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Posted by: Edgar Doiron.2804

Edgar Doiron.2804

To that end, we’re introducing a completely new browser engine into the game.

Could this mean they could build an interface so we could get in-game access to the wiki?

And even more interesting, could we get lore books through that interface? We’ve seen the writers saying that they’re limited by the dialog UI for the stories they can add in the game. But if they can get an interface for somethings like books, so that when we go to the Priory Library we could read an entire book by scrolling and not clicking to see the next two lines, that could be pretty amazing, no?

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Posted by: Brother Grimm.5176

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The only thing in the game that I am aware of that uses browser tech is the BLTP…..nothing at all in the Blog post indicates this would ever be used for anything but that interface (but it’s certainly possible, I guess).

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Posted by: Edgar Doiron.2804

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As of now.

But they could expand on it

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Posted by: AysonCurrax.3254

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Just get yourself overwolf. it gets the job done quite nicely.

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Posted by: Palador.2170

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I would rather they didn’t.

Keep the new TP browser streamlined and focused on the TP and ONLY the TP. Adding in everything needed to deal with the wiki would just be bloat when dealing with what it’s really intended for. Bloat that slows it down, and adds in things that can go wrong.

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Posted by: Healix.5819

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Could this mean they could build an interface so we could get in-game access to the wiki?

The trading post has always been a simple web browser and because of that, you could always mod it to do whatever you wanted. All the new trading post changes for example I had working over a year ago, but dropped the project because I assumed this was going to happen sooner.

As for displaying the wiki, or something else:

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Posted by: Edgar Doiron.2804

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could I get the method of doing this?

That’s amazing!

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could I get the method of doing this?

I use a custom proxy to inject whatever information I want into the trading post, in this case an iframe.

For a basic implementation, you begin with a local web server and modify your local hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to remap tradingpost-dfw-live.ncplatform.net to your local server (127.0.0.1). This will remap the trading post tab to your server, causing it to lose its original functionality for as long as that hosts file entry remains. The other tabs are gemstore-dfw-live.ncplatform.net and exchange-dfw-live.ncplatform.net.