Antagonist is a lightweight, easy-to-setup enemy cast bar addon utilizing Ace2. It tracks enemy cast and channeling times, buff durations and cooldowns.
What does it do?
- Tracks enemy casting times
- Tracks enemy buff durations
- Tracks enemy cooldowns
- Smart bars which adjust to the flow of combat
- Lots of things explained below...
What won't it do?
- Track the player's buffs/debuffs
- Track the player's spell durations
- Boss timers
Features
>Target and Focus casting and channeling bars
>> Description
>> Will adjust to show delays when the units are damaged.
>> When you target one of these units a bar and they are casting/channeling a spell then a timer will appear with the time left on that cast. This will also update an already existing timer if it was started from area scanning.
> Smart Fading (Optional)
>> Description
>> Bars will fade out if the enemy they are tracking dies.
>> Buff bars will also fade out if the buff is dispelled or removed by the caster (e.g. Ice Block canceled early).
> Click Behavior
>> Description
>> You can click on the bars to perform quick functions.
>> Right Click - stop the clicked bar.
>> Shift + Right Click - stop all bars from the clicked bar's group (casts/buffs/cooldowns).
>> Ctrl + Left Click - filter the spell which the clicked bar represents.
> Filter System (Blacklist)
>> Description
>> This allows you to configure which spells you don't want to see timers for. You can see an example in the first screenshot.
> Self-Relevant Option (Unreliable)
>> Description
>> This option will only show cast/channeling timers if the player is the target of said spell. This is still in beta as sometimes the target of the spell being cast isn't the target of the casting enemy.
> Appearance
>> Description
>> The bars are heavily customizable. You can configure the following: height, width, scale, color, font size, texture, fill direction, growth direction. Antagonist uses SurfaceLib for texture handling, this allows it to use other textures from all addons using SurfaceLib.
>> Each anchor also has a title which you can enable. You can change the title's text, color and size.
FAQ
>Q: Will you ever add boss timers?
>>A: The short answer is no. Antagonist already shows all casts performed by your target and focus units, this includes bosses. However I will not add boss specific timers. This would create bulk. I recommend BigWigs for a complete boss timer package.
>Q: Will you ever add tracking of player spells and buffs/debuffs on the player?
>>A: Again, no. Tracking of player spells is done very well by Chronometer. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel when its already a pretty good wheel. If you want an even smaller addon than Chronometer then you could use one of the FuBar_ClassTimerFu addons.
>Q: How do I access the configuration?
>>A: Antagonist has three forms of configuration.
>> Console - /ant.
>> Dewdrop - /ant dropdown
>> GUI - /ant gui
>Q:What are the tags I can use in the bar text?
>> A:
>> $s - Spell name
>> $n - Player name
>> $t - Target of Player (casts)
>Q: How do I make the bars all show up in one place?
>>A: You can do this by setting the showunder setting of each group to an anchor number.
>> Procedure: /ant gui to open the options screen. Expand the Group submenu on the left. For each group, that is Casts, Buffs and Cooldowns, set the showunder value to the same number.
>Q: How do I move the anchors?
>>A: Type the follow to toggle the anchors /ant lock.
Support
Latest Beta: http://files.wowace.com/Antagonist/
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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)...