Lua - Generate Zone Data (1 Viewer) 1.0

[rouneq]

rouneq submitted a new resource:

Generate Zone Data - Generate a csv file of zone data for all known zones

Based on a macro posted in the thread Zone.ID question

Data collected includes zone id, zone name, zone short name

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[Sic]

I approved this resource, however, since the data is static, it is probably more useful as just a straight file than as a Lua to generate it.

we have zones.ini in the resources folder, which has long name and shortname, it does not have zone IDs because it is an old ini, and not something like yaml or something more oriented towards more than key value pairs.

regardless,

thanks for sharing with folks roun!

 

[brainiac]

local skipZoneIds = { Z184=true, Z185=true, Z190=true, Z837=true, Z838=true, Z839=true, Z840=true, Z841=true, Z842=true,  }

curious why the 'Z' prefix

 

[rouneq]

Pure numbers are already an index into a table (and I believe they are serial starting at 1). 'Z' just makes them into an alphanumeric key.

 

[rouneq]

I approved this resource, however, since the data is static, it is probably more useful as just a straight file than as a Lua to generate it.

we have zones.ini in the resources folder, which has long name and shortname, it does not have zone IDs because it is an old ini, and not something like yaml or something more oriented towards more than key value pairs.

regardless,

thanks for sharing with folks roun!

Thanks for approving. I did consider whether to just toss the code out, but since I also thought there could be maintenance down the road, went the resource route.

I was specifically after the zone ids (for another Lua script).

 

[Redbot]

If you were to run this on a TLP server that's on an early expansion, would it give the same results as a live server?

 

[rouneq]

If you were to run this on a TLP server that's on an early expansion, would it give the same results as a live server?

As long as mq.TLO.Zone returns info for that zone, yes. It skips anything that returns nil, a name of 'Not Found', or the character select zones.

 

[Redbot]

I guess my question is more about servers than your script, do all live servers return the same Zone info? If an xpac isn't released yet on a server, can you still get info for its zones?

I'd test but then I'm breaking my own rules, and I don't currently have a gold account

 

[Knightly]

Yes, it would return the same zone info.

 

[rouneq]

If the zone structure included the expansion of the zone, I'd add a filter based on whether the running character has the expansion available to them. Maybe add a starting param: 'all', 'available', and possibly a specific expansion (e.g., 'Rain of Fear', '<Rain of Fear', 'Rain of Fear>').

 

[Knightly]

There's not that many, if you want to do that, just hard code them.

 

[rouneq]

Not a "want". Just an idea based on @Redbot post.

 

[Redbot]

There is a "ZoneFlags" member that might be useful, but I'm not sure how to read the mess of digits it spits out.

 

[Maskoi]

local skipZoneIds = { Z184=true, Z185=true, Z190=true, Z837=true, Z838=true, Z839=true, Z840=true, Z841=true, Z842=true,  }

curious why the 'Z' prefix

Z = zone

 

[rouneq]

Z = zone

I've since improved my knowledge of Lua to allow creating a keyed table with numeric values (or an indexed table with non-consecutive values, if you prefer).

 

[rouneq]

There is a "ZoneFlags" member that might be useful, but I'm not sure how to read the mess of digits it spits out.

Did a quick test for mq.TLO.Zone(1) (South Qeynos). It's ZoneFlags returned 7. I can't seem to locate the definition of EQZoneFlag to check what this means.

 

[brainiac]

Z = zone

That’s a what, not a why

 

[Maskoi]

wut?

 

[brainiac]

I asked about it because it is an unnecessary inclusion in the code. I know that Z means zone, and telling me that does not tell me why it was put into the code.

 

[brainiac]

Zone flags aren't really documented, and i don't think there is anything useful for you there anyways. We have expansion but its not exposed.