Taliis - another Warcraft map editor

Game Over

2012-01-11T11:11:00.001+01:00

Okay. I took myself some guts and re-uploaded the whole Taliis project. Since this is the final "end" behind the official "taliis" project I wish to say some words.The reason that I made the source public (again) and took a save place for downloads is that I want to thank all the users that still use it. Henche, it been 3 years that I did something on it. Its absolute over outdated... a Burning

Restart

2010-05-10T16:48:00.004+02:00

Well hello everyone. Its been quite a while but like any other crack junkie on the street I was not realy able to hold my hands still.So what happend? Well. Personaly I got back from hell, finished my bachelor thesis (BA of bullshit engeneering) and got some time to spend.In the meanwhile of course I noticed some changes in the WoW Scene. Some new Projects came up, like Cromon's fancy tools, some

Shadows(!), Heightmaps and Cataclysm

2009-08-27T13:35:00.002+02:00

So finally I found my mistake within the Shadow-Setters - yay!(Remember: ADT-Shadows only appear if you have deactivated dynamic shadows!)Also I think, I've found the correct way WoW handles it's heightmap:You can find my comment on it atWoW.DevTo the new Addon, Blizzard announced, Cataclysm:The terrain-phasing looks promising, even if it'll need much effort in implementing the new format(partly

Optional Chunks and more Editors

2009-08-20T11:19:00.005+02:00

Well, the last days and weeks, schlumpf and me did investigate the WoW-Formats and found out some things like the MCSH,MCSE chunks in ADTs being optional etc. aswell as schlumpf found a new chunk - MTFX which is used for effects.So I did some work on the ADTCore-Classes.Also I decided to add Flag-Editors for MCNKs(most likely they're outdatet/shouldn't be used) and MCLY-Flags:(you might also

DBC-Boolean

2009-05-17T16:33:00.004+02:00

Well I was bored so I added a new option "bool" to the DBC-Editor.You're now able to set the Datatype in the config to bool and then you'll get something like this:

Usability Updates

2009-05-09T15:04:00.003+02:00

The last days I improved the usability of Taliis by creating a new Plugin:As you can see you now can easily set the AreaID,Holes and Textures of a Chunk by only rightclicking on it.hfDownload

Some improvements

2009-04-08T10:52:00.002+02:00

Well I did some improvements to the ADT-Code, so it now has the ability to load every fucking ADT(I hope) even if Noggit has changed the structure, without fixing the sizes etc.Also I included the m2 and wmo plugins to the pack, even if you should not use them as they're very unstable(but you can add Doodadsets to WMOs, yay! xD)New features:ADT:stable:*Extract and Reimport Texture Layers to edit

No words needed

2009-02-23T17:34:00.000+01:00

Texturing

2009-01-31T20:45:00.004+01:00

Today I started the texturing functions of Taliis, it works over Exporting/Importing of PNGs,it atm supports just the changing of existing Alphamaps but it's a start xD

WDL-Editing and Preview-Release

2009-01-29T19:45:00.004+01:00

Today I complettet the implementation of the WDL-Format:And because some people requested a new Release her it is ;) :Taliis Rev 238

Injection-Functions

2009-01-28T21:06:00.005+01:00

Tharo and me did some Injections-Functions the last days, so Taliis is will now be able to inject ie heightmap,alphamap and doodads into a new created ADT to fix the noggit-bugs.Also I played around with Materials for WMOs:Schlumpf wrote some ingame-code which is in an early stage of developing but it works and it is a start!But I have to announce some bad news:Tharo will pause with

WMO-Editing

2009-01-10T13:14:00.005+01:00

Ah well my first post for the Taliis-Blog :PI'll make a short showoff what is possible with the Core-Classes of Taliis and what we've done the last few days:The 3D-Preview now has near good looking textures(ok some minor problems are still there but it's just a preview):And I created a little plugin for ArtOfIllusion(an open source modelling tool written in java) which allows importing wmos and

