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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

Note: AVR will be broken in patch 3.3.5. See this

AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) allows you to draw and add lines, circles and other markings on the 3D world itself. All markings may also be shared with others. Suitable for example to mark locations when explaining raid tactics. These marks can even be left visible for the fight itself.

Other things you can do with AVR:

Draw range circles around you or someone else at any range
Clearly mark players close to you
Mark any location relative to player position and rotation, for example mage blink landing spot
Measure distances
Boss encounter warnings (using a separate addon)

Boss encounters

AVR does not contain a built in boss encounters module anymore. They are now done by a separate addon. At the moment there are two options.

AVR Encounters adds AVR warnings for various boss abilities. It does not require any other boss encounter addon to work. It is not a replacement for traditional boss encounter addons as it does not do ability timers, sound warnings etc. It can be used with any traditional boss encounter addon such as BigWigs, DBM or DXE.
Raid Watch 2 is a full boss encounter addon much like BigWigs, DBM or DXE. It has built-in support for AVR and also does timer bars and other kinds of warnings.

Whichever you choose to use, you will also need to install AVR.

Important note: If you have installed a previous version of AVR which contained the AVR BigWigs module then you should delete that. Simply delete your Interface\Addons\AVR_BigWigs_Citadel folder.

Limitations and known issues

There are some fundamental limitations caused by what information is available to addons. These are mostly related to the exact position of camera and lack of unit Z coordinates. In particular you should note following:

Drawing works best on a flat surface (note that for example Dalaran has very uneven roads).
Camera getting stuck in a wall or ceiling will cause any markings to go out of sync with rest of the world.
Any kind of stairs/slopes and such cause troubles.
Jumping and other kinds of vertical movement causes the drawings to move with you.
Everything is drawn over the 3d world. This means that things that should be behind walls or units will appear in front of them.
Camera auto follow causes some problems. See also this

Some other known issues are:

All vehicles (like the ones at the start of Ulduar) are a bit problematic.
Lifts, moving platforms and in particular Gunships in Icercown Citadel raid have some problems.
Player map coordinates are unavailable in Icecrown Citadel raid on Lich King platform after the edges have collapsed. This means that any markings tied to zone coordinates or other players than yourself are unusable there. (Lana'Thel's room was fixed in 3.3.3 though the ramps leading there are still a bit odd.)
Player map coordinates are also not available in arenas or instances released before Wrath of the Lich King and so most things don't work in either of those.

How to use

See How to use.

Frequently asked questions

See FAQ.

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_ForgeUser2416051
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Posted Apr 25, 2010
The warnings in the middle of the screen like "Unstable Experiment Cooldown", It looks like dxe, but is it? Or is it part of avre

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
If you are referring to one of my videos, it's DXE.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Can someone post an export of Saurfang raid position, would be apreciated :) or a link to where people can share their scenes ! :)

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Found a small issue. Got an error thrown when logging in, if you have a Range warning with show circle off.

Line RangeWarning.lua:113

It tries to remove circleMesh, when it was never set.

Looking at the code, line 108 to 115 should look something like: if self.circle and self.circleMesh==nil then self.circleMesh=AVRCircleMesh:New(self.range) self.circleMesh:SetColor(self.color[1],self.color[2],self.color[3],self.color[4]) self.circleMesh.followPlayer=true elseif not self.circle and self.circleMesh=nil then self.circleMesh:Remove() self.circleMesh=nil end

Initial testing lets the addon load and work as normal for me at least.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
This project is awesome. I dwindled with it for a bit and came up with a way to add pings to the 3d map. (for on-the-fly markers/waypoints)

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info16555-VirtualPingAVR.html

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
This project is awesome. I dwindled with it for a bit and came up with a way to add pings to the 3d map. (for on-the-fly markers/waypoints)

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info16555-VirtualPingAVR.html

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Bind1000: I intend to support all future raid instances, until if/when Blizzard decides to disable the functionality.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
curious, do you have the mapsizes coded in addon or do you just pull them from the data file tables on the fly?

