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Project Updated:

Files Updated:

Fri, Dec 11 2009

Supports Game Version:

3.3.0

Category:

Miscellaneous

Tags:

3.0.0, and 3.3.0 [Edit Tags]

Project Manager:

Ammo

Additional Authors:

Rabbit

Current Version:

r289

License:

Development Site:

WowAce.com

Avg Daily DL (last 30 days):

124

Downloads Total:

84,685

Favorites:

153

Comments:

About oRA3

The next oRA

oRA3 will feature the following:

Durability, Resistance, Zone, Version Checks. Available for everyone, and automatically filled, no need to run manual checks.
Cooldown monitor for just about every spell with a longer cooldown.
Invites based on guild rank, zone, keyword, and guildonly keyword
Blizzard Maintank based maintank lists with custom sorting
Promoting to raid assistant based on guild rank, a list of names or just everyone
Intelligent readycheck window that will display a divider bar between groups 2 and 3 or 5 and 6 based on raid target settings
Loot settings based on party or raid
Works in party for readychecks, checks and cooldowns

oRA3 is not compatible with oRA2, and never will be.

See the bottom of this page for MT API example

Below you can find some screenshots showing the oRA3 GUI.

The GUI for oRA3 is attached to the RaidFrame, clicking the visible part of the GUI will slide it out and exposes oRA3's features.

Opened GUI, showing the various builtin checks

Another tab selected:

Unlocked cooldown monitor, rightclicked for options

Testbars spawned

MT Api example

Warning: does no combat checking, so will break when called in combat!

if oRA3 then
	oUF:SetActiveStyle("Ammo_Tiny")
	local maintanks = oUF:Spawn("header", "oUF_oRAMainTanks")
	maintanks:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT",UIParent, "CENTER", 450, 0)
	maintanks:SetManyAttributes(
		"yOffset", 2.9,
		"nameList", table.concat(oRA3:GetSortedTanks(), ","),
		"template", "oUF_AmmoMainTank",
		"showRaid", true,
		"initial-unitWatch", true,
		"point", "BOTTOM",
		"sortDir", "DESC"
	)
	local tankhandler = {}
	function tankhandler:OnTanksUpdated(event, tanks) 
		maintanks:SetAttribute("nameList", table.concat(tanks, ","))
	end
	oRA3.RegisterCallback(tankhandler, "OnTanksUpdated")
	maintanks:Show()
end

Created On:	Sun, Oct 19 2008
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3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)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
oRA3 r289	Release	3.3.0	17,439	12/11/2009
oRA3 r261-release	Release	3.2.0	28,494	9/6/2009
oRA3 r258-beta	Beta	3.2.0	1,938	9/4/2009
oRA3 r252-beta	Beta	3.2.0	3,143	8/27/2009
oRA3 r247-beta	Beta	3.2.0	1,286	8/25/2009

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Drifter0 said

I've been using this for a while now and I like it, but I have noticed an error/bug. It will always show Ice Block having a 5 minute cooldown even if you spec into it. I managed to fix it without too much trouble with the below code. Add this right under the part about invisibility

_, _, _, _, rank = GetTalentInfo(3, 3)
addMod(45438, rank * 20)

Only thing is if you have less than 3/3 points into Icy Floes the timer will be off by 1-2 seconds depending on if you have 1-2 points into it.

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housevenice said

First I love this addon. I have the latest installed. Been using ora3 for about 3 weeks. But this last it disappeared and is not there when I open my raid tab. I've tried using commands to show it again but nothing seems to work. How can I get it back and sorry for wasting your time on what must be something obvious I'm missing :(

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Epophis said

MaximusRex is right on. Learn 2 Unit Frame folks.

I'm enjoying oRA3 allot better than 2. The only complaint I have has to do with the interface.

Using the Zone Check list in oRA3 is cumbersome, as it takes up a much larger amount of screen real estate. Keeping the window open, and trying to target raid members, and click the summon stone is an annoying task now in oRA3.

I'd love to be able to detach the oRA3 interface from the Raid window. Or maybe have the option to bloom a separate Zone Check list by itself.

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jeaz said

I fully agree about the tank frames. There are plenty of addons that do just that and do it alot better than oRA2 ever did, so oRA3 should focus on what does addons don't do and add something unique.

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Slowone said

Re: MaximusRex comments
Friday, December 11, 2009 1:00:19 PM (3 weeks ago)

It hooks into other unit frame tank frames, including Blizzards. If you set someone as a tank in the oRA3 tank list, then click the shield icon, it promotes them to tank in the Blizzard defualt UI as well, and can be drug out. Alternatively, any UI replacement that recognizes the Blizzard tank UI should show tank unit frames.

I can certainly see why the author wouldn't want make unit frames himself when there are already a plethora of unit frame addons.

I suggest people QQing about the lack of tank unit frames actually learn how their unit frames work, or QQ to the author of their unit frames for not supporting tank unit frames. But to not use this because it "does't have tank unit frames" shows basic ignorance of how unit frames work since it ties into the existing unit frame framework.

***** I can understand why you are offended by people’s comments berating your add-on for not having "MT Boxes", but please don't take them personally. Allot of them are kids that are just lazy or just want to bad mouth someone’s efforts, because they don't have the skills, knowledge or don't want to take the time learn how to do such things. I personally just don't have the computer skills or knowledge to write programs and due to a stoke I had, or I would attempt to write a "MT Boxes unitframes" to hook into Ora3 to be used to replace the Blizzard default "MT Boxes".

