Description
Simple Threat Meter was designed out of a desire to be able to see what my threat level was against my current target, simply and easily, without having to visually locate a mod and figure out what it was telling me.
| Omen does such a great job that I haven't seen any other interfaces to Threat-2.0 developed, but with the complexity of fights in Sunwell, I wanted something that keeps me aware of my current threat level, but allows me to focus on the fight at hand.
So, Simple Threat Meter was born. It displays two vertical threat bars when you are in combat.
Threat Bar A - the TANK bar. This is the thin red bar and always stays at 100% as a reference. This represents the threat level of the current target of the creature you are targetting. Under normal circumstances, this should be the tank.
Threat Bar B - the PERSONAL THREAT bar. This is the wider, customisable bar that starts at 0% and represents your threat against your current target, expressed as a percentage of the tank's threat.
For reference, the values you need to be aware of:
110% - you will pull aggro from the tank if you are in melee range.
130% - you will pull aggro from the tank if you are further than melee.
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Configuration and Usage
To open the configuration panel, type the command: /stm
Additionally, if you have the mod unlocked, you can access the options screen by right-clicking on the drag bar.
The configuration options themselves should be fairly clear. Click on the "Show test" button to see what the threat bars will look like in use, with the options you have configured. Click on "Hide test" to make the test bars vanish again (or they will do so automatically the next time you end combat).
The threat bars only display in combat (you don't need them outside combat, so why leave them there?) though you can show test bars using the config panel.
The threat bars are also click-through, meaning that they don't get in the way and stop you clicking on targets. This is very important for me, as I want the add-on to be really obvious and on my screen, but I can't allow it to get in the way of me clicking to select targets.
Lastly, you can configure a transparency level, so you can see through the bars. Yup, you need to make sure there's no mobs hiding behind it!
The Technical Stuff
Simple Threat Meter is an Ace3 mod. I've bundled all of the required libs with it on this download and tested that it works as a standalone, with no other mods.
It hooks into the Threat-2.0 library, so is guaranteed to give you the same results as Omen.
Bar textures are loaded from LibSharedMedia-3.0 so STM can use any other handy textures you have from other mods / libs.
The config screen is using the new Blizzard interface, but you can use the command-line instead if you wish.
To DO list
The "to do list" is tracked by
Curseforge tickets enhancement requests
SIMPLE THREAT METER
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Version 2.4.3.d
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FIXED : Minor update issues.
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Version 2.4.3.c
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FIXED : Threat was sometimes displaying to many decimal places. Looked messy.
CHANGE: Threat difference now displays a shortened value when over 1,000 threat.
ADDED : The PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED event now triggers an update also.
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Version 2.4.3.b
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CHANGE: Now uses the updated version of libBars-1.0 supporting orientation.
CHANGE: Height and Width renamed to LENGTH and THICKNESS.
CHANGE: Text removed from the threat bar itself to a display outside the bars.
ADDED : Option to switch orientation between horizontal & vertical.
ADDED : "Reset Position" option to the config screen.
ADDED : Text now displays -AGGRO- when your target is targetting you.
ADDED : Option to display the "threat differential" as well as or instead of %.
ADDED : Option to colour the threat text as a warning, based upon a configurable
threshold level.
TODO : Option to select font using sharedmedia.
TODO : Option to automatically switch off when in a battleground.
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Version 2.4.3.a
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FIXED : Issue where the selected texture wasn't saving correctly.
CHANGE: Settings are now saved on a per character basis.
CHANGE: Layout of config page to make better use of space.
ADDED : Option in config panel to switch off displaying the tank bar.
ADDED : "Disable when solo" option.
ADDED : version tag to TOC. I'm using an alpha character appended to the
Blizzard release version.
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Version 20400
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Initial release version.
To open the configuration panel, type the command: /stm Additionally, if you
have the mod unlocked, you can access the options screen by right-clicking on
the drag bar.
The configuration options themselves should be fairly clear. Click on the
"Show test" button to see what the threat bars will look like in use, with the
options you have configured.
The threat bars only display in combat (you don't need them outside combat, so
why leave them there?) though you can show test bars using the config panel.
The threat bars are also click-through, meaning that they don't get in the way
and stop you clicking on targets.
Lastly, you can configure a transparency level, so you can see through the bars.
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)...