Download Meshes (way to force all the meshes get downloaded)

Hello All,

Curious if there is a way to force the download of all meshes available instead of doing it on an as needed basis (which is what it looks like it does now)?

~Thanks, Jim

 

Whats wrong with how it already works? :/

 

New HB versions use a localised preset location, meaning that you never have to worry about the meshes anymore. They're annoying if your connection doesnt handle lots of small files well, but there are no alternatives

 

Hey Synik,

It's not a matter of what's wrong with the way it works now... My guess is since you have been using Honorbuddy for 7 or 8 months now you dont run into the issue of needing to download the meshes... Where in my case as a new user every time my toon grabs a new quest there is a pause as it waits for the meshes to be downloaded...

But, if I could just set it up to grab all the meshes, say overnight I would rather have it do that.

Thanks for the info Zorgonatis.

~Jim

 

Would ne bice if there was some way to downloaded meshes in advanced for an area. At least for people with slower or buggier connections. For me it works fine the way it is, but im sure some wouldnt mind going ahead and downloading meshes for Dragonblight or whatever if they know they plan to both there later in the day.

 

Well it would be useful for like a download all button, and just when you make ur char download ALL the meshes so you don't need to DL them later

 

Yeah but if you add a download all button, once clicked, and all the meshes are downloaded, on HB startup maybe have it check for mesh updates?

 

What's a mesh? looking everywhere to understand it?

 

In the original navigation method, a mesh was considered points in the wow game which were connected with each other so that the character knows where it can run safely.

In the new navigation system, the wow landscape is mapped out into 'polygons' of different shapes ans sizes. The bot then uses math to understand where on the landscape it can run and can generate it's own path on the fly.

 

If a mesh file is updated after you already have it, will it check it and redownload it if the one you have is out of date or do you have to delete it and have it redownload that way?

 

It will automatically get checked against the version on the server (i assume using a method such as hashing). If it needs replacing, it gets replaced .

 

The current mesh handling (?) is really painful when trying different profiles to determine which is best for your current situation. At the moment it takes anywhere from 20-30 minutes to get the meshes for a particular zone, this is spread in smaller 4-5 minute chunks where your character runs as far as the current mesh permits, and then sits waiting for more meshes to arrive. This is particularly dangerous in areas populated by higher level mobs which you just need to run through.

Being able to download all the meshes would be great, if not all, I'd happily take any sort of restriction, e.g. continent at a time, or zone at a time. I understand the 'dated' argument, however I think that there is little difference between a mesh I downloaded myself 3 months ago to a mesh I downloaded from a pack 3 months ago. They both get out of date at exactly the same time, regardless where I got it from.

 

There was a link before for all the meshes but I don't know if its still available or where to find it.

 

So you want do download 600 MB of Meshes on each HB start ?

curious ...

 

It would be nice to have a localized set you could point too. If a change was made... then only download the changes. Then there's no needing to simply download all the time in part files... you'd already have it. Only the changes would update.

Less work on the server, less work on the local machine. I see it as a win win. You can program HB to simply only load the current area as you do now for downloaded meshes.

 

How about a .torrent of the mesh folders, I got a server in Germany and could host it in part with a few other members who servers. That way anyone who would like to download the complete mesh would be able to. I have to say I just let it download as needed but it might be nice to have them complete set one day

 

Which ever way HB is currently handling the update of Meshes seems fine. What I am suggesting is perhaps the ability to download the entire mesh folder as a ZIP/RAR/7Z archive and then extract it. This would form the 'base' of the entire mesh system and can be updated by the HB itself when necessary, just as it occurs now.

You would not need to update the official mesh pack very often, I would suspect that once every three months would be quite adequate as HB would handle the in-between-updates, just as it currently does.

 

Its sure NOT perfect like it is right now...
I can just talk about myself... I am online with a Surfstick... allowing me max. 3,6mb/sec internet connection... Badly i got nerfed and now i am at 64kb / sec i-speed... So the downloading of mesh takes hours... This is quiet annoying if you are running the questbot, your toon enters a new area, and you are standing around for like 50 minutes downloading the meshfiles for this area.

Would be nice if there will be some improvement in this part.

Getting stuff like this is really not good : (

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