Funny logic - don't fix AVR, because that would break other addons.

You should realize that as long as it is possible - there will be someone who would fix it and keep it private. Therefore when you try to save other addons, in fact you give someone who is willing to overcome blizz limitations an unfair advantage. Blocking that opportunity on the other hand will be complately fair, even if that would make other addons useless.

btw you can most likely use friendly nameplates as an anchors to find out camera positions if there is atleast 2 of them present on screen - not very reliable, but in most cases will be enough.
Range checks are even easier - draw lines to nameplates to indicate being too close. I can share PoC code with this feature.

wasnt that often i read so much crap in a comment....

although its most prolly pointless to explain it to you - how can you know HOW they would 'fix' it?
Eventually they fix it in a way that pleases blizzard. It is not that they dont like addons that makes raiding easier - they just dont liked on AVR that it was drawing on the 3d world. Blizzar never said (AFAIK) that they would also dislike it to draw on the '2d' world like lots other addons do.
Theres HUDs for example that come close in what they do liek AVR but put it on a overlay instead of drawing in 3d - it thats what blizzard wants and AVR fixes it that way it will be of no harm to any other addon out there.

And only because YOU (pro i guess) didnt use AVR makes everyone else bad players...

I've never used this addon, I raid just fine without it.

Blizzard does not like this addon... they don't want people drawing on their 3d world I guess? It makes raids too easy I suppose?

Why blizzard doesn't like this sort of addon doesn't matter.. the fact that they don't like it, and the fact that blizzard chooses what addons can and cannot do, makes this addon dangerous to the entire addon community.

If you try to work-around any limitations placed by blizzard, you will only succeed in provoking blizz to implement even more limitations.

IF YOU FIX THIS ADDON BLIZZARD WILL BREAK IT AGAIN... and in-turn blizzard will inadvertently break other useful addons, addons that I use, addons that many other people use.


SUMMARY:

Blizz doesn't like this crap, so you're fked, just give it up...
..or try to fix it, and take everybody else down with you.

Your choice.

Edit:
Maybe if the addon authors talk with blizz and ask them where the line is drawn, then build a new addon that doesn't cross that line.. you might have something usable.

If Blizzard is going to take away the possibility for addons to capture the position of the camera at least the following may be possible:

Assuming we know the distance of the camera (because we set is to a value) and the angle (because we move to a top-down view) then the range check could still work. Its so helpfull when spreading out at Bloodprince Council that I hate to lose that.

It was a great addon as a healer. Good job making this and upsetting seeing blizzard taking this away...

Thank you for your innovative addon and the hard work you guys put into this project. It's very sad to see it go like this.

Well... back to using smoke flares -.-

Godspeed you, Olog! AVR is one of the coolest, most innovative mods I have ever used. I heard the news today about 3.3.5, and was very very disappointed - both for the UI community and for you, who have put so much into making this incredible mod. Don't let it stop you, though, you are an awesome programmer, and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future :] Thank you for bringing this mod to all of us!!

That was only a matter of time.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...Id=25002150557

Sorry for the effort you put into it, Olog.

PTR issues are the least of your worries, unfortunately.

Blizzard are deliberately breaking AVR in the 3.3.5 patch.

See blue post here.

Enjoy it while it lasts, folks... and thanks for your hard work, Olog.

Only to report that AVR is messing something up in graphics in last version on PTR (0.3.5 "12045") and fps is going realy bad =/

Posted something similar for TomTom:
When I am idling in Dalaran, and AVR has no scenes to display, then TomTom and AVR are still eating up CPU time. Seems to get worse when I disable vsync. Same in instances and raids. Nothing to display, but AVR still eats up CPU time. Less than during raids where AVR actually gets to display stuff, but I was wondering why AVR seems to do such a lot while doing nothing...
Not a big deal, just wondering.

Getting this to work in areas without proper maps is definitely possible, but it would likely require everyone in the group to have the addon, and you'd have to use an unorthodox way of getting the relative location info from the minimap. Because of this, there would be certain limitations... but it would be accurate up to a modest range. I had to do this in my EchoPort addon to track the location of a warlock portal; I could see a similar approach working for AVR in this rare setting, but you'd have to come up with a clean way of handling all of the pings.