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.
- Professions : automatically tracks herbs and minerals.
- 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, Cartographer_Herbalism, and Cartographer_Mining 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 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)...
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JasperKazai saidHow do I get rid of the waypoint arrow? When I updated, Cartographer only has like 4 options sections now. The arrow is really annoying, and I don't like it at all.
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Xaximus saidThe Foglight settings aren't showing up for me, but I'd really like to be able to hide where I haven't been on the maps. Is this a known issue?
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Takaisan saidMy system has started lagging really bad every time I try and pull this up...is there intent to release a post 2.4.3 version of it, or are you still working on it?
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Johnny9r saidI just updated my cartographer and when i open my map i get a black background that takes over the screen. Is there a way to get rid of this black background? I saw somewhere in this thread that someone said shift roll your mouse wheel will get rid of it but I have bound that function to something else and can't find a way to bind it again.
Help I love the mod but it's unusable right now.
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Addela saidYou can actually just drag it a little bit and let go, it'll snap randomly to the top of your page, but it will clear the background.
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VectorDragon saidomg you have no idea how many things have gone wrong with the cart-3 and me, the first time i logged on it said something exploded and ever since then the whole thing lags like hell! in my oppinion it would have been better to just stay with cart-2
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Xena-LaughingSKull saidis there an update coming for this soon or do I need to go find another addon
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203040 said... this thing fucked up my whole in-game map. the old one is alot better
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brianwildcardmaneke saidno mining notes... no notes period.... what happened to the big install pack with all the notes already in it! ... I update and it wipes out every single note I had... including the big notes pack of more sysmbols... what a jip man!
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termight saidOne thing I have noticed, I do not know if this is fixed yet or not.. is that when in a battleground, I cannot right-click on AFK players and report them.
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madsen81 saidhttp://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6678.html
Cartographer quests
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TitanOfTitans saidKK notice that ckknight has realesed cartographer 3.0 a link is in the Authers box above!
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xzenofx saidok i can't get this mod and quest helper to work at same time if some one could fix that or tell me what i am doing wrong thxs.
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koitsu saidFor the past few WoW releases (2.4.0 to 2.4.3; not sure about earlier, as I wasn't playing then), Cartographer appears to occasionally lose note data on the map; by "lose" I mean the X/Y coordinates of the notes appear to get corrupted, and the note ends up showing up at the wrong place.
All of my notes are populated by talking to guards and asking for locations of things. After a couple days, I'll find notes which were previously at the correct place now at some other random spot on the map. The only solution is to delete the note and re-add it correctly (until the error happens again, lather rinse repeat).
Secondly, something that has annoyed me for quite some time about Cartographer's Foglight function: if you open your map, click on the Cartographer button, go to Foglight, and start adjusting the R/G/B and luminance attributes, the map will end up coming to the foreground, and you have absolutely no way to go back to the Cartographer configuration menu. This makes adjusting the colour of the Foglight a real pain in the ass; you have to fight with the map coming to the foreground constantly.
Finally, why can't addon authors use the built-in WoW interface addons tab for things? Hit Escape, go to Interface -- note the Addons tab! Start putting your configuration crap there, allowing for everything to be in a central place, and consistent. Stop with the custom configuration menus and dialog boxes that look like they were developed by 16 year olds with ADHD. If you want an example Addon that does it correctly, look at BankItems.
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ShadowmastrUD saidI also have a question dealing with the cartographer/mining nodes/herbalism nodes spawning area. tperhai said that you must download GatherMate to go with that or dpwnload the "Complete Cartographer." I still am not understanding what to do. I've looked up GatherMate and canno figure it out. Help me anyone?
ShadowmastrUD
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cyberian saidGetting this error and no trainers on map:
[2008/07/12 23:31:53-1537-x1]: Cartographer_Trainers-1.0\addon.lua:5: Cannot find a library instance of Babble-Tradeskill-2.2.
Ace2\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:490: in function `AceLibrary'
Cartographer_Trainers-1.0\addon.lua:5: in main chunk
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absoclr saidHow do I get wow to realize that I installed add-ons for the cartographer?
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Duchess saidWhere does one get the Icon packs from?
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deeplyinlove saidIs there any way to show my location on the map while in an instance? Mine does not. Just wondering if its supposed to and if you can configure it to do so.
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Syles said@ SaVaGeJiMMy and kipsate86
There is an addon called Gatherer which may be what you are looking for. It will keep track of anything you gather be it node or a herb or a chest and then display that on you world or minimap (or both). You can check it out at www.gatherer.com