Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map. It is based on Rock and other libraries of the wowace community.
- Battlegrounds : allows viewing of battlegrounds outside of the zone.
- Coordinates : adds coordinates to the bottom of the world map of the player and the cursor.
- Foglight : Shows unexplored areas on the map. replacement for MozzFullWorldMap or Unexplorer. Much more efficient, though.
- Group Colors : turns all your party's and your raid's POIs into circles colored based on class, and shows a number on them based on their raid group.
- Instance Maps : shows maps of instances.
- Instance Notes : adds boss notes and such to instance maps.
- Look 'n' Feel : allows you to change the transparency, position, and scale of the world map.
- Notes : lets you put notes on the map, similar to MapNotes.
- Zone Info : on hovering over a zone, it will show the levels of the zone, the instances in the zone, their levels, and the number of men the instance is made for (e.g. 5-man, 40-man).
TO INSTALL: Put the Cartographer folder into
\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\
Wiki: http://wiki.wowace.com/index.php/Cartographer
SVN: http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/Cartographer
There is a new "experimental" version of Cartographer, called Cartographer3, at http://www.curse.com/downloads/detail.../12701/
r78027 | ckknight | 2008-07-07 18:57:07 -0400 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer.toc
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Battlegrounds/Battlegrounds.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Coordinates/Coordinates.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Foglight/Foglight.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_GroupColors/GroupColors.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_GuildPositions/GuildPositions.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_LookNFeel/LookNFeel.lua
Cartographer - only disable modules if Cartographer3 is hijacking the map.
r77997 | ckknight | 2008-07-07 12:52:29 -0400 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Battlegrounds/Battlegrounds.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Coordinates/Coordinates.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_GroupColors/GroupColors.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_GuildPositions/GuildPositions.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Waypoints/WayPoint.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Waypoints/Waypoints.lua
Cartographer - Disable pointless modules if Cart3 is detected (GroupColors, Coordinates, GuildPositions, Battlegrounds)
- Implemented a neutral waypoint API if Cart3 is not detected. Note: This API may change and thus is not published yet.
r77300 | ckknight | 2008-06-23 19:00:35 -0400 (Mon, 23 Jun 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_Foglight/Foglight.lua
Cartographer - Disable the foglight module if Cartographer3 is enabled
r77299 | ckknight | 2008-06-23 18:51:02 -0400 (Mon, 23 Jun 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_GuildPositions/GuildPositions.lua
Cartographer - Remove all references to the old CGP format, since we use the standard LibGuildPositions-1.0 and the 2-month CGP phase-out period has passed.
r77298 | ckknight | 2008-06-23 18:42:42 -0400 (Mon, 23 Jun 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Cartographer/Cartographer_LookNFeel/LookNFeel.lua
M /trunk/Cartographer/embeds.xml
Cartographer - if Cartographer3 is detected, disable Cartographer_LookNFeel
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...