There are some fantastic moments of ambient dialog in the game. I’ve been playing since launch and I still get occasionally surprised by NPC chatter when I idle in random places.
I caught the dialog between the sylvari gate assistant and the asura gate tech in the Grove for the first time recently. That did make me smile.
You thought of posting these on OC Remix ?
There’s not enough Guild Wars tunes there
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I posted this on the GW2 Subreddit a week or so back, but forgot to link it on here too.
I’ve made a random character generator for GW2 – available from: http://gw2.properdave.com/roll
The generator will give you the personal story options, character name suggestions, as well as species, gender, class, profession etc.
If you’re geeky and want to incorporate it into your own site, drop me a message – I’ve made the generator publicly available to use. So long as you know javascript you can pull it into your own site with relative ease.
Who on Tyria would need to make 600 requests a minute? That’s sounds like bad programming to me.
Eh, /v2/commerce/listings is updated every ~30 seconds and takes ~150 requests to pull all the data from. Sites that additionally maintain a large pool of API keys (e.g., for grabbing /v2/pvp/games) also might require higher request rates.
600 requests/minute is certainly a lot, but there are definitely cases where it’s not enough.
This inspires me to write some general purpose best-practice guides on API consumption that I’ll see if I can sneak into the references on the Wiki’s API page when I’m done.
And also; Keep up the good work Lawton! We really do appreciate it!
Would it be legit if I use my own server for static API requests and only use the official API for account bounded requests? My Server would then have its own database of items for example and only updates this database like every 24h?
I really think everyone should go this way.
It requires less time, more search variety, and so on and so forth.
For my software I planned to check for the change in version name, to trigger a database rebuild, but found it is too often, so just press a button after major updates.
Caching responses from the GW2API is a good way to go – it gives your own projects more fault-tolerance for when situations like this occur.
For my part, I try and cache everything I pull from the API for at least 24 hours, and vary request intervals back to the API so that I don’t flood the servers with requests.
Who on Tyria would need to make 600 requests a minute? That’s sounds like bad programming to me. My earlier versions of Plotty were a little unforgiving on the API calls, but I’ve hopefully fixed all that in the latest builds. :o
Hi all,
I’ve made further improvements to Plotty, now adding the game server IP recording to position data (this should support both existing IPv4 output from MumbleLink, but also IPv6 should Anet ever switch to it). I’ve switched the built-in web browser control from .NET’s godawful WebBrowser control to Mozilla Gecko (Firefox’s engine). The switch means that Plotty has had a size increase though – up from 8MB to 80MB for the inclusion of the new browser controls.
If anyone wants a reliable MumbleLink exporter but doesn’t want the bloat now attached to Plotty, let me know. I’ll re-write the MumbleLinkAPI Interface into a reusable DLL or small console application.
I’ve also overhauled GW2Maps a bit, and created a high-resolution tile endpoint. You’re welcome to pilfer my high-res tiles, but for the love of Iron show some respect for my bandwidth/cpu cycles and cache them your side.
The high-res endpoint operates thusly:
1) You request a tile (eg: http://www.gw2maps.com/tile/highres/1/1/5/10/10.jpg )
2) GW2Maps first checks to see if it’s generated the tile in the last 24 hours, if it has, it returns the existing tile.
3) If the site needs to generate your request, it initially checks for and downloads [if required] the current standard-resolution tile from the Tile Service API. This standard-res tile will be returned if there’s any errors generating the high-res one.
4) Your high-res tile request is then created from stitching together cached Zoom-level 7 tiles. If the site doesn’t have the tile it needs, it retrieves the required tile from the Tile Service API.
Every request to the Tile Service API is cached for at least 24 hours (I’ve added variance to the caching to prevent multiple re-requests for tiles at once). So this caching prevents hitting Anet’s API excessively.
After all, we’re only going to see significant map changes when new maps are added, so we don’t need to spam the servers with requests constantly, and I can purge the cache on GW2Maps when new maps are released to rebuild the whole of Tyria/Mists.
