Is it possible to detect boats?

[zutto]

you dont need /tar -.-

just look for units around you, get the name, coordinate, etc

but yeah, maybe just getting coordinate of the boat & other thing is easier :P

about those funky names, that could be reason i never found them, but afterall, i didnt even really try :E

ps. that song is epic

[Apoc]

you dont need /tar -.-

just look for units around you, get the name, coordinate, etc

but yeah, maybe just getting coordinate of the boat & other thing is easier :P

about those funky names, that could be reason i never found them, but afterall, i didnt even really try :E

ps. that song is epic

IIRC most (or all) boats/zeps/elevators have a name starting with Transport###### or something like that. Been a while since I actually messed with that stuff.

[-Ryuk-]

Urm.... Maybe Im not looking in the correct place... Later on ill wait for the boat to show and search for objects, and post my results. I dont recall anything starting with Trasnport.

@Zutto
How do I Look for Units, as they dont show up in my ObjectManager, Maybe Im doing something wrong...

[RoKFenris]

I'm not sure you can read a transport's position the same way as a common object, at least I had to look for them by reading values from the transport's transform matrix located at objBase+0x1a8. Specifically, X = [objBase+0x1a8+(4*0xc)], Y = [objBase+0x1a8+(4*0xd)], Z = [objBase+0x1a8+(4*0xe)].
(Of course, this might be a bug in my lazy object updating code reporting 0,0,0 as almost every transport's position, I'll look into it later.)

[BoogieManTM]

I don't think the transports position is actually in the object itself, but it's calculated outside via timings controlled by a DBC. The server will spawn/despawn the object, but beyond that it's the client's job to figure out where it is beyond that.

It may be different now.. i dunno. I will have to look into it at the packet-level anyways, pretty easy to tell if the server is updating the object at that level, or if the client is just running it's own predictions on location.

See: TaxiPathNode.dbc - WoW.Dev Wiki

[RoKFenris]

It may be different now.. i dunno. I will have to look into it at the packet-level anyways, pretty easy to tell if the server is updating the object at that level, or if the client is just running it's own predictions on location.

See: TaxiPathNode.dbc - WoW.Dev Wiki

The way to read position I gave is (almost) the one I'm currently using (the difference being that I'm using the whole transform matrix, not just the three members that represent the transport's position), so from a memory reading point of view you can quite easily get the transport's position.

But I also believe the transport's position is calculated client side - at least they keep going in their usual path when I lag/lose sync, so the server can't be controlling their every movement (which also means getting their position by packet reading should be way harder).

[RedArray]

Doesn't a chat message get added to the chat box whenever a boat or zeppelin arrives at it's port? I'm sure theres a way to grab the text from the chat box...?

Or is it just zeppelins that spam?

Obviously may not be an optimal solution. But is a solution nonetheless.