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This is a map addon for World of Warcraft that replaces the map and offers shiny features.

The idea is for it to work very much like Google Maps, only in-game.

Cartographer 3.0 is brand new, "experimental" version of Cartographer.

Video: http://videos.curse.com/details/1467/

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
Please read my post below.

Cartographer uses the minimap graphics actually used by the minimap in game. Therefore, you can only do a detail zoom of one continent at a time.

So, to repost:

So, if you're in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and outlands will not zoom in properly. If you're in outlands, EK and Kalimdor will not zoom in, and if you're in EK, Kalimdor and outlands will not zoom in.

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
But that used to work before, it must have preached them somehow. Did blizzard suddenly change something?

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
"pre cached"

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
That's great of you.
Wow, they have really shifted the landmass around, the stockade poi is way of now - perhaps that is why its taking him a while to fix this :)

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
Doesn't seem to work in outland even though i'm there.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
I've figured out how to fix the zoom-to-bitmap problem. It was easy, since he already had a helper script that would generate the proper values to make things work again.

To fix the bitmap zoom, go to

http://www.hornbostel.com/texturedata.lua

Replace the texturedata.lua file that you'll find in the cartographer3 directory with this one.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
what was the helper script you used, that lua might not neccessariarly work for every version.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Actually, It will most likely will not.

For the LUA savvy, here's what I did:
1. I downloaded the LUA compiler.
2. I used MPQ editor from http://www.zezula.net/mpq.html to extract "md5translate.trs" from common.mpq/textures/minimap
3. I put both

"world.lua" from C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\Cartographer3\Scripts

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the extracted md5translate.trs in the same directory (in my case, i just put them in the lua compiler's directory)

4. I typed:

lua5.1 world.lua > output.txt

5. I opened output.txt and copied everything from the line that started with "Azeroth = " onwards.

6. I opened texturedata.lua in C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\Cartographer3 and pasted over everything from "Azeroth =" onwards.

7. profit.

If you are able to follow these steps, you should be able to keep the app working if a new change is released that breaks the code.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
That worked, but only for Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms is still messed up...think you can fix that too? :)

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Actually, I'm ahead of you there. :)

I noticed the same issue, so I looked into it. The game doesn't load those detailed bitmaps until you are actually IN the respective continent. So, if you're in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and outlands will not zoom in properly. If you're in outlands, EK and Kalimdor will not zoom in, and if you're in EK, Kalimdor and outlands will not zoom in.

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
Well done dude, I tried to do this myself but couldn't get my head around the code in the .lua file :S.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Ckknight,
I wanted to say I really do like your new version of cartographer. I have sold my friends and guild mates on it as well. We all look forward to your continued work.

I know that generating all these maps must be a huge task. I do not know if this site will be on any assistance to you but I wanted to make you aware of it. It has full maps down to mini-map level.

http://mapwow.com/

Thank you again

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
It worked flawlessly for me for months and loved it: scroll-wheel zoom, notes, waypoints, integration of Gatherer and QuestHelper, instance maps (and much more)!

It was hit hard by the patch. Many of those problems are fixed; but, a few others, I hope, will be fixed soon.

If you don't like it right now, with the issues, I encourage you to try it again when it's at 100%.

Thanks, CK, for a great addon.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Try using the addon Gathermate with it, works great and I prefer it to the old module; also this http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=13734

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Hey Ck it would be great if you implemented the herb and mine tracker again this version seems to be missing alot of wht carto advanced had

thx for the good work and am enjoying your "experiment"

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Starting to get frustrated that the minimap textures are not working properly, still.

After how long?

It's been like 2 weeks since the 3.0.2 patch came out, and 4 days since the last Cartographer update.

Are you ignoring your fanbase? It is kind of hard to ignore the amount of complaints your getting even on this website, almost all comments are of people having problems with Cartographer 3.0.

I would love to praise this addon, it worked perfectly before the 3.0.2 addon, and it was a treat to use. What I liked most was the zoom function where you could see the detailed map, and it is very unpredictable now, in whether it wishes to show the textures or not.

Rather disappointed about an addon that has a lot of potential.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Yikes. Seriously unimpressed with the quality of CK's fan base...bitchin at him to get busy fixing his free addons so they can enjoy them.

Have you looked at the number of addons CKKnight makes and supports? And thought about how much time it takes to update them all when Bliz changes their APIs?

CK - good work. Thanks for it. I appreciate your addons and your time.

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Posted Oct 23, 2008
Dude... you can either zoom in, then it won't even cover your wiener, or you can set the scale for any symbol used on the map, then it won't cover anything if you want it to!
Stop bitchin' around stuff you can configure... duh!

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Posted Oct 22, 2008
I seriously do not like the arrow. Call me picky, but the arrow looks quite tacky and is rather huge. I mean, it covers almost Sen'jin Village.

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Posted Oct 22, 2008
It worked a bit first, then i suddenly zoomed automaticly inn ! i couldt do anything, then it went normal but i couldnt press the buttons, like : P G etc in that frame.

I think the Old cartographer was much better and easiler to configure.
and please fix the bugg.

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May 21, 2008
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