Vanas KoS
Vanas KoS is a Kill-on-Sight notifier, that uses every possibility, to detect nearby KoS targets, and notifies the user in different ways. Additionally it records PvP-Stats in outdoor PvP and shows these in the tooltip (configurable).
A: Copy the file WoW\WTF\Account\*YourAccountName*\SavedVariables\VanasKoS.lua to a safe place of your choosing.
Q: I found a LUA-Error/Bug, What shall I do?
A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/tickets/ and describe what you did to cause the problem (or when it happened) and post the lua-error-message. As we may have additional questions, please check back in/have a valid email at curse for ticket updates.
Q: I have a great idea for the addon! Want to hear it?
A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/tickets/ and post your idea.
Q: I like living on the edge. Where can I get the latest alpha version?
A: Use these versions at your own peril: http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/files/
A: Make sure that you do not have "Show only my entries" checked. You and your guild members must also enable sharing of their lists with the guild.
A: You can either send them to me with a license disclaimer that allows the distribution/packaging with vanaskos (if you own the rights) or You can add your own sounds by modifying WoW/Interface/AddOns/VanasKoS/modules/Notifier.lua The list of sounds is at the top of that file. Just put your extra sound files somewhere inside the WoW directory. VanasKoS uses LibSharedMedia-3.0 so it also has access to any other addon's sounds."
A: Fine, Thanks! It doesn't right now.
Q: I see weird messages in my Chat Window on the Channel CrbZ????, What's up with that?
A: It's not normally supposed to be visible. But you can disable the displaying of that channel in the settings for the chat window. Just uncheck it there.
Q: My channel-numbers are all screwed up
A: It seems that your computer is too slow. VanasKoS joins the Distributed Tracking Channels 20 seconds after login/changing the Zone. You can modify this value manually in WoW\Interface\AddOns\VanasKoS\modules\DistributedTracker.lua under "JOIN_DELAY".
A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/localization/ and get started!
Q: How can I support the authors and development of this addon?
A: You can either use the "Donate"-Button on the curse VanasKoS-Page, or get a curse-premium Account. Curse gives a part of their earnings through the premium-program back to the addon-authors.
Q: I can code in lua and want to develop xyz?
A: Write me a PM with your idea and experience - I'll review the idea and if it's finished include it in vanaskos, or if you want to develop more add you as a co-author.
Q: How much do you make with this addon?
A: Near to nothing - My (Vanas) payment/hour for VanasKoS is less than 10cents, don't worry though - it's a hobby for the authors, so the revenue isn't a factor for development, but it also means that the real-life job is more important, so bear with us when answers/development take a little longer.
Q: Vana...Vana.. I seem to remember this name from Lineage2
A: You are right, I worked on a popular (and the first) lineage2 drop-database back then.
Q: License?
A: VanasKoS is mostly licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Note: Soundfiles/Graphics/Libraries used may be licensed differently.
Features:
- KoS List for Players and Guilds
- Nice list
- Hate list
- Sorting of these Lists
- All Lists are saved per realm
- PvP Event Map
- PvP Statistics
- Golden Dragon around player portrait, if Player is on KoS List, Silver for Guild-KoS List, Red for Hatelist, Green for Nicelist
- Modifies the Tooltip with the Reason you (may) give on adding a Player/Guild
- Notifies you if a player on your KoS list is doing something near you (fight/buff/talk) in Chatframe, Upper Area and via Sound
- Warning Frame that helps you to track hostile or friendly activity around you
- Nice GUI - try /kos
- Command line interface for managing KoS lists
Distributed Tracking - Other People help you tracking down your KoS-Targets- Minimap Button
Can dock itself into the Friends Frame.- Automatic synchronization with people on your guild
- LibBroker support
- Can add a context menu to the player portrait
- Saves a list of the last attackers for easier adding via minimap button or libBroker
- Automatic synchronization with others you request
FAQ:
General:
Q: How can I backup my KoS-Data & SettingsA: Copy the file WoW\WTF\Account\*YourAccountName*\SavedVariables\VanasKoS.lua to a safe place of your choosing.
Q: I found a LUA-Error/Bug, What shall I do?
A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/tickets/ and describe what you did to cause the problem (or when it happened) and post the lua-error-message. As we may have additional questions, please check back in/have a valid email at curse for ticket updates.
Q: I have a great idea for the addon! Want to hear it?
A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/tickets/ and post your idea.
Q: I like living on the edge. Where can I get the latest alpha version?
A: Use these versions at your own peril: http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/files/
Synchronization
Q: Why aren't my guild members entries displaying?A: Make sure that you do not have "Show only my entries" checked. You and your guild members must also enable sharing of their lists with the guild.
Notification:
Q: How can I add some additional mp3 sound files for notifications?A: You can either send them to me with a license disclaimer that allows the distribution/packaging with vanaskos (if you own the rights) or You can add your own sounds by modifying WoW/Interface/AddOns/VanasKoS/modules/Notifier.lua The list of sounds is at the top of that file. Just put your extra sound files somewhere inside the WoW directory. VanasKoS uses LibSharedMedia-3.0 so it also has access to any other addon's sounds."
