Mounted
Brand new complete rewrite of Mounted is available as alpha
- Complete redo of Mounted
- profile based priorities
- mounts can be grouped
- macros sytem has been simplified (only 2 tags <primary>, <secondary>)
- Fancy new interface which attaches itself to the Mount Journal page blizzard provides
Mounted is patched for 4.0
with the mount changes in 4.0 Mounted is due for another rewrite until then Mounted will work just like before (but since mount speeds now scale with skill they have all been set to max Mounted 3 will remove the speed selection options all together)
Please report any bugs to the ticket tracker here
Warning in order for Mounted to work properly in your local the following strings need to be translated at the very least.
- L["SpeedFast"] = "extremely%s+fast" -< unique phrase found only in extremely fast mounts (310% flying)
- L["SpeedMedium"] = "very%s+fast" -< unique phrase found only in fast mounts (100% ground or 280% flying)
- Translations may be submitted here.
With the coming of WoW 3.0 we may now have as many mounts as we want since we learn them and do not have to carry them in you bags.
Thus my dilemma which mount shall i use and how can i chose them easily out of the mess of mounts found in the mounts tab.
Out of this Mounted was born. Instead of mucking about with secure code and make buttons that have to be skinned and carefully placed in your UI i instead chose to utilize the macro functions. Thus enabling you to simply use any actionbar mod.
So what does mounted actually do for you?
- It will create a macro called Mounted in your global macro space this way you only use one slot and not one per character.
- It will scan through all your mounts and create a list and sort them by speed.
- It will then analyze your surroundings and edit the Mounted macro.
- If you can fly then it will chose a random flying mount from the fastest category it will also chose a random ground mount to be used when using a modifier with the macro.
- If you can not fly it will simply chose a random ground mount from the fastest category.
- If you enter combat it will change the macro to a combat macro which you can edit in the Blizzard Addon options.
- If you are indoors it will change to the indoor macro.
- If you are swimming it will change to the swimming macro.
- A new mount will be chosen for you every time you mount up.
- the macros are compleatly customizable (editing of the attack macro is highly recommended)
- macros can by customized with tags that get replaced when the macro is parsed (see below for list of available tags)
- custom macros are saved globally so you will have access to them from all your characters (per account)
- you can preview your macros before deciding on them
- you can set priorities for mounts from 0-10 (0 = will never be selected, 10 will most likely be selected)
- If you want to add a spell such as travel form you may do this from the options this will then be put into the mount linup (after you configured the spell)
Macro tags are:
Here are tags you may use to customize the above macros: <ff> == Random Flying Mount (fastest speed increase) <f310> == Random Flying Mount (310% speed increase) <f280> == Random Flying Mount (280% speed increase) <f60> == Random Flying Mount (60% speed increase) <gf> == Random Ground Mount (fastest speed increase) <g100> == Random Ground Mount (100% speed increase) <g60> == Random Ground Mount (60% speed increase) <g0> == Random Ground Mount (0% speed increase) <ww> == Random Water Mount (defaults to <gf> if no mount was found) <aq> == Random Ahn'Qiraj Mount <s#> == will be replaced with the spellname of spellid (will not insert rank so will scale)[/code]
If any mounts are missclassified please let me know so i can fix the scanner. You may fix this on your end by simply editing the mount in the Mount Options
Mounted also supports the various Druid forms and the Shaman Ghost Wolf form though there may be some bugs associated with them since i don't have either character to do extensive testing on all i get is premades on the PTR when they are available. Mounted will also present you with some druid /shaman macros as appropriate.
any suggestions or improvements are most welcome please open a ticket about them.
If you want a very similar addons for your other Critters look no further and go to here.
Date: 2008-11-09 00:42:49
ID: 54
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Mounted\Mounted.lua line 246:
bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[C]: gmatch()
Mounted\Mounted.lua:246: ParseMacro()
Mounted\Mounted.lua:240: ?()
Mounted\Mounted.lua:199: SelectMacro()
Mounted\Mounted.lua:159:
Mounted\Mounted.lua:153
(tail call): ?
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.1.3715 (SnaggleTooth)
AckisRecipeList, vBeta 8 1024
ACP, v3.0.0
AlarBGHelper, v3.5.7 r35
... and more
it should no longer error out in the next version but the look at your macros and make sure that they are not blank
Right click macro gives random ground / left click macro gives random flying
I had one for flying and one for ground, on a older version now when i try to make a 2nd it writes over the first.
you can go into the addon options and adjust the macros that the addon will switch to
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/DarkAngel91381/Mounted.jpg
Add a second category below the type/speed category. These would probably be predefined. Specifically, I'm thinking of categorizing mounts by model: horse, talbuk, ram, cat, elekk; drake, ray, gryphon; etc. Each category would have a weight, and each mount within the category would have a weight.
This would let me quickly tell Mounted to choose cats more often than elekks, and then I could choose my favorite color to prioritize within that. Now this is already possible by just choosing relative weights for each mount. But then you add this:
Add a sort of "round robin" mode, where each successive summon uses the next category randomly, but done in a way that categories aren't repeated until they are all used. So first I'd get a cat, then maybe an elekk, then a ram, and so on until all categories had been used. Note that it'd only use categories for the section that makes sense, for example 100% ground mounts or 280% flying mounts depending on where I was at the time.
This would let me "show off" a bit more quickly, by always knowing I'd be on a different mount *model* for my next summon, and the color I'd get would be random by the weights I assign.
Like I said, this might not be useful to anyone, and maybe it's a lot of work. But I figured I'd mention it. Could be fun.