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Project Updated:

Files Updated:

Tue, Dec 15 2009

Supports Game Version:

3.3.0

Category:

Class, and Death Knight

Tags:

3.3.0 [Edit Tags]

Project Manager:

MikeDVB

Additional Authors:

No additional authors

Current Version:

HoWT v1.0.5

License:

GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)

Development Site:

CurseForge.com

Avg Daily DL (last 30 days):

Downloads Total:

9,172

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About Horn of Winter Tracker

I created this addon because I could not find anything else for this simple purpose. The Horn of Winter spell has a very short duration (2 or 3 minutes) but it is very beneficial and is free to recast. I was often finding that I was forgetting to recast the spell so I wrote this addon to notify me when it was about to expire and when it actually does expire.

I plan to add future functionality/customization including possibly a count-down bar, the option to change when the flashes happen, what color they are, how fast they happen, etc...

Currently there are three settings:

/howt [2/3] - Sets your Horn of Winter spell duration, if you have the Glyph that makes your Horn of Winter 3 minutes please issue the command "/howt 3" and this setting will be saved on a per-character basis.

/howt flash [on/off] - Sets whether you will see the warning flash and the expiration flashes - I plan on creating a setting for both the warning and the expiration at a later date but this will work for now to get the addon online.

/howt text [on/of] - Sets whether or not the addon will notify you of pending expiration or expiration of HoW in the error messages at the top of the screen.

Please post any comments, suggestions, feedback, bugs as I plan to actively expand on this addon to include better functionality and possibly more features.

Created On:	Thu, Apr 30 2009
Localized:

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

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.

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)...

Downloads (5)

	File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
	Addon Curse.com	Beta	2.3.3	0	9/29/2008

File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
Horn of Winter Tracker HoWT v1.0.5	Release	3.3.0	1,718	12/15/2009
Horn of Winter Tracker HoWT v1.0.4	Release	3.1.0	7,190	5/2/2009
Horn of Winter Tracker HoWT v1.0.3	Release	3.1.0	108	5/2/2009
Horn of Winter Tracker HoWT vBeta 1.0.1	Beta	3.1.0	86	4/30/2009
Horn of Winter Tracker HoWT vBeta 1.0	Beta	3.1.0	31	4/30/2009

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nascarfan38124 said

how about instead of the screen flashing (cause that bothers me <.<) have a movable resizeable picture that will change the alpha to (i think 1 is max) from 0 which is invisible that then fades out or something

personally i would preffer like a picture of the spell show up somewhere on my screen as well as the txt instead of the full screen flash

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MikeDVB said

That's definitely doable - I initially set the flash because during a raid or something else where there is a lot going on it's easy to miss a finer detail.

I'm not too good with WoW UI so I'll see what I can do - I'm sure there are some good examples out there for me to base this feature off of.

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SillySith said

My zomg mod alerts me when my horn needs blowing but the short duration of the horn is really irritating. It seems like I'm constantly having to click on it in battle. Wish there was a way to make it blow automatically. I thought zomg would after it "learned" it but it hasn't so far for me. (Like an auto rebuff thing)

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MikeDVB said

That would be nice but I do believe it's against the EULA to do that unfortunately.

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faloni said

Thank you for this add-on! I,too forget to rebuff/recast HoW especially while questing.

If I could offer up 2 suggestions?

1)Please reposition the text warning to be either at the cast bar area or somewhere in the middle of the screen the white colored text at the top 1/6 of the screen is often lost or not noticed :(
2)Create a simple sound-byte to chime/play when HoW has expired?

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MikeDVB said

Excellent suggestion - I'll add the sound byte for sure as suggested by ShaunDreclin below. As for repositioning the text - I'll have to look into that but I am sure it's doable as I've seen other mods that have text in other locations.

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ShaunDreclin said

If you want a list of all the sounds PlaySound supports,
http://www.wowwiki.com/API_PlaySound

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ShaunDreclin said

Adding a sound effect yourself is quite easy (if you know a little bit about programming and lua)

PlaySound("RaidWarning");

is what I'm using, just stick it in on the line after

if HoWT_DoFlash == 1 then UIFrameFlash(Flash_Blue, .1, .1, .2, false, 0, 0) end

(Do it after both of those lines, one is for the about-to-expire warning and one is for expiring)
If you don't know what you're doing, I recommend backing up the file before you try it :P

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MikeDVB said

I would like to add more options/functionality to this mod - if you have any suggestions by all means please feel free to leave a comment!

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niclas147 said

then you didnt search:
SmartBuff
TellMeWhen

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MikeDVB said

Yeah, except this only tracks Horn of Winter - which is all I wanted. I didn't want the overhead of those other addons that track a lot of other things. But thanks for the comment :)

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