[masm32] YAWR (+src) - Yet another WoW radar

[wraithZX]

The minimap tiles in the MPQ's are pre-compressed with DXT1 - if you're using DirectX/OpenGL, you can place the image directly into graphics memory without decompression/recompression etc. etc.

All up, with the entirety of Northrend minimaps sitting on the GFX card, takes up ~170MB. With the images extracted and decompressed to ARGB, I believe memory usage was peaking at 1.5GB and lagging like a mofo.

Not to mention that the scaling is done on the card rather than the cpu, so zooming in/out are much faster redraws.

Guess it depends on what you want from the radar though, you may be able to get away with just loading 4 tiles and drawing those, dropping/loading new tiles when needed.

[KcDan]

I have the maps for Northrend, Azeroth, Kalimdor, Expansion01, and the DKStartArea in JPG form (half size to save a few more kb per pic so 128x12 at 60% quality and the largest jpg only takes up 5kb while the avg is 3kb.

My .exe is only 5.5kb and draw the whole map with ease and the memory usage only gets up to a max of 34mb and thats when the whole Azeroth map is loaded and being drawn.

And no Im not using DirectX or OpenGL or any of that stuff, just using the GDI and GDI+ to load the jpgs.

If you want to take a look at it heres my post on my other forums

So I'm working on overlaying the minimap gfx on the radar I'm working on as well (the one posted) and I made this just to get a feel for what I have to do and I thought I did an aight job for a few hours work.




I went the easiest/quickest route I could come up with and that was the dump all the .blp minimap files, convert them to jpgs (and lose some quality so instead of taking up 120mb it only takes up 5.), write a script to go through the md5translate.trs and rename all the new .jpg files accordingly and then make a program to read the .jpgs.

When I actually incorporate this into my radar all I'll need to do is just a little bit more math and thats nothing.


This program is pretty much done so I was like why not release it, someone might use it.

Download program

Kc's little map testing program

This program displays 5 maps, Azeroth, Kalimdor, Expansion (outlands, ghostlands, sunwell, azuremyst), Northrend, and the DK start area.

Key bindings:

W - Move map down
S - Move map up
A - Move map right
D - Move map left

Q - Zoom in
E - Zoom out

L - Load next map in list (it goes Azer, Kalim, Expan, North, DK) and the repeats when its been through all the maps.

[wraithZX]

Looks pretty good mate.
I'd suggest using WM_MOUSESCROLL for zooming, makes life easy

I'd also suggest that when you do add the radar component, rather than using 'L' to cycle the maps, read the current continent ID from the CurMgr and determine which map to use from that - makes things nice and easy. But I guess you'd already put that on the list of todo's

Finally someone's got a map that could be as useful as mine

[KcDan]

Oh no dude, lol that was just a little test program I made showing myself that I could do it and thats how I was going to load the jpgs (never did it before and had to read up on gdi+ which was surprisingly easy) and blit the maps. The whole keys and everything was just there because I didnt want to spend the time making that program user friendly for no reason when Im going to be doing that for my radar.

Also the plan was to make it read the mapID and have the terrain follow the radar, you're not going to be using the arrow keys or loading any maps with the l key, lol.