RELEASED NPC Map Locations Mod 2.2.2

https://community.playstarbound.com/resources/npc-map-locations-mod.3548/

 

Sweet, this really should help out.

 

Full support

 

I put my support behind this. 'Knowing where the NPCs are' was the main reason I downloaded the 'social edit menu with locations' mod. It's too tempting to use it now that I have it though, so something like this would help greatly while also removing/reducing the temptation to cheat my social levels up.

 

Sounds and looks great! I'd love to have this updated to SMAPI 0.39 as well.

 

You sir, hit the jackpot. This was one of the most requested mods and you managed to get it done first, gj.

I wouldn't worry about porting it to storm, it seems to be dying/dead due to the developer getting a job and denouncing it by porting his stuff back to smapi.

Thanks for this awesome mod, look forward to the progress.

 

yeah same as you , i do hope this gets stable enough so everybody can use this great mod.

 

Awesome mod, looking forward to using it. Thanks for the work!

 

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the support. Definitely feeling the pressure now, the good kind of pressure

So a little update on what I'm working on/struggling with:

- Trying to get the map markers to scale correctly when using zoom. While debugging, only activeClickableMenu.xPositionOnScreen and activeClickableMenu.xPositionOnScreen really change when the game zooms in/out, the other menu border/width/height and pixelZoom remain static. If anyone knows how to get zoom changes from the API, that'd be really helpful.

- Accurate real-time tracking. I improved this a bit by partitioning the map into the various locations. This is really tricky since the in-game map is just terrible. It's solely for letting players know where things generally are, there's no good sense of scale relative to the actual game map. I'm considering redrawing a better, accurate map, but that's also a bit tricky. So currently my solution is to create partitions within the partitioned locations to track the NPCs. You may notice the NPCs suddenly jump locations when entering a different section, though. Here's image of what I'm talking about:



I'll try to get an update out later today with at least one of these things done. Debugging/Testing takes a long time, though.

Started streaming my progress twitch.tv/bbouhm to stay focused.

 

Looking forward to the new update

 

So I've finally made an update that now makes the real-time tracking of NPCs actually accurate. This took way longer than expected, and I'll explain why. I'll update the main post for the file.



The map page has a lot of problems in portraying the actual game map. It's straight-up misleading; here are some of the problems I've highlighted:



This is why occasionally you will see NPCs in the water. For example, when Leah goes to the Beach from the town, she will walk through the water on the map instead of the bridge. In the actual game, the bride is right below the intersecting paths, so the real-time tracking is accurate. However, in the map, the bride is for whatever reason off to the right.


And my solution was to partition the maps into different parts within each location to appropriately scale the locations to the map page to the locations in the game. Here's a look into what I did:



Each red rectangle represents a partition, and each partition has different scaling. The scaling coefficients were all calculated on the excel spreadsheet in a tedious process of actually figuring out the tile widths and heights of the partitions, and the pixel widths and heights of the map. If a partition has a scale X of 3 and scale Y of 2, it means that in that partition, every tile the NPC moves horizontally represents 3 pixels of horizontal movement on the map and every tile the NPC moves vertically represents 2 pixels of vertical movement on the map. This is why when the NPCs go from one partition to the other, you may notice their movements getting faster, or slower, or even jumping a few pixels. This is inevitable with how bad the map page is.

I haven't been able to test all locations/schedules so please let me know if you notice something wonky!

Now to make this mod even better without making the real-time tracking funky, there's really only one thing left to do which is to redraw or alter the map page so that it's actually accurate to the game map. I'll be addressing issues in inconsistency like the 5 I showed up there.


So the next thing I'll work on is supporting zooming out, all resoutions, and creating a map page that is actually accurate and complements this mod. If anyone has any clue on scaling things with game resolution, it'd help me out a lot

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Zoom support now added! Special thanks to jlee100 for his public discovery on using Game1.options.zoomLevel. Working on resolutions next.

 

that great mod ever ! now map look like my fav game (Rune factory) thank you very much !!

 

Yasss...
keep it up!! This is really useful mod....
thank you for making this...

 

Thank you so very much. This was a much needed mod.

