This addon is simple and fun. Every now and then when you target a critter your character will say something, often a little bit on the funny side.
Your character will say different things depending on what critter you choose, though groups of critters may have the same comments.
In this release I have the following groups of critters:
- Furries
- Uglies
- Beauties
- Parrot
If you want to add your own special critter comment you can:
a) Send the critter you want to have special comments to tomas [at] it-designer . com with some suggested comments.
b) Add the critter to a special family in CritterTalk_Family.lua and add that family to localization.lua with your desired comments. You can add either or both what is said before the critter name and after it. If you leave either out the default is used.
Slash command:
/crittertalk
You are free to add, change, distribute this addon in any non-commercial manner. All I ask is that you include the following statement in a readme.txt if you use any greater extent of my code.
"This or part of this addon was made by Tomwolf of the Sporeggar EU realm. It was made to add just a little bit of flavour to your WoW experience. Don't buy gold, don't whine in battlegrounds and treat other players nicely. Other then that, have fun!"
Acknowledgement:
I want to thank Funny for her wonderful addon PetEmote, from which I learned a lot and remade some code to create some major functions in this addon.
Changelog:
1.2.5
- Addition: /crittertalk RandomInteractionFrequency (value) now adds a layer of randomness on how often you comment on targeted critters to avoid spam when several party members have the same addon.
1.2.4
- Rewrite: Removed libraries that werent needed. Hopefully fixed a dependency issue with some Ace2 libraries. Quicker, Leaner, Faster!
1.2.3
- Quickfix to work with Wrath.
1.2.2
- Addition: Comment addition - Chicken
1.2.1
- Rewrite: Code rewritten to Ace2 standards with Ace2 libraries.
- Bugfix: Various bugfixes.
1.1.4
- Bugfix: Fixed an incompability issue.
1.1.3
- Addition: /crittertalkmin and /crittertalkmax
- Addition: Default /crittertalk message
- Addition: Error catching messages
- Addition: New critter comment
1.1
- Bugfix: Support for on and off (compared to On and Off) as slash commands. (thanks to oddtoddy for pointing it out)
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)...