Vacations

2008-12-29T04:31:00.006+01:00

Okay. Its time for a week off time. So here a short remarks what happends recently:- The Changes in the core are almost done. Maybe some of the plugins wont compile without failures. But a simple try-catch will solve that problems.- Noggit from ich bin ein Versager, vergesse meine Zugangsdaten, und habe mehr Fehler in das Ding eingebaut als alle coder vor mir zusammen Beklet is back online.- Our

ADT Rebuild - Again

2008-12-23T05:31:00.004+01:00

.... aaah .. well. Yes.Another ADT core rebuild. Again.You can guess why? Yes. Because of Noggit. Again.And btw. the new _noggit_ is down. He dont gave the source to anyone else. Again.So the asshole shitload list of ppl that raped noggit got bigger. Again.In fact i hope after this rebuild we can even load the biggest 'fucked' noggit shitfile in the world as long the content is still -

DBC Release

2008-12-02T12:51:00.002+01:00

It been ages that i did a release so i will make it short:This is the probaly best dbc editor around. Enjoy it. Report bugs.http://www.mmoforge.org/gf/project/taliis/frs/

DBC Toy

2008-11-27T16:12:00.007+01:00

I spend again alot of time at dbc today.Its just such a nice toy: You edit some files and have allready big effect inside of the game.Long story short .. I spend the day into a new dbc editor.He is fixing some anoying bugs of the old one and have new Features. So far:- config files with names and short descriptions- float edit works again- sort columns- cross linking (display a string instead of

SVN Mess

2008-11-27T02:58:00.004+01:00

Pff.I dont know what happend to me yesterday. I got somehow insane in Rev 193 and 140 and deleted big parts of the main source. Sorry for that. I will fix it asap...

Some news

2008-11-25T03:24:00.003+01:00

So. Since Tigu and me work together we did a lot of s***t on Taliis. Nothing of it is realy finished thought, but as least something happend.So we started a WMO Editor. Yes. WMO. Therefore we did a bunch of new core classes. It works pretty nice so far but of course its in a "edit" state. Thats the state that noggit had for many years: You can edit infomations but cannot add or remove stuff ;)We

Cleanup

2008-11-10T11:22:00.001+01:00

Okay. After rebuilding the adt core i also started to do some big cleanups today.Many classes got moved to it's more logical desteny. Also the new ADT dialog finaly became his "version" option.Trigu started to implement the new chunks from WOTLK .. so far its recomed to dont use the WOTLK option if you create new ADT files. As least where i tryed the new chunks shown that they are not ready for

Wrath of the Lich King

2008-11-09T13:36:00.002+01:00

Yes. Wrath of the Lich King is comming out thoose days and taliis is prepared:From today on we support WOTLK ADT files in creation, mod and also for save changes ^^Also we still provide the same features for the old ADT subformats as well.Everyone that is interested can just download the new core file in our svn download section (or compile it by himself)Since this is an alpha release it may be

WDT Files

2008-11-04T09:52:00.002+01:00

Well some ages ago in the beginnings of taliis i did a bunch of wdt code that so far still survived in the core package. Its not much but as least it allows to place / remove adt files.So today i did a smal plugin and re-included it to the editor. Its just an array of checkboxes but i cannot remember that i had seen better tools so far.Im just to lazy to do something like minimap preview or shit

SVN and Stuff

2008-10-16T02:14:00.002+02:00

Yes. Taliis is open source now.Thanks to mmoforge i finaly found a suiteable svn space.www.mmoforge.org/gf/project/taliisI hope that now finaly i will get a little bit more feetback and bug reports ...

Alot of stuff

2008-10-10T07:45:00.006+02:00

NoggitMost of the people know im not a big fan of noggit. Thats because it think besides the 5 original autors (the wow map ones and the noggit autor itself) nobody realy knew what he is doing there. Some of them know 3D, some of them know Binary reversing. But never - never someone was able to finish it and fix it bugs that it causes due some reasons.I for myself had never a look on its source

._.

