Not an issue: Creating a list of waypoints

[n1kn4x]

Hello all,
this is not an issue but I wanted to advertise what I have been vibe-hacking today to make writing bots a bit more easy.

It is a fork of the 'Guild Wars Map Browser' that extends to a 'Route Planner' feature.
The fork can be found here https://github.com/n1kn4x/GuildWarsMapBrowser_RoutePlanner.
I don't know if the maintainer of GWMapBrowser is interested in this feature, but the automation community will, I think.

The Route Planner in GWMapBrowser lets you:

1. Load map data from the GW.dat directly
2. Click together a series of waypoints and displays them on a 2D top-down map and a 3D render of the map. The spellcasting range around every waypoint is also displayed.
3. Export and Import waypoints as CSV.

I think this eases the creation of some bots, as I always thought that getting out the coordinates was annoying.
Now one doesn't need to open GW to write a new bot, I believe.

I am happy for any feedback :)

Here are some screenshots:

[caustic-kronos]

Hey @n1kn4x, this looks super nice !
Sounds like a nice tool for a first approach for a bot indeed.

I'm not sure I would use it a lot, because I never found the process of finding coordinates tedious (I use a logger every X seconds, then map those with a coordinate website and then filter to pick only the necessary coordinates).
But I'm wondering if it could be used for something else: is there a way to see if a point is out of bounds (inside a wall/rock/in the void/in the water ? Because an issue I had was that flagging heroes, the way the Hub does, can put them in one of those out of bounds position, and then the hero is basically useless because he's just trying to reach there.

I moved some things in discussions so that the hub doesn't look like it always has a billion issues 😆
Very nice tool, I'll leave it there so people can take a look and try it out. Maybe you should advertise it on the discord too ?

[n1kn4x]

Ahh thanks, I was not aware there is a discussion section...

What is the coordinate website you mentioned? Maybe that would've already solved my problem xD
Also which discord are you referring to?

The map that is depicted in the first screenshot might be what you are looking for.
It is a top‑down terrain snapshot, composited with a walkable mask. The walkable mask is created from the pathfinding trapezoids ingame. So only what is depicted on that map can also be walked by a character.

[caustic-kronos]

Ahh thanks, I was not aware there is a discussion section...

There wasn't, I just created it 😆
Started to have too many discussions in issues that were staying there all the time, it obscures a bit the "real" issues, so I created discussion tab so we can also have those.

What is the coordinate website you mentioned? Maybe that would've already solved my problem xD

Any coordinate website. For instance I did this: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xoxzv09cl9
In order to do that I did something simple: I played the game like I normally would, but with the Hub running in the background doing a single operation: ToggleMapping
Put this in the RunTests function in TestSuite, then when running the Hub you launch the bot named "Tests" and it will start mapping coordinates in a file. Next time you press start it will stop mapping.
Then you have a neat list of coordinates saved in a file you can paste online or anywhere you want.
Can also toggle this mapping to print all coordinates of chests. Used it to make Tasca: made the bot, started ToggleMapping in chest mode, and after the bot ran hundreds of times I have all the locations the chests spawned. Allows you to see if your path is missing any.

I'm referring to this discord : https://discord.gg/Dfx3HAUZ

Hmm. Now need to fetch that mask somehow and be able to interrogate it with a IsWalkable function somehow ...

[n1kn4x]

Thanks for the explanation!
Toolbox is also getting the Pathing map called Pmap to render the minimap widget:
https://github.com/gwdevhub/GWToolboxpp/blob/master/GWToolboxdll/Widgets/Minimap/PmapRenderer.cpp
When GWA2 finds that data aswell, it should be pretty straight forward to write an IsWalkable function.

Edit: the PathingMap can be found in the MapManager:
https://github.com/gwdevhub/GWToolboxpp/blob/master/Dependencies/GWCA/include/GWCA/Managers/MapMgr.h

[caustic-kronos]

@n1kn4x By the way ! I think you should have a compiled/release version on your fork.
Right now, if someone wants to test your add-on, he needs to compile from scratch, which requires C++ development tools (which take up to 10Gb).

[n1kn4x]

ahh right, I'll set it up, thanks for the hint!

[n1kn4x]

Ok done :)