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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

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Frequently asked questions

See FAQ.

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Posted Apr 28, 2010
I just tested with Power Auras and although I certainly didn't test every possible feature of Power Auras in general it seemed to work just fine.

Do you get any error messages or how does Power Auras stop functioning?

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Posted Apr 29, 2010
I am getting this issue as well, Powerauras does not work. The addon is active, there is no errors but Powerauras does not do its thing. Its got me stumped

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Posted Apr 29, 2010
When running AVR none of my Powerauras alerts come up. Even if you open the menu and hit test you don't see the graphic.

As soon as I disable AVR it starts working normally.

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Posted Apr 29, 2010
Does anyone (besides me) have PowerAuras working with AVR then?

Have you tried disabling all other addons but AVR and PowerAuras? If you control+click the spells in PowerAuras, does it give you a reason why something isn't shown?

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Posted Apr 29, 2010
I have no trouble at all with AVR + AVRE + PowerAuras. All my PowA alerts function fine, and AVR/AVRE is also working with no issues.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
Thanks for the help here. It looks just really good with the textures are changing in relation to the mouse-look in respect that i just throw the texture from aura into the mesh object code. :D I was working for a thing like this in PowerAuras then i was the author back then. But it was very complicated to understand how to do it. ;)

@Prime311: The thing is then you are sharing the scenes that it is data that must be transmitted through the addon channel. And now think about it in an encounter. Its really a big amount of data, that just can be removed with a local addon(AVRE) for everyone here.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
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Is there a way to share an Encounter AVR to someone with AVR but not AVRe installed?

AVRE doesn't create shareable scenes. AVRE creates on-the-fly meshes (assuming through temp scenes) for encounters based on boss abilities, debuffs, timers, etc. It's event driven. Unlike, say, in Sindragosa somebody with just AVR can setup a scene with raid icon meshes of where to stand with frost beacons. That scene can be shared.

Also note AVRE and AVR are by different authors. You should ask AVRE questions on the AVRE page. :P

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
This addon(with AVRe) feels like cheating. It really is that much of an advantage lol. That said I'm having fun with paint. I can't seem to create separate Paint meshes though.

Is it possible to have a new paint mesh button so you can make separate paint meshes?

Is there any way to have an eraser type thing if you make a mistake in the Painter without having to start over?

Is there a way to share an Encounter AVR to someone with AVR but not AVRe installed?

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
This addon does seem very neat and it has a LOT of potential. I've been reading about it and watching some videos of it and it seems that AVRE is helpful like DBM for most raiders. From the videos I watched, (Lord Marrogar-bone spike, and Putricide - malleable goo and unbound plaque) it seems to not only give you a sound alert, but a visual alert of where the targets are. The Core AVR, has so much potential for raid leaders to help visually show their raiding team a strategy, however, ALL raiders would have to have the addon for that purpose; plus you have to have the core AVR in order for AVRE to work. I've seen loot distribution addons, where only the raid leader has to have the heavy memory usuage core and the raiders only have to have the light memory usage supplement. I would be more enticed if AVR/AVRE worked that way.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
The sounds you hear in those videos are coming from DXE. AVR/AVRE do not produce any sounds.

All players will always have to have both AVR and AVRE in order to experience the boss warnings. There is simply not enough network bandwidth available to communicate scenes dynamically during the fight across the entire raid. Each player's computer must create it's own scenes in response to boss mechanics; that's what AVRE does.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
The 3d drawing itself is using cpu the most of all things. So there isn't really any way to make such a light weight supplement. AVR Encounters for example is very light weight if you don't count AVR.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
sorry if these are already suggested. this addon is very awesome and unlimited potential even as it is.
suggest that you could use the icons of the spells? those ones you can choose when you make a macro. every wow client has them.
is text / words on the ground too complicated?
suggest ability to have scenes / layers of some sort based on the phase of the boss fight? tie it into dbm/bigwigs? but its still even useful if the raidleader has to manually swap the phases for the whole raid.
noticed that malleable goo circles are put under everyone. couldnt dbm tell you who was targeted, then circle under them.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
First, AVR doesn't itself do any boss markers anymore. Those are all done by AVR Encounters or Raid Watch 2 if you happen to use that. DBM (and every other boss mod) can only tell one of the malleable goo targets. On heroic 25-man there are 3 total. A marker is placed under everyone just to be safe.

I'm not going to tie AVR again to DBM/BigWigs. If someone else wants to make an addon that does that and then toggles visibility of selected scenes then that's certainly a possibility. I know Allara had plans like that for AVR Encounters at one point.