2008-10-09T12:29:00.003+02:00

Shit .. it happend to me again ..Okay okay.Taliis dont makes noggit killing saving errors anymore. Even wotlk is not supported atm ..Okay and maybe it suports mpq files now. Only reading .. i not even made a fancy menue since there enought better mpq tools out.And okay every app in taliis can load data directly from mpq files now. And? AND?That have NOTHING to say. Im not working on it anymore.

What happend?

2008-10-07T16:10:00.005+02:00

Yeah it been a while that i posted here. I was more concentrated to the forums we got donated by a user. But .. At the Moment it seems that Taliis seems to get finaly closed. As least i dont did something new on it since finaly someone seems to be worth to continue noggit. I look forward to beket and his people. Lets hope they will made it!So. What did happend to taliis recently?I updated the

You can do well !

2008-04-09T11:15:00.004+02:00

Yes.The Plugin interface is nearly complete now. Henche, it was not as difficult as i thought.Now i will rebuild (again) the editor engine to kill out any old bug and problem.At one side this means the next version of taliis might not include the same features like the latest release. Depends who much fun and time i want to spend into porting some old stuff.But in fact the plugin interface will

Homepage

2008-04-06T15:32:00.002+02:00

Yes. This is just a very smal update.I decided to finaly complete this project in public. Therefore we have a new homepage that can be found at www.taliis.de.You can find forums and downloads there.

Pfew .. new dbc core finished.

2008-02-09T21:12:00.000+01:00

Finaly its done. The new dbc core is stable in all of his functions.It includes everything i need (for now) .. But i have to say as bigger the GUI is as more logical problems come up. I never wanted to spend my whole life into GUI programming so i do not realy care. But in fact the problem is growing more and more.Maybe some day someone will come and help me .. *haha* good joke ^^

Smal update

2008-01-27T10:18:00.000+01:00

Yes. Im still alive.Last days i was quite unmotivated to do something at taliis and of course soon we have examations and i should learn.But however. Im still thinking about some new nice features and maybe i will do a new release, soon.The Taliis Download got removed. Reason for this was that many boards allready have re-seeds of it so there was no reason to hold up a personal download anymore.

Bugs and Mushrooms

2008-01-04T11:03:00.000+01:00

`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· Bugs ·._.··´´¯`·.¸¸.·´Yes it finaly happend: Someone found a Bug in Taliis. This is the first time someone found a bug that is not caused by other tools unstability so i "celebrate" it doing this nice ASCII art there.BUG: Unable to save a file more than one time. Even you cannot see it, it will not be saved again caused by a buffer Overflow. Bug got allready solved.Thans to Faut

Well .. Noggit.

2008-01-02T09:42:00.000+01:00

Nice, huh? I created this by using http://worldof.leufven.se/gen_logo.php. Nice engine ^^ Did alot of funny things using it.Today was not a good make friends day. I leaked the 2.3 Noggit at several forums.Not that its difficult to bring up noggit to 2.3.. Many people did that. But only one smal team was so .. fucking stupid to say "yes we publish it". Nothing bat so far. But to exclude the save

Into the shadows

2007-12-29T08:30:00.000+01:00

I decided to quit working on my own 3D code. Its just to stupid and slow.So last days i where looking for alot of other engines and also found the J Monkey Engine. Well. I think i will give a try to it somewhen.I started a smal tool to extract shadow infomations to png and back. Should be usefull.

