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First off.. Many thanks to the people who found and brought this wonderful program to the GW community. This post was also put up on Guru by one of the team members however I don't go there very often as I prefer the AMPers. I just wanted the share with all of you what we are working on and get some thoughts about it.
My guildmates have jumped on the modding bandwagon, and now have in the late beta stages a fully functional Cartography Made Easy mod. It will show you exactly where you need to go to find those final hard to reach spots. We used a Legendary Cartographer's maps as a basis for the mod, however, due to the leeway in mapping, you may find some areas that weren't uncovered originally. We are working to make sure every spot is uncovered.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m186/sykoone/gw271.jpg
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There are still a small handful of areas yet to be completed on the mainland, as well as the desert and Fire Island chain. Those areas are still in production, and will be completed asap.
The current version of the mod includes a no-fog mod. The final will include all of Tyria's GMC reference maps, the colored fog overlay, and the no-fog to clear it all out. And the interior areas are even easier to spot than the borders, due to the solid line we have at the edge of the fog area. We are up for any suggestions to improving this before final release, which we hope to have ready within the week. The team is also prepping Canthan and Elonian maps, so we expect to have them all modded and released before EotN release date.
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| 08/02/07 19:05 |
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Skittle Cody
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Sounds very interesting. I would like GMC but im too lazy to run around all of tyria. Hope its a success! I will surely be using it.
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KingArrowQ
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wow thats a good idea
hope it works out well
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| 08/02/07 19:13 |
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Harrow The Pious
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I think that would help alot of people out.
Good Luck!
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| 08/02/07 19:30 |
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mwpeck
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Saw this on guru earlier.
Looking forward to it, I'm at 98.4% and I cant find any more area's that need edgewalking, so instead of edgewalking all of tyria from start to finish, I think I'll wait for the mod to come out. Good luck with it.
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| 08/02/07 19:32 |
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lord zema
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Well im currently at 99.8% of Tyria, while I have a rough idea of where this may be, complete maps would really make a difference. Hope it works out.
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| 08/02/07 19:37 |
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OOO i cant wait ive been thinking of doing cartograpger but this will definatly make me wanna do it cant wait
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Magical Samurai
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Looks like the top mod I've seen thus far for Exploration. I've been using an inverse map, which uncovers the covered areas (switches 'em). So, I'm at 90.3%. Looking forward to your release though, hope it'll help me with that last 9.7%.
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retro77
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Working on cartography now....when does this mod go public?
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Rider
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Tyria could possibly be done this weekend. Elona is getting close and Cantha is in progress. We are trying to make sure everything works perfect before releasing but it's looking good.
All 3 campaigns are going to be setup separate and possibly one with all 3 together. They will all done before Eye of the North... and if they expand the title for Gwen we are already making plans to get that one out as quick as possible.
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| 08/02/07 23:41 |
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| QUOTE | | They will all done before Eye of the North... and if they expand the title for Gwen we are already making plans to get that one out as quick as possible. |
You shouldn't have to worry about that.
| QUOTE | | The map of Tyria has increased in size for the new areas in GW:EN. Gaile said that this does not affect the Tyrian Cartographer title. This suggests that Prophecies- and GW:EN-specific areas are counted separately, and it is possible that a Cartographer title will be available for GW:EN areas. |
Straight from the official GW Wiki.
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| 08/02/07 23:52 |
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Rider
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Sounds good to me. My Ranger is always ready to go mapping. GWEN is already ordered and payed for so all I gotta do is wait for its arrival.
Here is a sneak peek at the Nightfall map. The dark area's under the tan are places that you can not get to. The tan color is the area you need. So all you gotta do is push the tan line to the dark area and your done. You will be able to see anywhere you have missed in a matter of seconds after getting loaded in.
Soon as I get with the other guys that are working on it to find out for sure. It sounded like Tyria and Elona could be done this weekend.
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| 08/03/07 07:17 |
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| QUOTE | | Well im currently at 99.8% of Tyria, while I have a rough idea of where this may be, complete maps would really make a difference. Hope it works out. |
ahh zema thats coming along very well i imagine the area of thunderhead keep that you explored while i was monking for that PuG helped greatly.
On another note this mod looks very very useful especially to people like me and mwpeck who are stuck around the 98% mark and cannot find anywhere else to map and do not have to time or will power to edgewalk everywhere in tyria, so I am greatly looking forward to this so thank you :)
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| 08/03/07 07:57 |
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D_Smag
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99.1% here, can't wait man!
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| 08/03/07 08:16 |
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Garreth MacLeod
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Best looking mod I've seen so far for working on cartographer title. This is sure to get GMC for some folks and might get others to go for the cartographer titles.
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This looks very good! Hope it will be released soon as I'm working on getting GMC for NF (atm) and Tyria later on.
