GuildAds is an all-in-one tool for guilds to share items, see each other's gear, track alts, and more.
Inside a channel, players can
- chat
- see which objects are need by others
- see which objects are offered by others
- see skills and professions of all players
- see the reputation of all players
- inspect (equipment/talents) other player everywhere
- post articles in the in-game forum
It does NOT send account information : to group player by account, a random id is created.
User manual
see web site : http://sourceforge.net/projects/guildads
More in details
Left click on Guildads minimap button to open GuildAds.
Make a right click to open the options window.
You can also use hotkey, or the chat command :
- /guildads toggle
- /guildads config
ad's owner are show in grey when they are offline.
The trade tab
there is 4 subtab :
- the need tab shows items need by players.
- the have tab shows items offer/sell by others players.
- the craft tab shows items that can be crafted by all players. Hold ALT while mouse-over an item and the craft-tooltip is displayed instead.
- the "my ads" tab shows your own ads. To add an item shift-click on an item when this frame is opened. It work with your inventory, your bank, vendors, auction house, equipment, inspect window, tradeskills, chat link. It also handles these addons : MyInventory, AllInOneInventory, MyBank, BankItem, BankStatement, Auctioneer, MyBags, OneBag, EngInventory, ItemsMatrix, LootLink.
- Item tooltip shows who can craft the item.
The skill tab
- The skills tab shows all crafted items by players. To send this information, you need to open yours profession windows.
The reputation tab
- This tab shows the reputation of all players, grouped per faction. Players hidden in guild tab are also hidden in reputation tab.
The guild tab
- This tab shows all players with level, class, race, and guild. Group by account show reroll. Officers (those who can guild-kick) can blacklist players (removes that players information from all databases). Use the command line to whitelist player: /guildads admin allow Playername (replace Playername with the player to whitelist).
The forum tab
- This tab shows the in-game forum where players can post and reply to post. Unread posts are shown with a larger font, sticky post are shown with a start, locked posts are shown with a gray font and officer posts (only visible to officers) are shown with a red background. Those who can view the officer note can view officer posts and those who can edit officer notes can make officer posts.
Inspect
- In guild tab, right click on player name, you will be able to inspect, invite, whisper the selected player. The inspect window shows both equipped items and talent configuration.
The chat channel
If you are in a guild :
- if the pattern [GA:channelName,password] or [GA:channelName] is found in Guild Info text, you join channelName (with the password if it is set).
- if the pattern is not found, you join GuildAds<name of your guild without space>.
If you are not in guild, you join GuildAds<your name> channel.
You can can change the default behaviour, in the options window.
/ga allow to speak on the GuildAds channel as /g or /p
Chat commands
/guildads : show/hide GuildAds window
/guildads config : show GuildAds configuration window
/guildads reset all : erase all GuildAds data, and reset the user interface (you will have "some" lag).
/guildads reset channel : erase all data about the current channel.
/guildads debug on : show the debug tab
/guildads debug off : hide the debug tab
/guildads debug info : show some debug informations
/guildads admin show : show the black/white list
Feature Requests
If you have a feature requests, you can see the current list and post a new one here :
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=147092&atid=767363...
Bugs
And view the list, and submit bugs here :
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=147092&atid=832951...
Credits
- Ian Pieragostini (WantAds) : GuildAds started as a modification of WantAds
- Sij (Guilded) for chat communication
- Vincent of Blackhand (Component) for shift-click hook
- ElPico for enchant support
- Cloudernia, Graurock and Gobaresch for german translation
- Chantal@Los Errantes, Simon Calas for spanish translation
- My guild for the tests
- Apearse for all feedbacks.
- Galmok for becoming a member of the project.
Changes since v524:
Changed deepDel to 2 del's.
Added the 12th argument to the chatframe message filter.
Delay reading talent and glyph information until after player has entered the world.
Disabled the mature language filter as it could cause data corruptions in the transfer!
Made protocol regexp for solid by only catching the header at the start of the line.
Changes since v520:
Added the option to view both talent specs.
Debug logging should never cause errors...
Sorting quests by player name(s) could cause errors. Fixed.
Unguilded players would receive a bug upon logon (maybe others as well). Fixed by moving the adding of virtual players from Talent datatype to GuildAdsComm.
Changes since v509:
General: NEW PROTOCOL. EVERYONE needs to upgrade. With time, GuildAds' memory usage should drop (not sure how much) and data synkronised a bit faster due to talents and factions using somewhat less memory than before. Remember to quit wow complete for this upgrade as the .toc file has changes (relog is not enough).
Detaled changelog:
Glyphs were always shared from talentgroup 1. Fixed.
Talent spec switches weren't detected before relog. Fixed.
Generic talents MUST be shared in an identical way by each client otherwise they will constantly update! Fixed.
Reduced the amount of information the Faction datatype shares while keeping it backwards compatible.
Added new datatype to hold very short form of talent ranks. Moved generic talent info into Talent datatype which is stored in Virtual players as e.g. ":WARLOCK".
Also updated .toc version to 2.6.
Updating GuildAds protocol to version 6 (2.6).
Forgot to remove obsolete datafile for LibTradeLinks from toc file. Fixed.
Added VirtualPlayers to fake table.
Added GUILDADS_OLD_PROTOCOL. Needs translation.
Added talent link color to codec.
Added author to filter_message for protocol detection algorithm.
Added warning in tooltip about players using old and obsolete protocol.
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)...
