Hi.
Quick note: the latest TS3 update broke the display in TacO. This time I'm unable to supply a quick fix as I'm swamped with other projects until after Easter. The issue is known and I'll look into it as soon as I can. Thank you for your patience.
Sunday, 26 March 2017
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Maintenance Update
Hi!
The patch yesterday broke TacO due to some minor changes in the Mumble Link data format. This hotfix is meant to address this issue. It also includes a long standing debt of mine, the fix for some crashes that occur when marker packs have markers in them that have spaces in their names.
Important: if you're someone who created their own marker packs or placed markers with categories that contain spaces, those will need to be looked over. The marker format will no longer accept category names to contain any type of space or special character. There is a newly added field for markers and categories called DisplayName that allows you to add a pretty name for the category to be displayed in the TacO menu. See the updated poi files supplied with TacO for reference.
A new marker behavior for winterberry farm type markers has also been added that will track the triggering of markers daily and per character.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
The patch yesterday broke TacO due to some minor changes in the Mumble Link data format. This hotfix is meant to address this issue. It also includes a long standing debt of mine, the fix for some crashes that occur when marker packs have markers in them that have spaces in their names.
Important: if you're someone who created their own marker packs or placed markers with categories that contain spaces, those will need to be looked over. The marker format will no longer accept category names to contain any type of space or special character. There is a newly added field for markers and categories called DisplayName that allows you to add a pretty name for the category to be displayed in the TacO menu. See the updated poi files supplied with TacO for reference.
A new marker behavior for winterberry farm type markers has also been added that will track the triggering of markers daily and per character.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
- Updated the parsing of the Mumble Link data so markers work with the new build.
- Fixed the crashes coming from toggling the visibility of marker categories that have spaces in their names
- Updated the supplied marker packs with pretty names
- Added a new marker behavior, (behavior="7") that tracks the triggering of the marker so it resets daily, tracked separately for each character (useful for Winterberry farm type stuff)
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
A Crack in the Ice
Hi!
Quick update courtesy of Xenophy: markers for the collectible chests and quaggans for the new map, Bitterfrost Frontier. He also updated his jumping puzzle markers.
No code updates this time.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
Quick update courtesy of Xenophy: markers for the collectible chests and quaggans for the new map, Bitterfrost Frontier. He also updated his jumping puzzle markers.
No code updates this time.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
- Added markers for collectible chests and Quaggans in Bitterfrost Frontier, courtesy of Xenophy
- Updated JP markers courtesy of Xenophy
Friday, 11 November 2016
Hoppity-hop
Hi!
I just got a big surprise package in the mail from a group of guys who took a liking to TacO - they went around ALL the jumping puzzles in the game and marked the routes through them. The result is a marker pack of about 5000 markers.
There's no clutter though like with SAB: only a single marker is shown at a time, marking the place you should go next. The starting points of the puzzles are all marked separately as well.
So give it up to this awesome and dedicated team:
I just got a big surprise package in the mail from a group of guys who took a liking to TacO - they went around ALL the jumping puzzles in the game and marked the routes through them. The result is a marker pack of about 5000 markers.
There's no clutter though like with SAB: only a single marker is shown at a time, marking the place you should go next. The starting points of the puzzles are all marked separately as well.
So give it up to this awesome and dedicated team:
- All PvE-JP-Guides made by "Cloud Strife.7492"
- The Mists and Fractal JP-Guides made by "Destiny FNC.5018"
- Rejumped, adjusted and sorted by "Xenophy.2716"
The new build contains this huge marker pack now. If anyone finds problems with it, they can contact the guys at xenotaco@web.de, and they'll get me an updated version to release.
In this release I also recategorized and reintroduced all the previous festival markers. This means the carving pumpkins, wintersday orphans, and new year's fireworks will become a permanent package in the overlay.
No real feature updates for now since I'm busy with work and other stuff. I'm slowly working on the core of the "next big feature" to add to the overlay, however to truly make it shine I'll need someone good at writing and telling a story and familiar with Tyria and/or GW2 lore. Anyone interested out there? Maybe from the RP community?
You can download the new build from here.
Change log:
- If the GW2 UI doesn't tick for a third of a second, TacO will be hidden. This will make loading screens and video cutscenes TacO-free.
- Added a huge Jumping Puzzle marker pack courtesy of a very dedicated team of players
- Added back the orphan markers in anticipation of the upcoming wintersday
- Rearranged some of the marker categories (festival markers are now grouped together)
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Trick or Treat!
Hi!
Quick update here to join in on the Halloween fun.
I marked all the carving pumpkins in Lions Arch and the Mad King's Labyrinth.
A new feature has also been added in according to this, there's a new marker behavior type that will remember the instance the marker was triggered on. This means that if you trigger markers of this type and join another instance of the map, all the markers will be up again for you to run through them. If you manage to get back into the same instance you were in before, you'll see where you haven't been yet.
This feature is experimental and rough though, so don't start using it yet for Bloodstone Crystal nodes etc :)
You can download the new build here.
Change notes
Quick update here to join in on the Halloween fun.
I marked all the carving pumpkins in Lions Arch and the Mad King's Labyrinth.
A new feature has also been added in according to this, there's a new marker behavior type that will remember the instance the marker was triggered on. This means that if you trigger markers of this type and join another instance of the map, all the markers will be up again for you to run through them. If you manage to get back into the same instance you were in before, you'll see where you haven't been yet.
This feature is experimental and rough though, so don't start using it yet for Bloodstone Crystal nodes etc :)
You can download the new build here.
Change notes
- Added markers for carving pumkins in Lion's Arch and the Mad king's Labyrinth.
- Added marker behavior type 6: OncePerInstance.