As a bootnote; I’m only providing high-res tiles for zoom layers 4, 5 and 6 – zoom level 7 is the regular tiles, and anything less than zoom level 3 is not noticeable detail, so my endpoint will just return standard tiles for those zooms.
bootnote2; I have DNS aliases too. tiles1,tiles2,tiles3,tiles4
Feedback would be greatly appreciated. I think all this stuff is cool – but then I’m totally a geography nerd.
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Yes – much appreciated Lawton!
This will be a fantastic addition to the API. At the moment I’ve been best-guessing layers by pre-recording z-positions in different maps.
Shameless opportunistic plug time, but if you want a working MumbleLink mapping tool, I’ve had Plotty online for over a year and it does just that ~ you can use my mapping server on http://gw2maps.com or have Plotty target your own mapping server by changing the program settings.
Somehow I missed this thread – if it would interest anyone, I made a Windows tool called ‘Plotty’ over a year ago now, which acts as a GPS using the Mumble Link API.
I just recently moved it and the mapping tools I’ve had running for years to what appears to be the very un-original http://gw2maps.com/ :o
Plotty homepage at: http://gw2maps.com/plotty
You can set the servers Plotty sends data to from within the Settings window in Plotty.
For those that have their own mapping sites – you can also change the settings.ini file that distributes with the Plotty download to target other servers (this allows you to redistribute Plotty and have it automatically target your own server). If you do redistribute Plotty, please at least give me credit.
Edit: Just added global hot key support and a new favourites data field on coordinates, so you can enable the option to have Plotty listen for an in-game key press (eg: F12, CTRL+G etc). When Plotty hears the keypress it will mark the captured location to the db as a ‘favourite’ location. You can then extract just the favourites from the History db, and I’ve also added a customisable JSON export option – allowing a user to quickly create a json data set.
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Hmm, looks very interesting, too bad these API forums are rarely checked by the rest of the forum. Maybe you should post this in the WvW section?
I’ll give it a go. Hopefully the forum mods won’t mind the repost. It was rather difficult deciding the best place to mention the tool, and if it was worth getting in trouble for creating several posts throughout the forums.
Hi all,
I have cobbled together a position tracking system and mapping tool for Guild Wars 2. I call it Plotty.
It’s currently running as a small 3MB Windows system tray client, and when you toggle it on it checks the GW2 game’s Mumble interface to work out where you are in the world, who you are (curent character), and if you’re a commander.
All the info is stored in a local SQLite db that you can query and export as CSV, and you can also map your data to a local interactive map.
I’ve also added in the option to send your map data to a mapping server to plot your data publicly and collaboratively. The collaborative aspect of the mapping allows parties/guilds to see all their data in one map so for instance – if you like to WvW raid, you can do after-battle assessments to work out how well people stayed on tag etc.
The Plotty client is independent of the mapping server, and if you’re a developer you can even make your own mapping server and have Plotty send data to it.
I’ve only just released the tool – and there’s plenty of things that need improving both client side and on my mapping server. I’m hoping someone will find it useful/interesting.
Download from: http://gw2.properdave.com/plotty/latest
Windows only at the moment. .Net 4 framework required. See the readme.txt in the download. Mac clients will follow if there’s enough interest.
Example of two players movements in DR on a communal map:
http://www.lordtrain.com/livemap/watch/1/III_Legio/18/1451612412/1454118103
Wikimedia is pretty good and dead easy for contributors to get stuff in, but it’s a sod to administer and optimise.
I did the Wikia one as it was quick and easy to set up, but it can be a pain to use and full of ads.
Be sure to let me know what you go for in the end, as I’ll shut down the Wikia and redirect to whatever you come up with.
Hey, if you saw an earlier post, you might be aware I set up a Musical Scratch Pad, where you can try out musical scores and export your music to Macro or even MP3.
