Ever have a problem going through a merchant's list of recipes, schematics, or patterns, and trying to quickly figure out which ones you already know and which ones you don't?
Well, fret no more, cause RecipeKnown is here!
RecipeKnown will send out brilliant little Gnomes* with a magic crayonbox, and color all the recipes you already know! It'll even color recipes your alternate characters know!
- Note: These Gnomes are not intelligent. You must open your tradeskill windows at least once before they'll know what recipes to color!
To access the command-lines, simply type /recipeknown or /rk!
For the latest updates, visit us at "our website"!
Current TODO List:
- Add Tooltip
- Add Inventory/Bank support
- Add Mailbox support
- Add Trade Window support
- Add Loot support
- Color not-yet-learned recipes that you loot, if already have one sitting in your bank.
- Add Guild Member/Friend support! Yes, find recipes for your guild members and your friends!
Recent Changes:
v0.25 Beta 5c
-= Changes from 0.114a =-
- Updated for Patch 3.3!
- Rewrote the entire addon's code to make it more streamlined, and easier to adjust.
- Completely changed the Database. All previous data will be lost.
- Added a direct recipe/spell database. Things listed in this database will always color, no matter what language RecipeKnown is being used with.
- Added a triple-redundancy system for detecting known recipes on the current toon.
- Recipes that you can learn are now colored white, no matter how many toons you have that already know it.
- Unlearning a tradeskill will now remove it from the character's RecipeKnown Database.
- The Trading Window will now color recipes.
- The RecipeKnown Report Tooltip now works in all situations.
- The Tooltip will now be in color for faster recognition of who needs recipes!
- The Tooltip will now list the characters that can use the current recipe!
- Added a database for items that should not be colored, or generate a tooltip. This is used for items that are listed as recipes, but are not recipes themselves, like the Bountiful Cookbook.
-= Beta 5c =-
- Fixed the update function so it won't constantly remove the old options values, causing the coloring bug in Beta 5b.
-= Beta 5b =-
- Fixed a coloring bug.
- Fixed a bug that wouldn't let the database record a character's colors.
-= Beta 5a =-
- Fixed a database bug that would occur if you didn't have an RK database already.
- Changed the Options Database's format to reflect changes from Beta 6.
-= Beta 5 Changes & Notes =-
--==Changes==--
- Updated ToC for Patch 3.3.
- Fixed all the Reporting problems with Beta 4.
- Made major changes to the database again. All previous data will be lost.
- The Inscription tradeskill and associated techniques will now properly work.
- Unlearning a tradeskill will now remove it from the character's RecipeKnown Database.
- Changed the meaning of the "Blue" color. Now indicates recipes your alts will eventually be able to learn.
- Changed the Detection method. This will help reduce low-frame rates.
- Added a lot of new recipes to the Database. Database still needs to be sorted!
- RK will now build an ItemId to Tradeskill ID database, based on your tradeskills, and their associated items. This will help speed up detection.
- Reworked detection and coloring to be more universal and easier to manage.
- Reworked how the tooltips operate to help reduce CPU usage.
- Fixed a bug that occured when updating your Tradeskills, and no headers are present.
--==Notes==--
- There is a small "lag spike" when viewing recipes for the first time each session. This is because RK is building a color info database, which allows one of the new functionalities to work. The lag is worse if you have lots of toons that know the recipe skill being viewed. (IE: Larger lag spike when looking at Cooking recipes) I'm looking for a way to reduce this lag even more, hopefully removing it.
- Merchants, Trading, and the Auction House are currently the only windows that color.
- There is now a "Yellow" color to indicate recipes that your other toons can learn. If these recipes don't color yellow or don't appear to color at all, you will have to delete your "RecipeKnown_Options" variables to reset the colors.
- There is now a "Blue" color used for recipes that Alts will eventually be able to learn.
- Only Recipes and BC Keys color at the moment. Class skills/books are pending.
- English is fully supported.
- French & German functionality has been installed. Cosmetic translations (found in localization.en.lua) requested.
- Functionality & Cosmetic translations for other locales requested.
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)...