Distributed Tracking:
Q: How does the Distributed Tracking works?A:
A: It's not normally supposed to be visible. But you can disable the displaying of that channel in the settings for the chat window. Just uncheck it there.
Q: My channel-numbers are all screwed up
A: It seems that your computer is too slow. VanasKoS joins the Distributed Tracking Channels 20 seconds after login/changing the Zone. You can modify this value manually in WoW\Interface\AddOns\VanasKoS\modules\DistributedTracker.lua under "JOIN_DELAY".
Help the Addon/Authors:
Q: How can I help with localization?A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/localization/ and get started!
Q: How can I support the authors and development of this addon?
A: You can either use the "Donate"-Button on the curse VanasKoS-Page, or get a curse-premium Account. Curse gives a part of their earnings through the premium-program back to the addon-authors.
Q: I can code in lua and want to develop xyz?
A: Write me a PM with your idea and experience - I'll review the idea and if it's finished include it in vanaskos, or if you want to develop more add you as a co-author.
Other:
Q: How much do you make with this addon?
A: Near to nothing - My (Vanas) payment/hour for VanasKoS is less than 10cents, don't worry though - it's a hobby for the authors, so the revenue isn't a factor for development, but it also means that the real-life job is more important, so bear with us when answers/development take a little longer.
Q: Vana...Vana.. I seem to remember this name from Lineage2
A: You are right, I worked on a popular (and the first) lineage2 drop-database back then.
Q: License?
A: VanasKoS is mostly licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Note: Soundfiles/Graphics/Libraries used may be licensed differently.
Thanks for taking the time to look at it.
I just got an error, i don't know if it's some other addon, but have a look if you could
http://i.imgur.com/kuor4DK.jpg
Ok, so I finally hit the same or at least a very similar issue. You have to do something first in order to make it happen though. I haven't quite nailed it down yet but I suspect it's the StaticPopup dialog boxes. I can try switching them out and use http://www.wowace.com/addons/libdialog-1-0/ instead, as suggested in this forum thread http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?p=320956.
Oh and in the meantime, simply typing /reload before switching talents was fixing the issue for me.
Thank you so much for the update today!!! :)
You're welcome! Let me know if you encounter any more bugs. I've recently started playing again, so I can actually maintain it now if something comes up.
Todd, it's mostly just a library update. I did update LibLevelGuess as well so player levels should be guessed more correctly from the spells they cast (that's what the [50+] stuff is about)
I just started playing WoW again a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad to see that VanasKoS is still mostly working.
It seems like the map stuff isn't working too well though. So I'm working on improving that, by using MapAreaID rather than using the zone name. It will be a little while until that's ready though because I need to write some things to update the database.
The way I'm coding it right now it will break DistributedTracker compatibility with Carbonite, and older versions of VanasKoS. But I kind of hope that by now Carbonite is dead anyway.
Hi, I was just wondering what was changed in this new version. I can't seem to find a changelog. Love the addon, thank you.
I seem to be having an issue with the addon in which I cannot see my guildies share list - they get mine fine but I don't get theirs.
Got any suggestions for fixing this?
Cheers.
The fix that ae1234 provided does indeed allow the addon to work. However, there are still some bugs. Furthermore, sharing my list with guildies and vice versa does not work. :-( I really hope this is updated soon. This is my favorite addon for WoW.
Date: 2014-11-23 18:26:22
ID: 2
Error occured in: AddOn: VanasKoS
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn VanasKoS attempted to call a forbidden function (JoinBattlefield()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[C]: JoinBattlefield()
Blizzard_PVPUI\Blizzard_PVPUI.lua:455: HonorFrame_Queue()
[string "*:OnClick"]:2:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
Having the same problem. If I want to queue for battlegrounds i have to disable VannaKos. :(
Same problem here.
thank you ae1234. the fix works!
for fix - delete 263 string in Interface/AddOns/VanasKoS/Libs/AceDB-3.0/AceDB-3.0.lua
local factionrealmregionKey = factionrealmKey .. " - " .. string.sub(GetCVar("realmList"), 1, 2):upper()
Hello Vana,
i have just downloaded your mod for the new patch 6.0.2 and... it doesnt work :(
it seems that now wow is unable to "see" the i have VanasKos among my addons... or better, i can see it in my addon list before entering the realm but once in i am unable to do anything as it is lilke i have never downloaded it.
there is no panel, no icon on the top-right corner... and if i write /Kos or any other command and press "enter" I cannot...
any idea ?
tnx
Big thanks for updating Vanas KoS! :) The wife and I deeply appreciate it.
Hmm can you maybe look into vana, if I go manuel afk, This addon push me out of afk, I know this addon cause it because if I disable it I no longer get out of afk, happends very fast, no like takes some time it removes afk, actualy 1 or 2 sec after put my self afk.
I hope you might got time to check it out why and fix it if its possible.
Ahh nostalgia. Kept getting ganked levelling my first char way back when and someone suggested to get this, to pwn them later on.
At 70 then some time later, one of my gankers appeared in a BG. Suffice to say, he didn't enjoy that BG.
Downloading again :D
Thank you so much Vana! *bows*
It seems that the basic stuff still works in 6.0.2 after updating the toc (only very preliminary tried it out with the starter edition) - enjoy.