--// Rewatch //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rewatch is an addon to help you monitor your healing-over-time (HoT) spells as a druid. There's an easy main window which you can move around, which will contain five bars for every target; a healthbar, energy-/rage-/manabar, lifebloom bar, rejuvenation bar and a regrowth bar. Simply click a spell bar to cast that spell on that specific player, or click on the player's healthbar to target the player.
Party- and raidhealing has never been so easy!
--// Installation //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just extract this entire folder to your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder and run the game. By default, this AddOn will be enabled on every character. No need to disable it for your non-druid classes by the way; it will not load on these characters so you won't have to bother about that.
--// Usage //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After installing the AddOn, all you will need to do is launch the game and log in to your druid character. You will notice the Rewatch frame in the topleft corner of your screen. The odds are small you want the AddOn to be placed here; just move it to it's new location by click&dragging the frame to the desired location.
You can add players to the list by casting a HoT spell on them, or grouping with them so they're added automatically. If the player is grouped with you, the player will remain in your list so you can easily refresh the HoT spell. If the player or NPC is not, however, it will be automatically removed from the list as soon as all his/her HoT spells run out so you keep a fresh and clean list. If there's a player in the list you don't want to have in there anymore, simply right-click his/her healthbar and it will be removed.
If you wish to target a player from your list, left-click on his/her healthbar. To cast or refresh his/her Rejuvenation, simply click on the Rejuvenation bar. Same goes for Lifebloom and Regrowth, just click the bar! The small button right next to every three bars is the Swiftmend button; just click it to cast a Swiftmend on that player. If the player is cursed or poisoned, a Abolish Poison button or Remove Curse button will appear between the Swiftmend button and the Regrowth bar. Simply click it to cure your pal! All of the important spells, right at a single click away. Told you it was easy!
As an extra feature, there are also buttons for your most common spells at the bottom of the main Rewatch frame. These are Gift of the Wild, Tranquility, Barkskin, Innervate and Nature's Swiftness respectively. These buttons act like set buttons in your actionbar; click them to cast the spell (on yourself, always). They will have the common cooldown timer overlay so you can easily see which spells are on cooldown, and for how long still, and which aren't.
And there's ofcourse also a close button, the bottom-right 'X'. This will hide the frame from your interface, as you may not be needing it all the time. To make it appear again, simply type /rewatch in your chat console and it will pop back up at the last remembered position.
--// Creditz //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Written by Coen van der Wel, main character Dezyne on Argent Dawn, Europe, 2008.
Special thanks to Thomas Friedrich and Didier "Silvio" Carmin for the resp. German and French localizations!
--// Revision //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Last version: 3.0 at 25-08-2008
Any feature requests or bug reports, please don't hesistate to contact me at coenvdwel@planet.nl!
Changelog latest version:
- HoT bars now turn red when about to expire.
- Fixed the bug which held the bars stuck sometimes when in combat. It occurred when the group changed while in combat, but should now be fixed.
- Uhm, little issue regarding my last version upload: meant to put version 1.2, but named the file version 2.0... I'll continue from this error onwards, meaning this version will be 3.0, instead of the intended 1.3. Oh well!
- Lifebloom tracking! At last!
- External localization in German and French
- Fixed the taints; in combat attempts for remodelling the frame are now blocked in the AddOn itself, rather than by WoW's UI
- The list of players is automatically filled with the members of the user's party/raid
Upcoming features:
- Drag to resize arrow
- Keybinds to the ability buttons
- Grow up/down feature
- Configure scalings through the console menu
- Warning when not in Tree of Life form
- Druid buff checks
- Lock player list feature
- Damage taken per second display on players
Known bugs:
None!
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...