Numgrak

Thanks for the update!

Lillayna

I am looking forward to using this as the default map leaves much to be desired; thank you for your hard work in maintaining and updating this map add on.

Soresha

http://vginterface.com/forums/sh...&postcount=307

Ugly is subjective but you're entitled to your opinion.

To explain the history here, the URL pointed to was a web page set up by another UI modder, and his site has since died. That's why unfortunately it only shows random adverts at the moment. I will be replacing this with a page on my own web site. Something close to Techywarrior's original content - links to useful fan sites and a re-direct box to allow entry of any URL you wish to visit.

However the redirector button it is NOT unmovable, you simply need to go into layout mode to move it. There are also legitimate methods provided to remove the button both temporarily or permanently if you wish, they are explained on the options window.

I have also replied to your post on the technical reasons why your "fix" is no fix at all and a very bad suggestion for anyone to follow. Please take the time to learn and understand how Vanguard's UI mods work, before making recommendations that would be detrimental to others should they follow them.

Zatris

Fumeden

Looking forward to the update. Love this UI

Soresha

I'm working on updating InfoMap for the recent F2P changes.

As for "much room for improvement" you really don't know what you're talking about. Vanguard has never had (and probably never will have) the capability in the client to do the kind of POI manipulation that is common in other MMOs. InfoMap is a fully packed UI mod, which pushes the limit of what can actually be done for this game.

If as the game evolves there are new NPC types or locations which can be fitted onto the existing data layers - this can be done fairly easily.

However there will likely not be any more major new features at this point. Because:
a) What you might think is missing, is not technically possible within the scope of a UI mod for Vanguard.
b) New features must be balanced against the increase in UI "bloat" which slows down the game. There are good technical reasons for being careful how much you put in.

Do not under-estimate the skill and effort of the many experienced UI modders who over the years have explored different possibilities. Many ideas succeeded, others such as dungeon maps had to be abandoned as unworkable. InfoMap is a very mature UI mod and it's been taken pretty much as far as a map mod for Vanguard can go.

Zatris

With VG now f2p people are gonna want working maps and there are a few bugs as it stands now, it still works but there is much room for improvement now! better features and whatever. Maybe even add an NPC tracker or sorts.

Soresha

I was snooping around in my System Event Viewer, to check on some things and noticed a whole lot of "Errors". They all seem to be related with Vanguard and the Infomap addon to my UI.

Here is one of the many errors.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VGClient.log
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 5/21/2009
Time: 2:16:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: -x-x-x-x-x-x-
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( VGClient.log ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event:[05/21/09 02:16:22] ERROR: XML Error: ..\VGUIAssets\Shells\InfoMapAdvanced\Map\RiftMaps. xml [780:49] - Attribute 'textColor' is not declared for element 'TextField'

There are a bunch more errors like this one involving Infomap with different elemants involved with the errors

Any fixes for this? I Was thinking that maybe infomap is outdated and needs a patch, or whatever. I'm no programer and was wondering if anyone has a solution to this?



It's not really a big deal. It just means the xml attributes don't strictly meet what's in the schema. It may even mean the schema is out of date, because the game is quite happily using those attributes on those elements.

InfoMap itself is not out of date, there was no need for an immediate update for the latest patch. I am planning a new version though, to add the Pantheon civic buffs and maybe a few other things... honestly I'm a bit too hooked into enjoying the new content atm, but I'll do it at some point.

If you would like to send me the list of things it's complaining about, I can see about changing the attributes in the next version.

Intershield

I was snooping around in my System Event Viewer, to check on some things and noticed a whole lot of "Errors". They all seem to be related with Vanguard and the Infomap addon to my UI.

Here is one of the many errors.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VGClient.log
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 5/21/2009
Time: 2:16:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: -x-x-x-x-x-x-
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( VGClient.log ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event:[05/21/09 02:16:22] ERROR: XML Error: ..\VGUIAssets\Shells\InfoMapAdvanced\Map\RiftMaps. xml [780:49] - Attribute 'textColor' is not declared for element 'TextField'

There are a bunch more errors like this one involving Infomap with different elemants involved with the errors

Any fixes for this? I Was thinking that maybe infomap is outdated and needs a patch, or whatever. I'm no programer and was wondering if anyone has a solution to this?

GCT

Hello, first of all, thank you for this mod! I would not be able to play the game at all without it!

I'm beta testing Live Gamer and for some reason the window that's supposed to pop up at the exchange is not. I was just wondering if maybe that had anything to do with this mod.

Are you testing it with Live Gamer?

anillee

I love the Info Map, I'm using it with Darker 2.0 (UI) and it's awesome. I'm just having one problem...I can't seem to get my mini map buttons to work! I select ON from the Info Map options, and nothing happens. Any idea what I can do to rectify this?

Edited to add: It looks like they're there, they just can't be seen. If I click on the area of the minimap where they are (upper left hand corner), I get the actions..but not seeing what I'm clicking on is an issue. :x

Soresha

I really love your map and have been using it within CoreUI3. I have a question about the map as it displays for me. In the top right corner of my map is a box with the coordinates of the chunk I am in. It is always there covering up the "My Location" button and part of the "Thestra", "Qualia" and "Kojan" buttons. Is there a way I can turn off this coordinate box?

Thanks.


It could cover the buttons on the left if you've made the map window very very narrow I suppose. There isn't currently a way to turn it off, unless you want to edit the xml yourself. I'd just stretch the window out to make it larger if I were you.

Rufin

I really love your map and have been using it within CoreUI3. I have a question about the map as it displays for me. In the top right corner of my map is a box with the coordinates of the chunk I am in. It is always there covering up the "My Location" button and part of the "Thestra", "Qualia" and "Kojan" buttons. Is there a way I can turn off this coordinate box?

Thanks.

Sigurd

LOL... I am so sorry, ya I was posting here about the moving of the minibar (which you answered and it worked) and I just kind of went off with other questions not even thinking - eeeek lol.

Sorry about that!
(Yup, I am using Core atm, and then will be switching to CustomUI once the core setup is 'solid')
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I keep hitting "-" on a few of my hotbars each time I log in.
I see the external app has settings to set sizes/spacing.

If I understand correctly and this does what I want except permanently... what settings on size/spacing would I use to emulate the effect of clicking your predefined "-" size?

Awesome - thanks.


Are you a CoreUI user by any chance? I think you are confusing CoreUI (a full mod) and InfoMap (which is included in Core). What you are talking about is not part of InfoMap.

Soresha

Just noticed that doing what I did has stopped zooming in and out from working. Gonna have to find an alternative solution.

You need to take the windows called "1" and "2" out of the VGMiniMap.xml file. That will remove the entire windows that cause the triggering of the layers.