Archaeology Helper

Last Updated: Oct 30, 2016 Game Version: 7.1.0

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Dec 17, 2010

Owner: oscarucb

Archaeology Helper accelerates your surveying by providing triangulation on a Heads-Up Display (HUD)

Survey then press green, yellow or red button to add new sector to the HUD and narrow down the position of your fragment
HUD optionally includes GatherMate2 pins showing possible fragment positions, further accelerating the process
Shows Dig Sites on Battlefield Minimap
Keybindings and various settings

How to use

Go to dig site, Right Click last button (spade) to show HUD and Left Click to cast Survay. Then ROTATE YOUR CHAR, BUT DON'T MOVE in the needed direction and press colored button according to Survey result. Move to other location, do same again.
It is strongly recommended to use in conjunction with GatherMate2, which will show all previous or imported dig-points on the HUD. When using GatherMate2 jump onto fragment before gathering! GatherMate2 data accuracy depends on that. Minimap zoom buttons also zoom the HUD display.

Controls

Left Click main window to move it
Right Click main window: opens config

Left Click on colored button: adds new sector to the HUD
Right Click on colored button: temporarily hide/show that color

Arrow button: undo last sector

Left Click spade: cast Survey
Right Click spade: show/hide the HUD
Middle Click spade: open Archaeology window

Use "/arh" or "/arhcfg" for command line help

HUD

On the HUD you can also see player arrow in the center and very small red circle that represents survey success range. And ofc all colored transparent overlapping areas that were set by you with colored buttons.

How to help

Bug Reports and Feature Requests - bug reports in comments will be deleted
Translators Needed! Apply localization here

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sporta
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Posted Nov 11, 2018
Hey all,

Any update on this? It is still saying "Dependencies: Blizzard_BattlefieldMinimap" missing...Haven't seen anything in the comments since Sept. 24, 2018. Would really like to get this going again.

Thanks in advance

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Posted Sep 24, 2018
Not working. Demands Blizzard_BattlefieldMinimap but cannot find it. If I remove this dependency, it crooks with 1140: attempt to call global 'GetCurrentMapContinent' (a nil value)

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Posted Sep 24, 2018
In reply to ngorongo:

Further investigation reveals it is related to map API change.
Tried to change to
local oldmap = C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit("player")
local currentContinentInfo = C_Map.GetMapInfo(oldmap)
local oldcont = currentContinentInfo.name

but still cannot find a replacement for GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel()

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ngorongo

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#428 Posted Oct 5, 2018

Got it working:

--- arh.lua	Sun Oct 30 12:04:54 2016
+++ arh.lua	Tue Sep 25 00:19:46 2018
@@ -1094,14 +1095,19 @@
 
 function addon:UpdateConsPositions(player_x, player_y, player_a)
 	local cos, sin = math.cos(player_a), math.sin(player_a)
+	
 	for _,item in ipairs(addon.ConsArray) do
-		local dx, dy = item.x-player_x, item.y-player_y
+		--print(item.x .. "   " .. player_x)
+		--print(item.y .. "   " .. player_y)
+		local dx, dy = item.x - player_x, item.y - player_y
 		local x = dx*cos - dy*sin
 		local y = dx*sin + dy*cos
 		local rot = item.a-player_a
-
+	
 		--item.texture:ClearAllPoints()
+		-- 4000 = too fast
 		item.texture:SetPoint("CENTER", Arh_HudFrame, "CENTER", x*PixelsInYardOnHud, -y*PixelsInYardOnHud)
+		--item.texture:SetPoint("CENTER", Arh_HudFrame, "CENTER", -25, -75)
 		RotateTexture(item, rot)
 	end
 end
@@ -1137,9 +1143,13 @@
 
