Vanas KoS - WoW AddOns

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).

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
Import of 'Ultimate Book of the Dead' KoS data
Import of 'Opium' KoS data
Import of 'Shim's Kill Map' data
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

Official wowace forum thread

FAQ:

General:

Q: Why aren't my entries showing up after Update?
A: Open VanasKoS-Configuration, goto "Import Data" and select "Old VanasKoS"

Q: How can I backup my KoS-Data & Settings
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/

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. (One reason Xilcoy created an addon called JukeBox :) )"

Distributed Tracking:

Q: How does the Distributed Tracking works?
A: Fine, Thanks!

Q: I see weird messages in my Chat Window on the Channel CrbZ????, What's up with that?
A: 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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- #60
kodewulf Sep 27, 2012 at 01:27 UTC - 0 likes
@Vana: Go

No worries. For a moment I thought there was a new expansion that I didn't know about. Lol.
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- #59
Vana Sep 26, 2012 at 18:59 UTC - 0 likes
Fixed, Thanks
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kodewulf Sep 26, 2012 at 18:43 UTC - 0 likes
Not compatible with MoP. TOC should be 50001.
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fyrye Dec 11, 2010 at 01:45 UTC - 0 likes
Sheesh been out of addon development way too long. Added the option to filter results in like 5 minutes, added a function in PvPDataGatherer to Log a hit and to compliment the win/loss system. Can't remember combatlog details, will work on it and post, figured would be at most a 30 min task, but not familiar with VanasKoS enough yet, will learn how it all works, then post it.
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Vana Dec 09, 2010 at 06:19 UTC - 0 likes
Sounds good fryre - send me a diff/patch when it's ready and I'll integrate it. If you're planning to do more I could add you as an author.
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fyrye Dec 09, 2010 at 03:59 UTC - 0 likes
Heyas,

Simple feature request, if needed I'll add the code to my copy and post it as an example. But would like the ability to only gather data for combatants I have a duration with (if they hit me or I hit them). Where this wouldn't affect the notification's KoS log etc. Just the data gathering and/or display aspect.
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Raelea Sep 14, 2010 at 17:04 UTC - 0 likes
ikays,

In this case, you are using a development/alpha version of the mod. Alpha versions are primarily for adding new features and testing. If you're looking for a "stable" version instead and not interested in testing new releases, please visit http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/vanas-kos.aspx and download v4.21.

Also, you'll find that not very many people are using the alpha releases and that most people generally just wait for the stable releases. With that said, people using and testing the alpha version help us uncover problems/bugs that might otherwise make it into the stable release. For Cataclysm, it's especially important to get a few people testing these alpha releases so we know what we have left to work on.

Feel free to choose either route, but keep in mind that alpha releases can and *will* be broken from time to time.
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xilcoy Sep 14, 2010 at 12:33 UTC - 0 likes
Hi Ikays,

There's actually a couple of different types of pvp stats. One is wins/losses/seen against players. The other is the pvp event list. I made some fairly extensive changes to the pvp stats list in order to get more interesting information. So if you remove a player from the stats I'm guessing it still removes the wins/losses stats from the database, but at the moment there's no easy way to remove the pvp events.

I tried to optimize the pvp events for insertion, searching and displaying on the map. Unfotunatley the way I did it makes it much more complicated to delete an event or player. It might even require updating the index of every entry that references the event list. I need to write some sample code to test that though. I have put some thought into how to remove entries, but as you can see it's not quite as simple as it sounds. And it seemed less important to me than other features.

The easiest feature for now would be to have a clear all stats button. In the mean time you can disable the stats or pvp event map too. (Written from my droid phone)
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ikays Sep 14, 2010 at 12:01 UTC - 0 likes
Hi Raelea,
sry for my late answer and again thank you for your help :)

i want to gather data but i only want to keep ppl on my realm and maybe ppls i 'met' in the arena.
am i the only one using this release? no offence, but seriously sometimes i got this feeling, or are you folks all playing on ptr or beta?
the whole addon is now using around 3mb. opening my map on wintergrasp gets my whole game freezing for some seconds.
if this is getting worse... :/
i didnt open a ticket because i thought it's only affecting me
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Raelea Sep 14, 2010 at 02:33 UTC - 0 likes
Ok, I can reproduce this on live (and likely on beta) as well. Although it does look like I bug, I'm not clear on why you would want to manage the pvp statistics manually. They accumulate rather quickly and deleting them one by one would take forever. It makes more sense to put in an enhancement ticket and request a feature to clear all pvp stats or disable the collection of pvp stats entirely (you may already be able to do this by disabling PVP Data Gathering in the config) if you're concerned about memory consumption.