ZMP

ZMP Files

There are only four of these files in the World of Warcraft MPQs. They are located inside "Interface\WorldMap\".

• Interface\WorldMap\Azeroth.zmp
• Interface\WorldMap\Expansion01.zmp
• Interface\WorldMap\Kalimdor.zmp
• Interface\WorldMap\Northrend.zmp

The code to read these files is also probably located within one of the mpq files. These files seem to hold tile data (as the WoWEmu program uses them to extract tile data to output a rough hightmap of the world). Anyway, this would seem to be very logical, because ZMP would stand for Z-Map (Z, of which is the hight axis in 3D).

It appears that ZMP files are a 128x128 array of 32-bit integer height values.

• note from wad: all data in these files is location_id's (see: AreaTable.dbc).