An addon to show the talents of players in the tooltip.
A cache up to 10 is stored for the last players, so you quickly can see their talents again without having to wait for talents to load.
This addon works completely independent of TipTac, but installing TipTac is recommended to enchance the tooltip further.
There is no command line switch or configureable options for TipTacTalents.
TipTacTalents | 2008 Apr 06
- Added some different formatting styles for the Talent line in the tip, you have to edit the lua to change it though, by uncommenting some lines. Look at line 17 and after.
- Removed the obsolete 2.3.3 inspect checking.
- Fixed a nil error that could happen under special circumstances.
- TipTacTalents should no longer block you from getting the talents of same faction players who are marked for PvP.
- Cached players who are now out of range should now show with the cached data.
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 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)...
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Aezay saidParaflex
Showing anything besides talents has very little to do with the function of this addon.
And no, you aren't missing anything, since version 2.3 I think, viewing the pvp enabled opposite faction's talents isn't possible anymore.
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Paraflex saidIt doesn't appear that this mod works when I'm in arena, am I missing something?
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Paraflex saidAwesome add-on.. Do you think it would be possible to show their resilience in the tooltip as well? Or maybe even a step further by allowing some kind of customization as to what data it retrieves and puts in the tool tip, such as how many pieces of Merc or Veng, etc..
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psyhcopig saidIt would be really, REALLY nice, if you made an alternate form within the addon, so that, when someone IS using TipTac, it adds on this information into TipTacs frame...
You see, for me, right now, I'm using this Mod, TipTac, AND MyRolePlay...MyRolePlay creates a new Tooltip for character information, TipTac, well, you know, creates a Tooltip for most standard information. As of right now on mouse over, I see TipTacs Information, Then if I click the person, the MyRP tooltip will show. Very Nifty. BUT..To actually see the Talent part of the standard Tooltip, I have to fight and scroll and click many-a-times just trying to find it.
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morbandit saidHey mate, cool, good stuff. Not sure if it's the Curse server or just me, but everytime I download the .zip it says it's corrupted and cannot be opened. You may want to re-upload?
/edit: nevermind, got it. Wondering if we should increase the default cache size to 15 (so it's big enough for everyone in an AB/WSG game)?
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Aezay saidmorbandit, thanks for the posts, for some reason I never thought about having the code load cached players currently out of range, doh! I've added that now, plus a few more changes.
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morbandit saidAlright, I've rewritten the inspect function - feel free to use it if you think it works.
It will now check if a player is friendly (rather than not pvp flagged), and will check the cache before it checks range - that way if you've already inspected someone's talents, you can still see them in the tooltip no matter how far away from you they are.
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morbandit saidWould be nice to only disable the talent check if we're looking at an opposing faction character, instead of just blocking all PvP targets. Also, should be checking the cache before it checks range, in case we already have the talents for the unit we're viewing.
Would also be nice if you added a few formatting options (such as allowing us to change the wording - for example I changed mine to say "T" instead of "Talents").
Cheers for the great addons though - just switched from TinyTip and loving it :)
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Aezay saidpicachu, guess I just didn't expect for this to happen as I never saw this error myself, anyways I fixed it, thanks.
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picachu saidDunno really what causes this error or when exactly it happens and i haven't noticed anything not working, but Baud Error Frame still catches this error from the 08.03.26 version of TipTacTalents:
Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:25: attempt to index a nil value
Count: 7
Call Stack:
[C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:25: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:11>
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joech26 saidcan it see the people's talent under pvp situation?
if it can...it didnt work for me...
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Aezay saidjoech26, You cannot see the talents of yourself because of a bug in Patch 2.4, and no I cannot make the range longer, it is 30 yards.