A mod that hooks into CT_RaidAssist Main tank window to display the raid icon of their target, allowing raid leaders the ability to see if their tanks have the right targets.
Make sure you are using CTRA 2.005 or higher.
Updated the Toc to work with 2.3
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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elidion saidNow that I have much more exprience with creating mods, I am thinking of rewriting this from the ground up. - I'll have it up as soon as I do so.
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elidion saidOops, curse was running so slow I tried submitting the new mod about a dozen times, seems I accidentally put it in the beta section instead of release. It's in the proper place now, let me know if you find any issues.
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elidion saidYou were probably not assigning them in sequence, but that should be fixed now in 1.5
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Blixa saidBig in 1.39: Only MT1 to MT5 have the right icon. MT6 to MT10 have an icon, but not the right one.
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elidion said1.39 is out, I finally got it to initialize at startup. It was a weird bug but I was able to get around it. Now to see if I can tackle the MT order issue. Let me know how it works!!
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Ziocantante saidThe mod is really really great for raid leaders. Too bad this funky thing it's not initialized... hope you solve it soon!
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elidion saidWell I worked on some of the issues that have been brought up and put them in 1.35b.
But I'm still not sure why it doesn't default on the left side and use the saved variables. I debugged it, putting messages into each function to make sure they are being called, and they are. All the functions are working, it reads the saved variable file at startup and remembers the right or left setting...but the mod just doesn't want to "activate" until you type in the /ctri command. I'll work on it a bit tomorrow if I have time.
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Selmak saidworks fine for me when i remember to type /ctri left
can u make it save and remember which side u like ur raid icons to appear on?
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Clanos saidAlso, when the icons are set to right and you have show target, it gets hidden behind the target window.
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Clanos saidWould love to see a scale option to scale the size of the icons.
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elidion saidSelmak: Yes you do the /ctri side left
tonyluzzi & saltorio: First, make sure you have the latest CTRA, which right now is Update 8 - or 1.621 in game. I wrote this during Update 8, I know the previous versions were having problems with the MT list. I think I discovered your problem tho.
Part of the CTRA revamp is to make the MT list a single window, instead of it being broke into 10 different spots, that is why this mod was broke. If you noticed, when you set Person A to MT1 and Person B to MT3, there is no space between them like there used to be. It now puts MT3 in the 2nd window. So what is happening is the mod uses the window position, not MT #. So in that example, Player B is now in the 2nd window, but he is MT3 so the mod is looking to the 3rd window, which might be set to MT4 or not at all. I'm not sure how to change this since it's how the new CTRA is created. In the mean time, just use a rolling order in making your MTs. So your MT should always be 1, your next off tank should be 2, your puller 3 and so on.
I only have weekends to work on these mods so I'm sorry for the delay on any updates. When this came to my attention I tested this with 8 guildies and it seemed to work fine for me aside for the problem I stated above.
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elidion saidYeah there seems to be some issues hooking into the new version of CTRA. They changed everything around and I'm still trying to retrace it all. I haven't had the chance to test it on Garr, I only tested it with about 4MTs when I created...I didn't think it would be an issue beyond that lol...I'll get cracking at this again.
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fael097 saidWTB CTRA UPDATE 9
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saltorio saidA few issues:
1.) After running "/ctri side left", the icons appeared. However they wouldn't always do so once new icons were assigned. It seemed random: sometimes they'd display, other times they wouldn't.
2.) The size of the icons were disproportionately large compared to the size of the MT frames. I'd say they were roughly 30% larger than they should be, as they were overlapping somewhat between the different MT targets.
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tonyluzzi saidWas using this the other night. after doing "/ctri side left" like it says in your patch notes, the icons came up next to the MT windows, however, they only came up for the first 4 tanks. On Garr, we have 9 MT windows up and I use this mod to make sure everyone has different targets. Very Helpful when working. Need to see the remaing MT's get their icons.
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Selmak saidI have downloaded this mod and it isnt working for me. Cant see any Symbols dont get any errors or anything.
Are there any /commands? btw not only me but m8 tried also and he couldnt get it 2 work either plz fix its a great idea for a addon :D
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aragorg saidhi
y have a problem whith this mod, when i'am hide the wow interface the symbols do not disapear :)
thanks