- Removed some logging that might have flooded the log file before GW2 was running.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Cumulative update #2
Hi!
Now that I'm putting more time into TacO again, some people contacted me about various issues they were having, and helped me look into them.
There was an issue with keyboard handling, and alt-tabbing causing weird issues on Windows 7 with an extra, old style task selector popping up. This has been fixed. As a side effect, if you have a keyboard layout that requires pressing the alt or atgr keys to write accented letters, I _think_ that could be fixed as well, but please let me know.
Another issue was that TacO kept freezing for some people randomly, some more consistently than others. Turns out Windows decided to kill the DirectX device from under TacO in these instances. The device should be correctly recovered in this build and make TacO a lot more stable for people who had this issue.
I also added some requested features:
The mouse highlight now has selectable color (based on the original CGA palette of 16 colors), and a black outline you can turn on and off.
A notepad has also been added. In order to make this minimally intrusive, in order to edit it you need to bind a key to the edit action (set to ']' by default). While editing, you can click into the notepad, select, copy and paste stuff, undo-redo also works. Once you stop editing (by clicking outside the textbox), the window will become transparent to mouse clicks and you'll need to activate edit mode again to change the text. The text will persist between runs of TacO and is saved into a text file in the TacO directory. As with any other window in the overlay, it will at first open in the middle of the screen, and you need to go into window edit mode in the menu to move and resize it.
Last, but not least, I had a nice submission from Xanadias for a supposedly near-optimal route through the Floor is Lava adventure. I added a new feature to tracking system used for the guild bounties (a reset position can now be entered), and used that system so there's always only one marker up to show you the next place to go to.
He also sent me some other pretty awesome goodies, but I still need to verify those.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
Now that I'm putting more time into TacO again, some people contacted me about various issues they were having, and helped me look into them.
There was an issue with keyboard handling, and alt-tabbing causing weird issues on Windows 7 with an extra, old style task selector popping up. This has been fixed. As a side effect, if you have a keyboard layout that requires pressing the alt or atgr keys to write accented letters, I _think_ that could be fixed as well, but please let me know.
Another issue was that TacO kept freezing for some people randomly, some more consistently than others. Turns out Windows decided to kill the DirectX device from under TacO in these instances. The device should be correctly recovered in this build and make TacO a lot more stable for people who had this issue.
I also added some requested features:
The mouse highlight now has selectable color (based on the original CGA palette of 16 colors), and a black outline you can turn on and off.
A notepad has also been added. In order to make this minimally intrusive, in order to edit it you need to bind a key to the edit action (set to ']' by default). While editing, you can click into the notepad, select, copy and paste stuff, undo-redo also works. Once you stop editing (by clicking outside the textbox), the window will become transparent to mouse clicks and you'll need to activate edit mode again to change the text. The text will persist between runs of TacO and is saved into a text file in the TacO directory. As with any other window in the overlay, it will at first open in the middle of the screen, and you need to go into window edit mode in the menu to move and resize it.
Last, but not least, I had a nice submission from Xanadias for a supposedly near-optimal route through the Floor is Lava adventure. I added a new feature to tracking system used for the guild bounties (a reset position can now be entered), and used that system so there's always only one marker up to show you the next place to go to.
He also sent me some other pretty awesome goodies, but I still need to verify those.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
- Alt-tabbing should work properly now
- Keyboard handling should be less intrusive now (please get back to me if you had issues with typing accented characters before)
- The freezing issue should be fixed
- Added color selection and outline for the mouse highlight
- Added notepad
- Added Floor is Lava route courtesy of Xanadias
Sunday, 2 October 2016
Cumulative update
Hi everyone,
it's been a while, my summer was packed and I didn't have much time or energy to work on TacO. Meanwhile interest in the overlay seems to have picked up, and many of you have started creating marker packs.
This release is more of a maintenance build addressing some issues that popped up with the recent Windows 10 anniversary update and some small quality of life feature requests that came in. It's also a step for me to get back to spending a bit more time on the overlay in the coming months. I have some pretty interesting ideas :)
The Xera encounter will now have an HP bar grid, and numbered markers for the rifts to make coordinating easier.
There was also an anonymous donation of markers for Ember Bay containing Mursaat Token and Tome locations. I have validated and fixed this pack and included it in this release.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
it's been a while, my summer was packed and I didn't have much time or energy to work on TacO. Meanwhile interest in the overlay seems to have picked up, and many of you have started creating marker packs.
This release is more of a maintenance build addressing some issues that popped up with the recent Windows 10 anniversary update and some small quality of life feature requests that came in. It's also a step for me to get back to spending a bit more time on the overlay in the coming months. I have some pretty interesting ideas :)
The Xera encounter will now have an HP bar grid, and numbered markers for the rifts to make coordinating easier.
There was also an anonymous donation of markers for Ember Bay containing Mursaat Token and Tome locations. I have validated and fixed this pack and included it in this release.
You can download the new build here.
Change notes:
- The TS3 overlay will now put anyone who talks to the top of the list. This will make it a lot more useful for large channels.
- Tiny display fix for the TS3 overlay list (last item won't be partially displayed anymore)
- Overhauled the way TacO is placed over the GW2 window to be less intrusive.
- TacO will no longer show up as a separate program on the taskbar or the alt-tab menu.
- Integrated AngelScript for future use.
- Fixed a TS3 overlay issue that would sometimes happen if TS3 was started after TacO.
- TacO will no longer show up on the GW2 login window.
- Added HP bar grid for Xera.
- Added numbered markers for Xera rifts.
- Added Ember Bay collectible markers for Mursaat Tokens and Tomes, courtesy of an Anonymous comment on the blog.
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