 

hey.. sorry to bother you..
but it got crashed when I tried to open it..
it worked just fine..
but when I reach the first day spring second year..
it crashed my game..
and this is the error I got..
21:00:55] An exception occured in XNA DrawTick: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NPCMapLocations.NPCMapModMain.drawMarkers(GameMenu menu) in C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Projects\SVMods\NPCMapLocationsMod\SMAPI\MapMod\Class1.cs:line 235
at NPCMapLocations.NPCMapModMain.updateMap(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Projects\SVMods\NPCMapLocationsMod\SMAPI\MapMod\Class1.cs:line 105
at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at StardewModdingAPI.Events.GraphicsEvents.InvokeDrawTick()
[21:00:55] An error occured in the base draw loop: System.InvalidOperationException: Begin cannot be called again until End has been successfully called.
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode sortMode, BlendState blendState, SamplerState samplerState, DepthStencilState depthStencilState, RasterizerState rasterizerState, Effect effect, Matrix transformMatrix)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode sortMode, BlendState blendState, SamplerState samplerState, DepthStencilState depthStencilState, RasterizerState rasterizerState)
at StardewValley.Game1.Draw(GameTime gameTime) in C:\Users\Barone_\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Farmer\Farmer\Farmer\Game1.cs:line 9299
at StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance.SGame.Draw(GameTime gameTime)

 

Thanks for letting me know! I can't test everything so things like this is really helpful. You're not bothering me at all, if anything, please do keep reporting errors.

The bug was caused by Kent returning to the town in Year 2 and should be fixed now. The extra detail you added about when the error occurred really helped me track it down.


Along with the bug fix, the code has been optimized and I added support for all resolutions yesterday but didn't make a post about it.

I'm not entirely sure if resolutions beyond 1366 x 768 work, so if you have monitors capable of running high resolutions, please test and report back any issues.

Anyway, happy to be getting closer and closer to a stable release. I'm now just trying get the hover text for location descriptions to overlap the NPC markers. It seems the only way to do this is to redraw the hover textboxes with the descriptions, but I'm having a hard time finding the location descriptions from the API.

 

Hi there, I tried this mod but it keeps freezing my computer when I try to access the map, with the following error:

Code:

An exception occured in XNA DrawTick: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at NPCMapLocations.NPCMapModMain.drawMarkers(GameMenu menu) in C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Projects\SVMods\NPCMapLocationsMod\SMAPI\MapMod\Class1.cs:line 329
  at NPCMapLocations.NPCMapModMain.updateMap(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Projects\SVMods\NPCMapLocationsMod\SMAPI\MapMod\Class1.cs:line 199
  at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  at StardewModdingAPI.Events.GraphicsEvents.InvokeDrawTick()
[02:24:19] An error occured in the base draw loop: System.InvalidOperationException: Begin cannot be called again until End has been successfully called.
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode sortMode, BlendState blendState, SamplerState samplerState, DepthStencilState depthStencilState, RasterizerState rasterizerState, Effect effect, Matrix transformMatrix)
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode sortMode, BlendState blendState, SamplerState samplerState, DepthStencilState depthStencilState, RasterizerState rasterizerState)
  at StardewValley.Game1.Draw(GameTime gameTime) in C:\Users\Barone_\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Farmer\Farmer\Farmer\Game1.cs:line 9299
  at StardewModdingAPI.Inheritance.SGame.Draw(GameTime gameTime)

I test this with SV v1.06 + SMAPI v0.39.2 and no other mods at 2048x1152 resolution.

 

Did you put NPCMarkers in the correct place? {Directory containing StardewValley.exe}\Content\Characters\

Also, try installing the file from github again, I had to temporarily rollback to do some quick fixes and you might have the version before I pushed the changes

 

nortons blocking it ._. weird? Nod ESET doesnt.

 

I'm not sure.. using the currently available version on Github, I tried these:

1. Unpacked NPCMarkers.zip into {Directory containing StardewValley.exe}\Content\Characters\NPCMarkers\

2. Unpacked NPCMarkers.zip into {Directory containing StardewValley.exe}\Content\Characters\

3. Put NPCMarkers.zip inside {Directory containing StardewValley.exe}\Content\Characters\NPCMarkers\

4. Put NPCMarkers.zip inside {Directory containing StardewValley.exe}\Content\Characters\

Which one is correct? coz all produce the same errors:

Code:

An exception occured in XNA UpdateTick: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at NPCMapLocations.NPCMapModMain.getMarkers(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Projects\SVMods\NPCMapLocationsMod\SMAPI\MapMod\Class1.cs:line 189
  at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  at StardewModdingAPI.Events.GameEvents.InvokeUpdateTick()