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@Krigsgaldrnet Krigsgaldrnet released this 25 Feb 01:52
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0.9.2
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Maps

The maps feature, a lite version of map.wow.tools, has been sitting in WTL in an unfinished state for quite a while now. I took some time to polish it up to a good enough state for shipping. It loads (mini)map textures straight from the game files, so the loading will look very different compared to the online site and is going to be much slower/dependent on disk/PC speed.

It has a full-screen interface and gets rid of the WTL menu bar, but there's a home button on the top left if you want to get back to WTL.

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While it is missing many features the online site has, it has some exclusive features that the site does NOT have.

First off, it can load maptextures/maptexture normals. These are baked versions of terrain textures, usually only for continents or newer maps, that are used to render terrain in the distance. You can find the dropdown for this in the layer menu on the top right.

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The fun thing with maptextures is that terrain holes or obscuring from fog etc does not apply to them, so you can see some bits of maps that are usually invisible.

Another thing that only WTL can do is something that's been hidden since before wow.tools went offline, but through Deamon's old modelviewer, it can show (some) maps in 3D. If you click anywhere on the map, then click the link on the left (for non-Midnight/small maps only) it'll open the 3D map viewer as per below's video. Keep in mind the 3D map viewer functionality was hidden for a reason as it can be quite unstable, and will almost guaranteed crash on big maps or Midnight content, so be prepared for crashes.

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There's some more updates/changes too, see below for the full changelog.

Full notes

  • Finished up v1 of the Maps feature, it is now included in the menu.
  • Improved speed of file history inserting for new builds.
  • Started work on getting rid of JQuery, cleaned up/reworked some ancient JS and dropped Select2 for Choices.
  • Updated naming to output better player housing names.
  • Updated file extension for formerly-known-as 'wwf' files to the now confirmed 'pvdata'.
  • Updated hotfix loading logic for the namer to be a bit more robust.
  • Updated unknown lookup exports to hopefully contain more/all unknown lookups.
  • Fixed crash when loading too many DB2s too close to the first load of any DB2.
  • Fixed skit:/skitid: files page search filter not working.
  • Fixed tooltips not picking up on whether hotfixes were enabled for a table or not.
  • Updated TACTSharp/CASCLib/WoWNamingLib/wow-filetags submodules.

Full Changelog: Marlamin/wow.tools.local@0.9.1...0.9.2

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