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Overachiever

Version: 1.0.9

by: Tuhljin [More]

Tools and tweaks to make the lives of players seeking achievements a little bit easier.

Overachiever is highly configurable and has many features, many (but not all) of which are listed below. Most features can be disabled and/or tweaked.

Options can be found using the /oa command or at Interface Options -> AddOns tab -> Overachiever.

A Few Highlights

New tabs added to the GUI:
- Search: Search for achievements by name, description, reward, and more. (Quickly search by name using slash commands like "/ach food".)
- Suggestions: Get suggested achievements based on your current location, active holiday events, etc.
- Watch: Create custom watch lists of achievements.
- Related: See how achievements relate to each other.
Tooltip and audio reminders for objectives you find in the world (and in your bags).
Automatically track exploration achievements as you travel.
Automatically track timed achievements when the timer starts.

Achievement Tooltip Enhancements

Add information from progress bars and normally-hidden progress information. (For example, "Progress: 5/10" or "Assault 2 bases (0/2).")
Compare progress using chat links: Display your progress below that of the player who linked the achievement.
Optionally add the achievement's ID to its tooltip. (Convenient for addon authors.)
Ctrl+click on an achievement link to open the GUI to that achievement. Ctrl+click again to track it.

GUI Enhancements

Draggable Frames: The achievement frame is draggable.
New tabs added to the default achievement frame, as highlighted above.
Cooking Trade Skill UI:
- Display icons next to recipes you need to cook for "The Northrend Gourmet", "The Legion Menu", and similar achievements. Ctrl+click on one of these recipes to open the UI to the achievement that requires it.
- Works with the default UI, Advanced Trade Skill Window, Skillet, and lilsparky's branch of Skillet. (Users of lilsparky's branch must Alt+click instead of Ctrl+click to open to the achievement.)
Display a tooltip when the cursor is over certain achievements in the GUI:
- ''Part of a series'': Give the names of other achievements in the series and its relation to them.
- ''Required by'': Give the names of any meta-achievements that list this achievement as a criteria.
Meta-criteria (achievements displayed as the criteria for obtaining a larger achievement) in the GUI use a detailed achievement tooltip instead of simply giving the date the criteria was completed (or nothing if it isn't complete).

Tooltip and Audio Reminders

Add information to units', items', and/or world objects' tooltips to help you complete...
- "To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before", "To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life": Do I need to /love this critter?
- "Pest Control": Have I exterminated this critter?
- "Well Read", "Higher Learning": Have I read this book?
- "The Scavenger," "Outland Angler," "Northrend Angler": Have I fished this type of node?
- "It's Happy Hour Somewhere", "Tastes Like Chicken": Have I consumed this food or drink?
- "Northern Exposure", "Medium Rare", and many others: Do I need to kill this creature? (Includes many dungeon and raid-based achievements.)
Holiday Achievements:
- "Let It Snow": Do I need to use a Handful of Snowflakes on this player?
- "Fistful of Love": Do I need to use a Handful of Rose Petals on this player?
- "Shake Your Bunny-Maker": Do I need to use Spring Flowers on this player?
Sound Reminder: Choose a sound to play when one of the above tooltip reminders shows up if you need to do something.

Key Bindings

You can associate key bindings with each of the new tabs added to the Achievement frame using the standard key binding interface. The new bindings are located under the heading "Overachiever."

Localization

Localized to one degree or another for English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese. Translations generously provided by your fellow overachievers.

Disabling Modules

Some of Overachiever's features are implemented using modules, namely Overachiever_Tabs and Overachiever_Trade. Modules have their own folders that should be placed inside the Interface\AddOns folder alongside Overachiever. They can be enabled or disabled as you would a separate addon. Additionally, the individual tabs of the Tabs module (Search, Suggestions, Watch, Related) can be disabled by deleting or renaming the corresponding .lua files (Search.lua, Suggestions.lua, etc.).

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This is a one-man project that can be quite time-consuming, depending on Blizzard's whims. All donations of any size are appreciated.

