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WoW Mangos Map, VMaps and DBC Extraction Guide
Posted by Reaper-X Oct 10 2007 1:01 am
Warning : this page contain lots of images
To make installation of WoW Mangos even easier, based on various suggestion / comment made by the commenters on this site, i’ve decided to create a new complete guide using lots of images instead describing each step carefully especially at the extraction process of Maps, Vmaps, and DBC which caused problem on some people because they keep getting various error message related to missing vmap, vmdir, map, etc
As a side note, this process is based on my release (i already include all the tools required) so if you’re using someone else mangos release, you can always adjust the path accordingly (i mean the tools itself of course) or find the tools by yourself :)
Okay and here are the steps …
Requirements :
- DBC Extractor known as MPQE
- Ad.exe to extract Maps
- VMaps Extractor and Assembler to create vmaps
Fresh Installation and Upgrading :
Note : the default WoW Installation Directory is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft
Note 2 : the default data directory of your WoW Installation can be found at C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\enUS
Note 3 : Make sure to delete the buildings, vmaps, and maps directory (if there’s any, left from the previous extraction process) before running the .bat files to extract maps, vmaps, and dbc files
Note 4 : All the Tools needed to extract DBC, VMaps and Maps can be found in Tools directory of my release
1. Extracting Maps :
Copy below files into your WoW installation Directory :
and then run extract-map.bat from your WoW installation directory … and wait … until it finished (it’ll automatically close itself when finished). And here’s what it should look like after you run the extract-map.bat
2. Extracting VMaps :
Copy below files into your WoW installation directory :
then run makevmaps_SIMPLE.bat from your WoW installation directory and wait until finished
When you see something like above image, just wait until PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE MESSAGE appear on your screen. If you close that window before it finished the process, you’ll need to redo the vmaps extraction process from start … estimated time : 40 Minutes – 2 Hours or more depending on your computer speed
And here’s what is should look like when the VMaps extraction process finished :
3. Extracting DBC :
Copy below files into your data/enUS directory of your WoW installation
And then run the extract.bat from your WoW data directory and wait until it finished, and here’s what it should look like when the dbc extraction is finished
4. Moving the VMaps, Maps, and DBC directory
Now since you have finished with the above process, all you have to do is just moving the VMaps and Maps directory like shown on below images into somewhere for example C:\WoW\data
and then now you need to go inside your data/enUS directory and then move the DBC Directory there into C:\WoW\data too. As shown below
To make things clear, here’s what it should look like when you’ve moved the above three directory into your C:\WoW\data
That’s it … you’re done … as a reminder, you should keep that C:\WoW\data folder to make upgrading mangos process easier and to save time of course (unless there’re some big changes at your WoW installation like new patch) ;)
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where can I download all files? :O
Reaper-X please could you make download where is working maps and vmaps?…. *begs*please ??
well said Sk8, i was hoping you(reaper-X) could post the dbc folder with everything here
*Elem almost begs*
pretty please =D
Hi would you be able to put up a download for the vmaps folder because evertime i go to extract it my comp overheats in the process of it (beacuase its very unstably overclocked) and im not able to keep opeing evertime it cools down beacuse it just heats up again so if you could put a download like for the MAngos 4651
i have wow enGB version and i edit the extract.bat to enGB but dosen’t work.. please poste the 2.2.3 dbc files
i have problems like makko :| dosen’t work with enGB :((
I havent had any problems yet, but I do appreciate you sticking around to help all these people, and I look forward to a wonderful ManGos server, thanks for your hard work.
I did something wrong i guess, when i run the Mangos.exe and the realmlist.exe it says it cannot connect to the database, what did i do wrong?
Downloaded TBC to my comp and installed it , shows even “dark portal” when i open WoW (it means i have tbc installed succesfully), still doesn’t work, even with mangos 4629… My mangosd.conf is correct everything works just cannot create dreani or BE and no outland?
