Just an idea, and I think many will agree with me...

Godatte · #1 07-11-2009, 12:48 PM

Why not have bird flight paths as a type of 'poi', togglable, so that we can actually see where we are going in zones like Moors of Ykesha or RoK etc.

It's not normally so big a deal for me but recently I started my assassin again and it's proving a pain to get around (my main is a dirge with 100% run speed down to an assassin with 40% run speed, until I get my shard mount in the very distant future).

Just a suggestion, as I'm sure many will agree with it. Being in fens thinking 'which one can take me to there' quite often with the new questlines

Thanks, please let me know if you like the idea too!

Vuetee/Faemous/Valdoartus

SaintPeter · #2 07-12-2009, 02:24 AM

Presuming you can execute the /loc command as you fly (and that it produces accurate results), it should be easy enough to capture the flightpaths.

Then it would be a matter of adding an additional overlay to the associated zones, which I'm pretty sure is doable. I'm not entirely sure it would work, though. I'll have to defer to one of our XML experts.

**gm9** · #3 07-12-2009, 06:18 AM

Not sure if that refers to me but I'd say XML is not the way to go for this. If you remember, we used to have a toggleable zone connection overlay for the old map system. That one was a transparent .dds file that was shown on top of the map but below the POI layer. If you come up with one that looks good (I used Photoshop's path function for the old one, makes it easy to adjust also) I guess we could include it.

Godatte · #4 07-13-2009, 04:33 PM

it doesn't even need to show the flight path tbh, just connect the dots so to speak... straight lines even would be nice

dragowulf · #5 07-13-2009, 06:50 PM

I really like this idea.

Photoshop has a path function? Hell if I knew.

**gm9** · #6 07-13-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by dragowulf

Photoshop has a path function? Hell if I knew.

Haha, at least my old version does, can't say whether your new shiny version can still do that.

Take a look at where you can select layers and channels, you should also have a "Paths" tab there. I've attached my old .psd for you if you want to take a look.