Rat Race Tracker OLD
From my brain
Created by RTE.
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What is it?
Rat Race Tracker (traffic is limited on hourly basis)
Alright, I got some time and fixed my addon, I hope anyway. :) You will also need the following addons for it to work:
- Chronos
- IsBuffActive
- CT_RaidAssist
First 2 are available on curse-gaming
How to use it
Checkpoints
First you will need to set up checkpoints. It is set up right now for 7 checkpoints and finish line.
In order to change the checkpoints you will need to go into the addon foulder WoW/Interface/AddOns/RatRaceTracker/ and edit the file called RatRaceTracker.lua
On line 137-142 the checkpoints are set.
In order to change them you first of need to know what to change them to. For that purpose there is a macro listed on lines 130-134, or here it is:
- /script local a,b=GetCurrentMapContinent(),GetCurrentMapZone(); SetMapZoom(0); local x,y=GetPlayerMapPosition("player"); SendChatMessage("x="..math.floor(x*1000)..",y="..math.floor(y*1000),"SAY"); SetMapZoom(a,b);
Put this macro on your main and physically go to the point which you want to set as checkpoint. Running the above macro will have your char say the coordinates of the place you are currently in. Same coordinates are on the sqare of aproximatelly 10-15 yards, so make sure to find some sort of orienteer to set checkpoint to, for me wing-riders worked. After you find the coordinates of the chekpoint edit the apropriate line in RatRaceTracker.lua with your numbers.
Now you should be ready to use it. When you log in you should notice little dragging circle in the top-left corner of the screen, that is the anchor for RRT frame (ie frame will be to the right of it). You can drag it around. /rrt will hide the frame and the drag knob. /rrt reset will reset any progres already made in race.
With reload of ui/logout RRT resets by itself.
Now, as on how to actually use it. Take a look at the screen: http://www.geocities.com/mods_rte/RetRaceTracker/screens.html
you cacn see 2 frames, 1 for each raid member (note that addon can only track the players within the raid). on the frame you can see several objects:
Round knob (top-left) - that is the state of the player: red - dead or ghost, yellow - in combat, green - alive Name (top-mid) - Name of the char, colorcoded: normally the name is green, if player is cought cheating (rezing at GY or riding a taxi) name will turn red.
- Number of deaths (D:# in top-right) - just the number of times player died since the last reset.
- Total penalty (number in top-right corner) - total number of penalties added from all checkpoints
- Checkpoints penalties (bottom row) - there are 4 of them, 3 for checkpoint and one for finish.
- 0:00 means that this player was first to reach CP
- -:-- means noone has reached CP yet
- #:## means this player reached the CP #:## minutes after the first one (penalty).
Now you can see on the screen both players ommited checkpoint 3, so they should be disqualified.
Messages
Every time someone reaches CP message will be sent to raid chanel AND CT_RA message channel (ie it should appear on the screen) message will say who reached CP and what is their penalty for it. Message will also be sent if someone dies, it will say who died and how many times person died so far.
I would strongly recomend to have every participant install CT_RA in order to see when they have reached CP better.
Alright, thats about it
If you have any questions, just ask.
Regards,
RTE
