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Post by Aerodin on Nov 12, 2016 20:57:08 GMT
Beta 3 of v4.0 is ready! The biggest change in this beta is a new drawing feature for the map. Downloads:InstallerFull Feature ZipNo Browser ZipNew Features & Changes:- Tasks Tracker
- Added new higher/lower indicators for location-based tasks. These appear as little green arrows next to the yellow directional arrow and provide a hint as to the relative height of the task in-game.
- When adding new tasks, data filled in on the Add New Task window remains after adding a task. This should make creating sets of tasks/markers a bit more streamlined.
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- Map Overlay
- Added a new drawing feature to the Map overlay.
- To access the new drawing feature, click the new button in the lower-right corner of the map overlay. When clicked, a new drawing tools panel will slide open. From that panel, you can enable the Pen, select a color, save the current drawing, import drawings, and export drawings.
- As an example of what these drawings tools can be used for, I have included 2 drawings that you can import (see the new Drawings directory next to the GW2PAO.exe file).
- Added higher/lower indicators for markers (just like tasks).
- Fixed various issues
- Other
- Modified the rendering behavior of the application to enable GPU acceleration when available. This could have a potentially huge positive impact on the performance of the overlay.
Like before, please post here if you have any feedback or encounter any issues with this build. Thanks all!! |
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Post by kullekulle on Nov 16, 2016 16:05:36 GMT
Nice  map overlay does what it should do now keep on the great work ^^ |
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Post by Tiscan on Nov 18, 2016 10:59:29 GMT
Just gave the new version a quick test and i really like the map-overlay - but you should really add a little bit of code to optimize the drawings Some time ago i wrote a small tool to record "paths" while running around in Tyria (mainly for creating maps for guides) and I wrote a little function to simplify my path-files using the Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm. I quickly wrote a bit of code that ran your 2-MULT file through the same function (with epsilon=0.025) and it reduced the path from 3304 coordinates down to 150 without loosing much detail. I guess you would get similar results by a simpler algorithm which only calculates the distance between the coords and removing all that are too close to each other. But no matter what algorithm is used, I think it might be a good idea to use as few coordinates for the drawings as possible. Here is my optimized version: Guild Bounty - 2-MULT - optimized.json (3.18 KB) Oh, and I will take a look at the german translation later today. I added all missing strings to the Google-Spreadsheet |
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Post by Aerodin on Nov 19, 2016 16:37:46 GMT
Just gave the new version a quick test and i really like the map-overlay - but you should really add a little bit of code to optimize the drawings Some time ago i wrote a small tool to record "paths" while running around in Tyria (mainly for creating maps for guides) and I wrote a little function to simplify my path-files using the Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm. I quickly wrote a bit of code that ran your 2-MULT file through the same function (with epsilon=0.025) and it reduced the path from 3304 coordinates down to 150 without loosing much detail. I guess you would get similar results by a simpler algorithm which only calculates the distance between the coords and removing all that are too close to each other. But no matter what algorithm is used, I think it might be a good idea to use as few coordinates for the drawings as possible. Here is my optimized version: Oh, and I will take a look at the german translation later today. I added all missing strings to the Google-Spreadsheet Yea, I also considered implementing some sort of line simplification/smoothing algorithm, but hadn't taken the time to see what algorithms were out there. This is super useful information, and I should be able to implement this without too much effort. 3304 coordinates to 150 is a huge improvement! Also, thanks for the German translations! Having real, human translations is awesome, and I really appreciate you guys taking the time to contribute those. |
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Post by Tiscan on Nov 23, 2016 13:30:25 GMT
Also, thanks for the German translations! Having real, human translations is awesome, and I really appreciate you guys taking the time to contribute those. Yeah, translations made using Google Translator (or something similar) can be very, very bad (or very hilarious). |
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map overlay does what it should do now 