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- Tuhljin

The change log lists changes of particular note to users, not every change made.

v1.0.9
- Updated TOC for WoW patch 8.3.
- Fix missing tooltip textures for achievement reminders and missing checkmark texture for completed achievements in various places (recent reminders, series list, meta requirements).
- Add options to show reminder text for kill-criteria achievements and the "Azeroth at War..." (mission table) achievements when the achievement is complete.
- Suggestions Tab:
-- Added suggestions for Chamber of Heart.
-- Added suggestions related to Black Empire Assaults on Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
-- Added suggestion for Mardivas's Laboratory.
-- Fix Mechagon Island suggestions not appearing. (Now listed under "Mechagon.")
-- Added "The Fourth War" to War Campaign Ships suggestions.
-- Added "Scrappy's Best Friend" to Mechagon Island suggestions.
-- Added suggestions for the Battle for Darkshore warfront.
-- Added suggestions for the Battle for Stromgarde heroic warfront.
-- Added suggestion for revamped Deepwind Gorge battleground.
- Fix other variables leaking into global scope.

v1.0.8
- Updated TOC for WoW patch 8.2.5.
- Remove possible unneeded/misleading error messages and fix variables leaking into global scope.

v1.0.7
- Corrected references to Blizzard sound files.
- Reminder sound selection dropdown:
-- Now divides sounds from other addons into alphabetical groups to better handle large numbers of sounds.
-- Added a few more Blizzard sounds.

v1.0.6
- Updated TOC for WoW patch 8.2.
- Suggestions Tab: New suggestions added for the zones Mechagon Island and Nazjatar, the dungeon Operation: Mechagon, and the raid The Eternal Palace.
- "Shake Your Bunny-Maker": Updated tooltip check to match its new requirements.

v1.0.5
- Updated for WoW patch 8.1.
- "Eat Your Greens" (new): Added an option to display a reminder tooltip for eating plants in Nazmir.
- Suggestions Tab:
-- Added suggestions for the Battle for Stromgarde warfront.
-- Added suggestions for the dungeons Freehold, Shrine of the Storm, Waycrest Manor, Siege of Boralus, Atal'Dazar, The MOTHERLODE!!, The Underrot, Temple of Sethraliss, and Kings' Rest.
-- Added more suggestions for Tol Dagor (dungeon).
- Battle for Azeroth's "Adventurer of..." achievements: Added "need to kill" reminders for the criteria that needed manual entry of mob IDs.
- "To All the Squirrels..." achievements: Fix reminder tooltip not showing for certain critters that aren't / are no longer technically classed as critters (such as the sheep in Elwynn Forest).
- Attempt to make the draggable achievement frame feature more compatible with other addons.
- Recent Reminders feature:
-- If a recently spotted objective is complete, then its tooltip text is now colored green and will have a checkmark next to it.
-- "Azeroth at War..." achievements: Missions can now be flagged as recently spotted objectives.
-- Fixed an issue where reminders triggered by a timer resulted in a tooltip indicating recently spotted objectives but with none listed.

v1.0.4
- "Azeroth at War: The Barrens", "Azeroth at War: After Lordaeron", "Azeroth at War: Kalimdor on Fire" (new): Added an option to display a reminder tooltip in the mission UI for completing missions.
- "Three Sheets to the Wind" (new): Added an option to display a reminder tooltip for acquiring drinks.
- Suggestions Tab:
-- Added suggestions for Tol Dagor (dungeon) and the War Campaign Ships (Banshee's Wail and Wind's Redemption).
-- Removed suggestions that are now Feats of Strength.
- Fixed an issue where tooltips indicating whether an item needs to be consumed would appear even when the related option's checkbox was unchecked.
- Fixed reminder tooltip not showing for some mobs required for Legion's "Adventurer of..." achievements.
- Cache module: Fixed an issue that prevented the use of stored data from the opposing faction if a character of that faction hadn't been logged into since the release of a new WoW build or Overachiever version. (Data for the other faction should generally be considered reliable enough to use even if it will be rebuilt when you next log into a character of that faction.)

