--// Rewatch //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rewatch is an addon to help you monitor your healing-over-time (HoT) spells as a druid. There's an easy main window which you can move around, which will contain six bars for every target; a healthbar, energy-/rage-/manabar, lifebloom bar, rejuvenation bar, wild growth bar and a regrowth bar. Simply click a spell bar to cast that spell on that specific player and watch the clicked bar channel down as the corresponding HoT spell runs out.
Party- and raidhealing has never been so easy!
--// Installation //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just extract this entire folder to your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder and run the game. By default, this AddOn will be enabled on every character. No need to disable it for your non-druid classes by the way; it will not load on these characters so you won't have to bother about that.
--// Usage //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After installing the AddOn, all you will need to do is launch the game and log in to your druid character. You will notice the Rewatch frame in the topleft corner of your screen. The odds are small you want the AddOn to be placed here; just move it to it's new location by click&dragging the entire frame to the desired location, there's a small bar at the bottom of the frame that is left blank so you can always use that to drag it around.
Players are automatically added to the list once you group with them, and will also be automatically removed if one of them (or you) leaves. If there's a player in the list you don't want to have in there anymore, simply right-click his/her healthbar and it will be removed. Manually adding players is allowed through the /rewatch add [_target||<name>] command. Both of these are only allowed out of combat by Blizzard though! You can turn the auto-adjusting the list to your current group off in the options menu, accessible through the command "/rewatch options" or Esc > Interface > AddOns > Rewatch. Be sure to check out these options to fine-tune the AddOn to your needs!
If you wish to target a player from your list, left-click on his/her healthbar. To cast or refresh his/her Rejuvenation, simply click on the Rejuvenation bar. Same goes for Lifebloom, Wild Growth and Regrowth, just click the bar! You'll see the clicked bar channel down as this player's corresponding HoT spell runs out. The first small button to the bottom left of a player frame is the Swiftmend button; just click it to cast a Swiftmend on that player. If the player is cursed or poisoned, the Abolish Poison button or Remove Curse button will fade-in next to the Swiftmend button. Simply click it to cure your pal! And for those that want to use Healing Touch, there's now also a button for that available on the player frame! All of the important spells, right at a single click away. Told you it was easy!
--// Creditz //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Written by Coen van der Wel, main character Dezyne on Argent Dawn, Europe, 2008.
Special thanks to Thomas Friedrich and Didier "Silvio" Carmin for the resp. German and French localizations!
--// Revision //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Last version: 4.1.2 at 24-10-2008
Any feature requests or bug reports, please don't hesistate to contact me at coenvdwel@planet.nl!
Changelog latest version:
4.1.2
- Increased the 'spare' height of the main frame by 5
- Decreased the button's width by 1, to ease moving the player frame
- Automatically setting Auto-adjust to group to false (0) when you remove a grouped player from the list
- Externalized the frame dimentions: World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\SavedVariables\Rewatch.lua now contains the dimentions, you can alter them and it'll work, too
- No longer moving unbind player frames outside the main frame when moving the latter
- When dragging the player frames out the main frame, they unbind from it, and they will rebind to it when you drag it (the left corner, to be precise) back on it.
- Made the frame flash once it's toggled from hidden (Care? But it's pretty!)
- While normally if you heal anyone in your party who is not on your list, he will be added automatically when OOC, this does not occur on Wild Growth heals, because that became annoying
- Player frames of dead people now also appear "out of reach"-faded
- Options window shows a little bit of explanation now
- French/German versions now properly see Lifebloom in their language on the castbar
- Optimized several structures to minimize the amount of actions taken each update
- Now also clears mana-/energy-/ragebar on frames of dead people
- Changed the bar colors to something more contrasting to the background
- Fixed the aggro indicators, it's become a lot easier with 3.0 *cheers*
- Added /rewatch version support
- Changed the welcome message a bit, to tell you how to enter the options window
- Added colorpickers for the frame background and bar color!
- Fixed BG issue; now internally working with GUID instead of name
4.1.1
- Fixed a refresh of Wild Growth bars on party-/raidmembers if you re-cast it while it's still on
- Added a frame background alpha slide bar to the options menu
- Added support for extended HoT durations due to Glyph of Lifebloom or T5 (2) set bonus
- Added support for the Glyph of Swiftmend to the options menu
4.1
- Added Wild Growth bar
- Updated to match 3.0.2 changes
- Added a Nature's Splendor indicator checkbox
- Added a Healing Touch button
- Changed castbar's width/height proportions
- Fixed a few unnatural command-line command replies
Upcoming features:
- Bugfixes
- Korean language support
Known bugs:
- Player frame alignment sometimes is off...
- Several translations into DE and FR are not implemented yet
- Sometimes doesn't color the mana-/rage-/energybar right (especially with grouped fellow druids), but just sometimes, which is odd...
- Pets/minions seem to change UnitGUID when dead? That shouldn't be the case.. It's at least bugging with the player frames, seems you gotta remove and add a died pet to make it work again
- The two colorpicker windows from the option screen share the opacity slider; if you open a colorpicker, the previous selected opacity will apply..
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)...