Randalljafo

Terrian Map not working after update 27.2
the Alias/loc will not show where you.re at.
seems new info needed in /loc cmd.
you are on <ServerName or World> server <serverNumber> at

as a workaround I added (ServerName or World) .for me Crickhollow
for a temp fix and Alias/Loc does work again.
I did not need to add ServerNumber.

Thanks for a fantastic Plugin, love it. Look forward to update.



Ok, I'm not a plug-in wizard. Could you tell me which file to add this to and exactly what to add? Thank You

DLevel

Terrian Map not working after update 27.2
the Alias/loc will not show where you.re at.
seems new info needed in /loc cmd.
you are on <ServerName or World> server <serverNumber> at

as a workaround I added (ServerName or World) .for me Crickhollow
for a temp fix and Alias/Loc does work again.
I did not need to add ServerNumber.

Thanks for a fantastic Plugin, love it. Look forward to update.

Garan

Ver 1.27 is a fix for the /loc format change in the EN client in U26.2.2

Danielcz

Meeowww, now im happy kitten

Garan

This version corrects the strings.lua file so that the correct English text is displayed on the new annotation dialogs including the black/white list maintenance and sharing (when English is the selected language). Previously, Russian was displayed making it unusable for English users (French and German were not affected by this).

Garan

Due to an error in the strings.lua file, several labels are showing Russian text when the selected language is English. Notably, this affects the labels in the Whitelist/Blacklist maintenance window and some of the annotation sharing labels. This will be fixed in ver 1.25 which will be published as soon as I finish flogging the quality control goblins and verify that there are no other obvious glitches...

Note, this only affects users that have "English" set as the language in TerrainMap, users that have selected French, German or Russian will not be affected by this.

Garan

This is a pretty significant update since it finally enables Custom Annotations.

Not only will TerrainMap support custom annotations now, but they are integrated with MoorMap so that any annotation additions, changes or deletions by TerrainMap will automatically be reflected in MoorMap.

TerrainMap also has the ability to share custom annotations via chat! Just click on any custom annotation (this only applies to custom annotations, not the built-in ones) and select Share from the annotation window. On the sharing window, select a channel - if you aren't sure which custom channels you currently have, click the Refresh button to get the channel names of connected user channels. If you select the "Tell" channel then you also have to enter a player name. Click Send and the annotation is shared. Recipients must have TerrainMap 1.24 or higher installed and running.

If you receive a shared annotation, a new exclamation mark alert icon will display at the top of TerrainMap indicating that there are pending shared annotations - by default, shared annotations go to a pending list and the user can choose to accept or reject them. You can also choose to White List or Black List a sender. White Listing a sender will cause all pending annotations from that sender to be automatically added to the map and any new shares received will also be automatically added, bypassing the pending list. Similarly, Black Listing a sender will cause all pending annotations from that sender to be automatically removed from the pending list and all new shares from that user will be ignored - note, this does NOT ignore the player chat (Lua plugins don't have access to the client Ignore list) but the shares will not be added to the map nor will they be put on the pending list.

In addition to adding a player to the White/Black Lists via the pending window, you can maintain the lists from the Options window, allowing you to add/remove or even move players between the lists. Note, adding a player to the White/Black list in the list maintenance window will also immediately apply that status to the list of pending shared annotations.

Garan

A minor correction to my previous post:
This is no longer true. Due to a brilliant insight (or just a solid hit on the head) MoorMap WILL share custom annotations with TerrainMap when this feature is released (assuming you update to the latest MoorMap as well). This will slightly delay the release of both MoorMap 1.39 and TerrainMap 1.24 but I feel it will be well worth it. MoorMap 1.39 will still not share custom annotations between users (until a future update) but in the mean time, any custom annotations shared by TerrainMap will also automatically update MoorMap. I just need to make a few more tweaks to the way that MoorMap stores and maintains its custom annotations and do a LOT of additional testing.

