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.

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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