Combined Viewing Mode on AlphaMap Netherstorm BG Map
PartySpotter
v5.16.30100
Telic has been kind (crazy) enough to allow me to take over the care and feeding of this beast. Please be patient with me a bit while I get up to speed on the code. I'll get regular updates going as soon as I can. In the meantime, please feel free to visit PartySpotter's official technical support forum in the "Support" section at http://forums.nUIaddon.com for any questions or comments you may have on this addon.
Summary
Small, standalone Modification that adds extra information to the Party/Raid dots and tooltips (compatible with BG Raid groups).
Compatible with WorldMap, BattlefieldMinimap, AlphaMap (including AlphaMap Battleground maps).
Has Multiple viewing modes - just use the provided key binding or Left-Click on the WorldMap PartySpotter button to cycle through them when in a Raid/Battleground and see which mode you find most useful.
Default mode displays player dots as numbered icons showing the Raid Group they belong to, and are also coloured based on the character class of that player.
Rings around player dots will also indicate when players are :
Corpses (Black ring)
Ghosts (Grey ring)
AFK/Inactive (Pink ring)
In Combat (Red ring)
Now integrated with both the Raid Frame, and the Battlefield Score Board
: mouse over players to flash their position on the map.
: mouse over Class buttons to highlight all players of that class on the map.
: Alt-Click on Players to permanently highlight them and track them via the minimap
Individual groups can be highlighted on the map by clicking on that group number in the PartySpotter Map Key (Map Legend).
Chat messages can be prefixed with the number of the Raid Group a player is in, and/or they can be coloured based on the Raid group the player is in if viewing Coloured Raid group dots.
Can also highlight Friends or Ignores or Guild Mates in the Raid. Key binding or WorldMap Button can be used to cycle through the different highlighting modes.
Use a key binding or <Control>-Left-Click on the WorldMap PartySpotter button to show/hide Map Keys.
Can also track the Raid Leader via slash command
USE "/pspot" FOR A STATUS REPORT AND A FULL LIST OF SLASH COMMANDS.
IMPORTANT KEY BINDINGS INTENDED AS THE MAIN / EASIEST WAY TO CHANGE PARTYSPOTTER BEHAVIOUR
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- Key binding to highlight your Party members only so you can check where they are
Press again to go back to the viewing mode you were using previously
- Key binding to cycle through the main PartySpotter modes
1.) Show Numbered Raid sub-groups coloured by Character Class
2.) Show Differently Coloured Raid sub-groups
3.) Show Numbered Raid sub-groups
4.) Show Player dots Coloured based on Character Class
5.) Show All Other Raid sub-groups in the same colour
NOTE: Left-Click on the WorldMap PartySpotter Button to cycle through the above viewing modes
- Key binding to cycle through the PartySpotter highlighting functions
1.) Friends
2.) Ignores
3.) Guild mates
4.) No Highlighting
NOTE: Right-Click on the WorldMap PartySpotter Button to cycle through the highlighting modes
- Key binding to Show/Hide the Map Keys
NOTE: <Control>-Left-Click on the WorldMap PartySpotter Button to Show/Hide the Map Keys
Slash Commands
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/pspot : Displays the status of PartySpotter, and this list of Commands
/pspot 0 : Disable PartySpotter (i.e. /pspot followed by a zero)
/pspot <1 - 10> : Enable PartySpotter and set the delay between WorldMap Updates in seconds.
Default value at install is 10.
PartySpotter is now mainly event driven, so I'd suggest "/pspot 10" is the best way to enable PartySpotter if previously disabled.
