Gives a Smoother Quest Experience
Smooth Quest is an addon that modifies the Blizzard Questing interface:
- Adds gradient coloring of objectives red -> green in the blizzard quest tracker
- Adds level and difficulty coloring to the quest tracker and quest log
- Adds quest progress sounds:
'More Work?' if you have more objectives to complete
'Jobs done!' if your quest is complete
- Colorizes unit tooltips containing quest info
- Adds colored information to item tooltips
- Adds output selection and gradient coloring for quest completion and objective completion messages through Sink-2.0
You can select the output options via /sq /sqmoothquest or the blizzard interface options addons panel.
This addon is not complete yet. Options need to be added for the various functionalities, as well as handling of quest links in chat.
Enjoy,
-Ammo
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r80 | ammo | 2009-05-30 13:07:44 +0000 (Sat, 30 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
prevent job's done etc upon first load
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r78 | ammo | 2009-05-26 20:38:25 +0000 (Tue, 26 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
remove debug print
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r77 | ammo | 2009-05-26 20:37:47 +0000 (Tue, 26 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
fix errors when linking multiple quests
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r75 | ammo | 2009-05-19 21:56:04 +0000 (Tue, 19 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
color rep quests correctly, thanks haste
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r74 | ammo | 2009-05-18 21:03:23 +0000 (Mon, 18 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
prevent errors on unknown quests
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r73 | ammo | 2009-05-18 13:35:37 +0000 (Mon, 18 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
add tags to chat links
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r72 | ammo | 2009-05-18 11:12:43 +0000 (Mon, 18 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
fix font problems on foreignese clients
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r71 | ammo | 2009-05-14 11:58:36 +0000 (Thu, 14 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/locale/deDE.lua
deDE update
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r70 | ammo | 2009-05-14 09:24:29 +0000 (Thu, 14 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.toc
A /trunk/locale/zhTW.lua
add zhTW translation
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r69 | ammo | 2009-05-13 11:55:20 +0000 (Wed, 13 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
M /trunk/locale/enUS.lua
add toggles for playing the sounds
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r67 | ammo | 2009-05-11 19:01:04 +0000 (Mon, 11 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
fix tooltip hooking, now colors unit and item tooltips
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r66 | ammo | 2009-05-11 18:36:00 +0000 (Mon, 11 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
use an environment proxy for the watchframe instead of hooking a gazillion functions. Thanks haste!
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r65 | ammo | 2009-05-10 16:17:58 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
more questwatch hooks
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r63 | ammo | 2009-05-10 12:18:35 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
more updating of the watchframe
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r62 | ammo | 2009-05-10 12:01:11 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
bugfix specific case where objective and quest are same
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r61 | ammo | 2009-05-10 11:45:33 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
bugfix
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r59 | ammo | 2009-05-10 11:35:00 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
remove level etc tag from the watchframe until I can figure out how to enlarge the damn thing automatically
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r58 | ammo | 2009-05-10 11:24:49 +0000 (Sun, 10 May 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.toc
colorize the watchframe
todo: fix width, text too long after adding questlevel
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r57 | nevcairiel | 2009-04-17 09:59:42 +0000 (Fri, 17 Apr 2009) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SmoothQuest.lua
- Disable the QuestWatch modifications for now
- Fix the UIErrorsFrame hook
- Disable tooltip additions for units, the game does this now
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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)...
