World Map Revamp

[Garan]

There are three Lua plugins that can help significantly with the map.

First, for direction to a location, there is Waypoint by Lunarwater. This plugin puts an arrow on screen that points in the direction of travel toward your destination. Due to limitations in the Lua API, you must manually click the arrow to get an updated direction, but it can be quite helpful.
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...-Waypoint.html

Another plugin that can help a lot with map related issues is MoorMap. This plugin provides a resizable/repositionable map with the default annotations as well as many items that are not shown on the built-in map. MoorMap also provides a ton of additional features such as overlays to show Deed locations, the ability to add your own custom annotations, breadcrumbs (for seeing where you have travelled, particularly useful in areas like Goblintown), annotation searches etc. Additionally, MoorMap is integrated with Waypoint - you can click on a location in Moormap and set that as the destination for Waypoint. MoorMap has many more features, see the download page for more info.
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...2-MoorMap.html

The third plugin is TerrainMap which provides a Google style view of the game world using the radar compass tiles. TerrainMap provides zoom levels from x1 to x32, shows the default annotations as well as the custom annotations (the ones you added) from MoorMap AND is also integrated with MoorMap so that you can click on a location in either plugin and display that location in the other plugin. This can be particularly helpful for seeing the terrain around hard to access areas.
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...errainMap.html

Last, there is also a web-based Google map of LotRO: http://lotromap.net/terrainmap/google.html
This is mostly just for fun to see the game world as one large contiguous terrain map but can also be helpful to figure out where you are relative to areas in other regions.

Would it be nice if all of these features were available in the built-in map? Sure. Is it likely to happen with the resources that SSG has available, probably not. Meanwhile, you can make the game far more playable with a few plugins.
These and many, many more plugins (as well as skins for changing the look of the interface) are available from www.lotrointerface.com
The easiest, safest and most reliable way to install/update Lua plugins for LotRO is with a Java application, by Lunarwater, called Plugin Compendium, also available from lotrointerface.com:
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...nfo.php?id=663