I’ve been thinking about improvements I can do, and am considering building a timeline feature with multiple tracks – and wondering if any musically inclined individuals might find it useful?
This would be perfect for designing tracks to be played by more than one player.
The existing Scratch Pad is here: http://gw2music.properdave.com
Let me know what you think. I’ll only think about building if people will be interested in using it
hmm, this could be good inspiration for a community event.
It’s been a rather nice day here in rainy ol’ england. I could have totally enjoyed a charr-grilled burger or skritt on a stick.
I’ll stick stuff in as I find it. We can make it bloody awesome
What the… It’s horrible what you’ve done to me, it’s the kind of horrible things that you need to hide far away from myself, because of course I waste my time on such things :P.
Here we go: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1VTf0RrVIBY :p
Brilliant! You’re the first user I’ve seen share anything composed with it.
Created a Wikia, if you want to take charge That ol noob.7083 and start populating it
http://gw2music.wikia.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Music_Wikia
I’ll fill it full of bits I can find off the forum, and shamelessly plug my Musical Scratch Pad because I’m awesome <3
http://gw2music.properdave.com
Hi all,
I’m in the process of creating a website for testing and developing musical scores using the in-game instruments.
The first revision, which currently only features the Bell is available at: http://gw2music.properdave.com
Please let me know what you think – I’ll be expanding it to feature all the in-game instruments over the coming weeks.
I’ve also built macro generation for the Razer gaming devices – if you have another brand gaming device and want to be able to generate macros for it, please let me know the brand and if you can provide me a sample macro I’ll see if I can find the macro creation instructions or reverse engineer the macro file to add support for it.
Made a custom map to indicate the start point of the event -
http://lordtrain.com/map/custom/RtfftRv6
Please message me in game if you need a lift.
Hi all,
I’ve created a font pack and guild emblem generator to make it easy for people to add their guild logos to their own website or forum. Emblem generators are not particularly new, but the font pack allows for anyone with a bit of html/css knowledge to add full guild emblem support to their website with just a few lines of html. I’ve even provided a jQuery plugin so you can add guild emblem generation through a bbcode style tag like “[guild]My guild name[/guild]”.
Some of the glyphs are a bit rough – I will improve them over time so check back for updates regularly.
Let me know what you think, and if you implement it on your site.
Hi all,
I have just published a revised site for my Guild, and introduced a custom mapping feature making using of the GW2 mapping API and the LeafletJS tile engine.
I’m quite chuffed with it, and thought you all may appreciate it for sharing maps with friends. I wasn’t sure of the best place on the forums to boast about it – but as it’s all about creativity and community spirit, I thought I’d pop it in here.
Go take a look: http://lordtrain.com/map/create
Usage Instructions at: http://lordtrain.com/home/map
Example custom map: http://lordtrain.com/map/custom/hcaVmt3f
Let me know what you think!
Brilliant! Love the look of the new statues and would love to get my hands on one (or them all), however – trying to put an order through Amazon (US) with TOPOP, and Amazon tells me that because I reside in the UK, I am not allowed to receive the order.
Can someone please have a word with TOPOP? Is there any opportunity for International sales? Granted this is probably TOPOP’s responsibility and not ArenaNet’s/NCSoft’s, but it’s very unfair to advertise the statues without sticking on a note saying it’s for US residents only.
I can’t be the only Non-US player wanting these treasures! Anyone else dissapointed at being restricted?
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… where can we now gossip about other servers!
I agree entirely! I’m from Aurora Glade – it doesn’t feel safe gossiping about Desolation in World chat now with fellow AG players as Deso players may be listening!
We can’t publically recruit in PvE chat for WvW activities without giving the game away to other server players too!
Perhaps the home cities and 1-15 maps should be off the megaservers? I always believed the 1-15 maps had a fairly decent population when I’ve been exploring – I always thought the higher level maps seemed to have lower populations.