vecny.samotar

I'm going to need it but it would be nice to be temporarily disabled when there is no need for the user to view it
as an example I would lead the waypoint: I use h often when looking for something, so every few meters I give updates what we then list my / loc but I do not find out how far I am from the target because it lists in nine x: y: z: o: what is good for authors and dev developers but not for users.
I have some experience with plugins (mainly from World of Warcraft) but not so much to prove them, max. I can already edit an existing plugin

Garan

The reason that most plugins send information to chat on the "Standard" channel is because there is information that can be parsed from some of the chat responses that is not otherwise exposed to Lua, especially location information. This is the reason Waypoint sends information to chat in order to update the pointer arrow - the chat command "/loc" is generated when the user clicks the arrow and the response is parsed to determine the player's current location allowing the plugin to update the pointer arrow to the destination. MoorMap use the same mechanism to position the player's marker on the map - this is the only mechanism available for such information and only gets updated in response to a user click.

While you might not like the clutter of messages that look like spam, it is the price of having additional functionality such as player positioning (even if it requires a user to click a button to update). Any chat messages from my plugins are either required for functionality (such as /listchannels or /loc commands), are controllable by the user (the user must actively choose to click a button to send the info to chat, such as for sharing information with other players), or are generated to indicate a significant state change (such as the plugin loaded and unloaded messages). There are a few plugins that output extraneous information but they are the exception, not the norm.

vecny.samotar

Maybe a smaller reminder about sending location information to the chat.
it would be good if you can disable or enable chatting. I now have a chat with various messages that send plugins such as. waypoint

Garan

Ah, yes! That was the thread. Thank you. I forgot it was accidentally posted in the DDO forum which explains why my digging didn't find it - I probably should have simply googled it What did we all do before Google?

Thurallor

I think that was Agollas.

Looking forward to trying this out. And peeking at the source code to extract whatever nuggets of wisdom are left hidden in your brain.

Garan

Well, I finally found some time to revisit some things on the ToDo list, so I threw a dart at the board and it stuck on TerrainMap. The result? Custom Annotations will be coming to TerrainMap in the next version. But, not only can you add annotations to TerrainMap, you can share those annotations with friends (or enemies if you like) via chat (the recipient must be running TerrainMap at the time).
Here's a preview of what some of it will look like (this is on my dev box so some things are subject to change):


Note, you will be able to white list senders so that annotations go directly to your map without waiting in the Pending list. You can also black list senders so that all pending and future annotations from that sender are ignored.

Unfortunately, due to significant differences in the way Annotations are handled, the custom annotations from TerrainMap will not be shared with MoorMap. I'm still working on finding a way to over come this but at this time it is not really feasible. However, MoorMap will undoubtedly gain from this the ability to share it's custom annotations with other users of MoorMap in some future version.

Oh yeah, it will also work with all three clients, EN/DE/FR even if the sender and recipient are on different clients. The UI is fully translated, the only thing that won't automatically translate is the text of the actual annotation name and description as that is user maintained.

Thanks to vecny.samotar for reminding me that the Add Annotation menu item didn't actually do anything and thanks to whoever got me thinking about the multi-player Cards plugin and sharing info between players (I looked for the thread on it but I couldn't even remember which forum it was on).

There are two obvious extensions to this idea, one being sharing your location via chat so others can find you (limited to tells, fellowship, raid and kinship channels - otherwise I can see people spamming this to be a nuisance) and the ability to send annotation info (name and cords) to chat for people that don't have the plugin but ask where something is. Unfortunately, my current time doesn't allow for implementing those but they will take the place of Custom Annotations of the dreaded ToDo list.

vecny.samotar

thank you for your reaction
I have accepted that the information from the plugins cannot be displayed on the default map.
I just thought of merging information from various map plugins into one plugin so the user wouldn't have to have 4-5 plugins, each specializing in only one area to display. so the user would have 2 maps (default and associated, linked plugin)