I’ve recently started working on my own mod for us Hunters out there. And while it is not finished yet, I figure it was worth making an announcement since it is almost in a working state. I was going to make this post over the weekend but we all had more pressing things to pay attention to. :)
The mod is called Pick-A-Pet, which does exactly what it sounds like. It is designed to help Hunters quickly determine which buff their party or raid is missing and then tells you what pet you should bring to fill that needed slot.
The current version works from a code stand point as far as analyzing a 5-man group goes (to the best I can tell), but due to known bugs with patch 4.0.1 the inspect feature is breaking frequently, preventing the mod from looping the your group properly and identifying each player’s class and spec. (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27188062708&sid=1&pageNo=1#12)
I am currently working on the pet recommendation part, but it does make it a challenge to test out when I can’t inspect a full group. But let me share my vision with you.
Currently the mod has 9 icons on the screen, representing the 9 buffs outlined in Zee’s Pet Usage Flowchart. (http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4753)
Some buffs can be brought by multiple pet families which is indicated in the tooltip of each icon, as well as what spec the pet family requires and whether you are currently able to bring that buff depending on your spec.
The next goal is obviously finishing up the pet recommendation part, which is also going to look at your 4 active pets (5 come Cataclysm) and see which pets you currently have to further customize the pet recommendation. At this point I am unsure of methods in place for checking the actual stabled pets so we will see how that goes. You will then be able to click on the pet family icons to call your corresponding pet of that family if you have one.
Currently the mod only works for 5-player groups, but once I know it is working and the inspect function in WoW is fixed, I will be able to quickly add the ability to loop through your raid and determine class and spec of each player.
The final goal at this point, which can obviously change as suggestions and bugs are found, is to add a Pally Power-type mechanism in place to allow multiple Hunters to coordinate their pet buffs with each other.
I have a permanent page up now, which you can find right here or using the menu up top. Faeldray has suggested I put it up on Curse for bug reports, but I am not really a Curse fan though I do love version control and what not. So we will see.
As for now, you can find it on it’s official page up there as development continues. Hope you guys enjoy it and I look forward to it working completely once the WoW inspect bug is fixed.
You really should put it on Curseforge. Curse is good stuff, and I’d probably be the first person to donate cashmoney to the dev progress of this add-on :P
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If not Curse/Curseforge, then maybe WoWInterface or WoWAce (if they don’t require you to use the Ace framework for their mods)? I mostly think it would just be nice for the tickets, as well as the ease of updating through the clients.
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You guys convinced me. :) I will probably be setting it up on Curseforge tonight.
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hey there. you might want to take a look at the addon Raidchecklist as it does what your already trying to code for raid sized groups. The author might be able to help you out :)
I use an addon named RaidComp for checking all the buff of the raid, you might want to have a look too.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/arc.aspx
I can do the French localization if you want, I’d be glad to help. Don’t hesitate to mail me the localization file.
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Wowinterface > Curseforge imo.
I just wanted to let you know that I mentioned your blog and mod on our most recent episode of the Hunting Party Podcast (episode 55). It was in response to a listener question if any such mod existed or were under development.
I’m looking forward to trying it out. Keep up the good work, and nice job on picking up the LUA and XML so quickly.
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I heard about this on the Hunting Party Podcast (as Darkbrew says above, he mentioned it), I’m really looking forward to trying it out!
Hey hey, glad you guys stopped by! You can be sure as soon as the in-game inspection is fixed and I can properly test buff checking that all the other features such as raid groups will be rolled out shortly after!
Drotara recently posted..Drotara’s Mod- Pick-A-Pet
Hi
If you get this mod working it would be absolutely fantastic. I’ll be checking both here and on curse for it.
I am definitely still working on this mod, so don’t worry! Once I hit 85 (1.5 levels to go) it is going to be my in-game priority.
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