Abstract:
FSwapper3 (Fishing Swapper) will automatically switch from a Fishing Pole to the weapons you had equipped last when you enter combat. If this switch occurs, once you leave combat your fishing pole will be equipped automatically. This makes it so if a high level mob, or another player, attacks you while you're fishing - you don't waste time searching for your weapons in your bags.
Additionally, there is an "Auto Loot" feature that applies only to Fishing Loot (from right clicking your bobber). What FSwapper3 Auto Loots depends on filters you set, i.e. Quest Items, Extravaganza fish, certain item Qualities (leave the junk in the ocean), Dalaran fountain coins.
Important Note Regarding Patch 3.3
Blizzard has killed the addon. Sorry. For the time being I do not foresee any future updates; however, I will try to contact Blizzard to see if this is a bug or intended.
!!NEW AUTO LOOT FEATURE!! (v3.1.1.5)
See the Auto Loot section below.
!!TRANSLATIONS NEEDED!!
If you are interested in helping to translate FSwapper3 go to http://www.wowace.com/projects/fswapper3/localization/
Note, localization releases have unfortunately been pushed back due to the new Data Broker feature. I need the new texts to be updated please.
Donations:
You may have noticed FSwapper3 now has a donation button. I will appeciate any donations as a form of your thanks for my time and effort on this add-on. Aside from this brief statement, I will not ask or beg for donations. I will NEVER threaten a cease to the project due to a lack of donations. You should NEVER feel like you have to donate.
Conflicts:
- Fully compatible with RSwapper3 (also on Curse)
- MAY conflict with other weapon swapping add-ons, no others were tested.
Credits:
Programmers:
- x87Bliss (Dayofthedead - Retaliation)
Translators:
- Russian (70.6%)
- Traditional Chinese (100%)
Usage:
Use /fswapperg, /fs3g or /fswapper3 Options to show the options menu
Note: The "Weapon" options page is only to show what FSwapper3 currently knows your wepaons to be. These are set automatically, so there are no user configurable options on this page.
Macro Commands:
- /fswapper3 and /fswapper are equivalent.
- /fswapper3 GoFish - Equips your last used Fishing Pole.
- /fswapper3 GoFight - Equips your last used Weapons.
- /fswapper3 DoSwap - Switches between your Fishing Pole and Weapons.
- /fswapper3 MacroHelp - Displays brief help making FSwapper3 macros. For more detailed help see http://www.wowace.com/projects/fswapper3/pages/macros/
Auto Loot:
The Auto Loot feature is accessed through the options menu (/fs3g et al). It shows a list of filters, and an enable option. To use it, you must check Enable, then check the filters of the items you WANT to Auto Loot.
Then make sure NOT to use the standard Auto Loot (shift-click, Interface options, etc..). When you click your bobber, you want it to be as if you are going to manually select the fish.
Once you right-click your bobber (FSwapper3's Auto Loot only works from fishing loot), FSwapper3 will immediately grab each of the items matching the chosen filters. This happens so fast, that it's usually done before the loot window is even drawn. The items automatically move into your inventory. This saves both time and space - since you can leave the junk in the ocean.
If FSwapper3 happens to grab everything, the loot window will automatically be closed. If there are some items left, the loot window will remain open in case you want to manually loot what's left. If not, you can either close the window, or to save even more time, you can just recast and the loot window will be closed.
The "Fishing Tournament!" filter is for all 4 related fish: Speckled Tastyfish, Keefer's Angelfish, Dezian Queenfish, and Brownell's Blue Striped Racer.
Equipment Manager:
This feature is in beta testing. Please provide feedback by adding comments below.
To set it up:
- Type /fs3g, and go to the "Equipment Manager" tab.
- Drag fishing equipment into the corresponding spots.
Now whenever you use the FSwapper3 Macro commands (or by the Data Broker), your appropriate gear will be equipped. I highly recommend following the link in the Macro Command section to see an example macro which will equip your fishing gear and cast on left-click, then equip your normal gear on right-click.
Data Broker:
Special thanks go to Jeania for giving me the idea. If you have an add-on that supports Data Brokers, such as Titan Panel, you can now interact with FSwapper3 through that with many enhancements.
(v3.1.0.3) The Data Brokers should be found under a Tradeskill, or Profession category on your Data Broker add-on (Titan Panel). There are two Data Brokers related to FSwapper3.
- Data Broker - FSwapper3:
- The FSwapper3 Data Broker text will show current status of if FSwapper3 is enabled/disabled, if you have a fishing pole equipt, and if you are in combat mode (you had a fishing pole out, but FSwapper had to switch to weapons for combat).
- Mouse over the Data Broker text for useful tooltips! You can click the data broker to quickly swap between your weapons and fishing pole.
- Data Broker - Fishing Skill: (v3.1.0.3)
- The Fishing Skill Data Broker just shows your current fishing skill. It also reflects bonuses due to lure's or fishing gear. You can click this Data Broker to change between three display formats, "Skill(+Bonus)/Max", "Skill/Max", or "Skill". Note that for the latter two formats, the Skill will be the sum of your base skill and any bonuses.
Please provide feedback (positive, negative, suggested changes) on this new feature! I'd greatly appreciate it.
Final Notes:
If you find any errors or bugs or whatever, please comment or post a ticket.
I greatly appreciate you taking the time to try FSwapper3.
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r41 | x87bliss | 2009-08-20 05:52:01 +0000 (Thu, 20 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v3.2.0.12 (from /trunk:40)
Tagging as v3.2.0.12
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r40 | x87bliss | 2009-08-20 05:50:38 +0000 (Thu, 20 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/FSwapper3.lua
M /trunk/FSwapper3.toc
-Fixed an issue that would cause a lua error the first time FSwapper3 was loaded after WoW's local cache is cleared (patch days).
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r38 | x87bliss | 2009-08-14 01:51:07 +0000 (Fri, 14 Aug 2009) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/FSwapper3.lua
M /trunk/FSwapper3.toc
M /trunk/GUI/EquipmentFrame.lua
M /trunk/GUI/WeaponFrame.lua
M /trunk/locale/FS3LocenUS.lua
-Supports Jousting now - will not count Lances as a viable weapon for combat.
-Added text to the Weapon and Equipment frames to hopefully give some help.
-Redid FSwapper3's Equipment Manager to hopefully make it MUCH easier to use.
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r36 | x87bliss | 2009-08-04 22:15:23 +0000 (Tue, 04 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/FSwapper3.toc
Correctly updated version number. :-X
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r35 | x87bliss | 2009-08-04 22:12:08 +0000 (Tue, 04 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/FSwapper3.toc
TOC Bump for 3.2; no changes seem to be needed, report bugs.
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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)...
