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.

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Bug Reports and Feature Requests - bug reports in comments will be deleted
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Namestaken_
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Posted Aug 5, 2018
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Glad to hear it.

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

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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!

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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
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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
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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
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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!

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
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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
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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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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to xuomi:

I've been making updates to this file for my own use, you can download it here. There are some known bugs that I'm trying to fix but it is much more functional than the Blizzard UI (or lack of).

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wpMnXxEYVG2LZSaMYNsXSDjBjQerIxZO

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
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Thanks a lot, it's not as functional as the original one but it does the work ! I really love you, all the add-on makers/refactorers for your well-done softwares ! <3

Only one surprising thing is that the UI moves with your char when running (not only your char is moving to the points but the points are slipping a bit towards the char, very surprising at the beginning but better than nothing & i dont know if this is a bug that was discovered or simply me misconfiguring my addon).

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
In reply to enilarik28162:

It is a bug, something I'm still trying to track down. The only time it is reliable is when you first click the (red, yellow, green) buttons. The Gathermate points shouldn't be slipping, though. I'm happy to work out any bugs I can do feel free to share what you find. I will reply to comments as things are fixed.

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
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Thank you so much for doing this! Even just having the hud back up and running makes grinding for the Tol'Vir mount so much more bearable.

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Posted Jul 24, 2018
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Thanks man, without you I would've had to give up on getting Groundbreaking :)

If I may suggest, if you plan to continue updating the addon, try using github so its easier to see when you make changes compared to gdrive.

And if you are super serious, look into how to take over the addon on curse, or at least get in contact with oscarucb.

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Posted Jul 31, 2018
In reply to nolzi35290:

Thanks for the suggestions. I did reach out to the developer to take it over. If he doesn't reply back then I will create a v2 of this addon on Curse. It's too good and too useful to let die with a developer that left the game. My changes were meant to get it back up and running (albeit with bugs) until a more permanent solution is found :)

Edit: I am going to wait until the launch of BfA for oscarucb to reply. If he's going to come back, I think that'll be the time.

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Posted Mar 4, 2018
Getting this error:

1x Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1096: bad argument #1 to 'cos' (number expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `cos'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1096: in function `UpdateConsPositions'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1135: in function `UpdateCons'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1715: in function `Arh_HudFrame_OnUpdate'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1806: in function <Arh\arh.lua:1802>
[C]: in function `Show'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:99: in function <Arh\arh.lua:97>
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:175: in function `ToggleHUD'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1532: in function `Arh_MainFrame_Init'
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1424: in function <Arh\arh.lua:1414>
Arh\arh-1.6.4.lua:1433: in function <Arh\arh.lua:1431>

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

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Posted Aug 6, 2018
In reply to Jedasa:

Are you using the BfA patched version from the listed Google Drive or the addon on Curse? Do you get the error all the time?

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Posted Oct 7, 2017
I've noticed after the last update that most of the time when I enter and then leave combat the interface will disappear and I'll have to reload or run out of the digsite and back in. Happens pretty frequently. Every 1-3 adds I kill.

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