GW2Overlay

This is aimed to be a (very basic) GW2 overlay which runs natively on Linux as an alternative to GW2Taco. The GW2 data is sent via UDP from a python script inside the wine environment, since using mmap with wine is not straightforward.

Requirements

libx11
opengl
glew
boost-program-options
openssl
SDL2
qt5
vulkan sdk (including glslc)
pthreads

Python for Windows installed in ${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Python38/python.exe

Compilation

mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../src && make

Usage

Start GW2
Start the overlay with ./GW2Overlay --xml-folder <path to your poi folder>
- Open the options menu and select the location of the mumble.py helper script (one time)
- All the required resources are expected to be in the current working directory
Currently it is required to start gw2 first AND have the game window in the final position
- The program uses the position on start to place the overlay. A dynamic adaption is not implemented yet

Features

Can load and display GW2Taco XML POIs and trails
Can load and save Builds from your API
Markers for WvW
Markers are displayed on the map

Status

Current status: It is usable, but the UI is still lacking (Just a simple window to activate/deactivate POIs)
Tested on Arch with i3wm and picom
OpenGL and Vulkan renderers both working
- CPU usage with Vulkan is pretty much non existent. Most is just calculating the view matrix
- Seeing as a very bad Vulkan implementation, is much faster than the OpenGL version, the OpenGL version won't get any further updates

TODO

Some kind of GUI for settings etc. (Very basic one is implemented)
- Boss timer/reminder
- daily, killed bosses
- Make the GUI GW2 themed
- Overlay manager to create Overlays with boss timers and other stuff
Icons on Minimap
Vulkan specific
- Draw everything in a single cmd (might also fix the bug after creating the queue)
Move from a PoC to a "real" program
- Restructure almost everything and remove those awful singletons

BUGS

Vulkan specific
- For the first seconds after creating the new command buffers (when switching the displayed POIs) the overlay lags behind. After that it works perfectly. This seems to be a problem with the fences.
- If you encounter any visual related bugs/crashes when using vulkan, please start the program with --validation (for the very slim chance someone other than me is using this program)
The WvW API caches the results, so the displayed values might be wrong. Nothing I can do
Some Traits don't have all the required information as in the game. Again nothing I can do
On some maps the markers don't line up perfectly

Smeat / GW2Overlay