Comments on: Featured Addon: Spirit Guide

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:51:14 +0000

@Gararf: NOW the link is working. ^_^ Sorry. Anyway, that looks really cool, and the features sound promising. Best of luck.

P.S. Is there any way you might consider adding a toggle to the minimap button of Spirit Guide? I hate minimap buttons personally, and I have to disable the addon when I’m not using it as a result.

By: Gararf

Gararf — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:17:10 +0000

link still works 100% for me, i’ll add some direct links to screenshots so you can see what i’ve done so far. i might even upload my alpha version to curse today so i can give ppl liks for download, it needs lots of testers because of the way it works i cant test it on myself. screenshots:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii71/gararf/My%20Addon%20Pics/WoWScrnShot_070808_203608.jpg
Scanning in progress (the writing flashes)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii71/gararf/My%20Addon%20Pics/WoWScrnShot_070708_040110.jpg
splash screen flashes when you login, (can be disabled):
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii71/gararf/My%20Addon%20Pics/WoWScrnShot_070608_200654.jpg

im getting a huge amount of bugs as i have to do lots of validation from shared information, there has to be a kind of version number for each peice of data otherwise you end up with alot of incorrect data being shared.
scanning the guild bank works perfect though! im thinking of getting it to scan item tooltips too, but this will be performance intensive. unfortunately toolips provide all the information about items, there is no API command to get information about items.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:10:56 +0000

@Gararf: That sounds really great! The link you’ve provided appears to no longer exist, though! New link?

By: Gararf

Gararf — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:36:22 +0000

Ahh well the benefits of my new addon are:
1. You Can see the contents of the guild bank wherever you are
2. The contents of the guild bank is shared between guild members so that even if you havnt been to the guild bank, you still have an up to date list of everything in there
3. You can set additinal information like whether the guild is buying / selling each item and for what price
4. The list is concise unlike the guild bank where quantities are limited by stacks , in my addon the items are shown with a single quantity per item
5. The items may be filtered and searched for
6. “Requests” allow for more than one person to veiw your request
7. Requests promote an easier system of getting things from your guild bank, which i think currently nigh impossible short of having a guild bank open to theft.
8. Requests provide a way for transactions to be recorded where everyone can see them, letting the general populace know officers dont just steal everything in sight.

it dosent actually do all that stuff yet, but i know how to do it and im well on my way,

was that enuff for you?
oh i do like this addon!

Heres the creation blog along with alpha versions for download
http://www.eurokremguild.net/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=263&p=1535

and yes i would concider doing that stuff, but not immediately, im abit obsessive about this addon atm, been working on it two days straight.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:26:25 +0000

@Gararf:
Your new addon sounds like it could be cool, but how would it be more beneficial than the current system that allows a guild to make tabs with withdrawal limits? It seems like if it were something that needed to be handled on a special basis, you could set a tab that only officers could access and then members could just send them an in-game mail with their request?

The graphing function was not obvious to me. It would probably be worthwhile to label the vertical axis. Is it possible to make each plottable value a different color?

By: Gararf

Gararf — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:35:56 +0000

well i thought it was preety obvious, the vertical axis is Mana regeneration, and the horizontal axis is whatever you checked in tick boxes. so you can see the different relationships between mana regeneration. when you choose the MRC the heroizontal axis is automatically on a scale of 0 to 1 and cant be modified, but you can easily adjust the scales with the other graphs with the slider bars.
im very proud of that graph function.

you can get some intresting effects when you add in an innervate, because the mana gained from innervate is also dependant upon the intellect.

and fight length graph is abit deceptive, the base mana from intellect causes it to be that shape, if you remove it from the advanced options, then its just a flat line as fight length dosent affect mana regeneration.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:01:30 +0000

@Gararf: The graphing function looks pretty cool, but it’s not really clear to me what it’s intended to be graphing?

By: Gararf

Gararf — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:26:24 +0000

I’ve started work on another addon, have no fear though i’ll still keep this one updated, i want to make somthing more generic, mana regeneration is a preety specific area that not many people are interested in.
Its going to be a request system for buying and selling items to and from the guild bank.
so what do ya think? in theory: a worthwhile addon for guilds to use?

By: Gararf

Gararf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:30 +0000

I’ve Added a Graph Drawing function! im reallly excited about this, the programming is tough but i’ve succeeded thus far and you can draw a variety of graphs that illustrate the different relationships between the factors. The Curse version has also been updated, but that went out of date the next day. you’ll see what i mean when i upload version 1.3

I had to revise all my old code to get to this point, so its all up from here.

its getting to be quite a mammoth addon :>

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:57:21 +0000

@Gararf: I really appreciate you converting these calculations to a UI addon. But while the math may have been ours (Mr. and Mrs. Phae), the programming is yours. So thank you. =)