waypoint based problems?

[Lithiria]

Good morning, all! Like everyone else, I am going to apologize first for my n00b questions.

I am running mangos for 3.3.5a 12340 and for the most part it works great. The only problems I am having seem to involve waypoints:

No NPC escort quest works. Any time the quest giver is supposed to walk a route and help you fight if you get in to trouble, all I get is the quest giver standing in one spot or following me like a pet. Also along these lines are quests where you take control of something else. When the "something else" spawns, my keyboard still controlls me and not the thing I am supposed to move.

No change to the world based on user input works. For example, when you enter the forge area of UTGARDE KEEP, the forge doesn't stop burning to allow you access to the rest of the instance. (I assume this is a waypoint issue because my character can't find the exact spot on the map to cross to make this event happen. I have killed everything in the room, but the fire is still there.)

No WotLK U/I change works. For example, non-mount related vehicles like horses, cars, and dragons. If my chara does mount the vehicle, the screen U/I doesn't change. Most of the time, my chara doesn't mount the vehicle at all.

Another strange thing is faction changes. For example, in the DK starting area, when you are supposed to steal a horse and turn it into a death charger mount. The horses I am supposed to steal are friendly to me and being attacked by the enemies in the area.

Everything else seems to work just fine. Quest drops happen more frequently than I remember, but I am ok with that. I love the project! I wish I could help with it, but I am nowhere near the programmer needed for a project like this. Please let me know what I need to do to make the above things work and I will do my best. Thanks!

-Lith

[kreegoth]

Many of these issues are most likely DB issues or Script issues which are not related to the mangos project. Some of them probably stem from your DB ( YTDB or UDB perhaps? ) and it not being up to date. The scripting issues would most likely stem from Scriptdev2 which is not part of mangos but works with mangos to provide scripting for events and creatures and such.

[Lithiria]

So are you telling me to post this issue in the UDB forums?

-Lith

[Schmoozerd]

no, actually this sounds like you didn't install ScriptDev2 or didn't install it proper

vehicles are not working which is obviously a known "Not Yet Implemented" feature.

For the rest, only report detailed and individual bugs, if core bug at core forum, if DB bug at DB forum, and if scripting bug at scripting forum

[Lithiria]

oooh... scriptdev2... i dont remember if i installed this or not. if i install it now, will that fix problems or do i have to start from scratch and recompile everything including mangos?

-Lith

[Senpuria]

I'd probably recompile the whole thing again with SD2 this time, just to make sure there's no errors and such.

[kreegoth]

Scriptdev2 can be compiled aside from Mangos and does not require a full mangos recompile though i would recommend it. Vehicles are not implemented in Mangos itself though if you search you may be able to find a fork that includes it.

IF you did already compile Scriptdev2 its possible you did not run the SQL's to insert the scriptnames into the DB as well.

[Lithiria]

Oh wow! Thank you all for this incredible help! I will do these steps and reply to let you know how it all turned out!

-Lith

[Lithiria]

Ok everyone. Thank you very much for your help. I recompiled MANGOS and SCRIPTDEV2 and came out with the same problems, but this time I paid more attention to the resulting messages while I applied the SQL patches.

Turns out, and I really don't know why, but NONE of my "character" SQL patches were applied successfully. The command I used was:

mysql -uroot -p -v -D characters < ####_characters_PATCHNAME.sql

I was under the belief that I had to do this string ONLY for #### after my MANGOS revision, but I was wrong. As I applied each patch, SQL kept returning "ERROR: this patch is ####, you have to apply patch #### first!"

Turns out I had to go all the way back to the 0.5 folder and apply ALL characters patches through ALL folders. It took me about two hours to find all of them. Prior to update 0.8, none of the patches had the DB name to which they must be applied, so it was a guessing game at that point for me.

Anyway, after all that work, now all of my waypoint based quests work! Thank you for your help. I wouldn't have found the problem if I didn't ask here.

-Lith

[Cyberfreak]

Turns out I had to go all the way back to the 0.5 folder and apply ALL characters patches through ALL folders.

This is only neccessary if you have existing characters in your character database. For beginning a new database its much easier to use "/mangos/sql/characters.sql", which contains everything from the beginning up to the last update, at the moment "11436_01".