DBC Tool

2007-12-23T18:47:00.000+01:00

http://filebeam.com/e5b75ef19b6700a2de7a9f4643292e0dYes. Its a DBC editor.This is the 8 Months old alpha Version of the Taliis DBC editor. It was the beginning of my WoW Development before. You are welcome to report bugs. The new Taliis dbc editor is alot more powerfull but well. It seems it will never get released so i hope you enjoy the old one.To be true im still very pissed off by the WoW

Release #2

2007-12-18T15:50:00.000+01:00

Hi all,the Taliis Project has been cancelld and now the last version (Alpha 2g) is going to public.It has the following features:- Creating entire new ADTS- placing and moving objects on it- 3d PreviewSince the project has been laid down you can still report bugs in the comments but dont expect them to be fixed in an hour or two :)http://filebeam.com/83995999fd5e56ce0e86dc1479110490Password:

Problems and 3D rendering

2007-12-14T05:58:00.000+01:00

Well. Some whyte Guy told me in AIM that he wish to continue his editor.Im not sure how far i understood his pointers but it seems that he want to extend it by memory exploiting to use wow itself as ingame editor o.OI cant wait to see his next release.However. I did nothing except some planings last days. Since i gave some beta versions out of hands alot of ppl stopped to anoy me (wow, who

Bored again

2007-12-08T06:30:00.000+01:00

I dont realy know what to do theese days.My university project is complete garbitch and its hard to motivate to do something if you fail that hard just because everything is stupid. I hate it to loose time. But well .. Maybe i will get it finished somehow. We will see.Because of my boredom i included the 3D preview feature to the editor. To make it a bit faster its mech only of course. But

Babysteppies

2007-12-06T18:44:00.000+01:00

Do you know the Movie with Bill Murray called something like "Step by Step"? No? Watch it :) I love him. He is one of the most perfect comedians in this world.Okay.However. I had alot of work thoose days. I rewrote all File Chunk classes from scatch. It was a bit anoying but i also can use the new one for my dbc files now.I also had alot of trouble with the Appear routines. I think this is the

Lazy ..

2007-12-05T12:15:00.001+01:00

Well i found out that i have to completly redo the filename chunk classes.I decided to do so tomorrow and make party now.... After this i will include the greyscale importer and quit working on version 2.

°yaaaws°

2007-12-04T05:34:00.000+01:00

Its boring. So much to do ..Well what had i done last days? I finished the long desired functions to add Doodad's and Objects in our editor. It turned out that i had to rewrite some of the helper functions because of some problems. But however. Suchtino, our very own beta tester allready made alot of shit using the Editor *screen* And yes. Im also happy that the scale function works lol.Then i

Poor 2D obj, dd map

2007-12-02T19:39:00.000+01:00

Hehe. Well I thought it would be nice to do job offers ^.^I really dont think that someone will do these jobs, but well, its nearly 3 am and im drunk so lets try:I wish to have: Someone who does a poor 2D visualization of an ADT file. In Java of course. Like a 16x16 checkers field. WMOs are red points, doodads are yellow points. If i click on a point a event has to occur that tells me number and

New Dialog connected

2007-12-02T15:29:00.000+01:00

Well, I just finished the connection of the "New" button. And it was such a bitch ..First the fucking SpringLayout was not working in Java 1.6. I dont know why .. So I used GridBack. This took a while, but however, all basic methods were allready written by me in the last weeks so it was not to much work.But then it was not working on macs. It wasn't just not working, it made the VM crashing.

THIS city!

2007-12-02T07:29:00.000+01:00

We spoke about the editor. We spoke about the server. Now speak about fun.This is the first real project I want to try.Its just a very small city. But its still terribly huge compared to what blizzard calls a city.I thought starting with the east gate might be the best choice to get a feeling about the size the buildings have. Then go down to the garden. This one should be easy. In my first

Taliis and its much needed "home"

2007-12-02T06:00:00.000+01:00

Well, This is going to be my first post on this wonderful blog, I am proud of helping this project out. I am in charge of working on a emulator that works with version 1.12 of WoW, yup this is going to be Taliis's Home heh.After much discussion, ascent was chosen (due to it's script core) and I am slowly downgrading it. I am doing it out of spite xD You don't understand how annoying it is to have

Small hack

2007-12-01T16:52:00.000+01:00

Ballwinkle, the leader of the Undermine project, asked me today about the posibility of extending the ocean space in Kalimdor. He was very afraid because he seemed to run out of space, needed to continue his level building with noggit.Well, I Said theoretical it should be easy. I just have to redo the wdl file.Here a short overview over this file: http://nopaste.info/344a9768a4.htmlI never did

