RareDar helps you track and locate rare mobs that are in your proximity.
Installation and Usage
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RareDar has a small window that shows a radar screen. It detects when you're in a zone/area that might have rare mobs, and if so, changes the radar screen color to green. Left-clicking the green radar screen trys to target all mobs that might be close, so you have an increased chance of spotting them.
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Right-Clicking the "RareDar" text shows a menu of known Zones, from where you can select the zone you're in (or you're interested in). This will open an info panel below the main window containing the name, area, and coordinates of a mob in that zone. Clicking the left/right Arrows will cycle through the mobs, making it easy to set waypoints and ride to them consecutively. In that info panel, mobs that you've already killed will be shown in green, mobs that are missing are red, making it easier to check spawn points of mobs you're needing only.
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Since Version 0.7, whenever you find a rare mob, RareDar will send a message about that to other connected RareDar users. And when RareDar receives a "mob found" message, it will tell you who it was and which mob they found. This allows you to quickly tell them "please wait for me, i've been hunting this mob for ages!". Of course, you decide who to send information to, if anyone at all, and if you want or don't want to get a message when someone else finds a mob. Type /raredar config to open the config screen.
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If you want to get a route to all known locations of the mobs you're missing, see the TomTom addon.
If you have any suggestions regarding mob names, positions, or bugs in RareDar, please post them here.
To get the newest location database, visit http://riftrares.gbl-software.de.
Found Kieran 4375,7936. Also, once you kill the rares in the new tidal area, and find them again, it does not tell you if you have killed them already or not. One of the features i liked.
Hi... love the add on. Just downloaded the newest version, and it's not giving me the small radar screen window. I've used the /show, /unlock, i've disabled, enabled, i've done reloadui...nothing seems to work. Any ideas? Thanks!
I found Brogir at 4588, 955, 3073. The addon detected him when I accidentally moved my cursor over him despite the fact that the green light did not come on.
Love the addon, BTW.
I haven't been playing Rift for quite some time, but someone sent me a new data file that's supposed to be updated to 3.0. I just create Version 0.71 (same code, new data file) in the hope it will be useful, but i can't vouch for the correctness of the data.
After updating this addon for 3.0 I get this error
Error: RareDar/radarbutton.lua:157: attempt to index a nil value In RareDar / RareDar.itembtn:RightClick stack traceback: RareDar/radarbutton.lua:157: in function <RareDar/radarbutton.lua:156>
Thanks for the work.
So, with 3.0 around the corner I'm wondering if someone will make an alternative to this?
Thorgeig doesn't seem to be active anymore and RareDar already got a lot of missing mobs.
Because there will be a lot of new rare mobs and we also got the /setwaypoint X Y feature now, which could be a nice function if the addon would do that with a simple click instead of typing it in manually.
HI! Raredar seems to recognize the summerfest pets, but it has no target macro for them. Meaning, the radar screen stays red, but a message pops up with the pet name. So it's like partiallly implemented. Am I missingt something?
Is there anyway that this can just notify me if/when there's a rare mob around, not just when I'm explicitly looking for one?
I found the watcher at location 16131, 6735
The Watcher can now be found in the newest chronicle Infernal Dawn.
Is it possible to bind the macro and/or button so I don't have to keep clicking it with the mouse?
Unfortunately, no. Addons allow macros to be bound to UI elements (i use this to bind a target macro to the green button), but they can't bind macros to keys directly, and they can't change what's bound to action bars either.
Hi.
I have the issue that RareDar doesn't show up on my UI. Using /raredar show doesn't make it appear either.
The rare messages show up in the chat though. I've had this issue since version 0.4
Maybe your RareDar got moved off the screen somehow. To fix it, delete the save file:
Go to Rift's character selection, press the Addons button, open the Addon directory. Move 1 level up, down to the "Saved" folder, down again the folder that corresponds to your email address, then SavedVariables. In that folder, delete the RareDar.lua file. Or, open it with notepad, locate the last 2 entries (xpos/ypos), and set them both to something like 100.
This should reset the RareDar window to its default location, from where you can drag it where you want it.
Please post this on the Addon's description, this happens a lot :|
Found both Ugly Horn and Tweedle Dip in Gloamwood together at 5453, 2840. (wasn't on raredar)
In 0.61, I see the following error:
Error: RareNerd/util.lua:26: attempt to index local 'all_rares' (a nil value)In RareDar / Display Notification, event Event.Unit.Availability.Full
stack traceback:
RareNerd/util.lua:26: in function 'get_rares'
RareDar/notification_handler.lua:15: in function <RareDar/notification_handler.lua:11>
Then you probably have RareNerd installed together with RareDar. RareNerd is a spin off of an older version of RareDar, which uses parts of RareDar, but hasen't been updated in a while. Sorry, but i'm afraid you'll have to deinstall either of them. I double checked my sources, i have no references to RareNerd anywhere.
I've been getting this error and it goes away when I disable raredar.
Error: LibVersionCheck/UI.lua:30: attempt to compare number with string
In LibVersionCheck / Event.Addon.Startup.End, event Event.Addon.Startup.End
stack traceback:
[C]: in function '__lt'
LibVersionCheck/UI.lua:30: in function 'createAndShowUI'
LibVersionCheck/main.lua:164: in function <LibVersionCheck/main.lua:153>
thanks
Unfortunately, you're right. The new version 0.61 should fix that (and has a newer database for dendrome mobs).
If you use another of my addons - Equalizer, Heartometer, TomTom, ToonInfo and WhereAmI - make sure to update them as well, since they might get loaded before RareDar, which would still use the old library version.