Atlas   

Atlas, a World of Warcraft instance map browser
Copyright 2005 - 2010 Dan Gilbert
Copyright 2010 - Lothaer
Copyright 2011 ~ 2014 - Arith, Atlas Team



About Atlas

Atlas is an addon for World of Warcraft that includes detailed maps for every instance in the game. Originally, Blizzard neglected to include maps for instances. However, after a number of years Blizzard began to include official maps for some instances. These official maps are in the same hand-drawn style as the built-in world maps. Conversely, the Atlas maps are based on data used by the minimap, which provides a more detailed, accurate, and colorful representation. You can think of this as the difference between a street map and a satellite image.

The core of Atlas is basically an image viewer. However, it's the images that come with Atlas that make it worthwhile - a map for every instance in the game. Furthermore, while the built-in maps mark the locations of some major bosses, Atlas provides detailed and accurate information about all of the creatures, NPCs, objects, and events you'll encounter in each dungeon. General information about each zone is provided as well, including its location, level range, player limit, attenuation requirement, and associated faction. All entrances, exits, portals, and connections are labelled clearly. Because there are so many instances in the game, you can categorize them by type, level, number of players, continent, or expansion.

With Atlas installed and enabled, you will be able to view the instance maps every where, even you are not inside the instance.

After installing Atlas, you'll notice a new icon on the minimap that looks like part of a little globe (you can right-click the icon to drag it around the minimap's frame). Click this icon to open up the main Atlas window, which displays the maps and legend. You can alternatively use the slash-command "/atlas". The drop-downs at the top of the window enable you to navigate between the maps. You can also drag the Atlas window around the screen. Lock it in place with the little lock button in the upper-right corner.

At the bottom of the legend is a small text-entry field as well as Search and Reset buttons. Type part of a word or name in the box and click the Search button, and the legend's entries are reduced to only those that match your text. Note that the search is performed only on the entries for the current map, not all the entries in the database. While not so useful for instances with only a few entries like Ragefire Chasm, the search comes in handy when there are a ton of entries, like for Blackrock Depths or the AtlasMajorCities plug-in. If you want to get the whole list back, just click Reset.

Atlas also includes maps of scenarios, battlegrounds, dungeon locations, flight points, and outdoor raid bosses.


Before Installing

• Any previous versions of Atlas including Atlas' built-in plugins must be deleted prior to installation.
• Atlas plugins (AtlasLoot, AtlasQuest, etc.) designed for any version of Atlas prior to this one may need to be deleted as they may not be compatible.

• Unzip the package into your World of Warcraft folder.
• Your zip software must preserve directory structures.
• If you're having trouble, please visit the Atlas FAQ:
• http://www.atlasmod.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3

• "Auto-Select Instance Map" detects the instance that you're in when you open Atlas, and then automatically switches to the appropriate map. This feature doesn't work in instances that have more than one map, like Blackrock Spire, Dire Maul, or many of the Outland instances. In this case, Atlas remembers the last map you had open.
• "Right-Click for World Map" makes the World Map open when you right-click anywhere on the Atlas window. This is useful when you want to quickly switch from Atlas to the World Map.
• "Clamp Window to Screen" makes it so that you can't drag the Atlas window off the edge of the screen. The rest of the options are pretty straightforward. The Reset Position button is useful if the Atlas window ever gets dragged completely off-screen and you can't get it back.

• Atlas Mists of Pandaria
• Atlas Cataclysm
• Atlas Wrath of the Lich King
• Atlas Burning Crusade
• Atlas Classic WoW
• Atlas Scenarios
• Atlas Battlegrounds
• Atlas Dungeon Locations
• Atlas Outdoor Raids
• Atlas Transportation

• AtlasLoot provides a loot table for each boss
• AtlasQuest displays the quests associated with each instance.
• AtlasMajorCities displays each major cities and all the NPCs, merchants, vendors, trainers info.
• Atlas World Events - provide maps and quests information for WoW World Events. Maintained by Arith, not part of Atlas team's work.
• Atlas Arenas - provide arenas maps. Maintained by Arith, not part of Atlas team's work.

• LibDataBroker (LDB)
• Titan Panel
• myAddOns

• Arith - Project Manager
• Dynaletik - Co-author
• Deadca7 - Artist
• Resike - Co-author
• Lothaer - Co-author

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