Routes
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:
- Routes
- GatherMate2
- GatherMate2_Data
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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Posted Jul 12, 2019I made a route for mechanized chests for Mechagon Island. The route doesn't show up after creation.
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Posted Jul 9, 2019Is anyone else having issues getting the Routes to be visible on the world maps?
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Posted Jul 9, 2019Thank you for the update. This addon is gem among gems.
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Posted Jul 8, 2019This patch I just made for WoWGatheringNodes will fix this issue http://dpaste.com/3G21PH2.txt
GatherMate2 now has the proper nodes defined itself, so we rip out the custom nodes and add the proper import translations
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Posted Jul 8, 2019The patch appears to simply remove the custom nodes from WowGatheringNodes, but the replacement data does not appear to be in place as you identify, thus after patching in the replacement data, it simply removes the Zin'anthid and Osmenite nodes from the Naj map that were there before...and routes no longer shows any data for the Nazjatar zone.
Over on the WoWGatheringNodes comments area, however, it appears that SLOKnightFall has the right identifier of the problem (missing localization data on the incoming nodes from WoWGatheringNodes it seems) and has noted that a fix is incoming with an updated Gathermate.
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Posted Jul 9, 2019A new version of WowGatheringNodes is out that fixes the issue where it was not correctly providing Routes localization data for custom nodes and also converts the db data for custom nodes that are now supported by Gathermate.
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Posted Jul 7, 2019WoWGatheringNodes apparently causes the Routes errors being listed here in the comments. Please temporarily disable that addon and/or bring it to that authors attention that he should fix it.
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Posted Jul 7, 2019So I got really excited when i saw your fix. Unfortunately this is not possible to do (for me anyways) because all Nazjatar nodes vanish when I load up without WoWGatheringNodes. Maybe I'm missing something?
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Posted Jul 7, 2019actually, right now I cant get any data source other than handy notes (which isn't even loaded) to display when i try to make a new route
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Posted Jul 8, 2019In reply to Khurzog:
What might also work is going into the settings of WoWGatheringNodes and turning off "Enable Custom Objects"
Not sure if that'll still give you Zin'anthid then, if not you have no chance but to wait for WoWGatheringNodes to be fixed.
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Posted Jul 7, 2019Since the latest version I can't add any routes. I get the following error:
1x Routes\Routes-v1.6.3.lua:2547: attempt to call field 'AppendNodes' (a nil value)
Routes\Routes-v1.6.3.lua:2547: in function <Routes\Routes.lua:2527>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:50: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:48>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:789: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:610>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
Titan\libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-36.lua:314: in function `Fire'
...itan\libs\AceGUI-3.0-36\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...itan\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>
Any suggestions?
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Posted Jul 4, 2019I have been using Routes since Cata. Apparently, BfA broke it hard. I'm not getting errors, as such, just that I have no sources from which to get data. Gathermate2 no longer shows up.
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Posted Jul 5, 2019you will want to use https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/wowgatheringnodes for data now. With that data, I am having no problems with either GatherMate2 or Routes, except for the error posted below with the 8.2 zones.
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Posted Jul 2, 2019Same error with 1.6.3:
1x Routes\Routes-v1.6.3.lua:2548: table index is nil
Routes\Routes-v1.6.3.lua:2548: in function <Routes\Routes.lua:2527>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:50: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:48>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:789: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:610>
[C]: ?
...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-36.lua:71: in function <...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:69>
...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-36.lua:285: in function `Fire'
...Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0-36\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>
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Posted Jul 2, 2019Tried to create a route for Zin'anthid in Nazjatar, but there is only an error:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/irnfqk67cijf6bs/WoWScrnShot_070219_165253.jpg?dl=0
9x Routes\Routes-v1.6.2-1-g40050b0.lua:2548: table index is nil
Routes\Routes-v1.6.2-1-g40050b0.lua:2548: in function <Routes\Routes.lua:2527>
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:50: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:48>
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0-73.lua:789: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:610>
[C]: ?
...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-36.lua:71: in function <...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:69>
...ddOns\AddOnSkins\Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-36.lua:285: in function `Fire'
...Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0-36\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22: in function <...Libs\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19>
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Posted Jul 2, 2019When I try to create a route nothing happens and I get this error:
Date: 2019-07-02 16:29:17
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Routes\Routes.lua line 2548:
table index is nil
Debug:
Routes\Routes.lua:2548:
Routes\Routes.lua:2527
[C]: ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:50:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:48
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:789:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:610
[C]: ?
Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:71:
Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:69
Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:285: Fire()
...dOns\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:22:
...dOns\Ace3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:19
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Posted Jul 2, 2019Just found this addon, seems like it has a lot of great uses. It seems like 8.2 broke it though, as when editing a route manually the edit points are very small and hard to click, and the addon seems unable to make routes based on gathermate2 data. No error appears, just nothing happens.
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Posted Jun 22, 2019I cant even Type "/routes" if i do that i get the error
"Type '/help' for a listing of a few commands."
when will there be an update
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Posted Jun 20, 2019Me and many others are currently facing the issue where we try to create / import a route but it doesn't show up on the world map at all. Is this a known issue or is there a setting that needs to be enabled to make the routes visible again? Even a new bare route is not visible on the world map.
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Posted Jul 7, 2019In reply to xScarlife:
This is still happening to me, Ive been trying to make routes in Northrend for the Frostbitten achievement but the route I make goes away once Im done editing it.