Trophy Hunter v1.0.0
Part of the Ultima Suite • Rare Entity, Treasure & Collectible Intelligence Radar for World of Warcraft (Retail & Midnight-Ready)
🌟 Overview
Part of the Ultima Suite — engineered to operate 100% standalone with zero mandatory cross-addon dependencies, while providing seamless inter-addon synergies via UltimaBridge when other suite modules are installed.
Trophy Hunter is a next-generation rare creature, treasure chest, and world vignette tracker engineered for World of Warcraft Retail (Patch 12.1.0 / Midnight, Interface 120100). Serving as our proprietary, zero-taint alternative to RareScanner, Trophy Hunter combines fluid 3D animated entity previews, directional compass navigation, native Blizzard super-tracking, and intelligent Warband collectible filtering with a fraction of the memory footprint.
✨ Key Features
👑 1. Smart Loot & Warband Intelligence
- Golden Trophy Priority Alerts: Connects with the Warband collection system to evaluate rare drop tables. If a rare drops an uncollected Mount, Battle Pet, Toy, or Transmog, Trophy Hunter fires an epic Golden Fanfare Alert with luminous gold borders!
- Town & Housing Noise Filtering: Automatically filters out non-combat town services, housing vendors (such as Decor Specialists in Ironforge, Dornogal, etc.), trainers, and portals, preventing spammy false alarms.
- Configurable Re-Alert Cooldown: Customizable cooldown (1 to 30 minutes, 10 minutes default) prevents repetitive spam for the same stationary target, with a 30-minute mute on dismissal.
- Noise Suppression: Suppresses intrusive audio alerts for generic or previously defeated creatures, eliminating notification fatigue while still displaying subtle map pins.
🎬 2. Cinematic 3D Alert HUD
- Live 3D Model Rendering: Directly renders animated 3D models of rare creatures and treasure chests in a stylish Ultima Dark Slate interface (with high-definition 2D fallback icons for un-modeled targets).
- Directional Compass: Live bearing indicators show the compass direction (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) and distance in yards.
- 1-Click Dismissal & Silence: Click the close button
[X]or type/th clearto immediately dismiss the alert and mute that entity for 30 minutes. - 1-Click Waypoint Navigation: Click Target Entity or Set Waypoint to set Blizzard's native map pin and in-world directional arrow on demand (automatic pin setting is disabled by default).
- Zero-Taint Secure Targeting: Features a protected action button (
/targetexact <Name>\n/tm 8) that queues state changes seamlessly if triggered during combat lockdown.
🗺️ 3. Zero-Lag World Map & Minimap Overlay
- Frame-Recycled Pins: Employs Blizzard's native
MapCanvasPinMixinframe pool (CreateFramePool) to eliminate garbage generation and map lag. - Loot Tooltip Inspection: Hovering over pins displays live kill lockout status, coordinates, and full item drop lists with collectible badges.
📖 4. Two-Tier Navigation Zone Codex
- Complete Zone Almanac: Two-Tier Gold navigation studio displaying all rare creatures, treasures, and events in your current zone.
- Progress Badges: Tracks daily defeat status (e.g., Zone Progress: 14/18 Rares Defeated).
- Test Simulation: Built-in simulator allows testing 3D HUD alerts at any time via
/th test.
💎 5. Zone Collectibles & Loot Matrix (All The Things Replacement)
- Tab 2: Loot & Collectibles: Provides a comprehensive live checklist of all collectible rewards in your current zone directly inside the Zone Codex.
- Filter Pills: Quickly filter items by
All,Uncollected,Mounts,Pets,Toys, orTransmog. - Live Collection Status: Dynamically checks
C_TransmogCollection,C_MountJournal,C_ToyBox, andC_PetJournalto display glowing✔ Collectedor✦ Uncollectedbadges. - 1-Click Super-Track Waypoints: Single-click sets Blizzard's native user map waypoint and in-world navigation pin directly to the creature or chest dropping the uncollected item.
- Zone Progress Tracking: Real-time completion progress header (e.g.
Zone Collectibles: 32/45 (71%)).
🌉 6. UltimaBridge Synergies
- Champion Companion Integration: Automatically verifies account-wide uncollected mounts, pets, and transmogs across all alts.
- Menagerie Keeper Integration: Detects wild pet encounters and coordinates counter-teams.
- Action Ring Integration: Push detected coordinates to quick-action navigation rings.
⌨️ Slash Commands
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
/th / /trophy |
Toggle the Trophy Hunter Zone Codex window |
/th test [rare|treasure] |
Trigger a simulated 3D discovery alert |
/th clear |
Dismiss the active on-screen alert HUD and mute this entity |
/th reset |
Reset all configuration options to factory defaults |
/th help |
Print command usage instructions in chat |
🌐 Supported Languages
Full localization across all 10 official World of Warcraft client languages:
- 🇬🇧 English (
enUS) - 🇩🇪 German (
deDE) - 🇪🇸 Spanish (
esES/esMX) - 🇫🇷 French (
frFR) - 🇮🇹 Italian (
itIT) - 🇧🇷 Portuguese (
ptBR) - 🇷🇺 Russian (
ruRU) - 🇰🇷 Korean (
koKR) - 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (
zhCN) - 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese (
zhTW)
📦 Installation
- Download the latest release.
- Extract into your World of Warcraft AddOns directory:
World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\TrophyHunter - Launch World of Warcraft and type
/thto open the Zone Codex.
📜 Credits & License
Developed with ❤️ by **Satyros**. Designed for World of Warcraft Retail (Patch 12.1.0 / *Midnight*).
Licensed under the **MIT License**. Part of the **Ultima Suite**.
### Acknowledgements & Inspirations:
* Built for the **Ultima Suite** ecosystem (`UltimaBridge`).
* Special thanks to the trailblazers of rare and treasure hunting in World of Warcraft: **RareScanner** (*marlam*), **SilverDragon** (*Kemayo*), and **AllTheThings (ATT)** (*Crieve & ATT Team*).

