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oh ingame easiest way is to make a macro that goes /Show_window mainhud.maps
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How do I get the map window to show up? I'm using your files but what command will bring up your map window?

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I dropped the map window in your Jornal. Why? Because. Heheh. Well mostly cuz its the biggest window as it is, so you wont have too much window size-changes from the larger maps.

Not to mention being able to have a noted map open at the same time as your real map in zones in Antonica.

EDIT: looks like Eloa's version was done as its own window. Just checked it out in the builder. Ill have to go in game real quick. Will obviously not be J for that one

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This might be a good time to suggest that perhaps the existing map window should be examined a little more closely... I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.

The necessary zone names are available someplace if you look in the game directories closely (at least after zoning there.)

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look here guys

C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II\cache\ioplans

I glanced inside the io files and of course it looks all crazy, there are lots of directories of vpk's listed in them tho...

not sure how this can help us with any of these things, though!

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The work you guys are doing on this mod is absolutelyawesome !!!

& the fact that SOE Bobble posted & threw out a clue has left me very impressed indeed.

I am following the progress of this mod daily.

May the Gurus prevail & bring ingame maps to the masses !




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look here guys

C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II\cache\ioplans

I glanced inside the io files and of course it looks all crazy, there are lots of directories of vpk's listed in them tho...

not sure how this can help us with any of these things, though!

I believe I've figured out what he's referring to. I'll see if the "You are here" dot/arrow moves when you place custom maps here. If not, we might as well just keep it going in the journal window.

MainHUD.Map.MapStyles: Lists a bunch of image frames with the internal zone names, referencing the game maps we know about.

MainHUD.Map.MapPage.Icons: Lists of all the waypoints in a given zone. Names match up with MapStyles images and the zone names in cache\ioplans (although that appears to list zone lines?)

If this works, the biggest problem will be scaling it correctly so the You Are Here dot is placed at the correct point.
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to show Eloa's version this should work

/show_window MainHUD.Maps

and to hide
/hide_window MainHUD.Maps
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Okay gang, it works. I've got it so the map folder will show the Peat Bog, including mostly-accurate "You Are Here" arrow.

1- Get a map and convert it to DDS format. ***The actual map area needs to start at 0,0 and end at 436,506 or it will get cut off!*** The image itself should be 512x512.
2- Find the "internal name" of the zone. You'll need to find it under the "paks" folder. Example: The Peat Bog's internal name is qey_adv04_bog
3- Duplicate one of the Image Styles under MapStyles and rename it to the internal name of the zone.
4- Set the ImageStyle's zonerect to reflect the loc of the upper left and lower right corners of the map. Switch the negative/positive values for the X axis.

Example: Map of the Peat Bog here: http://www.***************/eq2/maps.asp?ID=7
You can see that the NW corner's loc is labelled 850,345, and the SE corner is 545,670. Therefore, the zonerect for qey_adv04_bog is "-850,345,-545,670"

5- Go to MapPage and it's subpage Icons. You'll see here that there's a Page with each internal zone name just like there was an ImageStyle in MapStyles. Duplicate one and rename it to the zone's internal zone name. Now you can create/move/rename the "points of interest" icons for that zone.

(When placing markers, go to the image "ZoneMap" and change it's style from "MapStyles.fprt_hood01" to "MapStyles.(currentzonetoedit)" to display the map in the editor window.)


The hardest part is going to be getting the ZoneRect 100% accurate.

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to do anything with the height axis, so Eloa's method will probably still work better for multi-level but single-zone dungeons like Blackburrow.

Edit: Ooh! He could use the method he's doing to show/hide images underneath the regular map area, then use blank maps. That way you can sort through multi-level dungeons AND have an accurate loc arrow!

Note: I'm saying "arrow" instead of "dot" because that's what's currently on test and it should be live within a week.
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wooohoo!

good job Deathbane27!

Let get on this...we need to get together and figure out which maps each of us will do...i'd be MORE than happy to see this go to what i originally planned!

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Let get on this...we need to get together and figure out which maps each of us will do...
Unfortunately my participation in this endeavor has pretty much reached its limits. I'm horrible at making maps, figuring out where I am and where to place landmarks, etc. And to top it off, my highest level character is 20 and I don't even know where to GET all these access quests. I'll see what help I can contribute, though.
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ok myself and hopefully Eloa will get on it then

going to suck for Eloa tho, now we have to port all her waypoints into the map window
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Hmm... i dont like the current map window. Especially the size limitations of it. I'll mess with some stuff later and see if I can figure out another way to mess with the loc. I myself can do without the Loc, but what do you guys thing, would it be better to port everything over to it? I think for one its gonna look pretty ugly, squished, etc. Like the antonica map being split in two, I hate it, but its gonna have to be done with a lot of them.
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Here's a blank map and the 4 freeport newbie zone maps modeled after the default in-game map styles for use by someone who can get them in the map window.