edit, nevermind, i found it in code, looks like you pulled all of the mapsizes from the data tables in the mpq files then just put the entire converted table into avr. nice :)

ruby sanctum is in the 3.3.3 patch files or at least it was on ptr, i haven't actually verified if it changed any since getting released but this is what i have for it
("TheRubySanctum", 0, 752.083, 502.09) -- The Ruby Sanctum

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Ahh okay, I was just wondering because when I looked in the AVRE menu in game I only saw a ICC and a list of ICC bosses.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
The boss warnings are in AVR Encounters addon, AVR itself isn't aware of any boss mechanics. But I don't see why it wouldn't be updated for Ruby Sanctum.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Will this add on be updated for Ruby Sanctum? I was just wondering if this is only for ICC raids and not other raids..

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
If you are using Sunn - Viewport Art and AVR, be sure to check "Resize Viewport" on all the panels you use. I used to play without these options checked and i had that -> http://i44.tinypic.com/2my4zs5.jpg happening, thats just an example, all the circles were way too off on all the bosses.I have never seen a circle spawning on the correct location, until i checked "Resize Viewport".

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Yeah I saw that =) Congrats guys. I hope lots of people start thinking of even more interesting ways to apply this addon.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Whelp, this has been given the front page MMO-Champion treatment. This should be fun.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Unit markers can also be used to mark static locations. The line they use just doesn't work very well for very long distances so you should probably use an arrow mesh or something custom made.

Coordinates in AVR are in yards, origin at bottom left corner of map. If you get the latest alpha version then you can use AVR.threed:MapCoordinatesToYards(x,y). I also added PointTo function in AVRArrowMesh. So something like this should maybe work

local scene=... local mesh=AVRArrowMesh:New() local playerX,playerY=AVR.threed:GetUnitPosition("player") local _,questX,questY=QuestPOIGetIconInfo(questId) mesh:PointTo(playerX,playerY,questX,questY) scene:AddMesh(mesh)

This won't track player movement. You'd have to call the PointTo every frame. However that'll be recreating the mesh data every frame which isn't very optimal. You should probably make your own scene implementation and override the DrawScene method. See RangeWarning.lua for an example how to do it.
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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Hey quick question.
On lady deathwhisper does the addon draw lines or show who has aggro on the ghosts?
This will help allot in HM if it does

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Boss encounter warnings are done by AVR Encounters addon not AVR directly. AVR Encounters uses AVR but they are two separate addons. AVR Encounters draws warning circles on ghost targets but only after the ghosts melee someone after which it's usually too late anyway. So it doesn't help all that much. The problem is that addons can't really find out who the ghosts are following so there's no way to show any warnings.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
btw, sindragosa is Icecrown4

set your zone to this and it will only show in her zone.

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
Hm..

How would I draw a line from the player to coordinates (x,y; not necessarily a unit)? The line's origin needs to stay fixed to the player.

I can get the coordinates of a quest via QuestPOIGetIconInfo(), would it be possible to draw a line from the player to the X,Y provided by it?

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Posted Apr 25, 2010
@knerdbmbr16 You can restrict scene visibility to a certain zone. Currently it's only in the advanced options (/avr menu) but I'll add it to the simpler scene editor (/avr edit) soon as well.

You can toggle visibility with a macro. First type "/avr scenes" and you'll get a list of your scenes. Find the number of the scene you want to toggle. Let's say it's number 2. Then you can make a macro "/avr scenes 2 visible" which will toggle visibility of that scene. Currently there's a slight problem with the scene numbers as they might change if you delete or add new scenes. I'll try to make them more stable soon. This doesn't however broadcast the visibility to your raid. You can send the entire scene with a macro "/avr scenes send". That will send the entire scene every time though and as well as wasting a bit of bandwidth others will also recreate the entire scene. Unless you have extremely complex scenes it shouldn't be much of a problem though. An option to only broadcast visibility seems like a good idea however.

I probably won't add anything that toggles visibility automatically based on boss phases. For one thing AVR currently doesn't keep track of any combat events and doesn't know anything about bosses or their phases. Allara planned to add a feature like this in AVR Encounters but I think he scrapped that for now. If you ask him nicely you might still be able to convince him to do it :D

@lokh I haven't written a guide for AVR API yet but that's on my list.

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