Routes

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v1.6.0
19 July 2018
(Written for Live Servers v8.0.1.27101)

Routes allow you to draw lines on the worldmap linking nodes together into an efficient farming route from existing databases. The route will be shown (by default) on the minimap and zone map as well.

Use /routes to begin.

See spikey star-shaped routes?

You haven't optimized the route yet. Go into the route you created and optimize it. Instructions below.

Quickstart:

Video about configuring this addon.

Download and install:

Start up World of Warcraft and make sure all addons are marked to be loaded (in the addon selection screen).

Importing into GatherMate2:

type: /gathermate2

Go to 'Import Data' and then to 'GatherMate2Data' (left side)
If you already have herbs/mines of yourself, select 'Merge' from the 'Import Style' dropdown, otherwise 'Overwrite' is ok.
Select which sources you want to import (ea: Mining/Herbalism) and tick their respective boxes.
Hit the 'Import GatherMate2Data' button on the bottom.

Creating your first route:

type: /routes

Go to 'Add' (left side)
Type the name of your route (and press 'Okay' or enter)
Now select the zone you want to create a route in from the 'Select Zone' dropdown.
Make sure the 'GatherMate2' source has it's checkbox ticked.
Select which nodes (ea: what type of herbs/mines/fish) should be used to create your route.
Hit the 'Create Route' button.
Done! you can now go to the zone and follow the generated 'route' on your minimap.

You can change the color in the 'Line Settings' tab (and also completely hide the route)

Open your worldmap on the zone you just created a route in, and you will see a massive whirling of lines (light-redish).

Changing/Optimizing your route:

type: /routes

Go to 'Routes' and then the zone you made your route in and finally to the route you created. This has taken you to the 'Information'-tab of this route.
Click on the 'Optimize Route' tab.
Hit the 'Cluster' button, this is usually advisable as most zones contain large amounts of nodes. Clustering will group 'nearby' nodes onto 1 point and the default distance is easily viewable on the minimap.
Hit the 'Foreground' button, this will try an optimization of the length of your route (you can see it being updated after it finishes if you use a map addon like Mapster).
Keep hitting the 'Foreground' button to try and make the route smaller,

Features:

Select node-types to build a line upon. The following are supported
- GatherMate2 (Author's preference)
- Gatherer
- HandyNotes
Optimize your route using the traveling salesmen problem (TSP) ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm
Background (nonblocking) and foreground (blocking) optimization
Select color/thickness/transparency/visibility for each route
For any route created, finding a new node will try to add that as optimal as possible
Quick clustering algorithm to merge nearby nodes into a single traveling point
Quickly mark entire areas/regions as "out of bounds" or "taboo" to Routes, meaning your routes will ignore nodes in those areas and avoid cross them
Fubar plugin available to quickly access your routes
Cartographer_Waypoints and TomTom support for quickly following a route
Works with Chinchilla's Expander minimap and SexyMap's HudMap!
Full in-game help file and FAQ, guiding you step by step on what to do!

Download:

The latest version of Routes is always available on this page... or at:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/routes.aspx
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11401-Routes.html

Contact:

If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, you can contact us on:

Forum: http:forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=10369
IRC : Grum or Xinhuan on [[irc://irc.freenode.org/wowace|irc://irc.freenode.org/wowace]]
Email: Grum ( routes AT grum DOT nl ), Xinhuan ( xinhuan AT gmail DOT com )

Paypal donations are welcome ;)

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tazrulez
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Posted Sep 17, 2019
I keep getting an error saying Script Ran Too Long whenever I try to either cluster a route or run an optimization in the foreground. I get the error both when I have all my addons and when it is just Routes, Gathermate2 & Bugsack.

Here is the error I keep getting:

6x Routes\TSP.lua:930: script ran too long
Routes\TSP.lua:930: in function `ClusterRoute'
Routes\Routes-v1.6.1.lua:1667: in function <Routes\Routes.lua:1663>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-78.lua:51: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:49>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-78.lua:838: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:664>
[C]: ?
...rfaceBankStack\lib\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-40.lua:72: in function <...rfaceBankStack\lib\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:70>
...rfaceBankStack\lib\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-40.lua:290: in function `Fire'
...olic\libs\AceGUI-3.0-40\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...olic\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>

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#903 Posted Sep 12, 2019

Classic Fix

Though there isn't a Classic version of Routes yet, it appears to work with only a few minor adjustments. Manually download the latest version of Routes (v1.6.3 as of this comment) and extract it to your classic AddOns directory (WoW/_classic_/Interface/AddOns). Then, edit the following files within the AddOns/Routes directory.

Routes.lua

In Routes.lua, Routes attempts to use the cosmic map (ID: 946) as the base map. However, that map doesn't yet exist in Classic. Instead, use the world map (ID: 947). The changes begin at line 196.

Routes.lua:196

OLD

      local COSMIC_MAP_ID = 946
      processMapChildrenRecursive(COSMIC_MAP_ID)

NEW

      local WORLD_MAP_ID = 947
      processMapChildrenRecursive(WORLD_MAP_ID)

Modules/AutoShow.lua

In Modules/AutoShow.lua, you want to remove all references to professions that don't yet exist. That means you remove ExtractGas (TBC), Archaeology (Cata), Logging (WoD). Also, you want to change the ID used for Herbalism to the old ID, 2366. Also, remove the reference to the newer version of Fishing. The changes begin at line 10.

