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BigWigs Bossmods

 

Project Updated:
Files Updated: Sun, Oct 18 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.2.0
Category: Boss Encounters, and Combat
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Project Manager: funkydude
Additional Authors: Ammo , Rabbit
Current Version: r6570-release
License: All Rights Reserved
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 1,980
Downloads Total: 4,939,155
Favorites: 6,131
Comments: 782
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boss menu

BigWigs is a boss alert mod. It consists of many individual "boss modules", mini addons that are designed to trigger alert messages and timer bars for one specific raid boss each. Modules are activated when you target or mouseover a Boss, or if any other BigWigs use in your raid does. In most cases only one module will be running at any given time.

Features

Plugins

  • Messages: Can be moved, re-coloured & locked.
  • Bars: Can be moved, skinned to different textures (SharedMedia compatible), resized & also have an 'emphasis' feature to flash when they are about to expire.
  • RaidIcon: Target painting (put an icon over a player that has been singled out by the boss).
  • BossBlock: Suppress "spam" sent by other player's bossmods.
  • Sound: Plays various sounds on different events (SharedMedia compatible).
  • LibDataBroker/Minimap: Button for easy access to the configuration menu, resetting running modules, and seeing what modules are active.

Extras

  • Proximity: For displaying players within a certain range on certain boss encounters.
  • Test: Test your bars and warnings, and move them around.
  • CustomBar: For 'PizzaTimers', create your own custom bars.
  • Version: A query for not only the core BigWigs version, but also the instance version numbers.
  • Flash'N'Shake: Shake and/or Flash the screen blue when something important happens that directly affects you, such as a debuff.

Documentation

The creation

BigWigs is a boss timer and warning mod. Tekkub, the original BigWigs1 for Ace1 author, was inspired to write this after his very first raid run. He was horrified by the massive amount of spam his raid leader was creating with his boss mod. He was getting messages all over the place for things he didn't care about (Hunters can't dispell a curse or interrupt a heal). He also found that the "60 seconds until painful doom" timer messages were such a waste. Why not use a nice simple timerbar to show this?

The aim

BigWigs aims to be as efficient as possible (creating a lower memory per second footprint and using a lower amount of CPU than any other boss mod), as effectively as possible. When modules are written every aspect of the encounter is revised. Is syncing required? Is target scanning required? What events are really to be warned for. It also aims to have the latest boss modules out asap, that means that not long after the first few attempts of a brand new boss, it usually has a working boss mod.

Unique

BigWigs has a many things that make it unique to other boss mods, one is the 'Emphasis' feature for bars to grab your attention. Others include SharedMedia support so you can customize the look of your bars and choose different sounds for warnings. BigWigs can identify when you have wiped on a boss and reset the bars and timers. It is also the only addon to keep all events unregistered until you mouse over a boss, instead of registering all the boss events when entering an instance.

Credits

Thanks to all the wonderful people in #wowace for help with transcripts, translations, libraries, etc.

See also

  • Downloads (5)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  BigWigs Bossmods r6570-release Release 3.2.0 156,905 10/18/2009
  BigWigs Bossmods r6517-release Release 3.2.0 94,938 10/7/2009
  BigWigs Bossmods r5890-5-release Release 3.2.0 192,815 9/4/2009
  BigWigs Bossmods r5890 Release 3.2.0 105,151 8/26/2009
  BigWigs Bossmods r5812 Release 3.2.0 147,251 8/12/2009
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  • Razorrr said

    I have a problem with Fubar and BW working together. It always used to work just perfectly fine, but now it's giving me problems for some time. When I disable Fubar everything works fine. When I enable it, I get the following error:

    Message: Interface\AddOns\BigWigs_Plugins\Colors.lua:5: attempt to index global 'BigWigs' (a nil value)
    Time: 11/26/09 15:22:10
    Count: 1
    Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
    [C]: ?
    Interface\AddOns\BigWigs_Plugins\Colors.lua:5: in main chunk
    [C]: ?
    [C]: in function `pcall'
    Interface\AddOns\FuBar\FuBar.lua:829: in function <Interface\AddOns\FuBar\FuBar.lua:824>
    Interface\AddOns\FuBar\FuBar.lua:959: in function `LoadPlugin'
    Interface\AddOns\FuBar\FuBar.lua:1094: in function `object_method'
    ...Ons\FuBar\libs\LibRockTimer-1.0\LibRockTimer-1.0.lua:289: in function <...Ons\FuBar\libs\LibRockTimer-1.0\LibRockTimer-1.0.lua:227>
    Locals: (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = "attempt to index global 'BigWigs' (a nil value)"

    I already tried to remove all the bigwigs and fubar files and reinstall them but that didn't help. I also tried to disable the bigwigs part from fubar but it still won't enable and show me boss warnings.

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  • Razorrr said

    Oh I forgot to add:
    When I open the bigwigs options and click the big red CONFIGURE bar, I get the following error (and nothing in the config screen works)
    Message: Usage: GetModule(name, silent): 'name' - Cannot find module 'Bars'.
    Time: 11/26/09 15:27:45
    Count: 1
    Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: in function `error'
    Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:224: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:222>
    (tail call): ?
    Interface\AddOns\BigWigs_Options\Options.lua:54: in function <Interface\AddOns\BigWigs_Options\Options.lua:49>
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: ?
    [string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5>
    (tail call): ?
    ...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:799: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:614>
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: ?
    [string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[4]"]:5>
    (tail call): ?
    ...ace\AddOns\EveryQuest\libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:326: in function `Fire'
    ...uest\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:27: in function <...uest\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-Button.lua:26>

    Locals: (*temporary) = "Usage: GetModule(name, silent): 'name' - Cannot find module 'Bars'."

