TomTomTargetArrow

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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 Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

TomTomTargetArrow will hijack TomTom to point and show distance to your fellow players in same party or raid as you. Make sure you have Tomtom installed too.

Especially useful for healers in BG's if you get disoriented and loose track of where person_01_needing_healing_and_is_oor is. Also useful if you like me fancy running BG's with a friend and wanna try to team up as much as possible without having to hover your mouse over every single dot on the map to figure out where your mate is.

Also added ability to highlight friendly-target on worldmap along with classcolors which i found handy in battlegrounds. Highlighting current target and sticky-target on worldmap.

Enables you to see distance to other people in raid inside Battlegrounds.

/ttta stick will stick to your current target.

/ttta unstick will clear stickytarget and track current target again.

/ttta calibrate opens a calibration window. If you want distance calculation inside instances, then you need to calibrate it to that zone by targetting a person in the raid/party, align with that person in either x or y axis, then move to 40 yards range excactly and press Calibrate button. If you calibrate TomTomTargetArrow with a zone other than battlegrounds and wanna share the data, it's saved under WTF\Accounts\<AccountName>\SavedVariables\. Send it to me and i will incorporate it in the coming releases.

It uses Astrolabe to aquire player positions and do distance calculations. Special thanks to Esamynn.

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_ForgeUser66063
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Posted Aug 11, 2011
This addon is not working for me (Patch 4.2). Its out of date so I'm assuming thats why its not working. Anyone know if it will be updated or know of another addon that does the same thing?

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Posted Dec 10, 2010
BTW, this addon uses some noticeable amount of CPU even when arrow is NOT displayed (for example you have no target, and are not using "sticky" mode). Therefore I believe there should be good possibilities for some performance tuning inside this addon ;)

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Posted Dec 5, 2010
Still works OK on 4.0.3.

If you already use TomTomTargetFocus - you can't use it and this addon at the same time to have 2 arrows (1 for focus and 1 for target). As they seem to conflict.

If CPU usage is too high (for me it was cpu hog #1 while idling) - edit TomTomTargetArrow.lua, and change "updateFrequency" from 0.05 to 0.15 or even bigger value.

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Posted Jan 4, 2011
Thank you, now it idles with much lower CPU usage.

I use Option House to learn CPU usage (when it is enabled).

It's strange that this addon is loaded when not even in a party.

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Posted May 9, 2010
I am using Xperl. When i brought up the arrow. it turned into a block, and i could not see where its turning, .. looks like a graphical glitch.

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Posted Apr 12, 2010
Is there a way to suppress the "Stick on" and "Stick off" message in chat? I have this bound into quite a few macros, and it's getting pretty spammy. Thanks.

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
I like the "hijack TomTom" wording :) nice addon!

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Posted Feb 12, 2010
Hi, so is not possible at all to track a focus frendly targhet?

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Posted Dec 8, 2009
Is there any way to fix the arrow when it goes all crazy without having to /rl?

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Posted Oct 21, 2009
Is there any way to get this to work with arena to have 2 arrows, 1 pointing towards your target and the other pointing towards your focus target. It would be extremely useful for focus fears for me as a warlock.

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
Regarding the 2 arrows, it's only possible to track direction and distance to people in your group.

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Posted Mar 21, 2010
Even if both people you want to track need to be in your group - feature to have 2 arrows would be extremely useful. For example in battlegrounds: you could do "/ttta stick" on a friendly healer (to make sure you can always find and defend him quickly enough), and use other arrow without "/ttta stick" - so you could quickly find any other teammate (for example one currently with the flag) by just targeting him.

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
The 2 arrows thing is not supported by TomTom. Not saying it couldn't be done (IDEA: arrows built into partyUI = win!), but the author of this addon would have to implement/steal his own arrow UI, which is probably non-trivial.

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
Reply to my own reply: an idea how to implement this while still using TomTom - a cycle option.

This addon could be used to track a group of friends, which will probably be the only people in your party/raid at some point (either before you queue for BGs, or just in the wild questing). So have a "/ttta cycle" command that will remember everyone that is in your current group.

Then, simply change who's being tracked every couple of seconds! Cycle between each person TTTA has remembered, while displaying the name as the TomTom header or posted in chat. You could even automatically skip people that are, say, more than 10000 or less than 30 yards away.

Feedback?

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Posted Sep 25, 2009
Nice addon, but have annoying bug. When I die in an instance and run from Spirit Healer (it normal show arrow to portal where corpse is) and when I pass through instance portal, arrow bugs and it show only some green nonsenses. I must reload interface to force it to work again. And it doesnt show range in instances, only arrow, if this can be implemented or it is bug too. Thanks

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Posted Oct 5, 2009
I've been having the same problem, and found out that if you disable "Automatically set a waypoint when I die," in the TomTom general options window, this issue vanishes. Hooray!

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Posted Aug 28, 2009
Thanks for the nice comments btw guys. I haven't had the time to update the addon for quite a while due to work and RL. I might have a chance to give it a checkup this coming weekend tho. I would like to add calibration values for the remaining instances in northrend too.

I will take a look at the posibilities of interacting with healbot and grid too.

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Posted Aug 23, 2009
Is it possible to use the arrow with non-friendly targets? This would be really useful for finding those hard-to-find quest mobs that are close enough to be "/target"ed but not clearly visible.

It could also be handy in pvp if you had a nemesis, so that it would point to them once you had them targeted.

Additionally, it could also be useful if you could use it for targeting specific quest NPCs in cities where you don't know their exact location but are able to "/target" them.

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
The tracking of hostiles are not possible as far as i know of. For stationary npc's this could theoretically be saved in a database like questhelper or similar does, but i won't delve into that area with this addon.

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Posted Aug 17, 2009
This is indeed a great addon... Really simple yet extremely helpful. Thanks very much. Keep up the great work! :)

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