This addon shows a basic dungeon tooltip on world and zone maps. It's currently in development so some ionformation isn't yet present. The information listed in the tooltips include:
- the level range of mobs found in that particular zone, as well as whether it is freindly, hostile, or contested with your current faction (Alliance or Horde)
- the exact level range of the summoning stones for the dungeons in that zone (in yellow)
- the exact level range of the mobs found inside the dungeons for the zone (in red)
- in some cases, the minimum level required to enter the instances (in blue)
additional feedback is welcome, as testing by myself is really really slow
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GENERAL FAQ
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Installation
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To install the addon simply extract all of the files from the ZIP file to "\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\LevelRange".
Then Run the game, login and before selecting a character, press the little button that reads "Addons" in the bottom right corner of the character selection screen.
Make sure that "LevelRange" is checked and is not greyed out. Press OK, select a character and you are done.
To test that it is working just open up the World Map, zoom in/out onto any continent and mouse-over any zone, if all works out well there should be a Tooltip box down in the bottom left corner, or if you have FlightMap installed, in bottom right corner.
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Changing Settings
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To change some of the settings and features available in LevelRange, you must either use the designated slash commands for each setting, or use the LevelRange Settings UI Frame, which can be accessed by doing the following:
-Press the [Enter] key to open up the chat.
-Type "/lr" or "/levelrange", press the [Enter] key a second time
-The LevelRange Settings UI Frame, will then appear.
-Change the setting you wish to toggle, by clearing or ticking the box next to the setting.
-Press the Close button, and continue playing.
If you wish to quickly change settings, or make macros for these settings, to toggle them on and off with ease, use the following commands:
-Show/hide LevelRange tooltip: "/lr toggle" or "/levelrange toggle".
-Show/hide instances on the tooltip: "/lr instances" or "/levelrange instances".
-Show/hide Player vs. Player diplomacy on the tooltip: "/lr pvp" or "/levelrange pvp".
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Compatibility
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I have had many people asking me about the compatibility of LevelRange and other addons, at this current moment, the only other addon that has a compatibility issue is FlightMap, because it uses almost the same settings and procedures as LevelRange, but this should be fixed in the next patch. LevelRange is fully compatible with the following other Addons:
-myAddons - LevelRange is now automatically loaded into the myAddons Map category.
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World of Warcraft Update Day
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Many people have told me, that after updating World of Warcraft, LevelRange does not work. This is due to World of Warcraft disabling the addon, because it is out of date with the client version. Normally, after update day, I will release a newer version of LevelRange and make it compatible, but if I have not, then you must do the following, to enable LevelRange.
-Run the game, and login.
-Before selecting a character, press he little button in the bottom right corner of the screen, that reads "Addons".
-A frame should appear with with list of all your addons, simply make sure LevelRange is checked.
-Then at the top, make sure that "Load out of date Addons" is also checked.
-Press Okay, then choose your character.
- updated for 3.3
- removed summoning stone level ranges, as all summoning stones are 15+ now (FINALLY!!!!)
- if anyone has any comments or suggestions or insight to improve this mod, let me know!
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)...