First release and its results

2007-11-24T09:15:00.000+01:00

Well, after holding the code back for so long, I decided to release a small alpha of the editor. The 'new' editor of course. It went out that I really suck at GUI design.But however, I gave this Version out in WoW.DeV forums to let ppl try open any known file with it and report bugs. And they did :) Thank you.Okay so there is a bug if u try open a file that the Java GUI (the tree) crashes. This

Taliis Map Editor

2007-11-23T17:39:00.000+01:00

This is a FAQ post about the given Topic. We will keep it up to date from time to time.Where can I download the Taliis Map editor?Well, we decided to make the Map Editor semi public. That means, we dont want to have small hack kiddies using it to do some stupid things on live servers. This why every new release of the Editor is available for only 2 days! After these two days the download will get

Heightmaps

2007-11-07T08:35:00.000+01:00

Xayo wanted to have the creation of heightmaps from greyscale pictures included.Well, this wasn't too hard. So i just did it.At the moment it just translates the points 1:1. This makes it kinda unsharpen at very height or very small numbers caused by the nature of floating point numbers.Soon I should use the absolute Z coordinates feature of fields, too. This should make the whole thing looks

Doodads :)

2007-11-05T08:25:00.000+01:00

Thanks to schlumpf I finally got the doodad placement working today.I love you schlumpf *sob* I want to have children with you .. (so do I, tharo - schlumpf)However, the Problem was in the MCRF Sub-Chunk. It is really another listing of the placed objects and has nWMOs+nDoodads entrys. First the doodads, then the objects.So to have a proper rendering you need to rebuild the entire thing.Some

Okay .. do something else.. do something else ..

2007-09-11T11:13:00.000+02:00

Okay.I forgot to keep my WoW CD's with me and thats why i have to download the whole thing somewhere. Chinese Internet can be so fucking slow sometimes. But however.I decided to start some 3D rendering now where i cannot fix the Builings prob. Some other ppl. found a way around it called the "offset fix" using old Noggit command line Tools. But well, i for myself dont like this idea in any

War of the Doodad placements

2007-09-02T11:20:00.000+02:00

HiSo what did i last 12 hours .. i was still trying to make Buildings visible. It seems as that nobudy ever had problems with it before. TRX said there is no special trick with it. In other words: i just suck asses <.

Bloody reverse engineing ..

2007-09-02T11:04:00.000+02:00

Well.I had another chat to trx why my dd's and buildings might not work. So i took myself some time to try nearly everything out. Result is, that my binary operation work now. If i put a hous of goldshire and replace its data with an complete new (and complete) set of data i get my new house.I spawned some guild houses using this trick. Moving coordinates was also no problem. Since i dont started

Working on the Map Editor

2007-09-01T11:34:00.000+02:00

Yes.So this is my last 'refill' post.At the Moment and since some weeks (more or less) im working on the map editor.Its hard work but i got allready a complete new created map working in WoW. This is a lill thing im proud of it since any other map editor that is floating around (noggit, deathomen's or trx's) only change existing maps instead of creating new ones.Well. But they can place objects.

Some Mod's I did

2007-09-01T10:51:00.000+02:00

Using a Warcraft Server Emulator makes it possible to play the entire game on your local computer.First time you are probably only playing around with gear and levels. Always wanted to have T5 and level 70? Well .. it's just a matter of time.After that more advanced users start to play around with stats. Trying to change some things on the game. Like Items! But that is still boring. (made a small

yey yey Welcome

2007-09-01T10:04:00.000+02:00

Hi everyone After some weeks of pain and lazyness I decided to have a place where I could write about my stupid Warcraft Project.So what is it about? Well I thought about the old Ultima Online freeshard time and had the wish to do something like that by myself too. But well since Ultima Online is a bit outdated I was looking for something else and decided that Warcraft, a game that everyone