Compacts the achievement messages for ones listed under the Dungeons & Raid or Player vs. Player category, see the screenshot for an example, no config or anything extra just drop it in and you're set.
commit 648507cd966d34e9ecceabcb8cd748b9792f71bc
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jun 21 21:46:24 2009 -0700
* Flagged world events as a spam category
commit 4ea47bad45531384bb079f8853ae4685ea00fd76
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jun 16 19:29:26 2009 -0700
* Fixed an error at line #52 when all of the area achievements were moved to a guild achievement
commit 6fb064345c720532f2e55477d5b92e0c443e331a
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 15 15:01:20 2009 -0700
* Fixed achievements not showing if a large group of people earned different achievements at the same time
* Fixed any other bug
* Added more spam reduction anyone who is in your guild will have their achievement gain shown in the guild message (green text) instead of the area achievement (yellow text), meaning if your guild gets a raid achievement and you're all in the same guild, you'll only see one achievement spam message not tow.
commit 2c74884f6f8025046de8c86e0d8484fb4f6ed79e
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jun 13 15:18:07 2009 -0700
* Changed achievement detection, no longer uses a stored DB and just checks if the category matches the blacklist, not sure why I went with the previous method, but this one will work for every achievement just fine now.
commit 169792834f5f6873e68e7f31cced6550012cfa6d
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 10 19:24:20 2009 -0700
* Seems Blizzard changed when achievement data is available, changed scanning to be done when the first achievement is seen to make sure the mod always works
commit 044bfe164619dc06cdc57e4bc013aa881d18183a
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Wed May 27 12:18:28 2009 -0700
* Fixed the same players name showing up multiple times if only one person got an achievement (Thanks magus424)
* Updated TOC
commit 6f8c74cc5831a385198e4b88950589bc0defa7ab
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Dec 12 22:44:41 2008 +0000
* Fixed an issue where some achievements would not show, or it could have a long delay before it actually showed them.
commit 5155bedd9998273e2f3447eb9a79a8ffdbedd66b
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 20 06:39:18 2008 +0000
* Fixed plural vs singular for the achievement things, added brackets if it's a singular one.
commit a7d4fb2c1754a7d4cce71a4cf8ccff8d3565d624
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Nov 18 21:38:25 2008 +0000
* Drycoding is bad
commit 0deb713fddad0d266b282d93dfae71d3005c348d
Author: Shadowed <shadowed.wow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Nov 18 07:31:53 2008 +0000
* Added Realm First titles to the list since they are incredibly spammy
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)...