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1052/werme3.jpg
my mangosd now (i have the vmaps and all in right directory)
please help……
Thanks Reaper-X. Love yah much.
now it didn’t create folder vmaps at all :S can you please make extracted maps and vmaps so it’s lot easier? (sry for triple post)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/1231/foldercu4.jpg
theres my folder picture…. theres no vmaps cause i am extracting them again to make sure thats not the problem
my posts ain’t showing?? (sry if this is triple post cause i don’t see my 2 recent posts)
# LambdaComplex
Unfortunately lots of people who ran 64 version also get the same problem like you too
the only thing i can suggest is by downloading the extracted dbc files from somewhere
p.s if you’re using WoW 2.2.3 enUS, you can download extracted dbc files from below link :
http://www.mediafire.com/?32uzmqzjghi
(just uploaded it when posting this)
have you checked to make sure that the datadir point to the correct location where vmaps, maps, and dbc (all three of them) can be found in one directory ?
for example lots of people seems to be using (based on the numbers of emails i received) :
C:\wow\date
while the actual location can be found at :
c:\wow\data
(typo) :P
i have the map files and vmaps there but my mangosd says that i don’t have them there :S….. any help please??
Everyhting is good except mangosd is saying there aren’t any .map files in the directory i gave when there all right there. Also it’s saying that it can’t find any .vmap or .vmdir files, but they are all .wmo and .mdx files. Whats wrong?
I’ve also tried to run in under the normal Windows XP compatibility mode and Windows 2000 compatibility mode
When using the extract.bat for the DBC extrator it get an error saying it can’t locate the SFmpq.dll file. the error looks like this:
MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
The system cannot find the file specified.
Press any key to continue . . .
All of the files you specified in the walkthrough I put in the data/enUS folder along with the SFmpq.dll file. Its definatly in there along with the three other files.
My world of warcraft directory is c:\world of warcraft\ instead of the program files\world of warcraft. I’m also running 64 bit Windows XP if that could have an affect on it. Any advice or solutions would be awesome.
ok nm mind Reaper it extracted when i was in safe mode and now i got it working and its pretty cool thanks for the guide:)
i fixed the problem where its say access is denied and go through the steps but when i run the DBC extractor it says it can’t find patch-enUS-2.MPQ. is there anywhere i can just download the files? and i have patch 2.2.3
now the problem is wrong EnGB ad.exe
(MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
MPQ-Extractor v1.4 by WRS
Fatal: Could not locate SFmpq.dll
The system cannot find the file specified.
Press any key to continue . . .)
i get that problem with DBC extraction please help me (running windows vista ultimate 64 bit)
What is the bat file?
# Muskar
Lol … btw thanks a lot for your help :D
# sess
Are you using Windows XP ? usually that error message comes up if you’re using 64 bit version :(
i’d suggest you to try using WinMPQ and see if it’s work for you or not :)
# Jeff
Access denied ? are you using account that has administrative privilege or just normal account ?
when i run exract-map it say access is denied at the top and then the processing goes up then it does nothing can i fix that
when i run extract.bat its says ”could not locate SFmpq.dll” but its in the same directory and both in wow folder and mangos folder it dosent work
what should i do?
I am bored waiting for Reaper-X to get online again, so here goes some help to the unanswered questions;
#zoop
You right click on ‘extract.bat’ and click ‘Edit’.
and then you replace ‘enUS’ with ‘enGB’ all three places.
This is what it should look like when you are done:
@echo off
mpqe /d “.” locale-enGB.MPQ *.dbc
mpqe /d “.” patch-enGB.MPQ *.dbc
mpqe /d “.” patch-enGB-2.MPQ *.dbc
ren DBFilesClient dbc
pause
#Philip
If you didn’t put ‘Hide extension names on known file types’ off in the Folder Options (in any folder, using Windows Explorer) under the ‘Show’ tab, then you can’t see the file extension (.bat).
So the extract-file is in fact the correct one.
If you need to edit it, just do as I just told zoop to do.