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  • benju said

    I installed this addon using the Curse client and it works perfectly, however I can't seem to find the custom bars option in the config. Can you tell me where to find it please?

    /bwcb command doesn't work :S

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  • formi said

    maybe you should try the alpha version on
    http://www.wowace.com/addons/big-wigs/
    which currently is r6807 and includes several fixes

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  • Zeehra said

    Ditto on BW not starting on its own - encountered this in Ony and TotC/TotGC so far. Able to get it going by click my minimap button to reset encounter, but it leaves me missing out on the first warning on say, Anub's burrowing, which can be fatal to miss as a tank.

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  • Unelmaa said

    I recently upraged to windows 7 and for some reason my wow addons got broken.

    I installed the addons back and now eveything seems to be fine expect the problem with bigwigs not showing my spell bars.

    I'm using Parrot as my combat text addon. I've tryed everything from bigwig's customize tab but nothing seems to get them back.

    thank you for help in advance

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  • NewView said

    I'm having an issue with the newest update. Ever since updating I'm not getting notices within instances. And when hovering my mouse over the mini-map icon it says "There are people in your group with older versions . . . type /bwv for more details". When typing /bwv it shows in the chat pane the I have an older version (6569). I just did update it! Also, the Curse Client shows version r6570-release. I didn't have ANY problems until after this recent update Anyone know what's going on here?

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  • taral said

    I'm running latest alphas, and I love the new features. But I just ran hCoS and none of the modules disabled themselves afterwards.

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  • Tebasile said

    I love the new Big Wigs, thanks for all the hard work! The only thing I'm not seeing that would be nice is a health timer on Anub to see when he's hitting P3 (or perhaps it's there and I don't have it enabled properly).

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  • Jin84 said

    AFAIK, this is not possible. Every guild's DPS will differ slightly each time you try Anub. Bigwigs rely on text triggers and fixed timers. There are no timers that automatically adjust to a random timer.

    Besides, you're better off using his current health % when he burrows the first time (and second time in 25). Ie, 60% for 10man, etc.

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  • khalim_46 said

    to me they have destroyed Big wigs and the reson im saying that is that before they did this new update i coudt run both dbm and bigwigs to geather with the same stuff deactived coz there is some things that big wigs do that dbm dosent now they destroyed that option becuz you can't turn off the boss block imo turn it back to the old style or fix the option now

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  • rafinator said

    Timers for Hodir 25 Flash Freeze seem to be very off. Is it broken, or just showing when the cooldown is up?

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  • furydeath said

    Could it be made on faction champions that it announce what each one is? Like have it tell if its the holy or ret pally by the name's when they drop down. That way you wouldn't have to spend time trying to remember if it the healing shaman or not.

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  • Somnium2k6 said

    Can't you just split the "Flash'N'Shake" again?
    In the description it even says: Flash'N'Shake: Shake and/or Flash the screen blue when something important happens that directly affects you, such as a debuff.
    I along with many others however, fail to find the "OR" part of aforementioned description. While the flashing of the screen is really helpful, the shake-effect is one hell of a nuisance. Moreover, as already mentioned, I'd also really like to see the right-click LDB/fubar menu implemented again - it was a piece of cake changing stuff on-the-fly given a very short timeframe during boss encounters. Now you have to open the whole config menu and in a way "overlap" about half of your screen if you want to quickly change some stuff....=/
    Why did you change BigWigs in so many ways anyway? It was damn awesome before - now it's just...meh =(

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  • Corouthers said

    Is bossblock always on now? I can't find an option for it, but the last time I led a raid I couldn't see my raid warnings in my chat frame but others confirmed that I was sending them. Am I missing something.. I seem to remember before version 3.x of the mod I was able to have bossblock not block my own broadcasts. It was helpful for me to see when I'm broadcasting because sometimes I don't intend for it to be on - now I can't tell unless someone tells me or I check in the options screen.

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  • Grizbo said

    Same situation for me, I much prefered the old behaviour.

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  • funkydude said

    r6570 is mainly bug fixes.

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  • fateswarm said

    An incredible feature in another addon is 'arrows that show where to run to or away from'. I think it'd be an incredible feature for this addon or any similar.

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  • oikos said

    Big wigs doesn´t work for me at the moment. I get this LUA-error:

    Message: Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Loader.lua:512: attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)
    Time: 10/17/09 18:57:05
    Count: 5
    Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
    [C]: ?
    Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Loader.lua:512: in function <Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Loader.lua:507>
    (tail call): ?
    Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Loader.lua:588: in function `OnClick'
    ...\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:121: in function <...\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:121>

    Locals: obj = nil
    name = "BigWigs_Core"
    enabled = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = "Big Wigs [Core]"
    (*temporary) = "Big Wigs Core"
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = nil
    (*temporary) = "DISABLED"
    (*temporary) = "INSECURE"
    (*temporary) = "DISABLED"
    (*temporary) = "attempt to index global 'self' (a nil value)"

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  • funkydude said

    Remove ALL your BigWigs folders and install it again, you've got old modules causing problems.

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