A few suggestions. #1


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  • _ForgeUser205170 created this issue Jul 7, 2008

    Great addon Barf!
      Ive been searching around for something like this. Saw a few of your posts on the wow forums. It sucks that bliz won't allow you to get the actual player pitch or Z axis, but youv made lemonade out of lemons here nice job! I do have a few requests for you.

      Minimal Display- Get rid of the hud graphics and just display numbers on the minimap. This feature would be optional of course, because the hud is just plain cool, it just gets in the way somtimes.

      Waypoints- I know waypoints are already on your ToDo list, but heres another idia regarding waypoints. Show estimated travel time. Some sort of alert would be nice for when you go afk, just something to say "Almost there! Get back to your computer!".

      Cartographer- Integration with a map addon would be invaluable. You could even use the waypoints system already in use with the Cartographer addon. The authors of Cartographer could use this sort of data to make their waypoints more acurate! Its a win win deal!

       Thanks alot for your time Barf!
    And thanks for this great addon!

  • _ForgeUser205170 added the tags New Enhancment Jul 7, 2008
  • _ForgeUser205170 posted a comment Jul 7, 2008

    i think i have a little idia of how you could get Z axis.. have a landmark of some sort.. like say.. the shattrath city flight master.. the user would have to stand on the ground by the flight master.. and the addon would keep track of their camera pitch.. how long they were at that angle, how fast they were going, and wheather or not the space bar was held down, with this data, you would in theory be able to calculate a z axis. only problem, is if the user changes their camera angle without moving their character.. using the left mouse button.. or those end delete keys, i forget which they are that change the pitch.. this problem could be fixed by temporaraly changing the camera autofolow settings while flying?

    hey.. just tossing it out there

  • _ForgeUser205170 posted a comment Jul 7, 2008

    i just messed with the auto follow camera feature, and it doesent actualy change the camera pitch.. is there some way to auto change the camera position to angle 0? i wonder??

  • _ForgeUser205170 posted a comment Jul 7, 2008

    you could actualy disable the left click mouse button, to keep it from changing camera angle.. i know theres a macro command you can use to change keybindings for left and right click

  • _ForgeUser205170 posted a comment Jul 7, 2008

    http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html;jsessionid=434B8B7616D57316C4E075B2424A7611.app06_05?topicId=1380828585&sid=1


    " /run SetBinding("TURNORACTION", "NUMPAD0") /run SetBinding("CAMERAORSELECTORMOVE", "NUMPAD1") /run SaveBindings(GetCurrentBindingSet()) "

    run a macro command simmilar to this one whenever you mount or dismount your flying mount?

    keybind the left click camera move to something like ctrl-mousebutton1 when flying?

    or click both mouse buttons at the same time to change the keybindings back to normal while flying.


    any data on your z axis would be lost when you would do this.....

  • Barfolomeu posted a comment Jul 17, 2008

    Thanks for the compliments. I only wish I had more time to work on this addon. I've kinda neglected it.

    I've looked into integration with Cartographer, and the plan was to use the cartographer waypoint code, which already does estimated travel time. All I'd really have to code is the display of the waypoint within the HUD.

    I'd also use Cartographer's existing infrastructure to create and maintain persistent waypoints, as again, the code's already there.

    As far as "minimal display", I'm intrigued with that idea. Imagine if I could simply make the entire HUD overlay onto the minimap as-is? Just a thought...

    Barf

  • Barfolomeu removed a tag New Nov 7, 2008
  • Barfolomeu added a tag Accepted Nov 7, 2008

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