This addon provides two major functions:
- Forum information sharing
It provides a method to read out all recipes and their respective reagents of a specific craft and show them in a text box so you can share this information with other people. The text can be plain ascii code or UBB/BB formatted, with or without the items icons.
- Craft helping
The "Craft Info" window allows you to build a wish list of items you want to craft and helps you with crafting. Simply select the item to craft in the blizzard craft window, enter the desired amount if available and press "Watch Craft". The recipe is now listet in the "LS3D Craft Info" box. Pressing the "Craft Helper" button (the rightmost) with an opened merchant window will automatically buy the reagents you need for all the items. If no merchant window was opened, this addon will automatically craft the selected recipe.
More Details:
- When posting a list of recipes to websites you have options to include links to Allakhazam or Blasc item databases.
- Post recipe information and reagents to chat
- Craft Info window with craft helping functions
- The Craft Info window provides a head up display to keep track of an unlimited number of recipes without having the trade skill or craft window open.
- The content of your bags is checked automatically and the number of available reagents shown in the Craft Info window window.
- Three different listing modes in the Craft Info window: Single recipe, Single recipe w/ number of reagents required for all recipes and a Wishlist w/ all required reagents where the last one is my favourite ;) (cycle by right clicking craft helper button)
- You can post item and reagent links of one single recipe to the current channel to inform other players about the items you can produce and let them know what it takes to manufactor or apply that recipe. This is a lot easier to read than the blizzard popup dialog.
- Slash Commands: To open the interface you can use /ls3d_craftinfo or /ls3d_ci
Notes:
I am not sure why and since when this happens, but the recipe list displayed in the text field is truncated after about 4000 letters. The lower part of the text field appears to be empty, but in fact it does contain text. So just make sure to select everything using CTRL+a before you copy the content with CTRL+c.
Too many recipes in the text window will cause your game to get laggy, so just filter out the recipes you want to dump and clear it afterwards.
Experimental Stuff:
Since i needed this for crafting glyphs on a different account, i implemented a simple export/import function for the watcher window.
Just open the "Craft Info GUI" and press the "E" button next to the one named "Watcher". This will dump the watched crafts into the text box.
Now just copy&paste this text into the character/account that shall craft the recipes and press the "I" button.
The watched recipes will now be available (and craftable) on the other account.
Original Copyright 2005, Lightstorm3D
All rights reserved.
Updated by g3gg0 in 2007, 2008, 2009
Maintainership (for curseforge) granted by Lightstorm3D to g3gg0 on 03.07.2009
Thanks to the authors of ReagentRestocker, SlashCraft and WoWLUA.
Their code was a excellent reference for implementing the latest functions.
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r22 | g3gg0 | 2009-10-08 23:46:52 +0000 (Thu, 08 Oct 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v2.8 (from /trunk:21)
publish version v2.8
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r21 | g3gg0 | 2009-10-08 23:46:21 +0000 (Thu, 08 Oct 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
updated version string
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r20 | g3gg0 | 2009-10-08 23:45:12 +0000 (Thu, 08 Oct 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoOptions.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoOptions.xml
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
added an option to craft only the chosen quantity of items (looking how many are already in bags)
added an option to delete recipes from water window when all items were crafted
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r18 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-27 23:06:15 +0000 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
error message updates
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r17 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-27 23:04:30 +0000 (Sun, 27 Sep 2009) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.xml
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.xml
added export/import function for the wishlist. this allows choosing the items to craft with the auction house character, switch to the crafter character and build the chosen items there.
improved craft button function. either left or right click.
when vendor window is opened, buy all the needed reagents for the items on your wishlist.
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r13 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 16:41:20 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
fix for a fix -.-
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r11 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 16:36:21 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
version push
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r10 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 16:34:01 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
fixed crafting multiple items
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r8 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 16:25:51 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
updated colors for the item list
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r7 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 16:18:16 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.xml
added more lines to the watch window
show all recipes to the totals list
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r6 | g3gg0 | 2009-09-26 15:57:37 +0000 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfo.toc
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.lua
M /trunk/ls3d_craftInfoWatch.xml
improved watch list to show the total amount of required reagents
added a button to craft selected item
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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)...
