Extracting Game Data

If you have Git installed, then you have the program able to execute Linux shell scripts. Start Git console, change directory (commands "cd" and "pwd" to check) to your client directory (where wow.exe file resides) and enter "./ExtractResources.sh" without quotes. But yes, this detail must be mentioned in the guide.

If I can't find wow.exe, what does that tell me?

I followed the below guide and every step seemed OK until I was directed here:

 
Please, any pointer will be appreciated.

Many thanks

You should have the game to have wow.exe mate

We do not provide the game client.

If your machine has less than 4G of ram, it will fail extracting vmap. I changed to a 8GB aws instance, it worked.

Hello everyone, I am new here and I would like to know if there is a way to utilize more than 4 cores during the extraction of maps, vmaps, etc. ?

Maps, Vmaps, and Dbc files only take but a few minutes. The server only checks if the maps, vmaps and dbc are done with the extraction tools, So you can download any repack of the same version, (EG: MangosTwo Wotlk / Azeroth Wotlk) and use the mmaps from that. You don't have to spend days waiting for mmaps.

@BitWhiz I have done a lot of analysis into this and the answer is, for MangosZero and MangosOne it makes absolutely no difference.

The are 2 Continents 0 and 1 (Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor) - These get one core each.
The Emerald Dream map is the next biggest, it gets a core. (In TBC Outlands also gets this core) and still finishes before the first two.
ALL the other maps get the remaining core and complete before any of the other three complete

1 hour ago, cbuntingde said:

@cbuntingde

Maps, Vmaps, and Dbc files only take but a few minutes. The server only checks if the maps, vmaps and dbc are done with the extraction tools, So you can download any repack of the same version, (EG: MangosTwo Wotlk / Azeroth Wotlk) and use the mmaps from that. You don't have to spend days waiting for mmaps.

DBC's can be used from anywhere, these are blizz directly exported files.
Maps, vmaps and mmaps are marked with a version to allow to cores to identify the core they are loading. Also there may be changes in the formats also by other emulators. If fact, mangos implemented several precision improves to the extracted files several years back which as far as i'm aware have no been incorporated into their codebases.

To ensure the fastest extraction build, always build in release rather than debug. I do not have a monster PC, but I was able to build the cores, extract all the files and load the databases for MangoZero, One, Two and Three in an afternoon.

Yeah, I don't have a monster pc either. I never thought about that with mmaps. I never got an error or anything from the server about the version but that makes sense. I been away from all this for many years. Sorta learning all over again, hence why I'm here.. lol