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| 08/03/07 10:27 |
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^Anakin, can't you just hax? ;D
This looks great. Maybe another title to work towards when this is released ^^
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you guys rock! you got me sold. This last .5% is KILLING me in Tyria. (99.5%)
I hope this mod is able to work with the recently expanded Tyria map. I have been hearing a few complaints about how much harder comparing maps has gotten with the addon of GW:EN to the world map.
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| 08/03/07 10:34 |
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This mod looks like it could be absolutely fantastic. I got Tyrian GMC the hard way. I didn't use any difference maps or outside programs. I'd like to get Elona and Cantha too, but I just don't know that I have the patience to do those. If this works as well as it looks like it does, I'll definitely be going for the other 2 GMC titles with the use of your mod....once it's released of course.
Great work so far and I'm looking forward to the release of the mod.
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could it contain and keylofggers or anything else like that?
and its safe to be used without getting account banned yeah?
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| QUOTE | could it contain and keylofggers or anything else like that?
and its safe to be used without getting account banned yeah? |
No it cant contain any keyloggers, the mods are used by texmod, and they come in the file format of .tpf, which cannot be ran like an exe.
It is safe to be used with GW without being banned. One person was banned when this method first surfaced, but shortly after, anet realized their mistake and unbanned him. It has also been said by Gaile and a GW dev, who talked to the game creators, have both said it can be used(texmod, that is) without worry of losing your account, BUT they can NOT assist you with any support on it.
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ahh,so its like modding your chars appearance on local client?
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| QUOTE | | BUT they can NOT assist you with any support on it. |
is that like a corrupt file or the likes thats just a reinstail away or more of a messed account?
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| 08/03/07 11:04 |
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| QUOTE | ahh,so its like modding your chars appearance on local client?
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is that like a corrupt file or the likes thats just a reinstail away or more of a messed account?
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Yes, it only modifies the appearance of whatever you change, on your local client.
I'm not entirely sure what they mean by it, texmod does NOT interact with the gw.dat file, all it does is intercept textures between the game and your graphics card. Lets same the game calls for texture A to display, texmod tells your graphics card to display texture B instead of texture A. Therefore you dont really edit GW and there is no way for GW to become corrupted from it, if something happens that shouldnt happen, all you would need to do is close GW, and open it up without using texmod.
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| 08/03/07 11:38 |
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | ahh,so its like modding your chars appearance on local client?
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is that like a corrupt file or the likes thats just a reinstail away or more of a messed account?
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Yes, it only modifies the appearance of whatever you change, on your local client.
I'm not entirely sure what they mean by it, texmod does NOT interact with the gw.dat file, all it does is intercept textures between the game and your graphics card. Lets same the game calls for texture A to display, texmod tells your graphics card to display texture B instead of texture A. Therefore you dont really edit GW and there is no way for GW to become corrupted from it, if something happens that shouldnt happen, all you would need to do is close GW, and open it up without using texmod. |
I think they (Anet) mean they can't offer support for texmod. Not sure but that's my guess.
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| 08/03/07 11:45 |
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EDIT: LOL Wrong thread!!
I can't wait for this mod. Admins can delete this post.
Similar tabs ftl.
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| 08/03/07 11:56 |
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ok i dont understand, the yellow blocky area is what you still need? also i thought this had something to do with removing the clouds from the map or am i wrong >.> think im reading stuff wrong.....
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| 08/03/07 12:14 |
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| QUOTE | | ok i dont understand, the yellow blocky area is what you still need? also i thought this had something to do with removing the clouds from the map or am i wrong >.> think im reading stuff wrong..... |
Look at the first image, the yellow blocky area's are area's you can uncover, the dark color inside the yellow, is what you cannot uncover.
This looks like it removes the clouds, which is great, I removed the clouds myself and it looks so much better without the.
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so is it still using the zoomed out map? or do u have to take a bunch of zoomed in screenshots or no screenshots or what? is it modding? cuz if it is that sucks bcuz i cant mod seeing as i have direct x 8
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| 08/03/07 12:24 |
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| QUOTE | | so is it still using the zoomed out map? or do u have to take a bunch of zoomed in screenshots or no screenshots or what? is it modding? cuz if it is that sucks bcuz i cant mod seeing as i have direct x 8 |
It is modding which means you wont be able to use it. And I would assume it only shows the yellow when its zoomed in since it would be almost useless for when your zoomed out.
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| QUOTE | | so is it still using the zoomed out map? or do u have to take a bunch of zoomed in screenshots or no screenshots or what? is it modding? cuz if it is that sucks bcuz i cant mod seeing as i have direct x 8 |
I'm sort of dumb with this sort of stuff. Who will and who wont be able to use this mod?
I dont even know where to start with stuff like this....
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