Revision as of 15:23, 2 July 2020

This is a Map FAQ:

I noticed that many young people did not see "Back" (and do not have access to the map of the continents of Atys). :)
In addition, the maximum number of markers has been modified, research and events are new features....
a Patch (in March 2020) added a command, to hide/show landmarks: /showHideUserLandMark (more on Special command).

For new comers, start with the User Manual, the sections Maps and compas.

1 The map's toolbar
2 The map - basics
3 The map - FAQ
- 3.1 Dynamic Event
- 3.2 Landmarks
4 Links

The map's toolbar

From left to right (3 lines):
Back (to navigate in maps), ; zoom + ; zoom - ; center the map (on your position, useful after a big fast zoom) ; ? to search ; DE icon (see below #Dynamic Event)
Below: IG hour and date^[1] ; climatic conditions (or cc, important for Harvesting).

The map - basics

You can open/close the map with m or using the toolbar - not to be confused with the compass or radar (you can retrieve an existing landmark on your map and add it to the compass).

The map (M) has 3 zooms. To change the view, or use the scroll mouse on map, and/or clic on a town to see its map.

Atys global view: to see it, clic on "back". Useful when you need to go in an other continent (using vortex).
Usual view. Here you can organize your flags - flags color change regarding the category (bandits, path, source...).
"Detail" view, for towns (here Pyr). User back to un-zoom

To add to compass a direction: right clic on the compass, you'll see a menu (target, Missions, Mark, animal, team... and a zoom for the compass).

To use target: either after a macro, or after a tar (ex: /tar "harmful ragus"), space bar = in front of you (see all keyboard shortcuts by holding K down)

category:Starting Out as a lot of nice stuff for beginners.

The map - FAQ

Coming back after a long absence? Patch 2020, Patch 2019... summarize the big changes in the game (with links to forum posts).
Mektoubs/Gubani and Zig are shown on the map, but not your apartment or GH (add a mark on tour map). More on Mektoub FAQ
Team members appear on the map. Not his friends (F) nor guild or league members.
We see the resurrection points (rez points) only for the active subcontinent (the one where we are).
You can now see the distance by right-clicking on the map.
The landmarks on the map are stored in a landmarks_toonname.xml file, located in a save folder (which is basically under a 0 or 1 folder).
a Patch (in March 2020) added a command, to hide/show player landmarks: /showHideUserLandMark (more on Special command).
Now you can access Dynamic Events (Kiting invasion, puzzles, Storyline's Nexus Events...)
The map take too much space on your screen (13")?
- use the 4 desktops (very often F3 is "less loaded")
- maintain the Fx key is very usefull, with x=1 to 4 (for ex, to add a 2nd "hand" toolbar)

Dynamic Event

Dynamic Event: since JA2603 (June 2019), a blue Events button has been added to the map toolbar (1 in the image below). This blue Events button makes a transparent layer appear/disappear on top of the map, which is useless if there is no event in progress . This layer has a red and white button in its upper right part (2 on the image), which is inactive if there is no DE.

If a DE is in progress, then it is displayed on the map (in orange in the map toolbar: 1 Dynamic Events + a big blue dot on the map) and you can also keep a separate window open to monitor it. More at Dynamic Event.

Open the DE window and close the DE layer and the map.

Landmarks

Backup your files: quit game, and zip your folder save (check the date, to be sure it's the right one ^[2]) :p Your personal landmarks are held in a .xml file - named "landmarks_nameoftoon.xml" in the save folder.

To merge 2 files:

quit the game, then
copy the lines between <interface_config> into target file and
relaunch the game. it will merge duplicate <landmarks continent> lines and remove duplicate markers.

If you want to share landmarks between characters on same computer, then rename landmarks file to shared_landmarks.xml

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