Examiner - An Advanced Inspection Mod
Examiner is an advanced inspection mod which you can use to check other players gear, talents, honor and arena team details.
When you inspect someone, it will show a stat summery of all their equipped gear combined.
Please note that these values are from gear alone, and will not include bonuses from buffs, talents or normal base stats.
Each player you inspect, will be cached so you can look them up later, even when they are no where near you.
This option can be disabled if you prefer not to cache the people you inspect. To cache honor and arena details, you must
enable the option to do so under the config page. Talents are not cached.
You can bind a key to inspect your target, you can even bind a key to inspect whoever is under your mouse (stealth inspection).
To set this up, open the Key Bindings dialog and look under "Examiner".
Examiner uses about 160 kb of memory with no players cached.
You can always find the latest release of this addon on either WoWInterface.com or Curse.com.
Post your comments, questions and suggestions for this addon on either of these sites.
Compare Gear
To compare one person's gear with another, you can mark a target for compare by right clicking on the "Stats" button to get a drop down menu to open, this menu will have an entry called "Mark for Compare".
When marked for compare, the Stats page will no longer show the actual stats of your inspected person, but will instead show the difference in stats compared to the person you marked for compare.
Sending Inspect Data to Another Player
Examiner can send the inspected data to another person who has Examiner. This is done through the AddOn Whisper Channel.
By default, accepting addon messages in Examiner is disabled, you have to enable this on the Configurations page.
To send a player you have inspected to another person with Examiner, you have to first inspect a person or load them from your cache.
After having done this, right click on the "Stats" button and select "Send To..." and fill in the name of the person you wish to send it to.
If the send was successful and the person you sent it to received it, you will get a note in the chat frame that they got it.
Model Frame Controls
Left Click + Move: Moves the Model
Right Click + Move: Rotates the Model
Mousewheel: Zoom
Ctrl + Left Click: Change Background
Ctrl + Right Click: Toggle Background
Slash Commands
The slash command for Examiner is /examiner or just /ex.
Although you probably wont need to use any slash commands as almost everything is available from the UI, there are a few things which can only be done through slash commands.
/ex inspect 'unit' or /ex i 'unit'
This one will inspect the given unit (target, focus, party3 etc). If no unit token is given, it will inspect target and then player if no target exist.
/ex si 'itemLink'
This command will scan just a single item and list its combined stats in the chat frame.
Holding down ALT while the mouse is over an item in Examiner will show a tooltip with the stats like this.
/ex compare 'itemLink1' 'itemLink2'
Compares two items and lists the stat differences.
/ex arena 'rating'
Shows you the amount of arena points the given rating gives for 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5.
/ex scale 'value'
Changes the scale of the Examiner window.
/ex clearcache
Clears the entire cache of Examiner.
Future Plans
Adding more filter types to the "Set Filter" option using text syntax, a bit like the /who function in WoW is working.
For example you could set the realm like this: "r:Burning Blade" then it would only show cached entries from Burning Blade. A level filter could work like this: "1-69" and would show all non 70s.
Then add two new options for clearing the cache, one which clears all shown entries, and one which clears all the hidden entries.
Special Thanks
- Chester, the original author of SuperInspect, who gave me the idea to make this mod.
- Haldamir of Gorgonnash, for the german translation.
- omosiro, who made the Korean translation.
- g3gg0, changes to the German translation & author to one of the SuperInspect versions.
- Pettigrow of Sinstralis, for the translation to French.
- Siphony of EU-Onyxia, updated German translation.
- All the people using Examiner!
Examiner Changes | 2008 Oct 30
- Readded Russian translation from "Darigaaz of SoulFlayer" and updated to 3.0 by "Hoofik of AshenVale".
- Set the default value of the "Query Achievements" option to false, enable it if you want Examiner to query them.
- You can now link talents into the chat.
- The full category name is now listed for achievements.
- Renamed the "Badge" button to "Feats", as it sounds more appropriate for Achievements and Statistics.
- Filter option added for Achievements and Statistics, use the "Feats" button's right click menu or just shift click the "Feats" button to set it.
- Added a drop down menu on the "Feats" page, use this to select the category of Achievements and Statistics you wish to see.
- Achievements and Statistics are no longer updated and listed unless you are viewing the "Feats" page.
- You can no disable sorting of both the cache list and feats, by selecting the "none" sort option from the dropdowns.
- Viewing Achievements can now be done even if the player is out of normal inspect range.
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)...