v1.0.3
- Trade module: "The Kul Tiran Menu" or "The Zandalari Menu" is now considered when determining if you need to cook a recipe.
- Fixed an issue where some of the opposing faction's achievements were sometimes automatically tracked in battlegrounds.
- Cache module:
-- This module now improves the accuracy of cross-faction data. For instance, the meta-achievement "Master of Warsong Gulch" requires a different version of "Quick Cap" for each faction. Without the cache module, only the "Quick Cap" for your own faction indicates that it is required by another achievement. With Overachiever_Cache enabled, both versions now indicate this.
-- For a complete cache, you will need to have logged into both an Alliance and a Horde character. (Most of the time, this is a non-issue. Most cached data is not faction specific. Even faction-specific achievements usually provide the same data to both factions.)
-- The tooltip indicating an achievement is required for a meta-achievement can now display an Alliance or Horde icon to show when the cache indicates the requirement is exclusive to one faction.
-- Fixed an issue where populating the cache while logged into a character of one faction prevented data from the other faction from being added.

v1.0.2
- Correct an issue that prevents the cache module from being loaded.

v1.0.1
- A new module has been added, Overachiever_Cache. When enabled (which it is by default), it should reduce load times once its cache is populated. The cache is rebuilt whenever Overachiever runs after a new build of WoW was released. (If the option "Startup: Throttle achievement lookup" is enabled, then this may improve performance instead of load time.)
- Trade module: Fix achievement information not showing in Cooking window.
- Suggestions Tab:
-- Added numerous suggestions for Battle for Azeroth zones.
-- Add more suggestions to the Draenor garrison.
-- Suggest "Choppin' Even More Logs" to Horde characters in their garrison instead of "Choppin' Some Logs" since the wrong faction's version was showing if the series progressed. (WoW API gives Alliance version as part of the series regardless of your faction.)
-- Suggest "Chromie Homie" at Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight (instead of only when actually inside The Deaths of Chromie scenario).
- Added achievements for Battle for Azeroth zones to exploration auto-tracking.

v1.0.0
- Updated for Battle for Azeroth beta and pre-patch, WoW patch 8.0.x. Updated TOC and made many required changes.
- This release is backward compatible with Legion. (This may not be the case for future releases.)
- Reworked the achievement search system. Searches should generally take less time and they now allow other activity to continue during a search.
- Search Tab:
-- "Personal" type split into "Personal" and "Other." The latter are achievements that do not have a category which belongs in the base UI. (Since all of them are unlisted achievements, selecting the "Other" type causes the search to include unlisted achievements even when the box to do so is unchecked.)
-- Added an option to direct searches started by slash commands (like "/ach") to the Search tab.
- When not directed to the Search tab, slash commands that searched for achievements will now also search through unlisted achievements. Excludes the "silent" slash commands such as "/achs". (When directed to the tab, whether they include unlisted achievements is determined by the relevant checkbox found there.)
- Minimap tooltips are now properly supported by the tooltip reminders feature. Up/down arrows (indicating a node's relative vertical position) do not prevent the reminder from showing and multiple nodes showing in the tooltip at once are now handled.
- Suggestions Tab: Added suggestions for Seething Shore.
- Tabs module: Added text overlay to indicate when the achievement completion filter (earned or incomplete) has caused an achievement to be omitted from the Suggestions or Related tabs.
- Improved ability to toggle tracking an achievement by ctrl+clicking on its link. Overachiever will now attempt to toggle tracking when the selected achievement is part of a series to which the linked achievement belongs (rather than requiring the linked achievement itself to be selected).
- Option "Startup: Throttle achievement lookup" is now disabled by default and it is automatically disabled for users upgrading from a pre-1.0 version of Overachiever.

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12-09-10, 05:07 PM

Tuhljin

A Flamescale Wyrmkin

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Originally posted by justinm
Are there plans to get Overachiever updated for the new Cata achievements? I assume yes, but you've spoiled me for things like "For all the squirrels who cared for me".

Then you'll like this:

- "To All the Squirrels Who Cared for Me" (new): Critters' /loved status for this achievement is now part of the option that exists for "To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before" and "To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life."

12-09-10, 09:30 AM
justinm A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 58 Uploads: 0	Are there plans to get Overachiever updated for the new Cata achievements? I assume yes, but you've spoiled me for things like "For all the squirrels who cared for me".

12-08-10, 03:30 PM
Tuhljin A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 106 File comments: 233 Uploads: 10	brr: Again, when you're doing that, please try it with all addons disabled and again with only Overachiever enabled. If you can find a reliable method of making the FPS drop happen, please give it to me with lots of specifics (zones you crossed between, if tracking an achievement or checking/unchecking a particular Overachiever or WoW option makes a difference, etc.). That's the only way to get a "pure" test. If it doesn't happen in either case, then slowly start enabling other addons alongside Overachiever and we may find out which addon combination is doing this. Last edited by Tuhljin : 12-08-10 at 03:33 PM.

12-08-10, 08:04 AM
brr A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	I'll run some tests with deleting it entirely including any settings files I can find but yes it was logging in to the game and when zoning between areas, going in to dungeons and out, etc. And both I and my friend are experiencing the same behavior...and as achievement junkies you can understand we are sad Let me test a little more and get back to you.

12-07-10, 03:02 PM
Tuhljin A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 106 File comments: 233 Uploads: 10	brr: Are we talking about zoning in and out at any time, such as entering/leaving an instance, moving to a new continent, etc., or just logging in? (It sounded like you meant the former.) After the player initially enters the world at log in, I don't believe Overachiever even does anything in reaction to zoning (unless you count the quick one-time check for auto-tracking for exploration achievements, which it also does when you simply walk into a new area). Are you using a fresh install of Overachiever? The entire Overachiever folder deleted, then the new version put in its place? Same question goes for others with FPS problems.

12-07-10, 02:53 PM
Tuhljin A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 106 File comments: 233 Uploads: 10	I'm trying to nail down the FPS issue but I'm not able to replicate it so far. I'm usually getting 40-100+ FPS so maybe it only happens on slower systems (multithreading may influence this also), but when trying to replicate this I turned display of FPS on and watched that and it wasn't dropping any more than it normally did. Mousing over various things - units, items, minimap icons, etc., never produced a stutter (except when all addons were enabled, not just Overachiever; I suspect some other addons I regularly use are involved in that, though interestingly enough, it did seem to start just recently, maybe after that WoW patch). Since being in combat with large groups was mentioned, I ran a couple Isle of Conquest matches and charged headlong into the enemy raid. In one match no addons were running while in the other only Overachiever was enabled. FPS dropped about the same both times. It's really baffling because Overachiever doesn't do anything all that fancy regarding combat - it's not reading the combat log or anything. All this starting with a patch from Blizzard is annoying as well, making me wonder what they messed with that they didn't tell us about.

12-07-10, 02:05 PM

Chilius

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

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Originally posted by Tuhljin
Those with FPS problems - when did the problem start ?

I think it started with the 4.0.3a patch.
Some other addons that are also using the LibBabble-Inventory-3.0 and/or LibBabble-Zone-3.0 libraries had issues also.
Both libraries have been updated a few times since that patch, so maybe that has something to do with it.

12-07-10, 12:01 PM
brr A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	I unfortunately have to concur with the performance issues. I see it in game when mousing over but that was a little more subtle than the issue I have zoning. Overachiever enabled adds about 3-5 seconds of the screen sitting there, the zoning loading bar fully "loaded" and often a spinning clock. As soon as I disable the addon the zoning in and out of places moves at the normal uninterrupted pace. Overachiever alone still causes the issue. If there is some way of tracking what the addon or addons are doing I would be happy to pull this data and share it.

12-06-10, 12:54 AM
Tuhljin A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 106 File comments: 233 Uploads: 10	Those with FPS problems - when did the problem start? Has it happened with Overachiever v0.57 all along, or did it only begin with WoW 4.0.3 or 4.0.3a?

12-05-10, 08:11 AM
Cacheelma A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 22 Uploads: 0	I too have experienced a very HEAVY stuttering whenever I mouse-over something with a tooltip, be it Blizzard standard icons (character, guild, help, etc) or items with Overachiever enabled. The overall performance become worse as well but the stuttering is the most noticable and very easy to reproduce. You don't need to open anything up after logging in. Just enable Overachiever and hold your mouse over something to make the tooltip appear. And yes I did try disable all other addons and enable only Overachiever and the problem is there; disabling Overachiever solves the problem. Please fix it soon.