AutoShow.lua:10

OLD

      local have_prof = {
        Herbalism  = false,
        Mining     = false,
        Fishing    = false,
        ExtractGas = false, -- Engineering
        Archaeology= false,
      }
      local active_tracking = {}
      local profession_to_skill = {}
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(170691)] = "Herbalism"
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(2575)] = "Mining"
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(7620) or GetSpellInfo(131476)] = "Fishing"
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(4036)] = "ExtractGas"
      if GetSpellInfo(78670) then
        profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(78670)] = "Archaeology"
      end
      local tracking_spells = {}
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2580))] = "Mining"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2383))] = "Herbalism"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(43308))] = "Fishing"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2481))] = "Treasure"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(167898))] = "Logging"

NEW

      local have_prof = {
        Herbalism  = false,
        Mining     = false,
        Fishing    = false,
      }
      local active_tracking = {}
      local profession_to_skill = {}
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(2366)] = "Herbalism"
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(2575)] = "Mining"
      profession_to_skill[GetSpellInfo(7620)] = "Fishing"
      local tracking_spells = {}
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2580))] = "Mining"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2383))] = "Herbalism"
      tracking_spells[(GetSpellInfo(2481))] = "Treasure"

That's it!

There may be other changes that I haven't noticed but, so far, this has restored full functionality for me in Classic. That said, I haven't actually used Routes since maybe Cata, so there may be features I haven't tested. But taboos, TomTom, and routes seem to be working just fine. :)

Last edited by KOVIKO: Sep 13, 2019

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Posted Sep 12, 2019
In reply to KOVIKO:

Thanks for fix. I suggest making git repository and making pull request for it if possible, or just having this fix there as a repository.

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Posted Sep 12, 2019
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The project isn't abandoned, so that feels like overkill.

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Posted Sep 13, 2019
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Last edit was Jul 2, so far author work on other things

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Posted Sep 12, 2019
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I edited the files as shown above, but now i can´t choose gathermate 2 as the datasource. in fact there´s nothing to choose.

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Posted Sep 12, 2019
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Are you sure that you have GatherMate2_Data?

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Posted Sep 12, 2019
In reply to KOVIKO:

yes, i imported the database and i can see all the nodes at my world map.
there is simply no source to choose from in the main addon window.

-EDIT-: I solved the problem. I tested the actual routes version some days ago before your changes.

i deleted the routes data from saved variables and now all is working for me.

thank you for giving us back this great addon.

Last edited by traumtier: Sep 13, 2019

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Posted Sep 13, 2019
In reply to KOVIKO:

Thank you! Worked great. 👍

You may want to mention removing the "or" statement in fishing (is it a reference to fish finding?). Not a problem if one compares your "new" and "old" code line-by-line, but everything else is described and that change is omitted from the description.

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Posted Sep 13, 2019
In reply to ElinorTheInsane:

I actually wasn't even sure that it mattered. I'm not really a Lua programmer, though. But yeah, I guess that could cause issues if your character doesn't have fishing learned, yet.

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Posted Sep 14, 2019
In reply to KOVIKO:

I don't know either. I just followed your line-by-line changes. I didn't try leaving that that OR clause in. I just thought I'd mention it since it was an inconsistency between the description and the actual code.

Sorry about the multi-comment barf, btw! I was trying to post through CurseForge and it was giving me an error and not showing my reply at all, and turns out they were posting here after all... I was just so happy that it was working and wanted to say "thanks" and kept making it shorter to see if that would help 😂

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'Select Zone' doenst show any zone

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'Select Zone' doenst show any zone

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'Select Zone' doenst show any zone

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"Select Zone" doenst show any zone

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Select Zone doenst show any zone classic

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'Select Zone' doenst show any zone

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#922 Posted Sep 13, 2019

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Thank you for the fix! Does manual editing of routes work for you guys? I get:

Message: ...rface\AddOns\Blizzard_WorldMap\Blizzard_WorldMap.lua:178: attempt to call method 'HandleUserActionOpenSelf' (a nil value)
Time: Fri Sep 13 19:01:13 2019
Count: 5
Stack: ...rface\AddOns\Blizzard_WorldMap\Blizzard_WorldMap.lua:178: attempt to call method 'HandleUserActionOpenSelf' (a nil value)
...ce\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Core\Lib\ErrorHandler.lua:582: in function <...ce\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Core\Lib\ErrorHandler.lua:542>
(tail call): ?
...rface\AddOns\Blizzard_WorldMap\Blizzard_WorldMap.lua:178: in function `OpenWorldMap'
Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:3005: in function <Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:2978>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:51: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:49>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:838: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:664>
[C]: ?
...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:72: in function <...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:70>
...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:287: in function `Fire'
...tlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...tlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>

Locals: <none>

Message: Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:3097: attempt to index local 'node' (a nil value)
Time: Fri Sep 13 18:58:36 2019
Count: 4
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:3097: attempt to index local 'node' (a nil value)
...ce\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Core\Lib\ErrorHandler.lua:582: in function <...ce\AddOns\TradeSkillMaster\Core\Lib\ErrorHandler.lua:542>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:3097: in function <Interface\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua:3077>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:51: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:49>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:838: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:664>
[C]: ?
...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:72: in function <...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:70>
...nterface\AddOns\Atlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:287: in function `Fire'
...tlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...tlas\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>

Locals: <none>

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Posted Sep 16, 2019
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I'm not sure how this would work for people who already have been using Routes. I've only tested it as a brand new fresh user. I don't know much about the code in Routes aside from getting rid of the Lua errors, so I can't assist in troubleshooting. Sorry.

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Should be the same for fresh users:

- Add a new route

- Edit route

- Boom..

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Created

Sep 14, 2008
Last Released File

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Total Downloads

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Xinhuan Owner
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Routes

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See spikey star-shaped routes?

Quickstart:

Download and install:

Importing into GatherMate2:

Creating your first route:

Changing/Optimizing your route:

Features:

Download:

Contact:

Comments

Classic Fix

Routes.lua

Routes.lua:196

Modules/AutoShow.lua

AutoShow.lua:10

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