Do you find yourself always forgetting to use Life Tap to be able to maintain Glyph of Life Tap buff? Not any longer as LifeTapper is here! It warns you when your buff is fading out or is not active at all.
LifeTapper can use Blizzard Combat Text, SCT, MikSBT or Parrot as optional output for warning. Though none of them is not required, it makes warning easier to detect. LifeTapper has automatical detection for every supported combat text addon. If none of them is enabled, chat output will be automatically toggled on.
Addon warns only when you're unmounted and in combat!
P.S. Before you say addon doesn't show combat text addons in /lt battletext which are claimed to be supported, please note it only shows addons which you have enabled!
Commands
You may use /lt or /lifetapper to view usage instructions ingame. Following commands exist:
/lt toggle - Toggles whether addon is enabled
/lt chat - Toggles chat output for warnings
/lt sound - Toggles sound effect (default: on)
/lt raid - Toggles whether addon is only enabled when in raid (default: off)
/lt trivial - Toggles whether addon is only enabled when target is not trivial (grey level) (default: on)
/lt battletext - Shows usage for combat text addon changing
/lt battletext none - Disables combat text addon output
/lt battletext blizzard - Enables World of Warcraft's default combat text output. Active only when combat text is enabled in Interface menu
/lt battletext sct - Enables optional SCT output
/lt battletext msbt - Enables optional MikSBT output
/lt battletext parrot - Enables optional Parrot output
Changes
Version 0.99b
Version 0.99
- Added support for 3.2's increased buff duration.
- Polished buff checking, now it should be truly localization independant.
Version 0.98
- Now buffchecking is localization independent!
- Added support for Blizzard Floating Combat Text and Parrot!
- Fixed bug which caused addon to disable itself when entering instance
- Improved trivial mode checking
- Automatical detection for every supported combat text addon. If none of them is enabled, chat output will be automatically toggled on
Version 0.95
- Sound effect for alert!
- Added support for MikSBT addon
- Raid-only mode
- Ignoring trivial (grey level) targets mode
- Automatical detection when dual spec is changed (it may not work yet, haven't been tested)
- Fixed a few bugs including alert coming up when in vehicle
TODO
Most likely won't come in next update
- Make this Ace'd some day
- Add possibility for localizations
- Make plugin for DataBroker
Have fun!
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)...
