Note: For easy configuration, download MonkeyBuddy!
About MonkeySpeed:
The MonkeySpeed AddOn for World of Warcraft displays your player's current speed as a percentage of run speed. Because the configuration variables are saved per character per realm, you can hide MonkeySpeed for your characters that don't need it. This mod is great for hunters who might need a little reminder to turn on aspect of the cheetah.
Features:
- Displays speed in %
- Displays speed as a color
- Option to set the frame width
- Option to lock the frame
- Right clicking opens up MonkeyBuddy, if installed
- Per character per realm saved config settings
Slash Commands:
See included ReadMe.txt for slash commands or use MonkeyBuddy to configure your MonkeySpeed.
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- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.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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Jim-Bim saidPlease delete all MonkeySpeed files in your WTF folder before updating!
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VenturerX saidAlso whats strange is every time i change zones like Terokkar Forest --> Shadowmoon Valley...
My speed on my Epic Flight goes from ~418% (riding crop) to ~7900-8200%????
So then i have to land. take off all my speed trinkets... recalibrate and then fly off again
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Jim-Bim saidDoes the % still change if you calibrated Terokkar Forest and Shadowmoon Valley, and change between these zones? If not, everything is working normally. The next version will have accurate default speed calibrations, but you will have to delete your MonkeySpeed files in your WTF file to be able to get them.
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jtbalogh saidAddon can save options across all characters conveniently, if anyone needs it. Speed data remains unaffected because saved separately it seems. Edit MonkeySpeedInit.lua, comment out a line and add a modification.
MonkeySpeed.m_strPlayer = "Realm".."|".."Player"; --MonkeySpeed.m_strPlayer = GetCVar("realmName").."|"..MonkeySpeed.m_strPlayer;- +3
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Lenja saidAs of May 31 2007, my tests with MonkeySpeed have shown this:
I used /mscalibrate while running to set normal run speed to 100%.
Run: 100% Epic Mount: 200%
Epic Mount + Carrot: 206% Epic Mount + Spurs: 208% Epic Mount + Glove Enchant: 204% Epic Mount + All 3 Combined: 218%
Epic Mount + Riding Crop: 220% Epic Mount + Crop+Carrot+Spurs+Enchant: 220%
This shows that Riding Crop is superior to the other speed enhancers and that they don't stack. Just use the Crop, keep the others in your bank box or throw them away.
Flying Mount: 160% Flying Mount + Crop: 176%
Epic Flying Mount: 380% Epic Flying Mount + Crop: 418%
By the way, Meta socket gems that increase run speed are very nice. They don't affect riding speed though:
Run: 100% Run + Meta: 108% Epic Mount: 200% Epic Mount + Meta: 200%
Cheers Lenja
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JohnnyBlade saidFor some reason, this isn't mentioed in the readme:
Hit autorun, type /mscalibrate and it will set your speed to 100%. Remove all speed enhancement items first. Works fine for me now. So far...
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turtlenumber13 said@ maldian, i think you also have to instal monkey buddy.
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Aquasol saidActually, that wasn't the problem. I am using Titan Bars, with the bars on the upper boarder of my screen. Usually addons show themselves in the center of the screen(by default) - but it took a fair few /mspeed toggles for me to notice it was neatly being toggled on and off, tucked behind my titan bars.
So for those who might not see it on first go, try turning off all your screen-space-using addons and find your monkeyspeed bar, log out (so it saves the addon's position), and then turn your addons back on. Should work fine from there.
If you find yourself still looking for it, try looking in your Account/[ServerName]/[CharacterName]/layout-cache .txt file, and you'll find MonkeySpeed's coordinates n stuff there (so long as you've logged out once after installation for WoW to update its files), you could fiddle with the X and Y values until the addon pops on an accessible area of your screen.
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maldian saidI installed this addon and got absolutely nothing. I know it must be installed because the slash commands don't give me the Type '/help'... error, but I get absolutely nothing. No new visible frame or bar anywhere, no text feedback, nothing. Any idea what the issue might be?
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Doof saidCan you please update the addon? I really dont think i have 8100% speed while walking and 171% speed with epic mount + Mithril spurs, Carrot, Glove speed enchant and Riding Crop (New TBC speed trinket). I want to know my exact speed with flying and normal epic mount. So i would be really grateful if you updated this addon.
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Jim-Bim said@BuddhaBuddy
With these changes you can recalibrate correctly:
First in MonkeySpeedSlash.lua you need to change
function MonkeySpeedSlash_CmdCalibrate()
to
function MonkeySpeedSlash_CmdCalibrate(cmd)
then somewhere in the function add
if tonumber(cmd) then MonkeySpeed.calibrateSpeed = tonumber(cmd)/100; else MonkeySpeed.calibrateSpeed = 1; end
finally, in monkeyspeed.lua change lines 178 and 180 to the following:
MonkeySpeedConfig.m_ZoneBaseline2[zonenum].rate = (MonkeySpeed.m_fSpeedDist / MonkeySpeed.m_iDeltaTime) / MonkeySpeed.calibrateSpeed;
MonkeySpeedConfig.m_ZoneBaseline1[zonenum].rate = (MonkeySpeed.m_fSpeedDist / MonkeySpeed.m_iDeltaTime) / MonkeySpeed.calibrateSpeed;
After this, you can use /mscalibrate 108 while running and it will display the correct running speed. By the way MonkeySpeed 3.0 will have updated variables used for the speed calculation, too.
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BuddhaBuddy saidIn regards to recalibrate, my Pally has Persuit of Justice, which grants 8% speed bonus. I can't turn it off to recalibrate. Is there some way to make recalibrate take speed bonus talents into account?
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elarbium saidSwift Mount 200% Swift Mount w/ Carrot, Spurs, +Riding enchant 219%
My favorites are Druid, Feline swiftness, 4piece PVP set bonus Cat 150% Cat w/ Dash 184% Travel form 161%
So if you are ever trying to catch a druid...unless you are already mounted, Good luck :p
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