This mod doesn't really do anything directly useful; it was just an itch I wanted scratched.
A few gamers may remember Bungie's amazing "Myth: The Fallen Lords" back in the mid-90s, which set the bar for small unit fantasy tactical combat (and a wonderful backstory/voiceover "feel" which imho has yet to be matched in any game since).
Anyway, one of its well-done (albeit depressing) features was that whenever one of your units died, rather than either glossing over it or dwelling on it, a neutral voiceover voice would just say "Casualty." And in a big battle where you were sweating bullets and your troops were dying in large numbers, having this horribly neutral voice chanting "Casualty. Casualties. Casualty." was both maddening and yet energizing. It added something.
Anyway, for no good reason I decided I wanted that in WoW, so I coded up this little mod. It's horribly incomplete (for one thing, it triggers when pets die, which I should fix, and may trigger on other things) but it did what I wanted, so I thought I'd share it. If I have time and anyone in the universe wants it to do more, I may add more flexible announcements, integration with SCT so you get a message zipping up the screen with the name of who died, etc. But right now, with its basic "casualty" message, it does what I wanted.
Note: What you have for a sound sample is me and a microphone, since the actual sound samples from Myth are not free for public distribution, so feel free to go through the trouble of replacing them if you wish.
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r47 | durcyn | 2009-05-13 01:37:33 +0000 (Wed, 13 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Casualty.lua
the hell didn't this file check in last commit?
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r46 | durcyn | 2009-05-12 17:28:00 +0000 (Tue, 12 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
R /trunk/Casualty.lua
R /trunk/Casualty.toc
R /trunk/Changelog.txt
R /trunk/Readme.txt
R /trunk/locale-enUS.lua
R /trunk/locale-zhTW.lua
code cleanup and optimization
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r44 | durcyn | 2009-04-22 22:33:15 +0000 (Wed, 22 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Casualty.toc
fix optdeps for SharedMediaWidgets
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r43 | durcyn | 2009-04-22 19:46:34 +0000 (Wed, 22 Apr 2009) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/.pkgmeta
M /trunk/Casualty.lua
M /trunk/Casualty.toc
D /trunk/embeds.xml
- use @no-lib-strip@ instead of embeds.xml
- add AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets
- code cleanups, upvalues in the combat event log handler, etc
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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)...
