Daggerfall Cartographer

About This Release

• This release was repackaged to include 'mfc70.dll' and 'msvcr70.dll'.
• The TLibrary libs have been stripped down to MD and MDd.

Introduction

This is a development version of Daggerfall Cartographer. It does not have the usual level of polish I usually impart my tools. The code has seen very little work since it was announced almost a year ago. I never really excepted to release this as a standalone tool, and have always intended to build it into a future release of Daggerfall Explorer.

If you have trouble running Daggerfall Cartographer, the source code is there as a reference. Even then, the source code is of low standards and there for example purposes only. Please accept this in the spirit it was given. It is not a useful or fun app, but a tool for serious Daggerfall heads. It provides an example of parsing the BSA files to build an entire city.

About The Source

• This code is written for the DirectX 8.1 API. I was built under DirectX9.
• I have included dependent files in the 'include' and 'lib' folders.
• The full TLibrary source is not available. Trust me, it's not worth it.

Known Issues

• Must click in 3D view to give scene focus before keyboard commands work.
• No scene heirarchy. This makes redrawing painfully slow on most systems.
• Depth Buffering chaos on low-end video cards.
• Poor keyboard controls. Moving around is awkward. See below.
• No dungeon support. Opening dungeons may crash the program.
• Slow to parse large cities when opening them. Please be patient.

Instructions

After you launch Daggerfall Cartographer, you must then open your Arena2 folder.

1. Click on 'File', then 'Open Arena2…'
2. Navigate to the Arena2 path of your Daggerfall installation.
3. Use the Arena View to select a region and filter.
4. Double-click the location you wish to open.
5. Be patient as the location is parsed and drawn for the first time.

Moving Around

Keyboard controls follow.

Q		Float down.
E		Float up.
A		Turn left.
D		Turn right.
Up		Move forwards.
Down		Move backwards.
Left		Move left.
Right		Move right.
Page Up		Look up.
Page Down	Look down.

Please note: Movement takes large steps at a time.