Portal network on the map: every portal you know, a line to its partner, and a shift-click route planner that finds the fastest way anywhere through your portals.
Walking parts of a route now follow land: they bend round fjords, bays and the sea instead of
running straight across, and the planner picks portals with that in mind. Swimming is still
allowed when going round is far longer; each metre of it counts as WaterPenalty metres of
walking (default 5, 1 goes back to straight lines). Shallow fords count as land. The terrain
comes from the minimap's own height data, so terraforming and bridges are not seen.
The map, minimap and HUD arrow follow the bends; the arrow's distance is along the path to the
next portal or the destination.
The search runs in the background, so a new destination shows only its marker and "planning…"
for a moment (about half a second) before the route appears.
On a ship, routes are straight lines again: water costs nothing at sea.
The route panel shows how much of the walk is water, e.g. Walk 2.9 km (40 m water).
portallines route show prints the current route, its water, and the planner's timings.
0.8.1 — fixes
With lines switched off, the lines a planned route uses no longer drop out of the map a few
seconds after the route is set.
Changing the route colour, line width or colour mode now restyles the planned route at once,
not only after the map is panned.
Changing HopCost or UsePresumedLinks re-plans the current route straight away.
Turning RememberPortals off mid-session now stops using the cache file immediately.
The remembered-portal cache is replaced in a single step when saved, so a crash mid-save can
no longer lose it.
0.8.0 — fixes
Dying no longer leaves a second, untinted set of portal pins on the map each time, and the
planned route now survives death. Only leaving the world resets the mod.
ColorMode = PerTag gives each tag its own colour again; every line had come out red.
A stale one-sided link can no longer take a portal whose confirmed partner is listed later,
which drew two lines from one portal and could send the route planner through the wrong one.
Two portals sharing a tag are no longer presumed linked when either one's ZDO already names
a different partner that has not arrived yet.
One unreadable line in the remembered-portal cache is skipped instead of discarding the whole
file; the original is kept beside it as .tsv.bad.
0.7.0 — HUD route arrow
With a route set, an arrow at the top centre of the screen points the way to the next portal
or the destination, relative to where the camera looks: straight up means run where you are
looking. It brightens when you are within 15° of the heading. Underneath, the target and its
live distance: Portal "Swamp" 240 m, then Destination 1.2 km on the last leg.
Within 4 m of the portal to take, the arrow gives way to Enter portal "Swamp" → Swamp, with
the destination biome in its line colour.
It drops below the raid event bar or a boss health bar while one is showing, hides with the
rest of the HUD (Ctrl+F3, death, cutscenes), and while the large map or inventory is open.
With a route set, the small minimap draws the walking leg from you to the next portal or the
destination, with an arrowhead on the rim when that point is out of view. The line starts at
your live position rather than the last recompute point, and hop lines are left off the
minimap since they point somewhere you are not walking. The route is now kept current while
the large map is closed.
The route clears itself once you arrive (after first having been farther away, so a spot set
next to you does not vanish at once), with a top-left "Route: arrived" message. An optional
hotkey clears it without opening the map.
The first-map-open diagnostics line now also reports the small map's rect and mask.
Config: Route.ShowOnMinimap (on), ArriveDistance (20 m, 0 disables), ClearKey (unbound).
0.5.0 — route planner
Shift-click a spot on the large map to plan the fastest way there through the portal network.
The route is drawn as dotted walking legs and bright hop lines, with a disc where you step in
and out and a ring at the destination; other lines dim. A panel beside the destination gives
total walking distance, hops, the direct distance for comparison, and each hop's portal and
destination biome. Shift-right-click clears. While Shift is held the map's own click actions
(cross off, add, remove pin) are suppressed.
Config: Route.Enabled, HopCost (metres one hop is worth), UsePresumedLinks, Color.
0.4.0 — biome gradient
New default line colouring: each end takes the colour of the biome it sits in and the line
blends between them, so a line tells you where it goes. Per-tag and single colour remain as
ColorMode options. The hover panel names the destination biome in the same colour.
The nine biome colours are configurable ("Biome colours" section, live in ConfigurationManager).
Black Forest is a teal-pine rather than the map's green so a Meadows-to-Black-Forest line
actually changes colour.
0.3.0 — map toggle and hover
A "Portal lines" checkbox on the large map, cloned from the map's own toggles and placed one
row above them. Also a configurable hotkey (unbound by default).
Hovering a portal on the large map highlights its line and dims every other line, and shows
a panel with the tag, link state, destination biome, distance, distance from you, and for a
remembered portal when it was last seen. With lines switched off, hovering still shows that
one portal's line.
Presumed links now say why they are presumed.
0.2.0 — remembers portals between sessions
Portals are remembered on disk per world (BepInEx/config/PortalLines/<world>-<id>.tsv), so
the map is populated from the moment you log in instead of only after walking near each
portal again. Remembered portals and their lines are drawn faded until a live copy confirms
them, then switch to full strength.
Remembered links come from where the pair was last seen connected, falling back to the only
two known portals with a tag. Both are drawn dashed as presumed until the server confirms.
A remembered portal whose area is loaded and in range but has no live copy is forgotten after
a short grace period: it was demolished.
New config: RememberPortals, ForgetAfterDays (0 keeps forever), RememberedAlpha.
New console command portallines forget clears this world's memory.
0.1.1 — verification fixes
The one-shot map layout report now runs after the first scan, so its portal counts are real.
Console command output is mirrored to the BepInEx log, so it can be read back from a file.
build/deploy.sh replaces the DLL atomically. Overwriting it in place while the game runs
corrupts the memory-mapped assembly and breaks the next server connection.
0.1.0 — first cut
Lines on the large map between every pair of connected portals the client knows about.
A portal pin with the tag at each known portal; unconnected portals are tinted.
Far ends of known portals are fetched from the server with the game's own RequestZDO, so a
link is drawn as soon as you have stood near either end.
portallines console command for listing what is known and forcing a refresh.
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