DomDom - The most insane WoW sound mod available!
Features
- 822 Sound Clips and counting (when using the required Sound Packs). The majority of the sound clips are insults from various sources and overall just fun stuff to play.
- Alphabetical Sound List Menu, Navigation is done via page keywords, similar to the words in the corners of dictionary pages.
- Global Mute - Prevents you from hearing sounds that were sent to you, or you from sending sounds. Useful for when people have too much fun with the mod.
- Version Reporting - See a version report of everyone in the party/raid/battleground/guild with the mod.
- FPS Reporting - See a FPS report of everyone in the party/raid/battleground/guild with the mod.
- Latency Reporting - See a latency report of everyone in the guild with the mod.
- Minimum Version Notification - Versions below a certain number will cease to operate, and notify you to download a newer version.
- Can see who is globally muted/unmuted.
- Play random or specific sound to:
- A single person (or yourself)
- The party
- The raid
- The battleground
- The guild (Authorized guild ranks only! By default that is the Guild Master and one rank lower than that.)
Installing DomDom
To use this mod, you MUST:
Why are there multiple pieces to DomDom
DomDom was engineered so that only DomDom would need to be re-downloaded in the event an update is released. This also means that you'll hardly ever have to download and install the large sound pack addons. And ultimately, that means you get to play WoW more!
Using DomDom
If DomDom was successfully loaded, you will see it display a DomDom version and help message in your General Chat window. From there DomDom can be accessed by entering in "/dd" in the chat box. Also, you need your friends and guild mates to use the mod in order to get the maximum amount of hilarity out of it.
Macros
Yes, you can use DomDom in your custom macros. Any DomDom command that you can enter into the chat box, you can use. A popular one for playing a random sound to yourself for checking out a majority of the sounds is: "/dd r w"
Known Glitches
There is no way to stop audio from playing once it has been started. The last I tried, I found that you could play a long sound clip, and then mute/disable all of the WoW sound settings, but the DomDom sounds that were playing before could still be heard until they finish. You can however, issue a "/dd mute" to toggle the global mute for DomDom, which will stop all newly queued sound from playing that you receive or send.
Feedback
I love DomDom, how can I help support it?
- If you love DomDom, please rate it 5 stars!
I hate DomDom, and I want to bitch about it!
- Fill out the feedback form down the page, and let me know why you're so hell bent, and I'll see what we can do to make fun of you. Then again, if you have a legitimate issue with DomDom, I'm always open to suggestions. But, I reserve the right to tell you to shove my mod up your bum if you're just a jerk either way.
Third Party Sound Packs
Some third party sound packs do exist. But, I reserve the right to give DomDom preferential treatment for officially recognized sound packs over time. Now, I'm not going to do that just to be a jerk, but because I want DomDom to have a consistent level of quality sound files for you to enjoy. I like to think that what makes DomDom so wonderful is that it isn't a collection of badly recorded sound clips that are 20+ years old, or that it isn't a collection of sound clips in foreign languages that you and I don't understand. So, with that being said, my devotion is to bring you quality sound clips that won't make you want to gouge out your ears with a pocket knife. Therefore, as I develop more high quality sound packs, third party sound packs will more than likely be suppressed in order to prevent conflicts from occurring with DomDom.
Special Thanks
To all my WoW friends for helping me beta test the mod and for their greatly valued time & suggestions: Sam, Jage, Joe, Ben, Ryan, Steven, Chris, Chad, & Travis.
Fixes a code bug that was omitted at upload time, that was causing the general chat window text box to become all white.
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)...
