flight mod request [Altimeter]

[mismatch]

Hello. I was wondering about the feasibility of a
mod that can track both your altitude as well as the altitude
of your target. If possible, this has many uses.

Gatherer 2.99 is able to tell you how far away a node/herb is,
would it be possible to do this with players/NPCs/mobs in Outland?

Apologies if this is the wrong forum or if the request/idea
has been mentioned previously.

[Aridian]

an addonn like that would rock :)


nice feature: able to see how high the altitude of your party members is...

[Tunga]

Pretty sure you can't get the height of a player (or anything else). Gatherer only tracks by x,y coords with pythagoras.

[Vilkku]

And even if there is a z coordinate you would have to add data for every single point in a zone, which would result in gigantic databases (as the z value would not be from the ground you are standing on but some plane in the ground, and because the zone heights differ [blade's edge is a lot higher than the other zones for example] you would have to create some kind of database before the mod becomes accurate, and that would take ages).

[Akezzon]

I would like to see a gyro aswell...hehe

I hate compansate my pitch on the mount all the time...lol

[coradon]

How about something that can simply show you the pitch of your mount. As the guy above said, its a pain in the rear. Especially with fast mounts. We're not looking for an auto-pilot, just a visual indicator.

[Telic]

I use a "bongometer" to measure how high my team mates are :tongue:

[Bengarion]

One rough way to tell level flight is to use SpeedFu - and adjust your indicated for the middle of the max range.

But, unfortunately, that seems to make me hit the ceiling after going over a couple of zones. But it at least gives me a quick ballpark level flight indication.

Can see it now - your favorite flying mount with airspeed indicator, artificial horizon, EPR, turn & slip indicator, joystick, landing gear lever...

[belleboomGD]

I've also been looking for a way to tell if I'm flying level; Blizzard does not let you calculate Z-axis coordinates so a direct altitude calculation is (at least for now) impossible:( See this thread for more discussion of this issue: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=77785285&sid=1

It is possible to calculate your flight angle, and so I came up with this macro. For all those who have ever wanted to know their pitch angle... My only note is that since it works off camera angle, it is possible to fool it by changing your perspective using the left mouse button. If you steer with the right mouse button though (which I do), the numbers reflect your actual pitch.
/run local p=format("%.2f", GetCVar("cameraPitchD")); DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Your current pitch is: " ..(-p));

After writing this I also found the small and very useful Vodka Flyers (http://wowui.incgamers.com/ui.php?id=4488) mod which does the same thing, only pops up a little text showing pitch whenever you're mounted. (It can also be thrown off by changing your camera angle but it works fine for me.) I keep it right next to my map coordinates mod, and all is now well.

[stewart]

vodkaflyers is the best i've found so far, and if you steer with Right mouse button it works perfectly

[moopy]

Ok, so someone slap a HUD on the pitch code to give us an "artificial horizon" display, for fun :-)