Overview
HeadCount is a configurable World of Warcraft add-on that automatically tracks raid attendance, loot, and boss kills.
HeadCount answers the following questions:
- How long is a player active in a raid?
- How long is a player on standby for a raid?
- How long is a player offline during a given raid?
- What loot dropped during a raid and who received it?
- What boss kills occurred during a given raid and who was there for the kill?
Downloads
Curse
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-ad.../head-count.aspx
WoW Interface
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8867-HeadCount.html...
WoW Ui
http://wowui.worldofwar.net/?p=mod&m=6819
HeadCount forum thread: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=12225...
Project page: http://www.wowace.com/projects/head-count/
Wish list
All defects and enhancement requests (wish list) items can be filed and/or reviewed on the HeadCount work ticket page:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/head-c.../tickets/
Features
Raids
- Raid creation: Automatically creates a new raid as you join or start a raid.
- Raid finalization: Automatically ends an existing raid as you leave a raid.
- Raid management: The user can end raids, remove raids, or remove all raids on demand.
- Raid zone tracking: Zone name are automatically added to raids as you zone into a raid instance for the first time.
Player attendance
- Player tracking: Players are tracked based on their timed participation in the raid. Players can be tracked based on configurable raid groups for raid list activity (active raiding players) and wait list players (queue/standby players).
- Player removal: The user can remove tracked information for specific players on demand.
- Player history: View specific player history for a raid to see how and when a player moved from activity to standby to offline and back during a raid.
- No list tracking: Players can be tracked as non-raid list and non-standby players as needed. Players that go offline are automatically taken out of the raid and wait list groups for tracking purposes.
- Integrated wait list: Receive whispers from members outside of the raid group in order to track them.
Boss kills
- Boss kill tracking: Tracks the world bosses killed during the course of a raid and the raid list members present for the kill.
- Boss kill removal: The user can remove tracked boss kills on demand.
- Manual boss kill: The user can add a boss kill to the current raid at the current time with the current roster via /hc boss add [bossname]
Loot
- Loot tracking: Tracks loot received during a raid based on configurable item level quality (default: Epic item level or higher)
- Loot removal: The user can remove specific pieces of loot on demand.
- Loot exclusion: The user can manage loot exclusion which will prevent certain pieces of loot from being tracked during a raid. (e.g. - Emblem of Valor)
Export
- Export: Users can export current raid attendance and received loot information to one of a number of formats (CSV, XML, Text, EQdkp XML string, phpBB forum post, phpBB with ItemStats forum post).
Reporting
- Boss kill broadcast: The user can optionally broadcast when the raid kills a boss to a configurable chat channel.
- Loot broadcast: The user can optionally broadcast when a player receives a valid piece of loot to a configurable chat channel.
- Fault tolerance: If the mod owner quits WoW, restarts WoW, or reloads their UI during a raid and returns to the game, HeadCount will attempt to gracefully recover from the outage to continue tracking the active raid.
- Attendance delay: Configure how often HeadCount should manage attendance updates to increase or decrease performance and/or accuracy.
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r114 | jerryblade | 2010-02-04 16:33:37 +0000 (Thu, 04 Feb 2010) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCount.toc
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Added text trigger for Professor Putricide
- Added text trigger for Valithria Dreamwalker
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r113 | jerryblade | 2010-01-27 17:01:53 +0000 (Wed, 27 Jan 2010) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Fixed Blood Princes Issue
- Added Yell Trigger to Alias Mapping for Gunship Battle
- Cleaned out Non-Working Boss Kill Detections
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r112 | jerryblade | 2010-01-27 14:35:05 +0000 (Wed, 27 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Added Aliases for Blood Princes Encounter
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r111 | jerryblade | 2010-01-14 20:53:36 +0000 (Thu, 14 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Commented out now unnecessary Lady Deathwhisper trigger text
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r110 | jerryblade | 2010-01-13 17:23:11 +0000 (Wed, 13 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Changed "Lake Wintergrasp" to "Wintergrasp"
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r109 | jerryblade | 2010-01-13 16:28:21 +0000 (Wed, 13 Jan 2010) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCount.toc
M /trunk/HeadCountConstants.lua
M /trunk/RaidTracker.lua
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Added Lake Wintergrasp to the Battleground list
- Created Boss WHITELIST to handle Lady Deathwhisper and other future non-worldbosses
- Added aliases to Gunship Battle Ship Captains to allow their speech triggers to count as a Gunship Battle events
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r108 | jerryblade | 2010-01-12 20:38:43 +0000 (Tue, 12 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCount.toc
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Updated with latest Dewdrop Lib to fix right-click minimap button menu (thanks Yoshimo!)
- Fixed typo in locale/ru_RU.lua on Freya trigger
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r107 | jerryblade | 2009-12-17 17:26:21 +0000 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HeadCount.toc
M /trunk/locale/de_DE.lua
M /trunk/locale/en_US.lua
M /trunk/locale/es_ES.lua
M /trunk/locale/ru_RU.lua
HeadCount:
- Added the Gunship Battle Trigger Texts for both Alliance and Horde (untested)
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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)...
