World Completion - New GWToolbox Plugin to help you getting Legendary Cartographer
First of All - ⚠️ Warning: This GWToolbox plugin is unofficial and unsupported. Use it at your own risk. I’m not responsible for bugs, crashes, account issues, or other problems caused by using it. Also, this is an AI-First coding project, where I acted as a debugger and the code was written by Codex.
Well, past this, I want to present a new plugin that I (actually Codex with a lot of test and input to be transparent about it) have been working on past month.
What is it?
Recent changes to cartography led to a new grid-based system to discover new territory.
With that, GWToolbox has developed the cartography plugin, that made me love exploring the zones even more, to the point I redid Nightfall just to test out the new system and compare it to my old characters.
With this, came up an idea: what if routes can be generated based on the rectangular data that is present?
That is what this plugin tries to bring, an optimized (probably, there can be better routes as this is a generic algorithm) automatic route that adjusts with open sectors of zones (like building of bridges in Maguuma missions)
How does it work?
The idea is to connect all the undiscovered squares through the shortest route. Because that is a dynamic process, it may need to be compute during new subzones discovery or if something went amiss during the former route compution.
Didn't work fine? Well, it may not as it is an extremelly experimental plugin, but you can recompute the route by clicking the right button here on the minimap:
Does it consider Bird Eye Compass?
Yes it does, and also shows how bizarrily broken Bird Eye Compass is for Legendary Cartography.
Want an example? Here is my poor Lv. 17 Ritualist with a barely completed Zelhon Reach, with total route length of 242598 game units:
Then, after using the item, we can reduce the total exploration path to 105718 game units, a 56% reduction to total walked distance, including a smaller route complexity as shown:
What else can it do?
You can select the exit portal so after finishing a zone, you go directly into the next one, just click the portal number on your Mission Map:
You can also customize it but that is pretty much it (oh it also adds coordinates to your mouse when hovering map because that may be useful when reporting stuff if you do)
There are some debug and log saving configurations but that is mostly to troubleshoot it.
Credits
Important, A LOT OF THIS was possible because of GWToolbox++ and GWCA code and interface to the game code itself, and also because of the Toolbox itself.
Installation
Finally, the installation itself.
First, get the file at https://github.com/qjv/WorldCompletion/releases (hey the entire code is there if you wanna verify for malicious stuff too!)
Then add it to the plugin folder on your GWToolbox configuration, which are usually C:\Users\<username>\Documents\GWToolboxpp\<profile>\plugins\ or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\GWToolboxpp\<profile>\plugins\. If on Linux, it will be inside your wine profile.
Open toolbox configuration, make sure Plugins are enabled and go to plugin tab and enable and configure it there.
IMPORTANT: If you enable Debug and close window, it will remove visibility of plugin, just click the square to the right to the Load button to show it back and make sure to disabled Debug right after.