the last field the faction you want to go there. 469=alliance 67=horde 0=both
The test!
Congratulations.
Note:For dungeons/raids just make the worldsafelocs.dbc entry the mapid and coordinates you shall be ported to upon death.
Explanation.
Worldsafelocs.dbc is where you will be ported to.
Game_graveyard_zone' db category is simply hooking up the zone you die in, to the worldsafelocs.dbc entry of where you shall end up after you hit release, the same zone can have multiples.
