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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Jaladhjin
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Posted Sep 27, 2022
Can this be used without Gathermate2 if all I want is the pathing to follow?

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Posted Sep 19, 2022
WOTLK?

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Posted Sep 19, 2022
Would be really nice if you could bring this addon back to the latest patch. It's been a while since it was updated.

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Posted Sep 8, 2022
Please update for wotlk <3

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Posted Sep 18, 2022
In reply to Detonite:

Retail version of Routes works for WOLTK if used parallel with WOTLK version of Gatemate2.

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Posted Sep 20, 2022
In reply to Expelliarm5s:

Bruh

6x Routes\Routes-v1.6.7.lua:369: bad argument #1 to 'math_sin' (number expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Routes\Routes-v1.6.7.lua"]:369: in function `DrawMinimapLines'
[string "@Routes\Routes-v1.6.7.lua"]:986: in function <Routes\Routes.lua:982>

Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "number expected, got nil"

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Posted Sep 22, 2022
In reply to segoitch:

It's working here. Try do not alter minimap direction.

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Posted Aug 9, 2022
Hello there, may I ask how do I add The Maw to the zone selection section? I can't find that zone u.u Hope you can help, thanks in advance.

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Posted Jul 18, 2022
For anyone having issue (script ran too long) when clustering, i made a small fix to remove random points in order to reduce the number of nodes to 999 at max, then being able to optimize in background:

Add the code below at line 899 of the file TSP.lua

-- Delete random values in table in order to bypass script ran too long if numNodes > 999 then local nodesToDelete = numNodes - 999 for i = 1, nodesToDelete do local randomNodeIndex = math.random(1, numNodes -i +1) --reduce array size to avoid overflow table.remove(nodes2, randomNodeIndex) end numNodes = #nodes2 end
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Posted Jun 13, 2022
No Vale of the Eternal Blossom in the Add Route section. :(

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Posted May 16, 2022
As long as this addon has gone without updates, there likely won't be an answer, but please upload this to another addon site other than CurseForge such as Wago.io or WowInterface.com.
There are many of us in the community that do not wish to deal with OverWolf and their ways and use other tools to support and update addons and their developers.

Thank you.

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Posted Apr 19, 2022
Since this Addons seems not to be updated anymore. And more and more issues pop up. Does someone know an Alternative?

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Posted Mar 29, 2022
Hi, I have a question. how do I hide the route? Or do I always have to decavate the addon if I no longer want to see the routes?

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Posted Apr 8, 2022
In reply to mutanzoom:

Hey, I was looking for this too. I found it. In the left hand side menu, select your route, the lower most menu option of your route, so Routes > Area > [route name]. In there go to Line Settings, in that window, to the right of the line colour, there is a tick-box 'Hide Route'.

If you have "Show hidden routes" enabled, you'll see a grey line, but you could theoretically lower the alpha of that to 0 or just untick 'show hidden routes'.

I hope this helps. =D

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Posted Mar 28, 2022
Is there any way to make this addon less..entirely unhelpful?

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Posted Mar 29, 2022
In reply to Volitar:

You have to optimize the route. There are even instructions in the addon.

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Posted Nov 19, 2021
I got some Problems. I just tried to make a new Route in Ardenweald. I chose all the Herbs and Ores. Which came out at about 1500+ so i tried clustering. But is only freezes the Game for a short while and then nothing happens. Then i tired only 1 Herb to see if that would work. But even so the List says it has only like 600 Nodes it creates a Route with over 2200.

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Posted Jul 25, 2021
About 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.

Last edited by Janothia: Jul 25, 2021

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Posted Jul 9, 2021
When 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, 2021
You 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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