Arena-Tournament

Some info from new Guild System

Hey all!
We have added a new feature - Duel Phase. Duelists are now entering a special phase where all other players / NPCs disappear for them. You will see only your opponent.
But all other players can see your duel.

Glad to present support by server for addon ArenaSpectator UI.
It will good feature for streamer and for usual players, who want to see arena with all spells/cooldowns/buffs/debuffs for good understanding.


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Video prepared by Endx. How to fast start arena fights   

We preparing to re-open our public realm. 
New attributes under discussion.
Presumably it will instant 80 + auto-equip for A1 sets.

Topic of discussion

With great chagrin, I have to announce important news.
Due to the fact that we unfortunately do not have online players, as there is no advertising. The game realm temporarily suspends its action. Work on the core and scripts will continue, but the realm will be disabled for the time being, until players get together and ask to be turned on again.

Besides the changes with BattleGround need to talk about work of ccrs  - The Wintergrasp.

I do not know why, but this guy never finishes his affairs, even despite the fact that ideas are really chic ( for example PR with Dancing Weapon (I had to finish it for myself)).

PR with wintergrasp consist of some unfinished commits, but... it really good job. And i used it for complete rewritening of The Wintergrasp.

The some tasks, which has been completed by this work : [wintergrasp] Game Over - prematurely #6132 Wintergrasp honor reward is wrong #8413 BattleField/Wintergrasp: Bug Workshop #8474 [Battleground] Wintergrasp walls, doors and titan relic disappear after several runs #8661 Wintergrasp Spirit Guide not working #9035 Wintergrasp Walls & Workshops - Visibility Range #9205 Wintergrasp honor and mark of honor bug #9423 [3.3.5] Character flash at WG (Winter Tower Edge) #19241

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I could not miss this work, and of course, continue to work on it.
I think all know about bug with disappearing tower cannons (or drop it under texture) and many others troubles with the Wintergrasp. This is a little old video, what were changed.

Need to talk about interesting changes of BattleGround system from TrinityCore, from this branch.
Thx ariel- for this big job.

Changes :

• Core/Misc: calculate rotation fields from orientation in some places it's impossible to get:

• [WiP] Core/PvP: Extensive cleanup, bug-fixing and optimization of Battleground scripts:

- Standards: Moved all statics to cpps where they belong.
- Cleanups: NULL -> nullptr, moved #defines to constants/enums
- Added a helper struct for handling spawns easily. Rewrote spawns using it.
- Moved spawn containers to private scope of Battleground (idea taken from boss states array in InstanceScripts)
- Remove unused teamId parameter from Battleground::SpawnCreature
- Prevent Battleground::RelocateDeadPlayers creating new entries on map.
- Make AddObject return a GameObject pointer instead of a bool (just like its AddCreature sibling)
- Corrected and added proper GO rotation to spawns
- De-hardcode buff entries for Battlegrounds, each BG uses their own entries (blizzlike).
- Moved logs from incorrect logger "sql.sql" to "bg.battleground"

Additional Notes for some BGs:
- Warsong Gulch:
  * Fixed inverted worldstates of flags being sent to new players, wrong flag state was shown on UI

- Alterac Valley:   * Fix Snowfall graveyard cap time as per Patch 2.3.0   * Use proper gameobject entries for each node (blizzlike)   * Removed magic numbers in favor of compile time consts (enum offsets etc)   * More additional missing spawns (both creatures and gameobjects)
	- Isle of Conquest:   * Removed Transport pointers from class, instead store GUIDs and use HashMapHolder to access them   * Fixed some wrong spawns which had Y coord set as X coord, Z as Y and Orientation as Z, fix a double spawn related to this   * Additional cleanups of spawn code that checked if the spawn was correct only to then do a Get(spawntype) to manipulate it.   * Incremented door close time to 30 seconds, as it is on sniff
- Strand of the Ancients:   * Fixed sending timer to players that join with BG in progress   * Corrected ships rotation as per sniff   * Added missing seaforium bomb spawns   * Implemented team switch logic to different spawn entries (like Titan Relic)   * Implemented changing teleport locations depending on destroyed doors (Closes #12127)

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• Magic typedef
• Kill magic numbers in Arathi Basin, replace node timers with eventMap
• Initial work on Siege Engine, also some sql import fixes
• Fixed teleport to gunship (Todo: sometimes will not find the trigger)
• Fix siege engine!

I think it's time to talk a little about the features of the movement systems. Motion generators, what it is, how, why, and so on.
All movement : position in XYZ and etc for spells destinations, path of NPC for movement and etc - All this information is calculated by the server, based on the texture state data.

Technical aspect:

• Server have a 3D map of texture (without polygons and graphics, like player in client-game), named as vmaps. Official TrinityCore wiki-website give a really little comment about this system: 

• In addition, the server has a so-called "grid". In which a network is built of sections on which the server can build a path for movement, and which need to be "run around". It's "Navmesh", or Mmaps. From official TrinityCore wiki-website: 

As you see, FAQ of TrinityCore give not correct information, just this 3D map of texture network and grids give to server information in coords XYZ, where will next texture and where need to calculate a corrections for path.

And now, we have a knowledge of coords and should to calculate collision vectors for check, can we blink in new XYZ, or should we “face” some kind of texture before. And can pathgenerator to calculate path for NPC, or our Charge, or it's impossible here.

Wow mechanics have a some behaviour : Fleeing - for example Fear, Confuse - for example Blind, Scatter Shot and etc, Chasing - for NPC, when they have aggro and attacking targets, Random - when NPC haven't aggro, but they imitate life, their affairs, and Point movement - when unit just moveing at some XYZ position.

For right handle this behaviour server using next movement generators :

• ConfusedMovementGenerator
• FleeingMovementGenerator
• FlightPathMovementGenerator
• FollowMovementGenerator
• FormationMovementGenerator
• GenericMovementGenerator
• HomeMovementGenerator
• IdleMovementGenerator
• PointMovementGenerator
• RandomMovementGenerator
• SplineChainMovementGenerator
• WaypointMovementGenerator

But we have founded, that it's not full for correct game, and we have wrote the next.
We have implemented own next 2 movement generators :

• Jump Movement Generator - related with movement for jump spells - Death Grip, some Leap, Feral Charge-Cat and etc, and all knockback effects for npc, for example Thunderstorm.
• Charge Movement Generator - i think all understand, what it's mean. We can provide improved path handle, Charge on Transport, improved Charge on Arenas and etc.

For example Charge on this Blade Edge Arena:

video link

At the moment the site is still in debug mode, but we hope you will appreciate the convenience of the new design.

New available features :
FAQ - section

Many popular questions and answers you can found here.