TriviaBot

@ Gettor :

You can simplify your code by adding a for.

For example, i have 3 categories, and i don't want any hint or point mode.

Then i write THIS :

TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Categories'][1] = "Sorts et capacités";
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Categories'][2] = "Zones et instances";
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Categories'][3] = "PvP";

for i=1,614,1 do -- This category stops at the 614th question
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][i] = 1;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][i] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][i] = {};
end

for i=615,751,1 do -- This category starts at the 615th questions and finish at the 751st
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][i] = 2;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][i] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][i] = {};
end

for i=752,790,1 do --This category starts at the 752nd question and finish at the 790th
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][i] = 3;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][i] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][i] = {};
end

With that, every question you write take only 2 lines, so the code is easier to read :]

"Within the question or the answer you cannot use this symbol " "
You can. Use \" :] The add-on will consider this as simple text.
There is the manual page of Lua for this case : http://www.lua.org/pil/2.4.html
Take note that many languages use \ to integrate char as " in strings(and many other things). ^.^

@ Flipoutextra :

/trivia launches the GUI, then you configure your quiz, and click on Start TriviaBot :]
Ziz and his friends should add some slash commands, 'cause players who are farming/leveling/instancing/PvPing cannot access the GUI, so they'll love to have some slash commands!

I've done this for the French version, it works without any problem :

elseif (msgArgs[1] == "stop") then
TriviaBot_Stop();
elseif (msgArgs[1] == "skip") then
TriviaBot_SkipQuestion();
elseif (msgArgs[1] == "go") then
TriviaBot_Start();

sry that i'm noob but do you start whith /trivia start or what?

So i might be able to help everyone who tries to set their own questions...

1. Open TriviaQuestions1.lua with a Notepad

2. (Optional) Add your own question category like this under the 4th category:

TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Categories'][5] = "Category name";

3. (The important part) To add a new question, copy all 4 lines of any question already written there, for example:

TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Question'][6] = "Acronym: What instance does Uld refer to?";
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Answers'][6] = {"Uldaman"};
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][6] = 1;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][6] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][6] = {};

And write your own question and answer in spots provided for it:

TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Question'][6] = "Who is the best?";
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Answers'][6] = {"Me"};
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][6] = 1;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][6] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][6] = {};

4. (Still important part) As for example above, you must paste your question at the end of the file. TriviaQuestions1.lua has itself 72 questions, so your will be 73rd, which you must include in this and every additional questions (74th, 75th, etc.):

TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Question'][73] = "Who is the best?";
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Answers'][73] = {"Me"};
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Category'][73] = 1;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Points'][73] = 5;
TriviaBot_Questions[1]['Hints'][73] = {};

This is how your 73rd question in TriviaQuestions1.lua should look like.

COMMON ISSUE:

Within the question or the answer you cannot use this symbol "
If you do so, the whole addon will break down, and upon logging into the game an error window will appear saying that TriviaQuestions1.lua is damaged, and that "in line X '=' is expected before Z", where X is number of line with issue, and Z is the word after the word with symbol ".

So in short version - don't use " symbol in your questions or answers.

Hope it helps

I only get acronym questions >_>

It seems that a lot of people are having the same problem of adding custom questions. No matter what, if you change anything in the original 'TriviaQuestions#' files, it will not work in-game.

Please if someone has a fix or something that works in adding custom questions please tell us, it would make this mod even better.

Thanks!

I really like this Addon, it can keep you a large crowd of people entertained for hours.

Just many answers are wrong or have typos.
Examples:

It's "J.R.R. TolkIEN" and not "Tolkein", "Gandhi" / "Mahatma Gandhi" and not "Mahatma", an actor that was really born in 1939 but Trivia claimed it was 1941, etc. etc.


Would be nice to see an overhaul of this one! :)

ok idk if i'm doing something wrong, but the only questions my bot asks are about instances like "what instance does UK refer to?" or something like that. just instance abbreviation type questions. how come in the screen shots up above have questions like "escape artist is what races power" or w/e.

am i doing something wrong or do i have to download something for new questions?? please help!

dito that how do i change it

Hm, is there a way to not join the trivia channel? everytime I log in /1 is [Trivia] which is very annoying,since that fckup all the other channels... (general being 2 and so on)

NOTE TO TRIVIABOT DEVs!!

Please make this addon not spam as much. After 15 minutes of trivia, i got automatically muted. Being muted isn't fun.

Anyone thinking of making a "Name that Tune" version for this? If not, would anyone be interested if I made one? I'm thinking the answers could be name of the song or artist

Since the patch that came out 1 week after 3.1 I've NOT been able to get trivia bot to work at all. Tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it no luck. Tried resetting UI interface. It shows up on add ons as being "out of date" and I have it set to load out of date add ons. My guildies are going crazy! What Can I do to fix it? Thanks :)

I can't believe I'm such a dummy! I forgot to set it to where it "loads out of date add ons" It's working fine now :)

Also sir i can't get mine to load triviabot custom chat channel to anything other than channel 1. I'm going to try a reloadUI command now but shouldn't it do it straight from character selection? if not i think it needs to be changed >.< i would really not prefer to have to reloadui everytime i enter game

VERY IMPORTANT IF U CAN'T FIND OTHER QUESTIONS:
I just realized that on top of the triviabot window is a dropdown box to choose other question lists, it's the top drop down. I almsot posted that i couldn't use the other questions too til i check this out. It seems stupid but i can guarantee that's what half your problems are. All you do is choose one of the other option in that top drop down, i think it's called question list, those other lists contain every other question u have in your questions folder

This is the best addon i have downloaded to date. I would like to make a request though, if anyone wants to really put some time in for any WoW questions or edit the ones that have already been made. It would be awesome for someone to mess around with the difficulty setting for questions and offer hints. I love this addon but i'm a bigger fan of answering than asking so anyone that would do this it would be awesome. lol i'd be willing to pay gold tbh XD nepheraela - alliance - sargeras server. nepherius, nepherael, nephschin - horde - frostmane server.

still not sure how to add in my own questions. i want to add more wow questions in there. imo there isn't enough

ok so im still not gettin this stuff to work...i downloaded KeeZ's file did what you said to do i dl'd generallari's file did what he said...still nothing the files are saved int he questions folder and renamed as they should be...still nuttin...
help agaiN!! lol

I tried making my own awesome questions, and correct all of Synlek's question. Mine seem to have alot of errors... could anyone who knows LUA comment on my question and help me?

The one I want fixed is http://lua.pastey.net/111194

Never mind...got it fixed. For all people working on getting in Lore Questions.
1. Go to this link http://lua.pastey.net/111248
2. Click the button that says download
3. Upload the LUA document into the questions folder and rename it TriviaQuestions1
4. Play WoW and enjoy