 local _lastmapid, _lastmaptext
 function addon:GetPos()
-  local oldcont = GetCurrentMapContinent()
-  local oldmap = GetCurrentMapAreaID()
-  local oldlvl = GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel()
+  --local oldcont = GetCurrentMapContinent()
+  --local oldmap = GetCurrentMapAreaID()
+  --local oldlvl = GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel()
+  local oldmap = C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit('player')
+  local mappos = C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(oldmap, 'player')
+  local oldcont = C_Map.GetWorldPosFromMapPos(oldmap, mappos)
+  local oldlvl = 0
   local map = oldmap
   local level = oldlvl
   local text = GetRealZoneText()
@@ -1152,14 +1162,18 @@
       WorldMapFrame:Hide()
       flicker = true
     end
-    SetMapToCurrentZone()
-    map = GetCurrentMapAreaID()
-    level = GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel();
+    --SetMapToCurrentZone()
+    --map = GetCurrentMapAreaID()
+    local map = C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit('player')
+    --level = GetCurrentMapDungeonLevel();
+    level = 0
     --print("SetMapToCurrentZone: "..oldmap.."->"..map)
     _lastmapid = map
     _lastmaptext = text
   end
-  local x, y = GetPlayerMapPosition("player")
+  
+  local x, y = C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(map, "player"):GetXY()  
+  
   if flicker then
     WorldMapFrame:Show()
     if oldmap ~= map then
@@ -1176,12 +1190,38 @@
 
 function addon:GetPosYards()
   local x,y,map,level = addon:GetPos()
+  
   if x and y and map and x + y > 0 then
-    local id, _, _, left, right, top, bottom = GetAreaMapInfo(map)
+    --local id, _, _, left, right, top, bottom = GetAreaMapInfo(map)
+	--[[local hitrect = C_MapExplorationInfo.GetExploredMapTextures(map)
+	local top, bottom, left, right
+	for key, value in next, hitrect do
+		for k, v in next, value do
+			if k == "hitRect" then
+				for r, t in next, v do
+					if r == "bottom" then bottom = t end
+					if r == "top" then top = t end
+					if r == "left" then left = t end
+					if r == "right" then right = t end
+				end
+			end
+		end
+	end]]--
+  local vector00, vector05 = CreateVector2D(0, 0), CreateVector2D(0.5, 0.5)
+  local mapID = C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit('player');
+  local instance, topLeft = C_Map.GetWorldPosFromMapPos(mapID, vector00)
+  local _, bottomRight = C_Map.GetWorldPosFromMapPos(mapID, vector05)
+  local top, left = topLeft:GetXY()
+  local bottom, right = bottomRight:GetXY()
+  bottom = top + (bottom - top) * 2
+  right = left + (right - left) * 2
+	
+	--[[
     if left == right or top == bottom then 
       -- instanced areas should never be relevant to arch, but useful for testing
       _, right, left, bottom, top = GetDungeonMapInfo(map)
     end
+	--]]
     if left and right and left > right then
       x = x * (left - right)
     end
@@ -1189,6 +1229,7 @@
       y = y * (top - bottom)
     end
   end
+  
   return x,y,map,level
 end
 
@@ -1228,9 +1269,9 @@
 end
 
 local function AddPoint(color)
-        local jax, jay = addon:GetPosYards()
+    local jax, jay = addon:GetPosYards()
 	a = GetPlayerFacing()
-
+	
 	AddCon(color, jax, jay, a)
 	PlaySound(SOUND_ADDCON)
 end
@@ -1404,9 +1445,11 @@
 SlashCmdList["ARH"] = handler;
 SLASH_ARH1 = "/arh"
 
-local function OnSpellSent(unit,spellcast,rank,target)
+--local function OnSpellSent(unit,spellcast,rank,target)
+local function OnSpellSent(unit,target,rank,spellcast)
 	if unit ~= "player" then return end
-	if spellcast==GetSpellInfo(73979) then -- "Searching for Artifacts"
+	--if spellcast==GetSpellInfo(73979) then -- "Searching for Artifacts"
+	if spellcast==73979 then -- "Searching for Artifacts"
 		addon:OnGathering()
 	end
 end
@@ -1707,6 +1750,7 @@
 
 local last_update_hud = 0
 function Arh_HudFrame_OnUpdate(frame, elapsed)
+	-- I'M MOVING
 	last_update_hud = last_update_hud + elapsed
 	if last_update_hud > 0.05 then
 
