navaid

Navigation Aids

Display

• Facing: Yaw and Pitch
• Moving: Yaw and Pitch (not always the same as facing)
• Odometers: Horizontal, Vertical, Resultant
• Speeds: Horizontal, Vertical, Resultant (based on distance traveled and time elapsed)
• Waypoint: Distance, Direction, Estimated time of Arrival
• Angle to turn to face waypoint direction (features text arrows with changing colors & brightness)
• Pitch arrows shows how far off you're from level pitch
• Line shows route to waypoint
•  Falling speeds are calculated based on testing
• For player and for pointer over the map:
  • Map coordinate percentages (these indicate the position within the borders of a map)
  • Continent coordinates / Instance coordinates (always in yards, this is what the Engine uses)

• if world map
  • map name(id) Continent Name (id)
  • if you're also inside a micro dungeon
    • micro dungeon name

• if instance map
  • Name (did) and level (i.e. Ahn'Qiraj Temple has 3 levels)

Details

• This also shows horizontal speeds of ships/zepplins that you ride on (although vertical speed won't show due to the engine reporting 0 resultant speed)
• The display is updated every 100ms, but the calculations are done every frame (if the display is updated every frame it simply turns into a blur)
• Distances are in yards, Time is in seconds, Speeds are in yards/second, Angles are in degrees
• Resultant = result of Horizontal and Vertical vectors added
• Yaw = aviation format: 0-360, north is 0, CW is positive
• Pitch = -90 is down, 0 is forward, +90 is up
• microdungeons are sub-sections of a map and are underground (they also use the same continent coordinates as the map they're within)

Controls

• Waypoint Navigation Aid
  • left click on NavFrame to toggle
  • shift left click a place on the map to set the waypoint (or when pointer is in position type /na wp)

• Odometers
  • right click on NavFrame to toggle
  • shift right click on NavFrame to reset
  • accurately calculates falls (it calculates using gravity and terminal velocity values)

Tips

• Strafe into the turn direction to make fine adjustments when navigating toward a waypoint so you're always within 1 degree.
• Dodge obstacles w/o turning by strafing up/down/left/right so you don't have to re-level or re-aim toward the waypoint.
• Divide by 7.5 then multiply by 100 if you want to convert to '% speed' as indicated in the game

General Bugs / Quirks

• Keep in mind that if you're browsing on a map that you're not within the borders of the readout can't function as it's not getting position updates. (wouldn't be a problem if the engine would report % numbers that are under 0 and over 100.)

Vertical Bugs / Quirks

• Slopes/Stairs: The Engine reports speed_horz rather than speed_res when you're on the ground, so the addon can't know the vertical component movement when you're walking on a slope.
• Engine reports full speed if you're stuck on a glass ceiling going up, or swimming into the ground going down.

notes

• Half-way down the pier to Azuremyst Isle you are teleported massively as technically Azuremyst Isle is on the Outland continent. The engine reports it as Kalimdor, but that is a hack.