MapEnh

On a non-English WoW: Forever client, every world map renders as a flat green background. Quest markers, the quest log and coordinates all work — only the terrain is missing.

MapEnh puts it back.

Why it happens

The map artwork for Forever's zones was only published in English. Your client asks for the right files, does not receive them, and this build paints whatever it cannot find as a bright flat colour instead of leaving it transparent. Logs/AsyncFile.log says it plainly: Can't find file in build manifest.

Nothing is broken on your machine, and there is nothing to repair there.

Measured on build 1.60.1.69913 by opening the game's own storage one locale at a time: of the 1867 tiles involved, all 1867 open in enUS and enGB, and none in frFR. 56 zones out of 56, none partially.

Installing

Unzip into your Interface/AddOns folder and play. The tiles are in the download.

What you get

• 1867 tiles across 56 zones — terrain and explored areas alike
• 276 tiles in Riverlands and Hyjal that no other addon restores
• No tile you already have. Every id was verified against the storage — absent in French, present in English — so nothing is shipped for nothing
• It stands down by itself on an English client (enUS, enGB): those maps work, and painting over a working map hides a problem rather than fixing one
• Positions nothing itself. The game lays the map out; MapEnh only replaces the texture it could not load, recognised by its FileDataID. No leftovers when you switch zones

Commands

• /mapenh — status: how many tiles are known, how many were replaced
• /mapenh off / /mapenh on — turn the fix off or back on
• /mapenh bavard — diagnostic messages (off by default)

If you would rather extract the tiles yourself

The tiles are Blizzard artwork. If you prefer that none of it be handed to you, the GitHub release also carries a 50 KB package with the code alone, plus an extractor that pulls the tiles out of the installation you already own. Same result, file for file.

Credits

Two other addons fix the same defect and got there first — Map Fix Forever by Pirson and ForeverBeta Map Fix by bil_gates, both MIT. The way MapEnh replaces textures is theirs, and it is better than what it did before.

The extractor links against CascLib (MIT).

MIT licensed. Source and issues: https://github.com/Tetardtek/MapEnh

En français

Votre carte du monde est entièrement verte sur WoW: Forever en français ? Les images des cartes n'ont été publiées qu'en anglais. Le jeu les demande, ne les reçoit pas, et affiche du vide. Rien à réparer chez vous.

Pour installer : décompressez dans Interface/AddOns, lancez le jeu. Les images sont dans le téléchargement.

1867 images, 56 zones, terrain et zones explorées comprises — dont 276 aux Rives Claires et au Hyjal que personne d'autre ne restaure, et aucune image inutile.

L'addon se retire tout seul sur un client anglais, et le jour où ce sera corrigé côté serveur il deviendra inutile — c'est le but.

Tapez /mapenh en jeu pour voir où il en est, /mapenh off pour le couper.

Un guide d'installation complet en français est fourni dans l'archive (GUIDE-FR.md).