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.
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Posted Mar 11, 2013Got this error. Addon still seems to work just fine with 5.2 though anyway.
Date: 2013-03-10 22:46:49 ID: 2 Error occured in: Global Count: 19 Message: ..\AddOns\VanasKoS\modules\EventMap.lua line 260: attempt to index global 'WorldMapPlayer' (a nil value) Debug: VanasKoS\modules\EventMap.lua:260: drawPOI() VanasKoS\modules\EventMap.lua:366: CreatePoints() VanasKoS\modules\EventMap.lua:412: UpdatePOI() VanasKoS\modules\EventMap.lua:601: ?() )
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Posted Jan 25, 2013Is it ok that it works only on mouseover?
p.s. to make me clear, if enemy just passing by, add-on will not detect him. Is it an API issue?
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Posted Feb 4, 2013It should detect on mouse-over or if the enemy does something that shows up in the combat log
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Posted Dec 6, 2012Since the patch, I'm now receiving the error of Vanas blocking an action when I try to report people afk in BGs/TB.
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Posted Dec 10, 2012This happens with Spy, too, and Spy's been updated for 5.1. I suspect it's something on Blizzard's end.
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Posted Dec 10, 2012Yup, Blizzard screwed up. It's probably a weird global variable that they acccidentally use in that unit. If someone figures out which one it is, I may be able to remove the usage in vanaskos.
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Posted Dec 19, 2012Thank you for replying!
I have no idea where to start looking for that variable, alas. Hopefully someone else can!
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Posted Nov 28, 2012Will this warn about players / guilds from other servers?
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Posted Nov 16, 2012Guild alert doesnt work. No sound, no message, nothing.
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Posted Nov 1, 2012If I try to change one of my talents while I have Vanas Kos running, I get a message saying Vanas KoS is blocking the action and I have to disable it in order to switch talents. I have an updated version, so not sure what's up. Never had this issue before.
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Posted Nov 1, 2012excuse me, i would like to know how to move the window which shows the nearby players right on the middle of the screen?
and furthermore if it's possible to adjust the size of the texts inside this window (i.e. the letters of the name of the players)
thx in advance, these really bother me ><
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Posted Nov 5, 2012You can left-click to drag the window anywhere, and open the Vanas kos configuration to change the warning window.
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Posted Nov 1, 2012Can you share your kos list with another player not in your guild?
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Posted Oct 25, 20121x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn "VanasKoS" tried to call the protected function "CompactRaidFrame2:Show()".
!BugGrabber-r188\BugGrabber.lua:587: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:587>
<in C code>
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:276: in function "CompactUnitFrame_UpdateVisible"
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:234: in function "CompactUnitFrame_UpdateAll"
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:96: in function <FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:43>
Locals:
nil
5x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn "VanasKoS" tried to call the protected function "CompactRaidFrame1:Show()".
!BugGrabber-r188\BugGrabber.lua:587: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:587>
<in C code>
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:276: in function "CompactUnitFrame_UpdateVisible"
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:234: in function "CompactUnitFrame_UpdateAll"
FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:96: in function <FrameXML\CompactUnitFrame.lua:43>
Locals:
nil
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Posted Oct 25, 2012Seems like Blizzard screwed up again.
See http://code.google.com/p/titanpanel/issues/detail?id=838
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Posted Oct 14, 2012When i started playing mop, my computer would crash. I assumed the source of the issue may have been WoW's new announcement about not supporting some video cards. After noticing some funky stuff going on I decided to remove VanasKoS from my addons, havent crashed since.
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Posted Oct 4, 2012Vana, I'd like to change the path to where Vanas KoS looks for its "VanasKoS.lua"(contains kos list) file which is normally in the \WTF\Account\accountname\SavedVariables. I play wow on 2 pc's and I'd like to get it to sync between them by placing it in my skydrive folder.
Are you able to tell me what file i'll need to edit so I can point the addon to the new location of the VanasKoS.lua?
Thank you.
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Posted Oct 4, 2012The Addon doesn't have control over the location of the file, its location and when it's written etc. are managed by WoW. A Addon pretty can only retrieve/write data into a data structure provided by wow - how it is saved and retrieved on the disk is totally up to wow.
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Posted Oct 5, 2012Well, it should sync everything automagically and everything should work as long as you use same account on two PCs and you're syncing Interface and WTF folders on them.
In order to put this two folders into syncing process you probably want to do following:
On second PC:
Alternative way on second PC is to wait until it finishes syncing, then exit from SkyDrive, move folders from SkyDrive to Wow Installation (removing old before doing this), then perform symlinking and start SkyDrive again.
For all this you need some symlink creating tool (GUI extensions for Explorer or command line). Google for this: "symlink windows" if you are not familiar with this (Wiki also have a page).
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Posted Oct 8, 2012Thank you Antonz i gave that a shot and have the WTF folder symlinkd and it WoW doesnt seem to mind being redirected. It didnt seem to like having the interface folder symlinked though, it wouldnt load any addons or show there were any. I can just make sure both wow clients are running the same addons.
This is on the "source" pc i'll attempt to set the 2nd pc up tomorrow sometime.