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http://lithium.gamingrobot.net/projects/wotminimaps/

First time:

• remove FolderHolder.txt files
• extract icons from res/packages/gui.pkg/gui/flash/Minimap.swf with SWFExtract into icon/
  • you need at least base flags and starting points, IDs ~280-350, rename those to:
  • green.png
  • gs1.png
  • gs2.png
  • gs3.png
  • red.png
  • rs1.png
  • rs2.png
  • rs3.png
  • blank.png
• set WoT installation path in makeMiniMaps.sh (Linux only)

Usage (Windows):

• unpack all packages and put the maps into mapsRaw
• remove all .chunk .cdata files via del /S *.chunk from the mapsRaw directory
• run imgconverter.bat to convert all dds to png
• copy all arena_defs from res/scripts/arena_defs
• run fixdefnames.py to fix the arena_defs names
• run usexmlconverter.bat to convert all xml to readable
• run makemaps.py
• copy all maps to gridding in
• run gridding.py
• move all out to mapsFinal

Usage (Linux):

• execute makeMiniMaps.sh
• optionally execute renameJpg.sh

Requirements:

• Python 2.x
• Python libraries: beautifulsoup4, lxml, PIL
• mogrify (from ImageMagick)
• SWFExtract (part of SWFTools, http://www.swftools.org/)

Linux:

• Additional requirements:
  • unzip
  • mono
• Permissions to execute:
  • makeMiniMaps.sh
  • imgconverter.sh
  • copyRawMaps.sh
  • compressMaps.sh
  • renameJpg.sh