Afterlife Crowd Monitor (r55128)
Released 1st September 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: All support has moved to our website forums at www.softrix.co.uk/forum/ to allow us to provide you with a better service. Afterlife Crowd Control is on many different websites and with various support queries. By creating a dedicated section on our forum will hopefully provide you with a much quicker and more professional service in the future.
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Whats new in r55128: This is a quick maintenance release to correct some minor bugs and add more support for Wrath of the Lich King.
Welcome to the very latest version of Afterlife Crowd Control.
All the usual features are included in this version such as the 3d target model, popup warning graphic and UI flash which has made this addon popular. Some of the major differences in this version are multi-target support, timer bars for your party members and many more.
Afterlife Crowd Control is a World of Warcraft addon designed to monitor yours and party members crowd control spells and warrior taunts giving you and your party warnings that your target has broken, or a warning at 10 and 5 seconds before break happens. Furthermore, this addon will also tell the party who broke your targets crowd control spell so theres no more comments like "it wasnt me who broke it!".
Obviously you dont really want to spam the chat when your tank breaks your targets therefore the ability to add players to a break ignore list is also supported. Furthermore, you can add yourself to this list should you not want to see breaks that were caused by you (i.e. playing solo).
Crowd Control spells which are supported in this version:
Shackle Undead
Mind Control
Enslave Demon
Banish
Fear (Warlock)
Polymorph
Hibernate
Entangling Roots
Cyclone
Freezing Trap
Sap
Blind
Repentance
Hex
[B][FEATURES][/B]
[*]Full timers for yours and your party crowd control spells.
[*]3d Target + Timer
[*]Moveable Timer bar frame
[*]UI Flash warnings on break and target death
[*]Warning Sounds.
[*]Popup warning batman style animation.
[*]Announce to party or raid when your spell breaks
[*]Announce to party or raid the last 10 and 5 seconds remaining.
[*]Timers show casters name allowing raid leaders to monitor his crowd controlled mobs and remind his team to renew their targets. (casters names require that they also have this addon otherwise timer is shown without name).
[*]Addon to Addon communication.
[TRANSLATORS]
Translators are required, please open the following files and translate. You will find these files in the Afterlife\localisation folder as shown below:
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-deDE.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-esES.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-esMX.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-frFR.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-koKR.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-ruRU.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-zhCN.lua
Afterlife\localisation\Softrix-zhTW.lua
Please include your name in the comments at the top of the file so that you can be correctly credited for your work.
[INSTRUCTIONS]
Install the addon in the usual way then access the options screen using \acc in game.
Other commands available are:
/acc clearbars -- clear all timers shown on the screen.
/acc ignore -- open player break ignore panel.
/acc reqver -- obtain party or raids current version of this addon.
Quick Maintenance Release.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...