@@ -1809,4 +1853,4 @@
 	if cfg.HUD.UseGatherMate2 then
 		UseGatherMate2(false)
 	end
-end
+end
\ No newline at end of file

ngorongo

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#429 Posted Oct 5, 2018

And arh.toc too:

--- arh.toc	Sun Oct 30 12:04:54 2016
+++ arh.toc	Mon Sep 24 12:49:25 2018
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 ## X-Revision: $Revision: 109 $
 ## DefaultState: Enabled
 ## OptionalDeps: GatherMate2, LibDataBroker-1.1, LibDBIcon-1.0
-## RequiredDeps: Blizzard_BattlefieldMinimap
 ## X-Embeds: Ace3, LibDataBroker-1.1, LibDBIcon-1.0
 ## SavedVariables: Arh_Config
 ## LoadManagers: AddonLoader

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Posted Oct 13, 2018
In reply to ngorongo:

A few errors still but at least it's working. Thanks a ton!

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Posted Oct 16, 2018
In reply to ngorongo:

This didn't work for me, it shows 'Incompatible' in the game's addon list, and that it's insecure in LoadIT. Loadable, loaded and load on demand are all no, enabled yes.

Given that it's working for Freezy3 I'm sure it's something I did wrong, but I don't know what. I made a copy of arh.lua, then deleted everything out of it and replaced it with your code there, did the same for arh.toc.

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Posted Oct 24, 2018
In reply to Azaram:

same for me

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Posted Nov 9, 2018
In reply to Azaram:

Well it isn't just you. I ended up in the same place with the same error.

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Posted Aug 5, 2018
Quote from nolzi35290 >>

In reply to Namestaken_:

Glad to hear it.

Btw have you managed to figure out what is wrong with the geometry?

Quote from Patsien >>

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Any thoughts on throw your fork up on Github (or something), listing the issues, and perhaps allowing others to help?

In any event, thanks for doing this!

Quote from Tirasa >>

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Great! This thing has spoiled me so much, I don't think I can do archaeology without it. :)

Prejudice182 fixed the geometry issues in the Issue tracker forum and I put it into the drive file. Feel free to let me know as you find more bugs :)

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
8.0 broke it for me. Is there any chance of an update?

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
In reply to Tirasa:

Check out my comment below, I've been working on fixing this addon for BfA. Still plenty of bugs but it's an improvement over nothing.

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
In reply to Namestaken_:

Great! This thing has spoiled me so much, I don't think I can do archaeology without it. :)

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Posted Jul 30, 2018
In reply to Namestaken_:

Any thoughts on throw your fork up on Github (or something), listing the issues, and perhaps allowing others to help?

In any event, thanks for doing this!

Last edited by Patsien: Jul 30, 2018

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Posted Jul 30, 2018
In reply to Patsien:

I reached out to the addon developer to ask if they are interested in passing it over to me. It seems like they are no longer active and haven't been for a couple years. If they don't respond (I'll give them a little while longer) then I'll just make a fork and host it here. It's a really incredible addon that provides a massive QOL improvement to the Archaeology UI. I don't want to see it die.

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Posted Jul 31, 2018
In reply to Namestaken_:

Glad to hear it.

Btw have you managed to figure out what is wrong with the geometry?

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Posted Aug 3, 2018
In reply to nolzi35290:

Yes, I'm hoping to get an update out this weekend with that fix.

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Posted Mar 27, 2018
As of March 27, 2018, I can no longer activate this addon. Now when I hover over it in my addons list, it says:

Dependencies: Blizzard_BattlefieldMinimap.

I haven't disabled anything involving Blizzard files.

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Having the same issue

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
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Also having this issue. Hope this is still under development.

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