(It is possible to use a decimal point and set this vaue to 0.5, or 3.6 for example)
/pspot showgroups combined : If in a Raid, then player dots will show the Raid Group number they belong to, AND the dots will be coloured based on the character's Class
/pspot showgroups icons : If in a Raid, then people in different sub-groups will be represented by different coloured icons
/pspot showgroups numbers : If in a Raid, then people in different sub-groups will be represented by icons clearly marked with their group number
/pspot showgroups off : If in a Raid, then people in different sub-groups will be represented by the same Orange icon. Your local Party/group members are still highlighted differently as Blue
/pspot showclasses : If in a Raid, then Player dots will be coloured based on their Character Class as per the colours in the Blizzard Raid Frame
/pspot showfriends : to TOGGLE the highlighting of Friends
/pspot showignores : to TOGGLE the highlighting of Ignores
/pspot showguild : to TOGGLE the highlighting of Guild mates
/pspot -l : to TOGGLE the highlighting of your Raid leader (Marked by a Red "1")
/pspot -t <name> : will highlight the specified individual(s), so that you don't have to mouse over lots of icons to find one single person (Marked by a red "X")
Right-Click Menu option when clicking on a Party/Raid Portrait or Chat frame Name to Highlight a player will also do the same thing.
Highlighted Players will be tracked in the Minimap
The slash command has been extended and can accept multiple names separated by a comma and/or spaces)
To remove an individual player's highlighting, simply highlight them again to toggle them off.
To clear the entire list, use the "/pspot -t" slash command with no name parameter.
/pspot -t : leaving the name blank, will cancel the highlighting of any highlighted player(s)
/pspot -c : to TOGGLE coloured BattleGround/Raid messages when showing different coloured map icons
/pspot -n : to TOGGLE Raid Group Numbered Chat Messages
/pspot -s < 8 - 36 > : to adjust the size of the PartySpotter Icons (Default 18)
/pspot reset : reset all defaults, and anchor the map keys to the default map positions
Change Log - PartySpotter
Changes in v5.16.30301
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- Fixed a packaging error
Changes in v5.16.30300
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- Verified function and Updated TOC for Patch 3.3
Changes in v5.16.30100 from v5.15.30100
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- fix to unit right click menu support
hanges in v5.15.30100 from v5.14.30100
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- fix to mouseover tooltip error
Changes in v5.14.30100 from v5.12.30100
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- fix to Rotating Minimap support in 3.1
(NOTE: This version is backward compatible with 3.0.9 - but must Load Out of Date AddOns)
Changes in v5.12.30100 from v5.12.30000
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- toc update for WoW Patch 3.1
(NOTE: This version is backward compatible with 3.0.9 - but must Load Out of Date AddOns)
I have removed the PayPal buttons from WoWInterface, which makes it easy to do - and I am TRYING to remove them from Curse & WoWUI also, which seems to be a lot trickier.
I may come back to WoW some time next year - but probably not...
If anyone wants to take over development then you can e-mail me at the contact e-mail below, and I will cooperate as needed.
Sorry, and thanks for all your support over the years.
Originally posted by Telic Mmm, I'd have to have a think...
How would you want the 'external' raid group information displayed ?
It might be 'relatively' easy to display it in the tooltip information for example ?
A whole new mode for displaying 'external' raid groupings in the map player dots, as opposed to 'BG' groupings could get tricky, especially when your external raid group wasn't full, and the BG groups are from a mixture of realms.... I guess in 'external' raid group mode, players from other realms could have an 'X' as their group number or something...
ummm, in our premades there's no more than 2 or 4 pugs, in Alterac Valley too!. I was thinking in saving the groups in an array or something. The way that personally would do that (if i had resources >_>) would be only showing the (real) number of the group to the ones inside your real raid and managing the pugs like gray points (and making a switch to activate that mode)
Omg... sorry, my english is too much poor, hopefully this helps you
I'll be glad if there were a way to invite you to one of our raids in holyday, that would help you to bring some ideas to organized PVP aids :P
Edit: I mean, managing pugs as grey would be great p.e. avoiding to yell at one of them that cannot hear you. Or knowing if no one in your raid do that thing that could be a sin to the premade strategy, and otherwise, in a premade, you don't need to know if a pug is from the group 6 inside the BG, you can't trust in one of them >_< you only could persuade them to do something easy and funny that cannot break the organized strategy
The thing I would pleased to have in the addon is only for showing the group you had before entering the BG, not to rearange the groups inside the bg.
