A road planning tool for cruising quests in MapleStory
This tool investigates and traces a quest trajectory for a given player at any point in mapling. Expected inputs range from environment rates, to current player level and completed quests.
Status: Released.
With non-profitting means intended, provide keen quest-leveling maplers world-wide a quality time with quest management.
By seeking several aspects of utility within quests, look forward to route possibilities for a desirable quest cruising.
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Download items:
Git and GCC compiler, proceed to install one suitable for your system.
LuaRocks and LOVE packages selected during development were:
Install items:
For expediency later when setting environment variables, it is recommended to use the following install paths:
Then, set "MapleQuestAdvisor" the folder on a place of your preference. The selected path will be referred next as <LOCATION_FOLDER>
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Find the LuaRocks folder in your file system and, in there, right-click "install.bat", and click "Run as administrator", as you will need admin privileges to install this package manager.
Add into User Variables:
C:\Program Files (x86)\luarocks-3.3.1-win32\win32\lua5.1
Add into System Variables:
%LUADATA%\LuaRocks\lib\lua\5.1\?.dll;c:\program files (x86)\luarocks-3.3.1-win32\win32\lua5.1\lib\lua\5.1\?.dll;
C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks\lua\?.lua;C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks\lua\?\init.lua;%LUADATA%\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?.lua;%LUADATA%\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?\init.lua;c:\program files (x86)\luarocks-3.3.1-win32\win32\lua5.1\share\lua\5.1\?.lua;c:\program files (x86)\luarocks-3.3.1-win32\win32\lua5.1\share\lua\5.1\?\init.lua;
Edit "Path" System Variable, and ADD the following path:
C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\luarocks-3.3.1-win32\win32\lua5.1\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks;%LUADATA%\LuaRocks\bin;C:\Program Files\LOVE;
Use the now installed LuaRocks to install the required modules.
For this, open command prompt (Right-click, "Run as administrator") and type to install each dependency module:
luarocks install luabitop
: bit-to-bit operations.luarocks install penlight
: STL-like for operating data structures with Lua.luarocks install xml2lua
: XML parser.luarocks install json-lua
: JSON parser.luarocks install lsqlite3complete
: SQLite DB library.Verify whether the packages have been installed by your LuaRocks with: luarocks list
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Use the HaRepacker application, encryption "GMS (old)".
Select and export each WZ file at a time:
For the XMLs, EXPORT (using the "Private Server..." exporting option), to the following location:
<LOCATION_FOLDER>/lib/xml
For the images, EXPORT (using the "PNG/MP3" exporting option), to the following location:
<LOCATION_FOLDER>/ui/media/images
After exporting, at both folder locations should be present therein subfolders ending with ".wz".
This tool is designed to be a standalone, running in Lua.
This tool provides 2 running options:
To run, open the command prompt and point directory with "cd
> lua5.1 router/main.lua
: runs the quest routing process.> launch.bat
: opens the application.The route skimming runs through a group of quests around the player's level, and displays volume measurement from quests traveled.
Basing on a player entry (with level, job, current map and inventory/quest/skill data), each generation loads a board of quests that the player is very likely to try. Within the board, quests are selected arbitrarily but in an arranged way, to build a "desirable" path for the player to track.
The MapleQuestAdvisor loads info from "lib/userdata" to predict next quests for the player, using CSV files in 4 flavors:
During application use, the user can view several informations regarding current quest prediction: