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OVERVIEW (Last updated for v1.9.5.3)
weizPVP is an addon dedicated to one thing: World PVP.
The core features include:
- Expansive player detection
- Health and death updates
- Dead player display icons and sorting
- Stealth Alerts
- Role detection
- Level estimation
- Crosshairs
- Kill On Sight list
Many other features are include such as intelligent player sorting, phase detection, on-flight-path detection, player connection status and distance estimation. Another goal of weizPVP is to be efficient as possible by constantly making improvements to reduce memory and CPU usage (world pvp can be laggy enough). Whether you're solo doing a world quests or raiding an enemy city, weizPVP is there to keep you current on the enemy situation so you can make informed decisions, using accurate data, displayed on a easy to use interface.
FEATURES
🖥️ Main Window
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A list of recently detected enemy players includes:
- Name
- Level
- Role
- Guild
- Class
- Realm ( '*' displayed for players not from your realm)
- Health Updates
- Dead player indicator and sorting
- Clickable player bars that target the player.
- Scrollable player list.
- Nearby count of the number of players
- Move, minimize, restore, and resize the window
- Pin or Lock the window in place.
- Status Bar with a growing list of notifications from player and addon events.
🗺️ Minimap Icon and Data Broker support
- Minimap icon or data broker displays show the nearby count
- One Click to hide/show the main window or toggle the interface options
👁️ Stealth Detection
- Pop up notifications showing the player and what ability or item was used.
- Sound notifications
- Status Bar messages
🎯 Crosshairs
- Color change based on class.
- Net-o-Matic icon appears when usable
- Display the target's name and guild
- Adjustable opacity/alpha, scale, and line thickness
💀 Kill On Sight
- Add/Remove players from the list or unit frames
- Indicator on player bars
- When Crosshairs are enabled, shows a special indicator for KOS players
- Priority sorting on player list
- Custom sound alert
- Chat output alert-
This addon is amazing. However it's missing some key things that Spy has - mostly the ability to click the left or right arrows at the top to switch between current / [Last seen in the ] Last Hour / Kill on Sight / and Ignore lists And when you hover over someone's name in the window it will give you a tooltip like WoW itself does but it adds your wins and losses to the tooltip. These are deal breakers if not included IMO
Another (hopefully) simple request is to add the sound like the one Spy uses. It's just annoying enough and exactly the right length. If at least the first part was added I'd instantly go to this one. I just love everything else about it. Specially the targeting retinal. Thanks for your awesome work!
In reply to kammie_gurl:
Thanks for the feedback, suggestions, and ideas.... I'm pretty much with you on all of it, though I'll probably go about it in a different way.
The next big thing planned would be the Player Browser that tracks and displays detected players along info like when they were last seen, last spec/role, kill / death recording, and more.
The data is all there for the most part already(not tracking kills/deaths yet), it just needs a nice interface and some basic features.
I haven't gotten a lot done on that end yet as I didn't want to change too much with the new expansion coming. After SL drops and the addon is stable, I'm going right into adding the browser, and other features.
As far as the 'arrows' between different frames/screens/modes goes, I had been playing around with more interface designs, and although I probably won't go with the arrow approach, there will be more accessible info within the frame itself without having anything new popup etc.
As an example of developing the UI further, here's one test I was playing around with. Not exactly the same as the arrows being show, but just general design, UI/UX ideas.
You can change any of the sounds in weizPVP via the options, which will also access sounds from other addons using LibSharedMedia.
Spy has this library, as do many other addons... however Spy doesn't seem to be using it for sharing their sound, but mostly to get other resources like fonts and textures.
You could also take the sounds from the Spy folder, and use them with https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia, which gives you a place to put textures, fonts, bars, and sounds that can be shared with addons using LibSharedMedia.. which is a lot. If you get the Spy sounds in there to be shared, you can just select them from the weizPVP options after that (as they would not be properly shared)
I'm doing what I can with the time I got, just wish I had more. If my Patreon had enough support I'd be able to get a lot more stuff done, but at the moment I'm still at 0 (though to be fair I don't really have exciting benefits... creating more content would just take more time out from development)
Anyways, thanks again for the feedback, even if you still prefer other options at the moment... I'll be sure to work on that ;)
Is there any way to set the range on stealth detection? Like an option to set it to 30 yards or something? Cause right now this thing will detect stealth even if a player is halfway across the map.
In reply to notanotherforumname:
I wish I was able to get that type of information from the API, but it just isn't there.
I may think about options where if you had seen their nameplate, and stealth within x seconds, then the alert would be shown.
Generally in the world this isn't a huge issue, but I know in large battleground maps it certainly can be.
In the world, the max combat log range is 100 yards, so that would be the max distance it would be able to detect. It's still far, but in something like AV it's the entire map, which I'm assuming is a few hundred+ yards easy.
Hey, first of all, thanks for the addon. I really like it. I've been using it since the pre-patch release and it does great.
But i wonder if you can create something like a History of fights and win/loss streak, like the Spy addon does.
Also, could you make a separete version of the crosshair feature? I've been looking for something like it for so long, but only found it on your addon. Would be interessing a crosshair feature that we could change everything like color, shape, etc.
Thanks again for the addon.
In reply to tribunalwow:
Hi there, glad you're enjoying it!
Tracking of player data is the next big thing on my list of things to do outside of fixing stuff up etc. Tracking last locations, times, max health, kills, deaths, party deaths, kos,etc.
I have no plans on specific fight history between you and another players, such as dates, times, outcomes, etc... tho that is a neat idea. I'm just worried about the massive about of data that would need to be stored in order to pull that off.
I was thinking of branching off the crosshair feature at some point; once I develop a proper configuration UI for it, including theming etc. At the moment, this isn't a high priority.
Happy to hear the feedback and suggestions! I honestly want a lot of the things you do, and more.. but time isn't on my side.
However, I do have a Patreon (with 0 patron), which I setup to help offset this time issue ;) If enough support for it came in, I could get all this kind of stuff done much faster :)
Is there a way to configure the addon so that it automatically disables when you're not in War Mode (pvp mode?) Or, at least turn off the sound effects when war mode is not active?
Also, is there a way to configure the font type and size for the window?
If the answer to these questions is 'no', perhaps options could be added in the settings file that we could edit manually? I understand that it might not be worth the time to add the ability to change the settings within the UI, but at least being able to adjust these features manually (without having to maintain a separate version of the addon) would be great. (Or, if your code is on a repository somewhere, perhaps one could submit pull requests with this feature so that it's added to the official release?)
In reply to Aelorean:
Customization to the fonts, sizes, tectures, etc have all been added to the beta and will be released for the prepatch... so youll be giving tons of ways to make it look the way you way.. even change some of the colors if you want!
As far as disabling when warmode is off, I can pop in an options for that, but probably would be diabled by default as I know a lot of players like to keep it running in cities in case they see a raid of enemies incoming so they can pop warmode back on, or stick around an report back to their main guild or community. Certainly something that can be done tho. I'll try to get that put in for the pre-patch release coming next week :) The addition of this should be pretty simple, so no worries.
Currently there is no public repo for this project, but this site does include an issues section where you are free to request features as well. Next time, that would be the best place to suggest new ideas.
In reply to weizPVP:
Didn't make it in this initial prepatch release as I didn't want to mess with what I know should be working on launch day (never a good move for developers).
I will however get this in soon as it will be relatively simple to implement, I'd just like to add some sub options perhaps such as to have it disabled.. unless a kos player is detected for example, or if the city is under attack... things like that. All of those should be just as easy to add in as well, but I'd just like some options as I know people use it in a few different ways, and would like to give them all something new to work with :)
Thanks again for the feedback... I'm trying to get this in within the next week or so... depending on how much time I'm playing on pre-patch (I only play one toon, so shouldn't be too long!) :)
In reply to Aelorean:
The War Mode option is now included in the latest release (General options section) :D
I did some basic testing with it and seems like it's work out alright, but I'm pretty much always in WM.. so if you notice any issues let me know!
In reply to weizPVP:
Awesome -- thanks!
By the way, my next request is for profiles ;) Or, if not profiles, an option to share settings between all characters on the same account (which is what I would do anyway.) But, I'm thinking there probably is an easy-to-integrate "profiles" API out there somewhere since so many addons have them.
In reply to Aelorean:
Profiles is on my to-do list! It wasn't much of a problem when the options where very limited, but now them expanding it def makes sense. As someone who doesn't play alts it isn't something that comes to mind, so thanks for mentioning it! And yes, I should be able to plug in profiles without too much hassle as I'm already using the Ace3 libraries.. just need to dig into it more and test things out.
I have heard the same request by a few now.. so that certainly will be added (sometime after Shadowland release where there aren't any more bugs to tackle).
In reply to Aelorean:
Just wanted to give you (and anyone else) an update on profiles.
At the moment the profiles are stored on a per-character basis which needs to be changed so other characters can access them as well. That long isn't too bad, but that along with a few other tedious things has pushed this back until after SL for sure. I don't want too much to change until after SL is released to reduce any potential bugs or errors. Already I'm noticing some meaningful changes in the way pre-patch and beta work, even though they're both very close in version (9.0.1.36372-Retail vs 9.0.2.36294-Beta).
After the dust settles on SL, I'll be moving more onto version 2.0, which with all the changes I ended up putting into 1.0 might as well be 3.0 as a lot of things will be completely rewritten.
On top of that I'll be using a lot less libraries, including the one that is dealing with the database stuff (so I rather wait and set profiles up with the new system).
If I somehow squeeze that change in earlier, I'll let you know!
In reply to weizPVP:
Sounds good! :)
Anyway we can have enemy player bars only show when in range? like 20 yards. or so
In reply to icedawg:
There currently is no feature or way to do this with weizPVP.
The range determinations at the moment requires you to target a player in order to get the range.
Even if using other methods based off nameplates, this would still leave out any players that don't have nameplates visible (such character not on screen, or after the hardcoded nameplate limit hit their max).
On top of that, distances can change really quickly as there are all sorts of spells/abilities/items that can teleport or increase movement speed, so in order to keep those numbers relatively accurate it would have to check all the players multiple times a second, which could really slow things down when dealing with higher numbers.
As an example, the Crosshairs currently update the range every .3 seconds; otherwise the the updates are just too slow to be used accurately (1 second on a flying mount can be the difference from being on top of you to out of spell range)
It is an interesting idea though and I've marked it down as something to look into after Shadowlands is released. Can't hurt to check it out. Doubt you would see this anytime soon if implemented as there are a lot of other things on my plate, but I like the idea if it can be done efficiently somehow.
Ahh I figured as much or you would of had this in already..
In reply to icedawg:
Hah, yea, I probably would have, or at least already on my upcoming todo list.
When I added the range display to the crosshairs I was thinking about something like that, until I realized how often things would need to be ran, and also the issues relating to players not on screen. A combat log method may work by checking the spells cast on yourself of friendly players as you can get friendly player distance easily, but that also would involve a decent bit of processing to determine a distance properly.
I'll keep an eye out after shadowlands is released and dig more into the API changes or anything else I can find that may make this possible, but so far I haven't seen anything notable.
Great to hear, keeping my fingers crossed. =)