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02-19-12, 10:27 PM   #1
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Any possibilities of having an info panel that shows the vent information? not sure if it is even possible to have as an add-on.
 
02-19-12, 10:51 PM   #2
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Nope, not possible, as you suspected. There is an overlay in Vent, iirc, though.
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02-20-12, 02:22 AM   #3
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I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working. I can't remember the name of the addon but it was very popular.

The testing I did was a year or so ago now though so there is a chance it will work now but not sure.
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02-20-12, 02:48 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Xrystal View Post
I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working.
As those overlays don't interact with WoW at all it's pretty unlikely that Blizzard would be able to break it. The overlay hooks directly into Direct3D and creates an additional layer above the 3D application currently running, so WoW should have no handle to do anything at all against it...
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02-20-12, 10:49 AM   #5
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Just get yourself a Logitech G15 (or better) keyboard.
 
02-21-12, 10:13 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Xrystal View Post
I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working.

The overlay for Vent still works.
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02-21-12, 03:24 PM   #7
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Ah cool, thanks for that Petra. Either it got changed or it was a different overlay that I was looking at .. was a long time ago.
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02-21-12, 08:31 PM   #8
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where can i get this overlay and what is it called, please
 
02-21-12, 09:34 PM   #9
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I'm pretty sure that it comes with Vent, doesn't it?
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02-21-12, 09:45 PM   #10
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I started to make a crack about Petrah using the words "Psychotic" and "Female" in the same phrase... then I thought better of it.

Honest.

Really.

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02-22-12, 02:06 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Seerah View Post
Nope, not possible, as you suspected. There is an overlay in Vent, iirc, though.
Not entirely true.
Starouscz has found a rather clever workaround for a year now and made a library out of it.
libRaidVoice
Users need to have the library installed but as part of a compilation that's not an issue, everyone using the compilation would have it if it's part of the package.

Raid Voice is a standalone addon using his lib.
 
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hey Scott! glad to see you peekin in, how is NUi6 goin? any idea on a date for beta? not tryin to be a PiTA, just askin
 
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Originally Posted by crazzzzi View Post
hey Scott! glad to see you peekin in, how is NUi6 goin? any idea on a date for beta? not tryin to be a PiTA, just askin
Nice work posting in a completely unrelated topic -.-

btt.: libRaidVoice depends on everybody running it ingame, though and on the ingame VoiceChat, which is not yet available for the new x64 client, afaik.
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Originally Posted by crazzzzi View Post
where can i get this overlay and what is it called, please
Open Vent. Connect to a chat server. On the right hand side of the Vent window you will see a Setup button, click on it. At the top of the new window you will see several tabs, click on the Overlay tab and choose the settings you want.

Or, you can get one of these with a built in LCD that supports Ventrilo.

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I'm pretty sure that it comes with Vent, doesn't it?
Yes.


Originally Posted by spiel2001 View Post
I started to make a crack about Petrah using the words "Psychotic" and "Female" in the same phrase... then I thought better of it.

Honest.

Really.

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02-23-12, 12:41 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Xrystal View Post
Ah cool, thanks for that Petra. Either it got changed or it was a different overlay that I was looking at .. was a long time ago.

I could be mistaken, but I think that addon you are talking about (the one that caused Blizz to make the changes that stopped the addon from working) did something quite differently than the Vent overlay. There's also that popular gaming software, can't remember the name of it to save my life, that allows a chat box overlay to sit on top of Wow so you can chat with people in other games, same game, or whatnot. If I'm not mistaken it's the same principal as the Vent overlay. At any rate, I think those two things are much different than the addon that I think you are referring to.

If my info is wrong, pretty please someone correct me?
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02-23-12, 05:09 PM   #16
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Afaik, the overlay function was broken because of vista/win7 not supporting it anymore, or because the overlay was used by the render engine of Windows itself?
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02-24-12, 12:40 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Petrah View Post
I could be mistaken, but I think that addon you are talking about (the one that caused Blizz to make the changes that stopped the addon from working) did something quite differently than the Vent overlay. There's also that popular gaming software, can't remember the name of it to save my life, that allows a chat box overlay to sit on top of Wow so you can chat with people in other games, same game, or whatnot. If I'm not mistaken it's the same principal as the Vent overlay. At any rate, I think those two things are much different than the addon that I think you are referring to.

If my info is wrong, pretty please someone correct me?
I believe you are thinking of xfire Petrah. It's a chat software like Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, but geared specifically for gamers. xD
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02-24-12, 01:09 PM   #18
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The addon that drew on the WoW 3D world was called AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality). http://www.wowace.com/addons/avr/
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Thats the one .. when that was working I am sure my old guildie used some sort of special vent addon for wow that stopped working the moment blizz made the changes that avr was utilising that they didn't want to utilise. And from memory the description of how it worked was very similar to avr.
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