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Any ETA for things to go back to normal API wise?
Not before regular business hours would be a good bet
But they can… by giving their guild their API keys
Just dumping this here because I’m not a fan of new topics and it’s semi related to this one :P
The “New Key” page currently reads
Set a name, description, and set of permissions for this key. The name and description fields are for your use.
First: There is no “description” field
Second: That those fields “are for your use” kind of implies to me that only I will be able to see the name of this key. It may just be a minor privacy thing, but I think people should be made aware that this information is available through the API.
Third, while we’re here: Maybe make it clear that all (current) scopes are read only.
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https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ (and a ton of other support pages, most of which are dead, except for help.ncsoft.com) expired 31.08.2013 23:59:59 GMT
You may want to renew certificates before the deadline hits, especially when it’s on a weekend
Having up to date map tiles as the update hits would be rad, otherwise we’d have to abandon the tile service and build our own with tiles mined from the game client.
This is the map of Labyrinthine Cliffs the tile service gives us as of right now
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Here are the digital versions of the campaign posters, so you can print them out or play with them to show your support for the candidate of your choice:
Kiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/9304482086/sizes/l/
Gnashblade: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/9301701493/sizes/l/
Those are not New Krytan! My immersion!
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I made a silly picture
All events are within map_rect of their respective map.
All maps are within continent_rect of their continent.
To figure out where something is on the continent you need to know their place within map_rect on the map, then fit map_rect inside continent_rect on the continent.
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Do I run location distributor on my server forward the ports add a key to it and then host the webpage with the distributor address and key for it to work like this?
The distributor doesn’t care about the keys really, all you set it up with is a port and update frequency (no binding to a specific interface yet, sorry).
You’d set it and a map modified for your needs up somewhere, give your people the sender and point them to it.
Ideally you’d have a prompt for the key on both sender and map, so if a third party knew where your map was they’d not get your locations.
For ease of use give them the sender as an exe and a preconfigured bat along with it to run that thing, like:
@echo off
set /P key="Enter key: " %=%
location_sender.exe local.ctrl-alt-chainsaw.net -l info -p 8888 -f 0.5 -k %key%
pauseThey’d enter it as they run the bat and open the map, and off they go. Or you hard code it on the map and/or client and hope nobody from the other side figures out where your map is
As for the icon, line 144 sets the icon style for a new player, which is defined in 105-110.
You could define a new icon, like “leaderIcon” along with a list of your leaders, like “var leaders = [‘Gir Doomsong’,‘Inventor Zim’];” somewhere, and modify line 144 to read something like “icon: leaders.indexOf(player.name)>=0? leaderIcon : posIcon,” or something :P
I should definitely update the map a little if I get around to….
Within a zone, the offset seems to be consistent, so I can easily write a translation map for each zone, but I’m curious if other people have noticed the same?
I think most location translation is going on here
I notice Dredghaunt Cliffs and Caledon Forest are way off using that formula, but all other maps I visited were spot on. Either way I think we should split discussions out of this a bit
Here’s my very crude implementation of the whole thing, in Python:
https://github.com/zeeZ/gw2-location
Stuff “compiled” into executables:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6664141/gw2/location_dist.zip
My current version of the map:
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6664141/gw2/map.html
If you point the sender at local.ctrl-alt-chainsaw.net port 8888 it should show up, unless I shut it down or it crashed :P
Should probably explain this a little more:
location_sender prepares and attempts to read link data from memory. Once it finds something, it takes position, face direction, map and character name, converts position to world map coordinates based on a json call and face direction to degrees, and tries to send that data as a base64 ecnoded JSON string to a WebSocket server.
location_distributor provides the WebSocket for that information, makes sure it’s a little bit sane, and provides another WebSocket that keeps pushing a json list of everyone’s location data
The map as linked above subscribes to that and, hopefully, shows where everyone is.
Problems right now:
- sender doesn’t reconnect on its own, does no check if the game is still updating data (uiTick) and will just keep sending forever.
- distributor doesn’t do a lot of sanity checking besides stripping anything but the information we want from the json it receives. Players are only removed once the sender disconnects, even if it stops sending updates
- map is very basic and hackish.
I welcome anything you can tell me about my code
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Yes, math hard. Cliff?