#kloaRichter
Look on my reply to zoop above.
(The extract.bat file is located in C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\data\enGB\ if you followed the guide, and if you installed WoW at the default directory).
#WoWeek
No bat files? Check my reply to Philip
#Boomstick
Please, specify your question a bit more, what doesn’t work? What are the excact errors you get?
The issue about locating-maps-errors is often in association with the enBG issue.
Do you play on enUS servers? If not, do as I told the other people above in this reply.
#Stepback, if you have this window still:
http://www.reaper-x.com/images/blogs/waiting-20time.jpg
Then I would like to ask you..:
How long did it take you to get to the screen?
It took me 30 minutes to get to it, and it took me 10 minutes to get away from this page.
So if you waited 5 hours to get to it, it should be about 1½-2 hours to get away from this.
(As a sidenote, a new computer with Windows XP doesn’t say a lot about the performance, just that it is not outdated.
Performance (in case of loading) is mostly about your memory (RAM) and your processor (CPU).)
I hope I was of help =) Enjoy people! Good luck and have fun!
nvm i found it..ty for the info erlier.. (stupid me)
Erm i need help with the extracting file thing in the /Data/enGB….it needs to find enUS…how do i make it find enGB instead of US? thanks.
HI, I ran the makevmaps_SIMPLE and I got to the part where you have to wait to get a “press any key to continue” but, I have been waiting for 5 hours even though I have a windowsxp brand new… and it still hasnt shown up. Any tips?
Oh! I got the extract-map.bat to work. After a few hours of almost throwing my computer at the wall, I placed the extract-map.bat and the ad.exe files in the (default) C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft file; it picked up the data as enUS (like it should have), and filled up my maps folder. Yay, me. And thank you, Reaper-X!
To note, I’ve already changed (in the DBC Directory) the enUS to enGB and back several times. Nothing of that sort seems to fix the problem.
I am having trouble with the extract-map.bat process. The extractor says it cannot open the enGB files, but I am NOT using enGB. All of my files are enUS. I have no idea what to do.
open your reamlist.wtf then delete everything in there and type: set realmlist 127.0.0.1
HF&GL
Downloaded TBC to my comp and installed it , shows even “dark portal” when i open WoW (it means i have tbc installed succesfully), still doesn’t work, even with mangos 4629…
just say, that u have missed to add something in the guide..
ok i figured this out but what do i put on “set realmlist [whatdoiputhere]“??
hey henry are you on right now? could you add me on msn or whatever messenger you have (if you ahve one) and explain to me how you did this step?
loves2sk8@hotmail.com
can someone PLEASE help me im trying to do the
“And then run the extract.bat from your WoW data directory and wait until it finished, and here’s what it should look like when the dbc extraction is finished” but its not ending up as what it shows on the picture.
Hey i did everything posted here and now don’t know how to start my server and to get on. Also i have a few questions! Does my server automatically have admin and i do i automatically get it once i log into my server? if not how do i set that all up? Also i don’t know where to find the DBC directory. Can you tell where it is?
how long is it supposed to take for the thingto say click and button?
can you pelase add my msn messenger name and tell me how to do this?
I’m using Windows Vista on my Laptop.. I got ad.exe MPQE extractor and map assemblers etc, but no bat files ANYWHERE
nice guide and everything but what do i do if i hav europe version so it says enGB not enUS???shall i just download the dbc?
Hello, Where my extract.bat file should be there is only an extract file (no .bat in the name). Also when I try to install this it says I need a new “frame works”. Also when installing Mysql I type “mysql ~u root ~p” But all that comes up is a list of how to use it and the product’s information. Thanks : )
I got a problem when i log in, there isn’t a button thats says create a character and i freezes some times.
How can i fix this?
=D
the map exstrator keeps telling me it cannot create the output file for the map… any suggestions?
how do u do tht
can’t locate patch-enUS ? btw are you running enUS client or enGB client ?
if you use enGB, open the bat file and replace enUS with enGB ;)