12-05-10, 02:37 AM
CryoniC A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	FPS Drop I also had this problem where my FPS dropped into the single digits during a raid when I opened the Achievement frame. It was during an Ulduar run and we were in combat fighting trash when I opened the "Lich King Raid" category and shift-clicked some achieves to track when my FPS dropped to single digits until combat was over. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of achievements now in that category?

12-04-10, 06:37 PM

braelin

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Tuhljin
harl, braelin: You're sure this is caused by Overachiever? I've never had that problem. Are you using the English client with the latest version of Overachiever? Braelin, you said it stopped with Overachiever disabled, but did you try it with Overachiever enabled and all other addons disabled?

Because Overachiever has to look at things like fishing nodes, which don't have a OnTooltipSet<something> to hook into like items, units, and achievements do, we have to examine the tooltip whenever it's shown.

As an experiment to see whether throttling would be useful, both of you please open Overachiever\GameTip.lua and find the line reading "function Overachiever.ExamineOneLiner(tooltip)". Immediately after that line, add this line: "if (true) then return; end" (without quotes). That will prevent reminders being added to things like fishing nodes and unread books, but since you've said the FPS drops when mousing over non-item, non-unit things like the menu icons, it's the obvious place to look.

I wouldn't be able to test it with only overachiever installed. It's pretty random, but it seem to happen most in a raid environment. Having only overachiever installed then wouldn't work... It's really a strange issue because it seems to happen (for me) only when in combat and attacking. Two other people in my raid group had the same problem after installing Overachiever too. Perhaps there's some conflict with another addon we're all running.

If I have an opportunity to try your suggestions out, I will and let you know how it goes.

12-04-10, 04:34 PM
Tuhljin A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 106 File comments: 233 Uploads: 10	Theondry: Just selecting the Suggestions tab? Hmm, I don't have that problem, either. Does it still happen if Overachiever is the only addon enabled? As for making search results update as terms are changed, it's possible but would probably create a performance hit that even I would notice -- but maybe that's because I usually search using the "any of the above" field with "search all achievements" checked. I may look into it. Last edited by Tuhljin : 12-04-10 at 04:35 PM.

12-04-10, 11:33 AM
Theondry A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 11 File comments: 110 Uploads: 1	with regard to overachiever affecting performance, I have noticed that if I open up the Achievement tab and go to an OA specific tab, such as suggestions, my game will begin to freeze up significantly, producing a "spinning pinwheel of death" (I run on a Mac). This ends up requiring either a '/console reloadui' (if I can type it in between freezes) or to hard close the game. As an aside and feature request, would you be willing (or is it even possible) to have search results update as the search term is being typed out? __________________ Theondry of Perenolde Last edited by Theondry : 12-04-10 at 11:36 AM.

12-01-10, 05:07 PM

Tuhljin

A Flamescale Wyrmkin

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harl, braelin: You're sure this is caused by Overachiever? I've never had that problem. Are you using the English client with the latest version of Overachiever? Braelin, you said it stopped with Overachiever disabled, but did you try it with Overachiever enabled and all other addons disabled?

Originally posted by harl
Maybe you could throttle tooltip updates somehow? or even better maybe you could completely prevent Overachiever from scanning/modifying certain tooltips? (I may be wrong, but since something like the calendar button or a multi-part mail doesn't really have anything to do with achievements, it should be identifiable and excludable somehow, right?)

Because Overachiever has to look at things like fishing nodes, which don't have a OnTooltipSet<something> to hook into like items, units, and achievements do, we have to examine the tooltip whenever it's shown.

As an experiment to see whether throttling would be useful, both of you please open Overachiever\GameTip.lua and find the line reading "function Overachiever.ExamineOneLiner(tooltip)". Immediately after that line, add this line: "if (true) then return; end" (without quotes). That will prevent reminders being added to things like fishing nodes and unread books, but since you've said the FPS drops when mousing over non-item, non-unit things like the menu icons, it's the obvious place to look.

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