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 25, 2021About RETAIL
To create any new routes I have to do the following:
- The addon "Gatherer" needs to be installed
- Deselect "Gatherer" under "Select sources of data" in "Create Routes from Data Sources"
- Select "GatherMate2" under "Select sources of data" in "Create Routes from Data Sources"
- Select "HandyNotes" under "Select sources of data" in "Create Routes from Data Sources"
I cannot create any route when "Gatherer" is selected.
When Gatherer isn't installed, I cannot create new routes. In this case "Gatherer" is permanently selected as Enabled and cannot be deselected.
Is there any way of removing/not installing the outdated and error generating addon "Gatherer" and still be able to create new routes?
An issue has been created, but I also place it here... because someone might have a solution outside of the issue tab.
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Posted Jul 9, 2021When optimizing a route in the foreground and when clustering a route with over i think 900 nodes I keep getting a script ran too long error. Any idea on how to fix this?
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Posted Jun 30, 2021You can download a working version from WowAce - https://www.wowace.com/projects/routes/files/3369785
So far it's working in TBC Classic.
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Posted Jun 19, 2021TBCC: I have an issue with creating a blank route. One of the points (Top left) is created behind the "Press RMB to zoom out the map" and there is no way to get it out from there because every click is counted as a click on that "Press RBB to zoom out the map"
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Posted Jun 28, 2021In reply to ShadowTheAge:
Hi there,
Change the values in this line (@ around 2460/2466):
local new_route = { route = {71117111, 12357823, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">11171123</span></strong>}, selection = {}, db_type = {} }-
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Posted Jun 28, 2021In reply to ShadowTheAge:
Hi there,
Change the values in this line (@ around 2460/2466):
local new_route = { route = {71117111, 12357823, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">11171123</span></strong>}, selection = {}, db_type = {} }-
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Posted Jun 28, 2021In reply to ShadowTheAge:
Hi there,
Change the values in this line (@ around 2460/2466):
local new_route = { route = {71117111, 12357823, 11171123}, selection = {}, db_type = {} }Sorry for multipost... showed error, so i send it multiple times -_-'
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Posted Jun 18, 2021Is there a way to feed current TomTom waypoints to Routes to create a route? That would be an amazing functionality.
Copy a bunch of coordinates into Routes and turn that into a route that could be optimized.
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Posted Jun 8, 2021WTB TBCC version
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Posted Jun 10, 2021In reply to Razid1987:
it works with some tweeking
Fix : local WORLD_MAP_ID = 946
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Posted Jun 12, 2021In reply to ttoothy:
Which file?
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Posted Jun 17, 2021In reply to Shadowspown:
I assume he's referring to the main file,
"cosmic" changes to this, not sure if second needs to be changed but I'm trying it as the same.
local WORLD_MAP_ID = 946
processMapChildrenRecursive(COSMIC_MAP_ID)
routes.toc file also needs to be changed to have "## Interface: 20501" in place of whatever interface # it has by default.
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Posted Jun 19, 2021In reply to randomacts_of_gaming:
You know of any way to get taboo areas and manually editing routes to work?
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Posted Jun 19, 2021In reply to randomacts_of_gaming:
You know of any way to get taboo areas and manually editing routes to work?
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Posted Jun 23, 2021In reply to Heatsou:
for TBC Classic I changed Routes line 3022
from
OpenWorldMap(zone)
to
WorldMapFrame:SetMapID(zone)
WorldMapFrame:Show()
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Posted Jun 17, 2021In reply to ttoothy:
Can you please tell how you managed to load this addon? I did all the tweaking and it doesn’t show ingame
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Posted Jun 18, 2021In reply to Czyhablo:
Update the "interface: ######" in the .toc file. Copy a working tbc addons interface: #### and it should load. should be something like 21500
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Posted Jun 11, 2021In reply to Razid1987:
please and ty
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Posted May 29, 2021routes loaded in bcc - also posted in issues:
1x Routes\Modules\AutoShow.lua:33: table index is nil
[string "@Routes\Modules\AutoShow.lua"]:33: in main chunk
Locals:
Routes = <table> {
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:367
TSP = <table> {
}
EnableModule = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:332
modules = <table> {
}
IterateEmbeds = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:442
SecureHookScript = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:410
CVAR_UPDATE = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:992
RawHookScript = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:395
Printf = <function> defined @Ace3\AceConsole-3.0\AceConsole-3.0.lua:69
DeleteNode = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:727
defaultModuleState = true
IsEnabled = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:451
DrawMinimapLines = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:317
DisableModule = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:350
getID = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:213
ADDON_LOADED = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:1167
RegisterMessage = <function> defined @Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:90
UnregisterMessage = <function> defined @Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:153
GetAceOptRouteTable = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:2263
hooks = <table> {
}
UpgradeStorageFormat2 = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:794
SetEnabledState = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:424
Hook = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:274
enabledState = true
RegisterEvent = <function> defined @Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:90
routekeys = <table> {
}
IterateModules = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:437
RawHook = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:313
OnInitialize = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:891
UnregisterAllEvents = <function> defined @Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:174
IsNodeInTaboo = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:3415
GetModule = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:210
plugins = <table> {
}
defaultModuleLibraries = <table> {
}
UnregisterChatCommand = <function> defined @Ace3\AceConsole-3.0\AceConsole-3.0.lua:111
KeybindHelper = <table> {
}
SetupSourcesOptTables = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:2365
GetName = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:279
name = "Routes"
orderedModules = <table> {
}
ReparentMinimap = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:3620
Disable = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:314
SecureHook = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:336
ApplyTabooToRoute = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:3446
GetAceOptRouteEditTable = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:3369
GetAceOptTabooTable = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:3215
DrawTaboos = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:2771
Unhook = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:418
G = <table> {
}
RecreateRoute = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:2625
MINIMAP_UPDATE_ZOOM = <function> defined @Routes\Routes.lua:983
Dragons = <table> {
}
HookScript = <function> defined @BlizzMove\Libs\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:366
IsModule = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:468
Enable = <function> defined @Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:294
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will test as needed - again ;)
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Posted May 25, 2021Another vote for a TBC Classic version of Routes. Big fan!