This zip has the 4 FP newbie zones, the .dds is a blank map template.

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Here's a blank map and the 4 freeport newbie zone maps modeled after the default in-game map styles for use by someone who can get them in the map window.

This zip has the 4 FP newbie zones, the .dds is a blank map template.

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From what I know hardly anyone makes freeport information and I only play qeynos so this is great, will get them in as soon as we find out where we are going with this.



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Eloa, i have a strong feeling that we are going to end up doing a little of each.

For the original map i suspect only a few maps will be able to be implemented because:

commonlands and atonica are too big unless you halve it (might be worth it for these two tho)

a map has to be made that has exact or very close sizes/distances so that it matches up perfectly with the required map dimensions. This is the one that is going to hold us up the most with the zones that have no map whatsoever.

Until someone makes a perfect sized map, we will most likely have all teh maps in the window Eloa created. Once a good map is made, we insert it and test it out.
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I was thinking about resizing the map window for bigger maps and trying to get the loc marker to scale with it. but here is my chat ramble about why I dont think we'll ever be able to get that to work:

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I dont think it's possible. Everything that is in there is starting to make sense. The map is placed in the MapPage and if all zone coordinates started at 0,0 then the game could position the marker at /loc's coords in the mappage, but since zonerect is there, its telling it to subtract the zonerect from the /loc and place the dot at the appropriate spot.
The weird thing is that there is an ingame map for antonica but its not listed as a style in the uibuilder, therefore we have nothing to go off of as a base for cutting maps up like antonica does now. We can plead with bobble to help us out here...

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lets say antonica is 1000x500. could you not start the dot at 500x0?
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theres nothing to change the dot with, it has to be hardcoded....

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so that all arent left out:

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<EloaMasterHealer> its odd that theres no antonica listed in the ui file. We really need that for something to go off of for multi page maps.
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> maybe we can provoke Bobble into telling us how we can do it, or at least IF we can
<EloaMasterHealer> but I've been to antonica and have lots of diff names of files the 2 maps could be, but never been to commonlands and I'm seeing that it has 2 names,
<EloaMasterHealer> commandlands.vpk and commonlands_SG.vpk
<EloaMasterHealer> so that MUST be it
<EloaMasterHealer> SG would be the second map name
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> There's lots of files with SG.
<EloaMasterHealer> weird too...
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> Custom Antonica map would rock though
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> Whenever anyone asks newbie question, just send them to download the complete map pack
<EloaMasterHealer> he said something about if you've already been there you would see the what he was talking about, but ALL the files in my vpk folder are dated the install date
<EloaMasterHealer> heh, yep
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> Cache folder
<EloaMasterHealer> ioplans
<EloaMasterHealer> right, i was just playing refugee isle, and its the latest dated file
<EloaMasterHealer> wonder what all this junk is though.... tutorial_island02+tutorial_island02_epic01.iop
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> Game makes one of those files every time you zone.
<Deathbane-SemiAFK> That one is for zoning into the orc cave.
<EloaMasterHealer> aha
<EloaMasterHealer> so if you watch the cache folder you will find out when you cross zonename lines since the file will update
<EloaMasterHealer> and then you can have all the names
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Ok so on another note, in my maps, i managed to resize the maps to 512x512 and just stretch it to the same size as the 1024x1024 and after sharpening them you can hardly tell a difference, which also cuts the size from 512k to 129kb so that will save alot of ram from being eaten up.
New file is attached.

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You know if we have this correct, you can just have the great guys over there take my map mod and implement it ingame and let us change the locdot.
If we have it wrong though, and we can resize the map and still get the loc to work can we get some further info please?
Or even some more information on how maps like antonica work with the split...
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Added steppes map so my coworkers can add to it.

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Eloa,
Instead of putting everything inside the eq2ui_mainhud.xml, i recommend you put in

<include>eq2ui_mainhud_custommap.xml</include>

and put all your stuff in eq2ui_mainhud_custommap.xml, obviously

just makes more sense that way. Plus if people have certain windows listed above others it would change their layer order all to what your eq2ui_mainhud's order is.
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good call, working on it
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Just submitted to downloads section as well.
Update
Put everything into a new .xml file

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Another update. I just can't stay away.
This release intented for devs only, not game use. Download .05
Implemented the skeleton for the quests window.

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