MMaps

mmaps

what are mmaps:

mmaps is short for movement maps...

this is the handling of creature pathfinding and pathing. for more info: navmesh and CritterAI

what this means in simple terms is it stops mobs and creatures from going through the walls,

and sticking to los (line of sight - collision maps).

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vids are for demonstration purpose only.

1. video example 1

2. video example 2

3. video example with playerbots (NYI)

4. video example with mmaps disabled

5. video example with mmaps enabled

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How extract MMaps.

• after you have everything built extract maps and dbc's the same as you always have.

• extract the vmaps and assemble as you always have. (save the Buildings dir this will be used later)

• in you BIN dir (server directory) *data/ dir (directory holding your maps and dbcs) copy mmaps_extractor to this location,

• add the libmysql/ace.dll to *data dir. ( it is needed for mmaps_extractor to run)

• create an empty folder named mmaps. (this is where all generated mmaps tiles will go)

• now move everything from inside buildings directory into your vmaps folder...(*data/vmaps) and run the mmaps_extractor...

• last step the easiest of all, just kick back with a movie, and wait til it finishes.

(Note: for some depending on your machine, this could be a very long wait).