The 3d AVR does isn't really true 3d and using anything but solid color textures has a few technical problems. 2d text could be placed next to the 3d models which is something that I might add later.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
You can of course experiment with whatever you want but changing the texture of marker meshes or circles isn't really intended, at least not yet. I explained why it doesn't work too well a few pages back in these comments.

That said, if you only want a custom texture then I think you'll be better off using AVRFilledCircleMesh instead of AVRMarkerMesh. It should have everything you need without the additional stuff AVRMarkerMesh has.

To remove the mesh just use mesh:Remove(). You have mesh as a local variable there so you probably need to store it somewhere so you can find it again later. You can also iterate all meshes in the scene with something like

local scene = AVR:GetTempScene('Powa') for i=1,#scene.meshes do if scene.meshes[i].name==AuraId then scene.meshes[i]:Remove() end end

The GetTempScene will return the same scene object if you pass it same string but you'll still need to store the AuraId somewhere.
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#166 Posted Apr 27, 2010

Hi, i'm completely excited about this addon. So i was messing with the code from PowerAuras and i came up with this:

local frame, texture = aura:CreateFrames(); -- existing code for the frames of the auras

-- now i inserted this:
local scene = AVR:GetTempScene('Powa')
local mesh = AVRMarkerMesh:New(5, 10)
  mesh:SetName(AuraId)
  mesh:SetUseTexture(true)
  mesh:SetLine(false)
  mesh.followPlayer = true
  mesh.followRotation = true
  mesh.texturename="Interface\\Addons\\PowerAuras\\Auras\\Aura"..aura.texture..".tga" -- i changed the table in AVR for this. it's only a string for the texture now.
  mesh:SetColor(aura.r,aura.g,aura.b, .4)
  mesh.radius=5 * aura.size
  scene:AddMesh(mesh)
-- end of insert

  frame:Show(); -- Show Aura Frame --existing code

Ok this works for showing the meshes. But now i have only a problem to remove the meshes in the scene. For the auras it was simpel an

aura:Hide();

but for the mesh i have something like

aura.mesh:Remove(); ???

aura:Remove(); ???

i don't know. nothing works. I'm not into object programming this far. ;) I appreciate the help if you or anyone else have time for me . :)

Greetings Garstiger

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
I'll try to add exactly that to the arrow mesh soon when I have time.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
Has anyone else encountered a problem with the camera auto-follow with this addon installed? I love the addon, but ever since i've installed it, the auto-follow option for the game's camera, hasn't worked with my settings (home and end change the camera angles, i hit "end" 3 times to follow directly from behind). I've troubleshot everything else, but to no avail. When i uninstalled AVR, the problem was fixed and never happened again. Then, just to make sure, i installed AVR again, the day after, and sure enough, the camera problem happened again.

If anyone else has had this problem, please let me know. It's not a problem i would have expected from this type of addon, so it's a bit confusing to me, but trust me, after troubleshooting for a few hours, everything points to this one.

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
AVR doesn't work very well with camera auto follow. Every time your camera is being automatically adjusted all meshes will move around. If this doesn't bother you then you should still be able to use AVR with auto follow. AVR uses the last preset camera position to determine the camera angle. If you have something set there then AVR will interfere with that.

There also seems to be a bug with auto follow which causes it to never automatically adjust regardless of what you select in interface options. I'm not sure what's causing this, AVR shouldn't touch that option at all. However I've had a couple of people say that AVR breaks it. I've also myself tested and ran AVR with auto follow enabled and working fine. So I'm not sure what exactly triggers the bug. It also seems to persist even after uninstalling AVR or even resetting Interface and wtf folders completely. To fix it run "/script SetView(3); ResetView(3)".

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Posted Apr 27, 2010
yeah, the autofollow works perfectly in, what i assume are views 1 and 2, but not in view 3. I know that i can hit the "home" key to change to the previous views from what i'm currently on (i hit the end key until the view doesn't change anymore), and all i have to do is hit the "home" key once, and it will autofollow again. Once i deleted avr, it worked in the view i normally have though, so it's definitely something with avr, i'm just at a loss as to what the possibilities could be that's causing it.

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Posted Apr 26, 2010
About AVRArrowMesh: could it be used to say...create an arrow on you to the target person if that person is in your raid and out of range (for healers for example)? Even if it just created a static arrow that repositions only when you target or re-target? If so I have a free weekend and would love to write that (as another static mesh like range, if possible).

edit; @Shurshik: RangeWarning does a lot of the work of drawing a line between u and someone close to you, Ive been reading through that and if I can incorporate its code into the ArrowMesh code we could have an arrow mesh thats bound to 1 player and follows another, which could also be used for my healer-who-doesnt-know-where-to-run-to-heal-that-guy problem (arrow of fixed dist from start, the healer, and points in the direction of his target).

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