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Wrath of the Lich King Modding => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: longkallsong on December 29, 2011, 12:32:31 am

Title: WDT and WDL
Post by: longkallsong on December 29, 2011, 12:32:31 am

to day i was looking troght some mapfiles in Patch mpq and i saw there was ADTs but no WDT´s only Wdl´s  what is the difference and wy use the Wdt as all tutorials say ?

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: Mjollna on December 29, 2011, 12:53:23 am

You have a full doc here :

http://www.pxr.dk/wowdev/wiki/index.php?title=WDT (http://www.pxr.dk/wowdev/wiki/index.php?title=WDT" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
http://www.pxr.dk/wowdev/wiki/index.php?title=WDL (http://www.pxr.dk/wowdev/wiki/index.php?title=WDL" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

The basic idea is that both files have a totally different role.

- Wdl represents the low res mountains you can see far away when you're walking on a map ingame.
- Wdt helps the game to know if there's an adt at a particular place or not. If adt/wdt don't correspond, you're sure to get the client to crash.

Patches add new (or modify) content to what's already here in pre-existing mpq, so that's why you don't have all kinds of files in every patch.

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: longkallsong on December 29, 2011, 01:13:25 am

oh ok thanx :D now i got a custom patch with my world edited EmeralDream :D

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: Steff on December 29, 2011, 08:55:07 am

And WDTs are also can hold WMO positions and NO ADTs for WMO only Maps. Like raids or inis without any ground.

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: longkallsong on December 29, 2011, 06:01:22 pm

omg :O my patch dont work :( and in game where the worldbuild shall be its just flatgrass nothing changed :(  i have got patch-4.MPQ worldmapsemeraldream
as it shuld be coz i dont need any Map.DBC or areaTable or ? :O coz i dont got any :D
btw he world build i have im planning to get in to Maruum thats wy i have worked on it this entire week :D

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: Steff on December 30, 2011, 06:25:21 am

So describe what you did exactly. :)

Did you:

1. Create the paths inside the MPQ
2. Put the MPQ inside the DATA subfolder of WoW
3. You changed some existing ADT form WoW like Azeroth or Kalimdor ?

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: longkallsong on December 30, 2011, 05:16:46 pm

hey shall it be patch-4.MPQ World maps emeraldream ?

Title: Re: WDT and WDL
Post by: Steff on January 01, 2012, 03:27:44 pm

The name patch-4.MPQ is ok.
If you write MPQ not mpq. Must be upper case.

How did you creat the patch.
I creat a folder on HD called patch. Then creat the subfolders there
World/maps/mapname

Put all my files in and use the MPQEdit pack to folder function.