EC: Tracking skill UI and additional improvement (part 1)

ForeverFun

This is a bug / improvement to tracking.

Two changes:

1. Reliably show tracking markers for targets in the mini-map.
2. Attempt to attribute name of target in tracking marker.  (hover over marker will show name, right click  "View Waypoint data" will also show name).

A separate post will cover some improvements to the way the tracking gump is handled.

Changes in MapCommon.lua:

MapCommon.UpdateWaypoints(), comment out this code:

		--if( IsMobile(waypointId) == true)then			
		--	continue
		--end

MapCommon.WaypointMouseOver(), replace existing wname code line with new code below.

					--wname = GetStringFromTid(1155436)
					if(TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName ~= nil) then
						wname = TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName
						wtype = 58	-- type = target						
					else
						if(WindowData.MobileName[waypointId] and WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName) then
							wname = WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName
							TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName = wname
							wtype = 58	-- type = target							
						else
							wname = GetStringFromTid(1155436)
						end
					end

MapCommon.WaypointOnRButtonUp(), replace existing wname code line with new code below.

				--wname = GetStringFromTid(1155436)				
				if(TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName) then
					wname = TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName
					wtype = 58	-- type = target
				else
					if(WindowData.MobileName[waypointId] and WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName) then
						wname = WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName
						TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName = wname
						wtype = 58	-- type = target						
					else
						wname = GetStringFromTid(1155436)
					end
				end	

New results when using tracking:

Moderator, feel free to move to the bugs subforum -- BUT  I've read the "General Discussions" may get more reading attention from the developer(s), however (reference: link)?

Yoshi

“How do you track more than 1 target?
when you use the skill again doesn’t it cancel the initial track?”

ForeverFun

Yoshi said:

“How do you track more than 1 target?
when you use the skill again doesn’t it cancel the initial track?”

True, it's an optical illusion of sorts - once a new target is picked, you only get updates for the new target.  So the mini-map maintains the last tracked position of the prior targets as it stands now.

I've made some other improvements, like prioritzing tracking invisible targets, color coding the marker based on notoriety (for visible/known targets), and last movement timestamp.  May post that later.