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!
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: Fine, Thanks!
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".
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 Dec 2, 2016Is there any chance that this will be updated? I really love this addon!
Thanks,
BJR
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Posted Aug 26, 2016Please come back :/ I miss this addon so much
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Posted Jun 13, 2016Thanks for the add-on. It makes PVP a lot more fun. I have a couple questions:
1. Is there a comprehensive guide to all the features that I could read? I found a youtube video by Paiid, but was wondering if there was anything official from the devs?
2. I love collecting stats from all sources (e.g. world PVP, bgs, arenas, etc). But when displaying my PVP stats, I typically want to filter by source, i.e. show only the PVP stats from world PVP. Is there any way to collect info from all sources, but only display one source?
Thanks again!
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Posted Jan 25, 2015it's great to see this back too! :)
one thing i noticed was that after setting up everything for one character, then going on to the next... there wasn't a profile to copy from. that profile i was working with wasn't in the list of profiles to copy attributes from.
i can just do it from the files though, i just thought i would mention it. unless i am doing something completely wrong...
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Posted Jan 23, 2015Todd, 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.
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Posted Jan 23, 2015Hi, I was just wondering what was changed in this new version. I can't seem to find a changelog. Love the addon, thank you.
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Posted Aug 6, 2013what are the number for? like the [+50] after the name of the player?
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Posted Sep 26, 2012@Vana
No worries. For a moment I thought there was a new expansion that I didn't know about. Lol.
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Posted Sep 26, 2012Fixed, Thanks
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Posted Sep 26, 2012Not compatible with MoP. TOC should be 50001.
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Posted Dec 10, 2010Sheesh 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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Posted Dec 9, 2010Sounds 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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Posted Dec 8, 2010Heyas,
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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Posted Sep 14, 2010ikays,
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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Posted Sep 14, 2010Hi 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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Posted Sep 14, 2010Hi 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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Posted Sep 13, 2010Ok, 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.
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Posted Sep 13, 2010Alright, that's great info. I'll try to reproduce this evening, but I can't promise a fix right away. I've still got some rather glaring Cata problems to work out first. Best bet at this point is probably to open a ticket with detailed steps to reproduce the problem you're seeing and Vana or xilcoy may have a chance to take a look.
Thanks for the report.
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Posted Sep 13, 2010hi Raelea,
i am thankful for every help.
i have r463 now, on a live server, with an english client but didn't change anything.
after i select a name on the pvp stats list and press remove entry nothing happens.
sometimes, on some entries, i get
'VanasKoS: Entry "xxxxxx" removed from list'
but nothing happens, the name remains on the list.
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Posted Sep 13, 2010Not sure yet. The changes after r463 are just compatibility changes for Cata and shouldn't be changing any functionality. If you have a chance, please try to reproduce this with r463 to rule out the Cata specific changes.
Also, as I'm somewhat new to the project, a more detailed description of your problem would help me :)