Description
This AddOn shows an image and plays a sound when you get a killing blow. When in a battleground, only killing blows on players are recorded; but all killing blows are recorded outside of battlegrounds.
You can configure the AddOn by editing the options at the top of core.lua in a text editor. This lets you enable/disable the printing of your current KB total to the chat frame and choose whether the AddOn works everywhere or only in BGs.
You can also change the texture and the sound. The AddOn includes three textures: an Alliance crest, a Horde crest and a picture of the Horde/Alliance battleground flags.
The KB total is reset whenever you go through a loading screen (e.g. when you enter/leave a battleground).
Source Code
You can view the AddOn's source code on GitHub.
Credits
Thanks OligoFriends of Curse/WoWI for the original concept and the art/sound design.
Thanks to whitefreli for contributing the KillingBlow_HordeSword texture.
Thanks to nightcracker for ncKillingBlow, which showed me which event fires for killing blows.
I'm trying to use a custom image. I saved it as a TGA and put it in the Textures folder. I went into the core notepad, added it to the list and then put it directly where the default image was. But it's just a green texture box and doesn't work no matter what I do. What do?
In reply to JimPaladin:
Please upload your core.lua file to Gist and link it here. Please also post a screenshot showing your image in the Textures folder with the address bar visible.
I'm a bit new to LUA and was trying to configure the addon to choose a sound from numerous sound options. Any tips?
In reply to LegionaryLucas:
The lines starting with two dashes (--) are comments that explain the option below them (there are also comments on the same lines as some options, also starting with two dashes and continuing until the end of the line). The lines that look like local OPTION_NAME = "Some Value" are the options. To change the sound, you need to make sure you've put the sound file somewhere in the game directory (e.g. in World of Warcraft\<_retail_/_classic>\Interface\AddOns\KillingBlow_Enhanced\Sounds) and then change the value of the SOUND_PATH option (e.g. to "Interface\\AddOns\\KillingBlow_Enhanced\\Sounds\\<Your Sound File Here>.ogg").
If you install a text editor with syntax highlighting (e.g. one of these), it will be a bit easier to tell what's an option and what's a comment. I personally use Notepad++, which displays comments in green.
hi where is the classic version?
Thank you
In reply to nshawmc:
There isn't one, yet. You can try using the existing version in Classic, it may or may not work.
I may update it to the latest Retail/Classic versions on the weekend.
In reply to nshawmc:
I tested it briefly and it seems that the AddOn was already working in both Retail and Classic; so I've updated the TOC version and enabled packaging for Classic (so each version now has a Retail and Classic download). This has been released as 1.22.
Any chance we can get a classic wow version of this????
In reply to mckeonj1:
Sorry, I missed your comment earlier. You can try using the existing version in Classic, it may or may not work.
I may update it to the latest Retail/Classic versions on the weekend.
In reply to mckeonj1:
I tested it briefly and it seems that the AddOn was already working in both Retail and Classic; so I've updated the TOC version and enabled packaging for Classic (so each version now has a Retail and Classic download). This has been released as 1.22.
How do I get this to work only in PvP situations, including WPvP? I set "local PVP_ONLY" to false but now its triggering on NPC kills. I just want it to trigger on player killing blows regardless of location. Is there any way to do this?
In reply to ByucknahTheRed:
In reply to Choonster:
You should really add some options (at the very least slash commands) to change the configurable options like only in battlegrounds.
Also, why have world pvp disabled by default? Anyone who wants this would probably not mind it out in the wild.
I probably won't be adding any major features like in-game configuration, I'm mostly just keeping this updated.
World PvP should already be enabled by default (i.e. PVP_ONLY set to false). Was this not the case for you?
I've just released version 1.18 for WoW 7.0.
What is the command to change the voice?
There's only one killing blow sound included in the AddOn.
If you want to add your own, put it somewhere in your WoW directory and change the SOUND_PATH option in core.lua to point to it. This option is the path of the sound relative to the root WoW directory (the one with Wow.exe in it), using double backslashes as directory separators.
core.lua can be opened in any text editor (e.g. Notepad), but using one with syntax highlighting (e.g. one of these) will make it easier to read.
I know this is still working, but listed as an "out of date" module. Any chance of issuing an update?
Thanks!
I've just released version 1.16, which is marked as 6.2-compatible.