A simple addon that reports your experience values as a percentage and as numerical values each time you gain experience. For example, if I'm a level one lowbie and I kill a critter to gain 15xp I will get the following message on my screen:
Suxtobemage's experience is at 10% (15/150) 135 to go.
The message is also duplicated to the chat medium I have chosen (default:/say).
Tip: A feature that I kind of reserve for myself is the /xps test command - it doesn't appear in ingame help but basically just fires off the "shout" function without needing to gain xp. There may also be other "hidden" commands... ;)
Current Version: 1.42 beta
Ingame help:
/xps show - shows the GUI (not yet implemented)
/xps throttle- sets the throttle (default: 0)
/xps setchan - sets the channel to output to (default: say) second argument is the target for channel or whisper (you must use a channel number) - eg '/xps setchan channel 1'
/xps showinfo- shows information (current channel, vers. etc.)
/xps sias - toggles whether to show info at startor not.
/xps setwarn - toggles whether or not to output to UIErrorsFrame
/xps setcol - sets the colour for the UIErrorsFrame output
valid colours: blue, red, green, black, white, yellow
or you can specify red, green then blue on a 0 to 1 scale
/xps help - shows this help
-- Valid Channels --
say, emote, yell, party, guild, officer, raid, raid_warning, battleground, none (turns chat output off)
Note: The ingame help is incomplete in that the following syntax is also legal:
/xps <chantype> [<target>]
Which will output directly to <chantype>, if <chantype> is whisper or channel, it needs <target> to be specified as where you want to send it. Specifying <target> with other <chantypes> will just cause XPShouter to silently discard <target>.
DONE:
v1.42
- Upgraded .toc interface number to patch 3.0.2 support
- Added functionality: typing /xps <chantype> [<target>] will now output to <chantype> an XPS message.
- Added functionality: typing /xps reloadui will reload the user interface (personal convenience)
vers. 1.4:
- Add options for Channel and Whisper output.
- Find a way to preserve preferences between sessions.
vers. 1.35:
- Add colour customisation for the UIErrorsFrame message.
vers. 1.3:
- Add options for experience gain thresholding (to throttle the addon when you're grinding or participating in some activity where XP is gained quickly in small amounts).
- Add deficit to the output (eg 10% (10/100) 90 to go). (added in vers. 1.2 which was never released to the public).
TODO:
- Implement the GUI.
- Get user feedback for other features that could be implemented.
NEED:
- Committed GUI specialist to create the XML for a GUI options pane. I will edit the lua to allow for GUI implementation in the coming weeks.
- User feedback for any features I have missed in either the current working version or the TODO list.
- Upgraded .toc interface number to patch 3.0.2 support
- Added functionality: typing /xps <chantype> [<target>] will now output to <chantype> an XPS message.
- Added functionality: typing /xps reloadui will reload the user interface (personal convenience)
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)...
