No-Click Zone Points

[John Adams]

I have spent hours scouring the site, the Wiki, and code trying to figure out just how the hell we're doing the no-click zoning - like when you're running from ecommons to freeport, you hit a sweet spot that magically flings you into the next zone. I know about the 999999 thing, but no matter what I've tried, putting that or any other relative coordinate into the x,y,z, I cannot get a character to zone from [the new] Lavastorm back into Nektulos.

There are many other zones lacking "magic" zone points as well, so if I can figure out how to get any one of them to work, I can start setting up more. I've sat with table `zone`, `zone_points` open, pounding #loc just before the in-game zoner, and I swear... nothing lines up logically at all. I am going bonkers. The target_x,y,z is fine, just not that "cross this line, I zone you" coordinate.

HALP! Anyone, for the love of god and all that's holy, help me with this.

kthx.
/shootself

[Theeper]

It seems to me that some of the zone points are hard coded into the client. I can delete the entry from the zone_points table and it still works.

I can't override them unless I use a quest and a proximity event on an invisible mob placed in front of the real zone line.

[John Adams]

That is great info, now I do remember the invisible NPC / proximity thing. I will try that.

Hard coded... who the hell does that? I flog devs daily for trying to hard code things in my products. That's so... 90's

[DarkGothic]

Are you useing the new maps for the new lavastorm or the old map file, not zone file but map file?

[John Adams]

Hmm. My lavastorm.map file is dated 9.3.2004... that sounds old. Are there newer maps? I have a oow_maps file someone did recently, but I do not see revamped lavastorm or nektulos in there. I'll have to dig around.

[DarkGothic]

you can find it in the new_maps.zip on EQEmulator space at SourceForge