PPather and fences - did it ever work?

[Hawker]

H4wker , not everyone wants to use injection, so you should leave the choice to the user which "method" they want to have in their program , if you make the changed pather available to the public.

You are totally free to write a dummy human interface device driver that cannot be detected by Warden. I doubt it will take more than a few months. I leave the choice to you.

[Robske]

H4wker , not everyone wants to use injection, so you should leave the choice to the user which "method" they want to have in their program , if you make the changed pather available to the public.

Just out of curiosity, why are you so scared of "injection"...

[Cypher]

Just out of curiosity, why are you so scared of "injection"...

Injektunz iz skary.

[blamani]

Im not scared, i just think people that dont want to should have the possibility to use it as well. Just a small missunderstanding on your side it seems

[aaró]

Sorry is this pather working with wow? or am I just dreamiing?

[miceiken]

If you fix it, it will work.
Fantastic?

[klufas]

Im not scared, i just think people that dont want to should have the possibility to use it as well. Just a small missunderstanding on your side it seems

I don't believe he had any misunderstanding, if you want to change things go ahead, don't expect him to cater to your tastes when you're not giving him anything.

[tanis2000]

Here I am!

@barthen: your adapted PPather code has been invaluable.. god bless GPL!

As far as I have been able to work with it, it looks like there are plenty of variations of PPather around. One of the guys working on BabBot pointed to me this one: https://openwow.net/svn/pather-lite/
which seems to be a very stripped down version of PPather. Basicly just the pathing code and nothing else. But I couldn't understand from which version of PPather it was taken.

It would be cool if someone took over the PPather code, stripped it of all the unnecessary fuss and fixed the outstanding bugs like those pointed out in this post and released it to the public. I have a member of the team currently working on nav meshes but having just one project that does it all would really be the best choice.

btw I'm still stuck with detecting on which continent the player.. as far as I could see, PPather needs to know which continent to work from in order to extract the data from the correct MPQ file. And again.. having something that does the extraction of all the needed stuff once and for all the first time you run your bot would really make things faster for those that have the hdd space to invest on (almost anyone)

[Gorzul]

btw I'm still stuck with detecting on which continent the player.. as far as I could see, PPather needs to know which continent to work from in order to extract the data from the correct MPQ file. ...

Read the "RealZoneText" from memory or via GetRealZoneText() and get the "ContinentID" from DBFilesClient\AreaTable.dbc.

Field ID 	 Type 	         Description
0 	         uint 	         AreaID
1 	         uint 	         Continent (refers to a WorldID)
2 	         uint 	         Region (refers to an AreaID)
3 	         bitfield 	 Flags
11 	         string 	 Name

[BoogieManTM]

Here I am!

@barthen: your adapted PPather code has been invaluable.. god bless GPL!

As far as I have been able to work with it, it looks like there are plenty of variations of PPather around. One of the guys working on BabBot pointed to me this one: https://openwow.net/svn/pather-lite/
which seems to be a very stripped down version of PPather. Basicly just the pathing code and nothing else. But I couldn't understand from which version of PPather it was taken.

It would be cool if someone took over the PPather code, stripped it of all the unnecessary fuss and fixed the outstanding bugs like those pointed out in this post and released it to the public. I have a member of the team currently working on nav meshes but having just one project that does it all would really be the best choice.

btw I'm still stuck with detecting on which continent the player.. as far as I could see, PPather needs to know which continent to work from in order to extract the data from the correct MPQ file. And again.. having something that does the extraction of all the needed stuff once and for all the first time you run your bot would really make things faster for those that have the hdd space to invest on (almost anyone)

That's my branch, and i'll be doing the m2 fix on it today hopefully. It's based on 1.0.4d, not that much changed in that code in any of the versions of pather ever to be released to the public.

[Hawker]

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btw I'm still stuck with detecting on which continent the player.. as far as I could see, PPather needs to know which continent to work from in order to extract the data from the correct MPQ file. And again.. having something that does the extraction of all the needed stuff once and for all the first time you run your bot would really make things faster for those that have the hdd space to invest on (almost anyone)

       public Mover(LocalPlayer Me)
        {
            const uint GetContinentName = 0x010A51F8;
            string contintentName = Game.wow.ReadUTF8String(GetContinentName, 40);
            ppather.Init(contintentName);
            this.Me = Me;
            mySpot.Update(Me.Location);
            Logger.logToFile("PPather started on " + contintentName + ".");
        }

Problem solved.

In my copy, the offset lives in Offsets.cs but its simpler to illustrate like this.

[tanis2000]

Read the "RealZoneText" from memory or via GetRealZoneText() and get the "ContinentID" from DBFilesClient\AreaTable.dbc.

I went for the code-injected way of doing it. I'm calling DoString with the following code: "SetMapToCurrentZone(); continent = GetCurrentMapContinent();"

And I read the continent variable and go through a switch as it's only 6 possible values apparently (not including battlegrounds / instances as I'm not really interested in them at the moment).

I could as well just dump the content of AreaTable.dbc and get a list in the bot code but I'm too lazy to do that atm

On the other hand, did anyone figure out if models are actually being misrotated along the Y axis or not?

[barthen]

And I read the continent variable and go through a switch as it's only 6 possible values apparently (not including battlegrounds / instances as I'm not really interested in them at the moment).

Hey Tanis, yesterday I checked out the babbot source code and I think I found a bug in the wowplayer.cs file (in the function returning the continent name). You're returning "Outland" but I think the continent name should be "Expansion01".

I can't test it right now so maybe I'm mistaken.

By the way, has babbot a forum of its own?

[blamani]

https://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/babbot/index.php? , yes it has

[tanis2000]

Hey Tanis, yesterday I checked out the babbot source code and I think I found a bug in the wowplayer.cs file (in the function returning the continent name). You're returning "Outland" but I think the continent name should be "Expansion01".

Yeah you're right. I'm going to fix it right now. Thank you mate!