EQ Zone "Previewer"
I was curious about the WLD file format and WCs OpenZone always makes me jealous, so I decided to write my own zone viewer.
I can load zones and objects just fine and fly around. Transparent/Masked textures aren't really working yet, but that won't take long. Also it's kinda slow right now, but unoptimized, since I was learning WLDs while I was writing the viewer.
(Note: I know, there's another zone viewer out there, but I never really liked the fact that it's closed source, plus it's not THAT advanced.)
This, in itself, doesn't justify the time spent, so I'm thinking of extending this to make it a "zone previewer" for EQEmu.
I could connect to the DB and populate the zones with the mobs (with dummies as models, since we can't load the actual EQ models).
The viewer would always show your loc, show the aggro radius (large 3D circle on the ground or maybe a sphere) of mobs, the loot, stats, etc... (maybe by clicking on it), the names of all placed objects and things like that.
This would allow world builders to quickly preview a zone without having to use the client. And it would be possible to show additional information about the mobs which would otherwise need complicated commands.
Now, here's my question:
Would you be interested in this?
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