I mean, this will be greatful for making premades.
Mmm, I'd have to have a think...
How would you want the 'external' raid group information displayed ?
It might be 'relatively' easy to display it in the tooltip information for example ?
A whole new mode for displaying 'external' raid groupings in the map player dots, as opposed to 'BG' groupings could get tricky, especially when your external raid group wasn't full, and the BG groups are from a mixture of realms.... I guess in 'external' raid group mode, players from other realms could have an 'X' as their group number or something...
Originally posted by Cidwel whoops sorry! I mean, yes, If you got a raid and you try to enter a BG, all the people changes to another group inside the Bg. When de BG finishes, everyone restores to it's preBG position.
If you P.E. set that the OUTSIDE RAID POSITION for Group 1 is to Attack the Stormpike Graveyard, probably all the mebmers in Group 1 will be changed to other positions inside the BG, so PartySpotter inside BGs it's not too much handy, cause they should remember the group number outside the BG and partySpotter shows the inside BG Group number >_<
I dunno if I've explained well >_<
All I can say is that PartySpotter is for displaying party and Raid groups on maps like the World Map, BG Map, AlphaMap, and for highlighting groups and individual players.
It is NOT for re-arranging raid groups, or for automatically moving players between groups to pre-set configurations...
whoops sorry! I mean, yes, If you got a raid and you try to enter a BG, all the people changes to another group inside the Bg. When de BG finishes, everyone restores to it's preBG position.
If you P.E. set that the OUTSIDE RAID POSITION for Group 1 is to Attack the Stormpike Graveyard, probably all the mebmers in Group 1 will be changed to other positions inside the BG, so PartySpotter inside BGs it's not too much handy, cause they should remember the group number outside the BG and partySpotter shows the inside BG Group number >_<
Originally posted by Cidwel Because we manage every player depending his class and skills, and every group have to do something diferent than other groups.
managing the group numbers in the same way as out of the battleground will aid the raid leaders for making and leading premades >_<
Well, ofc I understand the need for tracking classes & group numbers, otherwise I wouldn't have supported them in this mod
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Nope, that works well :3
Which makes me wonder what the question was in the first place
Without testing, I'm pretty certain that PartySpotter will show the current raid group numbers. So you will not be able to see the Raid group number they were in BEFORE they entered the BG - only the BG group they are in inside the BG...
It would probably be possible to record the original Raid group numbers and maybe show them in the tooltip (but I think the tooltip is bugged atm).
But I'm not convinced of how useful this would be. Why do you need to know the Raid group number they WERE in OUTSIDE the BG, while INSIDE the BG?
Does entering and leaving the BG result in players ending up in different Raid groups? This sounds more like a bug to report to Blizz; I'm not sure I could make PartySpotter re-organise the Raid to its original pre-BG configuration...
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Originally posted by Cidwel hi telic
First of all, thanks for the addons, alphamap and partyspotter
i have a question. We have a PvP guild that do Alterac Valley premades every holyday. We make around 30 Alteracs every week so we are getting mad because we organize raid groups so every group needs to do a mission, and that task should be organized before we start the queueing part. When we are inside alterac valley, every player changes to another group, that's obvious.
Does partyspotter keep every people with the raid number outside the battleground? Because that will be too much win
First of all, thanks for the addons, alphamap and partyspotter
i have a question. We have a PvP guild that do Alterac Valley premades every holyday. We make around 30 Alteracs every week so we are getting mad because we organize raid groups so every group needs to do a mission, and that task should be organized before we start the queueing part. When we are inside alterac valley, every player changes to another group, that's obvious.
Does partyspotter keep every people with the raid number outside the battleground? Because that will be too much win
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