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Lore

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: Mon, Jul 20 2009
Supports Game Version: Unknown
Category: Chat & Communication
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Project Manager: Rufftran
Additional Authors: No additional authors
Current Version: v7.7.4
License: All Rights Reserved
Development Site: CurseForge
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 19
Downloads Total: 238,050
Favorites: 201
Comments: 1,017
  • About Lore
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Well, I've reached that point in time where World of Warcraft has lost it's appeal...Actually, I reached that point a long time ago, back when I hit level 70. Really, I don't log in anymore except to work on Lore periodically. It's been a great run, taking up well over 100 days worth of my time, but it's just not worth the $15 anymore. I love my characters, and I'm sad that I won't be able to play them anymore, but I need to move on. Logging in for 10 minutes a month isn't worth $15.

With that said, I must add that I won't be able to take care of Lore anymore, obviously. I'm posting this to find someone willing to take over the project. Perhaps you can improve Lore, fix things that I was unable to fix, maybe even finish the sharing function I've started (That isn't in the current release, mind you, I have a development copy that has it.). If you're interested, please send me a PM here

--- Lore v7.0 (Deluxe edition) by Liise on Argent Dawn (Alliance)


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- I M P O R T A N T !! - R E A D - T H I S - F I R S T !! -

IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LORE, MEANING YOU CAN'T SELECT CUSTOM LANGUAGES,

YOU GET AN ERROR MESSAGE, OR SOMETHING ELSE: FIRST CHECK THE README.TXT FILE

THAT YOU FIND AMONGST THE LORE FILES. THE SAME QUESTIONS (WHICH ARE ANSWERED

THERE VERY CLEARLY) KEEP RETURNING OVER AND OVER AGAIN ON THE COMMENTS BELOW.

I WILL NO LONGER ANSWER THOSE, ONLY CASES NOT COVERED BY THE LORE MANUAL.

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ABOUT:

Lore was designed to aid Roleplayers in World of Warcraft with the ability to speak in 'languages' other than those enabled by Blizzard (for example: Dark Iron, Demonic, Elemental, Druidic, etc). Lore translates your text in /say, /party, /raid, /guild and /yell to a specified user-defined language. This translation occurs before the text enters Blizzard's language functions.


Lore has grown since then. New functionality has been added to allow for automatic translation, an option to render your character (partially) unable to understand a certain language, speak dialects, stutter, hiss, growl, lisp and more!


Below you find a list of the files, and indication which you might need. For further information, please refer to the Readme.txt document enclosed in the zip file. You will find almost anything you want or need to know about Lore there.


FILES:

- Lore vX.X: Lore itself. You cannot use Lore without this. Installing the latest version is always recommended.

- Dialects.lua vX: You need this file. If you already have already customised your dialects.lua file, you don't generally have to download this again. Overwriting dialects.lua will erase your self created languages! (v8 is here)

- Ephemeral fix for Lore5: If you use the AddOn called Ephemeral and you use LORE V5.X you need this file to prevent conflicts. (for Eph ver. 1.6.3)

- Ephemeral fix for Lore6: If you use the AddOn called Ephemeral and you use LORE V6.X you need this file to prevent conflicts. (for Eph ver. 1.6.3)

- Ephemeral fix for Lore7: If you use the AddOn called Ephemeral and you use LORE V7.X you need this file to prevent conflicts. (for Eph ver. 1.6.3)

- Language pack 01: Extra player made custom languages for use with Lore. Please read its README file for instructions on how to use. Included languages in this language pack: "The Ancient Tongue", "Sanvairu", "Ooh". Included dialects in this language pack: "*Cumbrian", "*Fudd", "*Moron", "*Norfolk", "*Pirate", "*Scottish" (the latter is an improved version of what you already find in the dialects.lua - to be replaced if you want it.

- Language pack 02: Extra player made custom languages for use with Lore. Readme file included explains how to use. This language pack includes the dialect "*Riverfolk" and languages "Nutterspeak", "Streetslang" and "AncientRunic".

-CLPs: This is just short for Custom Language Pack, as Curse's new interface won't allow 'Custom Language Pack' because it is too long.


COMPATIBILITY:

- Lore v6.0 (EN) is only fully compatible with English Gameclients. Other clients can also use this version, the only drawback they will have is that if they want to have it 'auto-translate' Blizzard Default languages (such as Gnomish, Gutterspeak) and lower their fluency in these same languages, they will not see the wanted effect. Later versions are also localised to work for German and French clients.


OPTIONS:

See the included ReadMe or type /lore in game to bring up a menu of available commands.


NOTE:

Do NOT confuse this with a mod intended to remove the language barrier. This AddOn has nothing whatsoever to do with other people's text. Its purpose is to avail you of pre-defined languages for appearance/aesthetics only. Ultimately, it's just modifying the text YOU send out, immediately prior to sending it out in a completely ordinary fashion. Also, Blizzard enabled languages are not modified by Lore.


NOTE:

After Rook discontinued the 'Lore' project about 4 months ago (due to no longer playing World of Warcraft) I have been given permission to continue her work. The result is Lore version 4.0 and higher.


NOTE:

Those people who use the AddOn 'Ephemeral' in combination with Lore should download the Ephemeral.lua file here and replace the old version with it, to prevent unwanted effects due to incompatibility.


--- Installing


Download and extract Lore to your World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns directory to install. To use the prepackaged languages you must download dialects.lua and extract it to the same directory (it will automatically be added to the Lore folder).


