I did not find this on this forum, so just reposting from the old forum to save it.
Not my work, all credit to Yorgomir
Hi folks,
since I was bored of the loads of ugly grey dots on my maps, I started digging a bit into the waypoints and wanted to share my findings:
one actually can change the icon for it and it has some possible tooltip as well…
here’s what I did so far for Northern Grasslands:
it’s quite some work - a.t.m. I’m only using already existing images, but this probably could be custom images as well
one drawback though, which is quite annoying: whenever you delete (and prob. also create new) waypoints via the map in game, all the customized icons are gone, deleted from the xml :-/
if you want to try this out yourself:
Northern Grasslands
Field of the Dead
- you need to save those files there: C:\Users<your windows user name>\AppData\Local\Funcom\Conan\Prefs<your AoC account name>\Waypoints
- if you don’t have that folder, chances are that you never created a waypoint
- if there already is a file with that name, maybe open the two (“my” version and “yours”) in a text editor and merge their contents…
tell me what you think 
/Yorgo
/updates as the thread progresses…
this is a screenshot of how the customized icons in Field of the Dead look a.t.m.:
(end of historical content…)
Latest Version
get it here (needs aoc.exe - see instructions below): download
Highlights:
- All areas covered!
- contains all WPs I found for the following (along with selfmade* custom icons):
treasure chest
panorama
bane of … achievement target
target of interest
leap of faith
excavator achievement
shrine (forgotten gods)
racing start/finish
milestones
open raid (Golem)
Jiang Shi symbols
few hard-to-find questmarkers - colored tooltips/map labels
- does not interfere with custom waypoints
- most of the items reveal detailed information upon mouse-over’ing (e.g. the number of the treasure, which bane-of-xxx this target belongs to)
- some items have no (treasure) or limited (excavator, target of interest) name in close-up zoom - just mouse-over it
*) selfmade icons meaning: I explicitly looked for non-copyrighted/free-to-use source images, then I basically rescaled/polished them to look nice…
- the panorama icon actually is my very own creation - source material was a self-made screenshot
Remarks:
- the information at the bginning of this starter post is a bit outdated, so are the screenshots; I nevertheless keep it as it is, so you can follow the progression of this work…
- the download link will always get you the latest version, please only use this one
Installation:
- create the following directory, if not already present: \Data\Gui\Aoc
- extract the content of the download archive from above into that directory (so you have “\Data\Gui\Aoc\Yorgomir WP.…”)
- download aoc.exe 1.0.0.106 → click (you need this version or later for some waypoints to work properly)
- run aoc.exe as Administrator
- run Age of Conan
Updated Screenshots:
