Converting WowHead data to XYZ Coord's....

[jawn]

Does anyone know how to convert the location data that is provided by WoWhead (used in Gatherer Addon) into XYZ Coords that can be used in profiles here?

 

[Crazyd22]

You could just target them and press the 'Target Info' button in HB, then copy and paste it

 

[Mess1337]

Does anyone know how to convert the location data that is provided by WoWhead (used in Gatherer Addon) into XYZ Coords that can be used in profiles here?

Just replace the XYZ axis with the one from WoWhead, should work just fine.

 

[ski]

Just replace the XYZ axis with the one from WoWhead, should work just fine.

No. The x/z on wowhead are zone specific (ie 50,50 in duskwood is not 50,50 in sholazaar). The XYZ used by HB are across entire continents (or the game world itself, I forget).

 

[jawn]

Here is the db file from wowhead that basically lists almost every node of everything within the game that they ahve on record (ore, herb and treasure chests and such). As you can see it gives information like:

    ALTERAC_MOUNTAINS = {
        [1622] = {
            124778,125778,192855,197587,199714,208555,358522,393423,
            403501,420406,612426,631446,
        },

and that is somehow translated to be able to display nodes at specific points in the gamemap. What i'm looking for is a way to convert these into some form of XYZ coordinates. It's prbably extremely simple and all but i'm brain fried from school right now. Anyone have an idea of this?

one example is if editpatrol was still viable app to utilize for profile making (not sure if it is even supported anymore or where to get it) the wowhead data could be imported directly into an app like that and then creating hotspots and such would be that much easier. I know i'm rambling on and this could go into a million directions but i hope this makes a small enough point to get someone to try to convert it and open up a bunch of new possibilities?

 

[CodenameG]

there is an equation but its complicated as hell, and requires you to know the size of each zone, that has to be converted before hand. it would be quicker to build an plugin, to grab, the herb locations automaticly, while running by them. and then just convert those into a profile

 

[Inrego]

Well I know from back at ppather times that some ppl had some databases with all this info. (at least NPC's) I think they were extracted from wowhead. These databases was used to create quest profile parsers. I know someone uploaded such a database for public use on the Glider forums.