I also would gladly donate money to you for your time and effort in writing this add-on if you could possibly add a "MT Box" unitframes upgrade to the add-on.

Reference asking us to ask the authors of the people writing the unitframes add-on and asking for "Mt Boxes" in their add-on I have done just that, but haven't got any replies from the author about that possibility yet. I personally like Xperl and not really interested in changing to another one for MT boxes.

Thanks for your time and effort in developing this addon.

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Mkdw said

I think I will also wait to see what happens with these tank frames before I replace oRA2 -- they are very fundamental in why I have oRA2.

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stassart said

My raid leader had us try ORA3 today because he liked the better interface, but no tank boxes... looks like we are switching back. If you don't want to build it in, maybe having a separate ORA3_tankboxes addon that provides the functionality.

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The_Neon said

oRA3 will feature the following:
Blizzard Maintank based maintank lists with custom sorting

sry but there is no sorting. blizz MT "Frame" is going to sort the MT's by it self. X-Pearl MT-Frame don't recognize it, when u set the MT's by ora3. ok maybe i have wrong settings.....
any idea about this?

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Speciality said

I agree with the fact that there are enough other MT tank frames out there.
However we have several obligatory addons to be installed by our guildmembers of which one is ORA2, ORA2 had build in check to see if they have obligatory functionalty. If we would ask our guildmembers to install another tank frame addon, we have to ask everybody to install yet another obligatory addon, I can not check anymore if they have it, the way they were used to use the easy and simple tank frames is gone forever. So until now I am also reluctant to make the switch to ORA3.

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RavenPrime said

Great addon for a raid leader. I don't care about tank windows myself as they are built into Xperl. Would be nice if the xperl tank windows would sort according to ora3 but basically they sort from first to last as I set them. In the end though, the order doesn't really matter.

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knowntobe said

I was about to replace oRA2 with this new one but after seeing the tank window comments, I'll wait to see if they get added. If they dont, will go back to CTs version. Hope they do though :)

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ROMAD27 said

Removed after I figured out it didn't have tank frames. While I do appreciate the work addon authors do, I have to echo others in that this addon is completely worthless without the tank frames. Please don't ever stop developing oRA2.

The key features oRA3 has are nothing more than frills, that, while nice to have, take a distant second to functionality like tank frames.

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MaximusRex said

It hooks into other unit frame tank frames, including Blizzards. If you set someone as a tank in the oRA3 tank list, then click the shield icon, it promotes them to tank in the Blizzard defualt UI as well, and can be drug out. Alternatively, any UI replacement that recognizes the Blizzard tank UI should show tank unit frames.

I can certainly see why the author wouldn't want make unit frames himself when there are already a plethora of unit frame addons.

I suggest people QQing about the lack of tank unit frames actually learn how their unit frames work, or QQ to the author of their unit frames for not supporting tank unit frames. But to not use this because it "does't have tank unit frames" shows basic ignorance of how unit frames work since it ties into the existing unit frame framework.

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Slowone said

I can understand why you are offended by people’s comments berating your add-on for not having "MT Boxes", but please don't take them personally. Allot of them are kids that are just lazy or just want to bad mouth someone’s efforts, because they don't have the skills, knowledge or don't want to take the time learn how to do such things. I personally just don't have the computer skills or knowledge to write programs and due to a stoke I had, or I would attempt to write a "MT Boxes unitframes" to hook into Ora3 to be used to replace the Blizzard default "MT Boxes".

I also would gladly donate money to you for your time and effort in writing this add-on if you could possibly add a "MT Box" unitframes upgrade to the add-on.

Reference asking us to ask the authors of the people writing the unitframes add-on and asking for "Mt Boxes" in their add-on I have done just that, but haven't got any replies from the author about that possibility yet. I personally like Xperl and not really interested in changing to another one for MT boxes.

Thanks for your time and effort in developing this addon.

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Mkdw said

I suggest you take the comments that people who use your mod are unhappy about and make your mod better than using the worthless Blizzard UI.

QQ yourself when no one uses your mod because you're lazy.

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jeaz said

Ehm, he's not the author of this mod.

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Malvenue said

I don't use anything else that sets MT windows and don't want to manually pull out Blizzard UI frames. I'll just stick with Ora2 and frankly I don't give a crap if you think I'm "qq'ing" or "ignorant".

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jackprince said

The Problem for me is that ORA2 offered this great feature.

Before the raid I'll just made my setup.
Defined Tanks, and all the rest.

Within the raid I easily could see, which mob everyone is
targeting and which target the mob has.

Unfortunately there is no plugin for Grid which I use as a
very small and compact raid frame.

I'm not really familiar with the idea of installing another
unitframe addon just to get these features again but not
needing any of the other features.

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XeonBlue said

I prefer my tank frames provided by Pitbull4, allows me to make my UI a bit more unified. The tank frames from oRA2 were something of a mark against them.

If you can't figure out your tank frames, sorry.

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jamygourmand said

I prefer the one provided by pitbull too but some of my guild mates don't use the classic UI and complain about that. As Raid Leader I love oRA3 for its timers. Tank frames would be a good compromise to keep them happy and still willing to use it :)

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