Noctis Guides Example Route Pack

A worked example of a third-party route pack for Noctis Guides. It exists to be read, not to level with.

Noctis Guides ships its own routes for both factions, 1 to 60. This pack is for the other case: you want to write a route of your own and publish it, and you would rather start from a complete working one than from a blank file.

What is in it

• One short route that exercises every directive the guide engine implements, each with a comment saying what it does and why.
• A filled-in provenance block, which the engine requires before it will register a route at all.
• A .toc that declares the dependency properly, so the pack loads after the engine rather than before it.
• A registration call that prints its failure to chat instead of swallowing it. That single omission costs first-time route authors the most time: the pack installs, the route never appears, and nothing says why.

How to use it

Install it alongside Noctis Guides, open the guide list and pick the example route. Then read ExampleRoute.lua next to WRITING_ROUTES.md, which ships inside Noctis Guides and documents every directive the parser actually implements, along with the ones it parses but does not yet act on.

When you write your own, /maguide capture prints the route line for wherever you are standing, and /maguide record keeps a running buffer as you play, so coordinates never have to be transcribed by hand. /maguide routes reports which routes loaded, which were rejected, and why.

Publishing a pack of your own

A route pack is an ordinary addon. Declare Noctis Guides as a required dependency, register your route text with the engine, and upload it like anything else. Nothing has to go through the Noctis Guides project.

Requirements

• Required: Noctis Guides

Compatibility: WoW Classic Era 1.15.9 (Interface 11509).

The coordinates in the example are placeholders and are marked as such in the file. It is teaching material, not a route to follow.