Archaeology Helper

HUD view
  • Draws HUD with GatherMate2 pins, you can use minimap zoom on it if needed
  • After Survey you press green, yellow or red button to add new sector to the HUD (cleared automaticaly on gathering)
  • Shows Dig Sites on Minimap and Battlefield Minimap
  • Keybindings and various settings

How to use

demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-49ezUmLzY
review: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2141-Nefarian-World-First-Kill-Archaeology-Helper-MMO-Report-Comics

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 GatherMate2 then you'll see all previous or imported dig-points on the HUD. When using GatherMate2 jump onto fragment before gathering! GatherMate2 data accuracy depends on that.

Controls

Left Click main window to move it
Right Click main window: opens settings page

Left Click on colored buttons: adds new sector to the HUD
Right Click on colored buttons: temporarry hides/shows that color

Arrow button: undo 1 sector

Left Click spade: cast Survey
Right Click spade: shows/hides HUD in the center of the screen
Middle Click spade: open Archaeolodgy 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 success range. And ofc all colored transperent overlaping areas that were set by you with colored buttons.
Green compass circle can be removed in settings. it's totaly useless actually.

TODO

Next will be:

  • Independent zoom by mouse wheel on main window
  • Automatic color buttons, if possible*

After Next:

  • Pointer to closest digsite
  • Will think about own polygon drawing
  • Auto-open inside digsite, if possible
  • Think about localization maybe

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  • 9 comments
  • Avatar of biashanord biashanord Dec 19, 2011 at 03:32 UTC - 0 likes

    @zhTW: Go

    don't know, don't have time to think about it
    must not be hard, but i'll do it last
    you are free to create localized version - i'll upload
    or implement changes for easy localization in different languages

    Last edited Dec 19, 2011 by biashanord
  • Avatar of oscarucb oscarucb Sep 21, 2011 at 21:53 UTC - 0 likes

    Has this addon been abandoned?

    Author/Maintainer of BigBrother, ProfessionsVault, InspectFix, RetardCheck, RoleIcons, SavedInstances, and others..

  • Avatar of Superman360 Superman360 Aug 22, 2011 at 06:25 UTC - 0 likes

    Overall, this is a nice addon. I can think of a couple things that would be good to add;

    • A quick way to "minimize/restore" the hud and main window. Maybe a floating minimap icon (similar to "Gatherer").
    • Digsite boundary lines in the hud.
  • Avatar of marsaeus marsaeus Aug 02, 2011 at 03:50 UTC - 0 likes

    I love this addon, but it does not work well with Tom Tom at all. At least for me. The HUD overlay seems to drift in a weird manner and the yellow nodes move as I move... instead of moving WITH the highlighted overlay colors.

    Not sure if that is clear, but I was wondering if anyone else had any trouble using Tom Tom with the overlay of this mod?

  • Avatar of oscarucb oscarucb Apr 03, 2011 at 03:37 UTC - 0 likes

    Here is a patched version of arh.lua that adds sounds for most UI operations (and an option to disable these sounds)

    http:www.gamefront.com/files/20184143/arh_lua

  • Avatar of MrLingering MrLingering Feb 04, 2011 at 17:50 UTC - 0 likes

    If you can do a tie in to TomTom for an arrow and also give us a way to select which of the sites we can get the arrow to goto next that would rock.

  • Avatar of dazzllee dazzllee Jan 16, 2011 at 11:47 UTC - 0 likes

    HELLO i change the "key bindings Settings" But i cant reset ... i reset all settings, but dont work. I want reset my key binds, beacause "esc" to clear the binding not working. I delete all folders, reinstall my wow, what i can i do?!!?

    thanks all

  • Avatar of zhTW zhTW Jan 05, 2011 at 01:28 UTC - 0 likes

    I would like to do zhTW translation. What should I do?

  • Avatar of number31 number31 Dec 19, 2010 at 18:37 UTC - 0 likes

    after you dig and click the appropriate button that matches your survey (red, yellow, or green), is there a way to adjust the color that highlights where the artifact can be in to make it brighter or darker? Stranglethorn its kinda hard to see since its already so bright in that area :/

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Date created
Dec 17, 2010
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Last update
Dec 19, 2011
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Archaeology Helper
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