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Description
ShieldsUp is a monitor for your Earth Shield, Lightning Shield, and Water Shield. Features include:
- Clear text display of remaining charges and Earth Shield target name
- Indication when your Earth Shield has been overwritten
- Text and sound alerts when a shield expires or is removed
- Condensed display while solo, or for shamans without Earth Shield
- Automatic visibility states based on group size, zone type, and more
- Configurable appearance and behavior
- Implicit support for all glyphs and talents which affect the number of charges on your shields
Usage
Options are available in the default Interface Options window. As a shortcut, you can type "/sup" to jump directly to the ShieldsUp options panel.
Note that due to a Blizzard bug, if accessing the ShieldsUp panel in the Interface Options window would require you to scroll up or down in the addon list column, typing "/sup" will open the window to the last shown panel, instead of opening it to the ShieldsUp panel. You can install the addon InterfaceOptionsFrame_OpenToCategory_Fix to correct this problem. I also recommend BetterBlizzOptions to make the Interface Options window movable and resizable.
Localization
ShieldsUp is compatible with all locales.
ShieldsUp is translated into English, German (deDE), Simplified Chinese (zhCN), Traditional Chinese (zhTW), and partial Russian (ruRU). If you would like to help translate ShieldsUp for another locale, please send me a PM.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why don't I see any charges for the Earth Shield I just cast?
A: ShieldsUp only monitors Earth Shield when it is cast on yourself, or on a player or pet in your party or raid. This was an intentional design decision, because it is impossible to reliably monitor Earth Shield on someone outside of your group.
Q: Why do I only see one charge counter?
A: The second charge counter is only shown while you are in a group and have the Earth Shield talent. If you're not in a group, then ShieldsUp will only monitor your Earth Shield if you cast it on yourself. If you don't have the Earth Shield talent, then the only shields you can cast are only castable on yourself. In either case, since you can only have one shield cast on yourself by yourself at any given time, there's no need for a second counter.
Feature Requests
Please use the ticket tracker! Please keep in mind that ShieldsUp is intentionally limited in scope to locally monitoring shaman shields you cast, and that requests for features outside of this scope will not be considered.
Bug Reports
Please use the ticket tracker! Be sure to include all of the information requested in the ticket template, and don't be afraid of including too much. It's better to include too much information than not enough. Above all, include the actual version number of your installed copy of ShieldsUp; tickets that do not specify a version number will be ignored.
Remember to check on your ticket after a few days! In many cases, I will need additional information to identify the problem, or will ask you to try a potential fix if I am not able to reproduce the problem myself. If a ticket is waiting on a response from you for more than 10 days, I will assume you solved the problem yourself, and close the ticket.
License
ShieldsUp is free as in "free beer", not as in "free software", and you may not include it in your compilation or redistribute it in any other way without first obtaining permission. Please see my license page or the README file included in the download for the full terms under which this addon is licensed. Compilation creators, please take a few minutes to learn about the basic details of copyright law and software licensing, and show your respect for addon authors' hard work by respecting our legal rights. Thanks!
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)...