These files are seperated to prevent updates from overwriting your own custom-defined languages, which are added to the dialects.lua file. Once you have dialects.lua you will not need to download it again for updates; simply download the main AddOn and re-extract it to replace the old files.


To define your own languages look in the AddingLanguages.txt tutorial or open dialects.lua in Notepad and follow the examples provided by the included languages.


--- Troubleshooting


If you have a problem with Lore, there are a few things you can try before looking for outside help:


* Problem: I installed Lore, but it does not load when I enter the world.

* Solution: It is likely disabled in your AddOns options. Go to the character selection screen, click the 'AddOns' button at the left bottom corner of your screen. Select Lore, and select the option to 'ignore version checking' (this allows you to use 'out of date' versions). Blizzard updates their UI version number all the time and I don't want to keep uploading a new version of Lore each time they do, so it will go out of date but that shouldn't matter. Also a new patch may reset this.


* Problem: I get an error on my screen, mentioning something like "argument #1 to `getn' (table expected, got string)".

* Solution: Type the command "/lore reset". If that doesn't work, you can try "/lore default". If that also doesn't work, please check that you have downloaded the dialects.lua file and that it is in the same directory as the rest of Lore.


*Problem: Lore loads, but I cannot access any of the custom languages.

* Solution: First, make sure your dialects.lua file is named just that and not 'Dialects_v_8'. If that does not fix the problem delete your WTF, Cache, and Lore folders, then load in a new copy of Lore while Warcraft is not running.


Known Issues ---

* Trying to send item links while talking in custom language still results into an error.

* Using %T works alright, but returns %T to self if translating to self.

* Using Blizzard's language selection menu does not work.

  • Downloads (4)
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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  
  Lore v7.7.4 Release Unknown 5,456 7/20/2009
  Lore v7.7.0 Release 3.0.2 13,033 10/15/2008
  Lore 7.6 Release 2.0.0 944 3/30/2008
  Lore v7.5.9 Release 2.0.0 201 3/8/2008
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  • ishipuccu said

    I have a question.. if anyone can help.. or just tell me I'm being stupid and why.. please do! I set up lore, I have dialects.lua in the lore file and everything. But I can't enter custom languages in game. I can only put in /lore tablet common and /lore tablet darnassian (i'm Nelf). I can't put in demonic, thalassian, druidic, etc. Why?

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  • Effrenatus said

    Please correct this in localisation.lua:

    if ( GetLocale() == "deDE" ) then
    -- German localized variables (default)
    ALLIANCE_COMMON = "Gemeinsprache"
    ALLIANCE_DWARF = "Zwergisch"
    ALLIANCE_GNOM = "Gnomisch"
    ALLIANCE_ELF = "Darnassisch"
    ALLIANCE_DRAENEI = "Draeneiisch" <--------NOT "Draenei" but "Draeneiisch"

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  • Vaslor said

    Can I please get step-by-step instructions on how to install languages downloaded from the site to Lore?

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  • The instructions will be in the readme file.

    Also I have a question which is:"Why is it that when I log on and lore is turned on and I have dialects and stuff nothing comes up even when I type /lore and the like?"

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  • Rufftran said

    Alright, so the last update I put on this site got rejected, for reasons I am not aware of. The last update I will provide can be found, once again, at http://lore.logifur.com/index.php/lore/2009/04/24/files

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  • Rufftran said

    Hmm. It's what caused the problem Alfuin described earlier, a problem that I don't know happened. In any case, there's a new one awaiting approval here, but it's available at the link in the previous post.

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  • Rufftran said

    Little bit of news, it's at the top of the description.

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  • skalywag said

    Anyone know how you can add the other faction's language to the list that you can speak fluently? I use this addon when RPing and one of my char's is a half-elf so I want him to be able to speak common. Obviously he won't be able to communicate with the alliance but it would be nice for RP purposes.

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  • Afraid not. It would still be against the eula.

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  • You need to read the EULA, and quit being a moron. It's for appearances only and does not violate anything just like [bear] [demonic] and [trentish] do not.

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  • Alfuin said

    When I install this addon it extracts into \Interface\Addons\Lore\Lore instead of \Interface\Addons\Lore which would be correct, and with the extra \Lore directory, the addon will naturally not load in WoW. I moved the addon down one directory level, and it works perfectly. Curse Client also reports Lore as a faulty installed addon, reinstalling it will only repeat the bug (\Lore\Lore), making it not usable in the game.

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  • Rufftran said

    Once again, support and updates for this addon can be obtained at http://lore.sablefrost.com/

    I will NOT answer questions here, the comment system is just not suited for such things.

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  • help! my tablet is stuck under my char's health and mana! wat shud i do?

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  • Murzac said

    Get a unit Frame addOn like xPerl and move your Health and mana bars away?

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  • Rawrzz said

    im am sooooo confushed i got al lthe stuff figured out, but i cant seem to get the langues onto the tablet plz!!!!!! help!!!! =:(::

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  • So just curious did the Alliance lose Thalassian as a addable language?

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  • Agezhot said

    Thank you =), now i wanna go have some fun ^^

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  • Rufftran said

    This addon is mainly maintained at http://lore.sablefrost.com/
    Please go there for support.

    But your question is easy, Agezhot:
    Get WinRAR. You can find it at http://download.com/

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  • Agezhot said

    When i download this file its not a zipfile but a lonely .rar file ?

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  • darkmico said

    fixed it, nvm

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