Broadcaster is my first "real" addon, and is a result of myself wanting a mod to announce random messages for polymorph and other spells. Currently it only works for polymorph, but supports all sheep/pig/turtle poly spells.
5/11/08 - portal spells are in!
5/12/08 - Ritual of Refreshment support! - that's it for mages!
I would like to thank people on irc who helped me learn how to do things, and just listened when I was frustrated. The messages in this addon were either taken from other addons (such as Cryolysis), the WoW forums, or were made up my myself and my guildies/friends.
Broadcaster reads directly from the combat log, and won't announce the message unless your spell is successfully cast on your focus. (Yes, it requires you to set your poly target as focus to work.)
How to use Broadcaster:
Install Broadcaster like any other addon
If you don't have one yet, set up a macro for polymorph so that it sets your poly target as focus. You may also have it set to resheep your focus so that you don't have to change targets.
Join a party or raid and sheep something!
If you or your group wishes you to silence Broadcaster, type /broadcaster standby or go to Interface Options to put it into standby mode.
In the future, look for these additions:
more options
more messages
support for more classes' spells, such as banish, rez spells, summons, etc.
Note: This addon has only limited features and options thus far.
For feature requests or bug reports, please use the links to the right.
Change Log - Broadcaster
1.0d: attempt to fix Zidomo's issue that was reported in wowi comments
added support for mage's Ritual of Refreshment. Manna biscuits, anyone?
1.0c: added support for mage portals! Let me know if you have any issues.
1.0b: fixed a typo in one message, added a new turtle message.
Optional Files - Broadcaster
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
Try it now, Zidomo. It doesn't check for focus any more when you start casting, only when the poly aura is applied.
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Hm... Broadcaster uses the combat log to look for polymorphs (as such, it will not announce polymorph if it is reapplied before the first one wore off). But it checks for focus at the same time that it checks for you to start casting Polymorph. So perhaps there is a delay for when focus is set. But I have a macro that sets focus and casts poly all at the same time and it's been working for that... I'll fiddle with it though.
Thanks, Zidomo!
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Yep, nice work Seerah . With the bloat & bugs of Cryolysis2/3 still continuing, nice to see a lightweight announcing mod with similar cool messages come into being. All other lightweight announcing mods I've seen don't have your cool messages .
A problem with 1.0b, though. Using it in conjunction with ControlFreak. ControlFreak also requires a focus target set to function. It does that through either clicking on its frame (first to set focus target, next to cast the poly) or clicking a macro key similarly twice.
But the other night in a 5-man instance party, there were times when Broadcaster missed a few polys and didn't announce anything. Usually happened when I, for instance, clicked the ControlFreak frame very quickly to set the focus and then cast the poly a fraction of a second afterwards when in-combat.
Broadcaster didn't seem to be able to detect when the focus was set in that method when the time between the setting and the casting was short. From what I recall, setting the focus via Control Freak and then waiting at least a few seconds before casting the poly didn't cause issues. As opposed to it being solely a timing issue, might being in-combat affect it? Didn't have issues with Cryolysis2's poly messages in conjunction with ControlFreak, either in or out of combat.
Nice to see portal messages included in 1.0c, will try it out. Look forward to the future refreshment table messages.
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