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    #1

    no more reading player position & zygor

    Hello!
    In last slootbag's live, a wow dev announced that addons wont be able to read player position in 3d world very soon

    Will this affect how zygor works ? Will zygor still indicate where to go with aarow if it cant read our position ?
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    #2
    That is the first I've heard of anything like that. Do you have a link to where this was posted (in writing) by a dev?

    Right now I wouldn't be too worried. Everything is working normally in both the beta and the PTR.
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      #3
      It's actually not effective in game ( beta or ptr), and dev just announced on live twitch for 7.1 patch

      You can follow reddit dicussion about it :
      https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...yer_positions/

      Pretty sure an official annoucement will come up soon

      Wowhead link :
      http://www.wowhead.com/news=255220/g...s-and-slootbag
      "Addons and boss design" category

      Twitch dev live :
      https://www.twitch.tv/slootbag/v/84678318
      (starts at 02:55-ish)

      It seems it will only affect dungeon & raid finally so maybe some problem with position getting in instance for instances guide ?
      Last edited by megosa; August 20, 2016, 02:54 PM.

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        #4
        Thanks for those links.

        This may or may not affect us depending on exactly what Blizzard does. The dev (in the Twitch vid) was saying that addons will not be able to know unit locations. As long as there is still a map available with a coordinate system we should be able to still provide an arrow to show you where you need to go. If it's something that we can't work around to get the arrow to work then it will be just like the old days when there were no maps available for dungeons/raids and there were no arrows available in them.

        The main goal of what Blizzard is trying to do is make dungeons and raids harder by breaking/hampering all of the addons that have been designed to make the dungeons and raids easy by interacting in the 3D world and drawing things on your screen. What we do is not along the lines of the addons being targeted so who knows how the changes will truly affect us. For now all we can do is wait for the new system to get onto PTR to test with and see what happens.
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          #5
          From http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...s-in-Patch-7-1

          "
          Raid Addon Utility and Changes
          Addons that do things like tracking boss timers and better visibility on who is being targeted by what are fine, it is all informational.
          Some of the things that addons do that interact with the 3D world such as radars or sending people to specific spots on Mythic Kormrok and Kromog are not great.
          You could have much more scripted movement with the current state of addons, micromanaging your raid's movement and telling players exactly where to move in the 3D world.
          In Patch 7.1, addons will not be able to access unit position in raids, dungeons, and competitive instances.
          The team wanted to get this in Patch 7.0.3, but they didn't want to break some mods that are harmless in the outdoor world, such as the ones that help with gathering or collecting treasures.
          Anything that projects an arrow on your screen that interacts with the 3D world or giving you your position relative to others will be broken.
          The team didn't want to announce this until they were sure it was doable, but that work has now been done internally.
          "

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            #6
            We think that this will not affect us because we do not interact with the 3D world in any way and we never try to check your position relative to any other player or NPC. As I had said, all we can really do is wait for the changes to hit the test server and see if it does or doesn't affect us and make any needed changes.
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              #7
              Here's a post on the DBM Patreon page where the DMB team are more specific what will be affected:
              https://www.patreon.com/posts/dbm-and-patch-7-6578091
              I did a search for the mentioned UnitPosition command in the Zygor files and it seems the guide does not use this particular function.
              Instead the guide uses the GetPlayerMapPosition command.
              However I wonder where the difference is and if it would be possible that addons like DBM could make use of the command instead nad force Blizzard to restrict it's use too.

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                #8
                https://puu.sh/qLD8e/243b64f600.png

                Everything will be fine. ;P

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