- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from version 2.3.1 or earlier, please remove the old TNE_LowHealthWarning folder before installing version 3.0 or higher.
Introduction
This addon adds a visual fullscreen effects when your health or mana dips below certain values. If will try even harder when you get below a critical value. Sounds like nothing special? Well, you really have to see it in action.
Hunters and Warlocks rejoice! Low Health Warning can now show your pet's or demon's health in addition to your own.
See screenshots for a preview of the effects. The health and mana effects can be changed to use a larger texture. They can also be changed to smoothly increase or decrease the flash rate as you lose or gain health or mana. The pet effect is a green cone on the upper part of the screen (subject to change, feedback about this is appreciated).
There is a heartbeat sound effect for a more intense warning. Some might recognize this system from other games, but it hasn't been done in World of Warcraft as far as I know. The health flash will synchronize with the heartbeat if you set it to use smooth flashing and give it the same threshold as the sound.
Usage
/lowhealth (/lhw, /lowhealthwarning): opens the settings window.
Version 3.0.1 (20400):
- Update: New setting to change between regular texture and cone texture for the pet effect.
- Fix: Improved handling for pet deaths/sacrifices.
- Fix: Some event handling improvements and other code fixes.
- Fix: Removed unneeded files. Feel free to remove localization.lua and the LowHealthSettings files from the TNE_LowHealthWarning folder (do NOT remove localization.lua in the TNE_LowHealthWarningUI folder though).
Version 3.0.0 (20400):
- Feature: Health warning for your pet, including a new texture (subject to change).
- Update: Version 3.0.0 is a major code redesign. Please report bugs if you find any.
- Update: The settings frame is now loaded on demand, reducing memory usage.
- Update: Only the 1-3 textures that are actually in use are loaded, reducing memory usage (compared to version 2.x, which always loaded 4 textures).
- Localization: I decided to drop all previous localizations due to these new changes. The addon will still work on all clients, but the settings will be in English. The old code is still there (although commented out) for those who'd like to update it.
Version 2.3.1 (20300):
- Fix: Added a new texture as patch 2.3 removed OutOfControlFrame. This means the standard effects have a new look (and they might get tweaked further).
Version 2.3.0 (20005):
- Updated for The Burning Crusade.
Version 2.2.2 (11100):
- Fix: Corrected a bug that decreased performance (possibly alot raids) and sometimes caused the effect to disappear.
- Fix: Minor change for the shifty druids.
- Localization: Korean localization updated (thanks Mars).
Version 2.2.1 (11100):
- Fix: Issues related to the large effect setting should be gone.
- Localization: French localization updated (thanks Feu).
Version 2.2 (11100):
- Feature: Added larger textures.
Version 2.1 (11100):
- Feature: Added option to do the /oom emote when mana is below critical (disabled by default)
- Update: Removed code that optimized zoning.
- Fix: Updated to new button text format (nil value error on line 32)
- Fix: All events are now properly unregistered when the addon is disabled.
Version 2.0 (11000):
- The addon is now known as Low Health Warning.
- Feature: Heartbeat sound effect; slight impact on performance due to OnUpdate usage.
- Feature: Health and mana flashes can now be set to use a 'variable beat' algorithm, similar to the one the heartbeat sound is using. This will, under most conditions, keep the flashing and the heartbeat synchronized.
- Feature: Added option to do the /healme emote when health is critical (disabled by default)
- Update: All three effects (sound, health, and mana) can now individually be set to In Combat Only.
- Update: Revamped settings window, settings code and localization. I need help to translate some strings again (see localization.lua).
- Update: You can now disable the low health warning while keeping the mana warning active.
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)...