Tuesday, March, 9, 2010

What is Buzzard

Buzzard shows a list of directions to all the corpses in the area that you have not opened. As you check each corpse, it will remove them off the list. As each corpse created or discovered, it will be added to the bottom of the list. Empty Corpses are ignored. Your Kill is highlighted with Yellow Text and Your Corpse is Highlighted in Blue.

The list of corpses can be sorted by how close they are to you, how close they are to each other, alphabetical order, or the ordered discovered. List sorted in alphabetical order will have the list kept in that order as new corpses are added.

Buzzard was written to assist players cope with the corpse loot changes in November 2002's Asheron's Call Event "Iron Coast". With this event corpses longer dropped loot to ground when they decayed, rendering the common decal scanning unusable for finding monster loot. This plugin is designed to work with these plugins to be used after after multi-monster battle to quickly go through the dropped corpses without opening the same one twice.

Download Buzzard Ïnstaller at http://ciper.net/ac/Buzzard.msi

Download Buzzard's Source at http://ciper.net/ac/buzzard.zip

Description of Buzzard's Corpse List

The show list can be used to simplfy interaction with the corpse by clicking on columns of the list.

• Click the direction to open the corpse.
• Click the icon to remove the corpse from the list.
• Click the name of the corpse to simply select it.

Above each column is a thin button that can be used to control the order of the list.

• The button above the directions will do a sort by distance but continuous ordering.
• The button above the icons will sort the list by distance from previous corpse.
• The button above the names will sort the list be name and keep the list in name order
• The button above the scrollbar will return the list to the order you found the corpses.

Description of Buzzard's directionals

Then the corpse is realatively the same level as you the directions are shown on a 16 point compass as diagramed on outer circle to the right. The number is the distance in yards. The + or - that is before the number is weither it is more than 10 feet above or below you.

For corpses signigicantly above or below there will be only a 4 point compass diagramed on inner circle on the right followed by ++ or -- then the distance in yards.

If the corpse is almost directly above or below you no compass directional will be given just a +++ or --- and a distance in feet.

Examples:

   Nw N Ne
 NW       NE
nW    N    sE
W   W + E   E
sW    S    sE
 SW       SE
   Sw S Se

• Nw+30     North-Northwest 30 yards slightly above you
• NW+30     Northwest 30 yards slightly above you
• N++30     North 30 yards signigicantly above you
• +++90     Diectly above 90 feet

This is the same method used for Thirdeye.

Buzzard's Revision History

• Player's Kills Shown with Yellow Text
• Player's Corpse Shown with Blue Text

• Now Works with Decal 3 (alpha)

• Now Works with Decal 2.6.0.1

• Do not display empty corpses

• Removed log files

• Made sort buttons a little bigger and the list a little thinner
• When sorting in Alphabetic order, new corspes are added in order
• Removed some dead code.

• Keeps track of the last 128 corpses open and prevents re-showing them when returning to area
• Allow Sorting the List by Distance, Name or the order found.

• Developed using VC++ 6.0 using Decal Plugin Wizard as a base.
• Uses WorldFilter to detect corpse creation and removal and player movement
• Uses EchoFilter2 to detect player and corpse openings
• Shows corpses Direction and Distance, which are continuously updated as you move
• To save CPUs this is only updated while the Buzzard is in view.
• Display is patterned after Thirdeye
• As corpses are opened they are removed from the list.
• "Corpse of" is removed from the name of the corpse to allow the list to be compact.