HereBeDragons
HereBeDragons is a data API for the World of Warcraft mapping system
HereBeDragons offers a clean and modern API to retrieve the players position, calculate distances and angles between positions, both in global world coordinates and local zone coordinates. The primary goal of this library is to provide an up-to-date and low maintenance alternative to the legacy map libraries like Astrolabe and LibMapData, which both unfortunately are unmaintained and have their own issues due to changes in WoWs API.
On top of a clean API for all map math, HereBeDragons also provides a second library, HereBeDragons-Pins, which replaces the world map and minimap pin management functionality of Astrolabe. This library is roughly based on the pin management code from GatherMate2, which has been thoroughly tested in years of use.
API:
API/HereBeDragons-2.0
API/HereBeDragons-Pins-2.0
Note for Battle for Azeroth/WoW 8.0
The map data is getting a huge overhaul in 8.0, which means HereBeDragons will be changing as well and moving to 2.0. A lot of the map data is going to change - primarily, the "Map ID" and the "Map Filename" are both going away, as well as the C/Z pair, and are replaced by a new "uiMapID".
We've been provided basic data from Blizzard to migrate the old "MapID" to the new "uiMapID", and HereBeDragons offers utility functions to migrate data as part of HereBeDragons-Migrate. But it will require all addons which interact with the map to update.
The latest Alpha releases of HereBeDragons include the first version of HereBeDragons-2.0 for WoW 8.0. The API has slightly changed where necessary, primarily all "floor" arguments have been dropped and all MapIDs/MapFilenames have been replaced by the new "uiMapID". API documentation is linked above.
Update Notes for HereBeDragons-2.0 and WoW 8.0
- All previous map identifiers have been phased out, and you will need to update any map data to the new "uiMapID", which is the only identifier for maps going forward.
- An option to offer migration from map files or 7.x map IDs is available as part of HereBeDragons-Migrate
- The stand-alone HereBeDragons addon has been renamed to just "HereBeDragons" without a version number, update the OptDeps accordingly
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nevcairiel Owner
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Posted Aug 21, 2019Hi
I am wondering how the library deals with frame recycling?
for example if I have a db with 2000 items, will all 2000 need frames created? seems like that will crash the game client.
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Posted Aug 21, 2019In reply to samuelthomaspain:
The caller of the library is responsible for providing a frame with an icon to show. It would be up to the caller to recycle those appropriately, and perhaps only register pins currently relevant.
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Posted Aug 21, 2019In reply to nevcairiel:
Thanks for the swift reply, I figured that was the case but I saw the functions to remove all pins etc
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Posted Apr 15, 2019Great library ! I'm always amazed how people can make such compact yet very functional things.
Would it be possible to incorporate some sort of callback when adding minimap pins that would be called whenever the 'onEdge' state changes ? It feels awkward to have to make an onupdate just for this, and more so since HBD-pins already has one going to update the pins. The callback function could be an optional argument to the AddWorldMapIconMap or AddWorldMapIconWorld functions.
This would, for example, make it very easy to change textures from arrow (onEdge) to 'whatever it is you want' for not onEdge.
Cheers.
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Posted Apr 4, 2018This is an awesome lib, but is there any way possible to make pins appear under the minimap player arrow instead of on top? I've tried all layers and texture layer numbers I know of and can't get them under the arrow without them going under the whole minimap. I'm wondering if this is a limitation because of how the minimap arrow is not a lua frame. Do you have any suggestions?
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Posted Apr 4, 2018In reply to Venomisto68047:
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Posted Apr 4, 2018In reply to Nevcairiel:
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Posted Nov 20, 2016When logging into a character located in the Dreamgrove, HBD:GetZoneCoordinatesFromWorld() appears to return zone coordinates for the base zone Val'sharah.
However, it does return zone coordinates for the Dreamgrove after reloading the UI.
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Posted Nov 20, 2016I fixed this issue, but please use the issues section of the website in the future to report problems, much easier to track then, thanks!
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Posted Oct 5, 2015Not quite. What I'm missing with just UnitPosition(unit) is the handling of the coordinate transformation and the override IDs.
Basically what I'm wishing for is:
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Posted Oct 2, 2015@burny_dd
You can just use UnitPosition, the x/y value it returns are the same as HBD:GetPlayerWorldPosition would give you.
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Posted Sep 30, 2015Thanks for the library. :-) I was waiting impatiently for LibMapData to update to get one of my addons running properly again.
The transition to HereBeDragons went smoothly. I'm just missing a query function to get the position for a valid unit string. So far you provide that only for the player with GetPlayerZonePosition() but I need party or raid units also. Any chance for adding this in the future?