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Estimated range display. Type /rangedisplay for configuration or /rangedisplay locked to lock/unlock the frames.

RangeDisplay is a simple range display addon. It is using spell range, item range and interact-distance based checks to determine the approximate range to your current target. Due to the whackyness of interact-distance based checks, recent versions only use those when spell/item based checks are not possible . The display can be configured in many ways (displaying only the max range, adding border and background, etc).

Currently you can set up RangeDisplay to show your current range to your target, focus, pet and mouseover units. The mouseover unit range can be anchored to the mouse or placed at a fixed position.

New in v3.8.0: It is possible to add sound notifications to "range sections" (similar to color setting). The sound will be played when entering the section. If two sections have the same sound file attached to them, then the sound is not played again if switching between the two sections.

This sound notification is enabled by default for the target unit's close range section.

Displaying max range only: if you want to display only the maxRange, you need to set Text to "%d" and tick the Reverse option for the section(s).

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Posted Oct 14, 2010
Hello,

I couldn't see your talent tree with that link. Could it be that it's a pre-4.0 talent tree?

I'll look into the shammy spells (in fact, I'm going over all classes now), so I might find something fishy yet. (unfortunately I don't have a hight level shaman to test with).

cheers,
mitch

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Love this tool, for more reasons than I care to list! I have been remiss in not passing along my compliments to everyone who has taken their personal time to make the WoW experience even better.

Now that I've "laid it on thickly"... ;-)

I've been trying to get to the config screen so I can turn off the sounds. They'd be great if it only worked during combat, but... So my problem is every time I type "/rangedisplay" I get the error message "Failed to load RangeDisplay_Options: DISABLED".

Is there a command I can use to re-enable the options so I can tweak the tool?

Thanks again...

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Enable the RangeDisplay_Options addon from the addon menu (from the character selection screen before entering the game).

If all else fails, type:

/run RangeDisplay.db.profile.mute=true

in the chat window.

cheers,
mitch

ps: have you checked the 3.8.1 version? sounds are only enabled for enemy units by default in that version.

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Many thanks! Great addon by the way in case I didn't mention it. ;-)

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Could you PLEASE either set the addon to LOCKED as a default, OR offer an option to make settings uniform for all toons. It is a right pain in the ass to lock this addon for every single toon. Sheesh.

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Hi,

v3.8.0 auto-locks when first entering combat. Also, a simple ctrl-click on the any of the range frames locks them ;). I'll change the default profile from character specific one to "Default" though (that is, a common shared one).

cheers,
mitch

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Posted Aug 15, 2010
Thanks Mitch... while you're at it... please disable sounds by default. I cannot think of anything more irritating than hearing a "cashink" every time I target anything ... ugh. Some features just aren't really all that necessary. :)

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Posted Aug 11, 2010
Great addon, I've been using it for a long time. The latest update was driving me crazy because I didn't realize sounds were on by default. I kept hearing a clanging noise every time I targeted something I was next to (bankers, auctioneers, etc.) and had no idea what it was. Finally, I sorted my addons on Curse Client by date to see which I had updated in the last 24 hours and saw that you implemented sounds.

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Posted Aug 12, 2010
Heh, sorry about that, but nobody reads release notes/change notes so I thought I'd enable one of the sounds to draw some attention to the new feature ;)

cheers,
mitch

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Posted Aug 13, 2010
Tbh that wasnt the best idea. If ppl are like me and updating their addons all-together with curse client it can take a while until they realise that its caused by a specific addon. I thought I had a strange bug in first case.

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Posted Jul 27, 2010
yes i totally forgott about it :) small addon but brilliant :)

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Posted Jul 27, 2010
hello. First of all - really really great addon thx for making it :)

but i have one problem. Is there any possibility to move range bar in target section to display UNDER my char (exactly how it is in mouseover section) ?

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Posted Jul 27, 2010
Hello,

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but you can unlock the frames (either from the options or by typing /rangedisplay locked) then you can drag each display area to a position you like. When you're ready, lock the frames again with /rangedisplay locked.

Is that what you meant?

cheers,
mitch

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Posted Jun 18, 2010
Hello and good day. Is there any way to move the recent targets bar and disable it?

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Posted Jun 18, 2010
Hello,

RangeDisplay doesn't have any "recent targets bar" (nor any sort of bar, actually).

cheers,
mitch

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Posted May 29, 2010
TO start off, I been using this for a long while and love it!

My question... Is there a way to make it show not so vague ranges? What I mean is "20 - 25 yards" or "60 - 80 Yards" is pretty vague. Or if anything, how do I make it show smaller intervals like 2 yards instead of somewhere between 5 yards and/or beyond 80 yards?

Thanks for your help!

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Posted Jun 2, 2010
Hello,

The granuality of various ranges depend on item and spell ranges usable by the character, and that's the best this method can provide.

More accurate range check is only possible for party/raid members by using map coordinates, but not all maps have those (notably older instances) and that method is not generic enough for my tastes. Some raid mods (like DXE) use that method for proximity alerts, but it's useless for a lot of other situations like pvp or when fighting mobs.

all in all, unless blizz adds something to the API, this is the best range estimate you'll get, sorry.

cheers,
mitch

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Posted Apr 20, 2010
One suggestion/request. Could you make it Track the target our focus ?. I have been looking for an addon that does this. So when the enemy your attacking suddenly moves away and you where not looking, it tells you which way it went :D

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Posted Apr 21, 2010
Hello,

This is not possible with the wow API.

cheers,
mitch

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Posted May 24, 2010
Sure it is, but it would be annoying. If rangedisplay shared info w/ others in the neighbourhood, it'd be trivial to place the coordinates of your target using trigonometry. So all you'd need is range and coordinates of 2 or 3 players. So, not really practical (or even useful) but doable..

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