Installation Extract Mmaps

mmaps

what are mmaps: mmaps is short for movement maps...

this is the handling of creature pathfinding and pathing. for more info: [navmesh](http://code.google.com/p/recastnavigation/) and [CritterAI](http://critterai.org/cainav/home)

what this means in simple terms is it stops mobs and creatures from going through the walls,

and sticking to los (line of sight - collision maps).

videos are for demonstration purpose only.

1. [video example 1](http://www.youtube.com/embed/saTz9W-G2oU)

2. [video example 2](http://www.youtube.com/embed/xRtC36MqeIo)

3. [video example with playerbots (NYI)](http://www.youtube.com/embed/dC5-PD7KtRo)

4. [video example with mmaps disabled](http://www.youtube.com/embed/tCBau-YZNXE)

5. [video example with mmaps enabled](http://www.youtube.com/embed/4ACPlj5ZkYQ)

How extract mmaps. (mmaps2 branch)

• after you have everything built extract maps and dbc's the same as you always have.

• extract the vmaps and assemble as you always have. (save the Buildings dir this will be used later)

• in you BIN dir (server directory) *data/ dir (directory holding your maps and dbcs)

copy mmaps_extractor to this location,

• add the libmysql/ace.dll to *data dir. ( it is needed for mmaps_extractor to run)

• create an empty folder named mmaps. (this is where all generated mmaps tiles will go)

• now move everything from inside buildings directory into your vmaps folder...(*data/vmaps)

and run the mmaps_extractor...

• last step the easiest of all, just kick back with a movie, and wait til it finishes.

(Note: for some depending on your machine, this could be a very long wait).