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Project Updated:

Files Updated:

Tue, Jun 16 2009

Supports Game Version:

1.2.1

Category:

Combat

Tags:

ability spell skill [Edit Tags]

Project Manager:

Celestian

Additional Authors:

No additional authors

Current Version:

r22

License:

Public Domain

Development Site:

CurseForge.com

Avg Daily DL (last 30 days):

Downloads Total:

9,033

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About Ability Alert!

Standard display (white) and WSCT display (blue)

This simple addon will give you an alert when a cooldown is completed for a ability (your own or your pet's) and ready for use. The alert is sent to the upper section of the screen or to WSCT, view the screenshot for a sample.

Requirements

NOTE: This AddOn requires LibSlash. http://www.curse.com/downloads/detail.../13510/

EA_ActionBars, if you use a button bar replacement AddOn this might or might not work.

Command line options

Display options
If "show all" is used the filtertext will hide abilities. If using "show none" the filtertext will display those abilities.

/aa show [all|none] - show all/none abilities. Filtertext will hide (all) or display (none)

/aa add [filtertext] - adds a filter for the given alert text (can be partial)

/aa del [filtertext] - removes a filter for the given alert text

/aa list - list filters

Reactive ability options
Reactive abilities are abilities that trigger from block, parry, disrupt/etc. Anything that is not active until a specific event should work.

/aa radd [monitor text] - add reactive monitor for ability (full name or partial text)

/aa rdel [monitor text] - delete a reactive monitor.

/aa rlist - list reactive monitor abilities.

WSCT Options

/aa wsct [enable|disable|both] - use WSCT if installed, or use WSCT and standard output.

/aa wsctframe [1|2|3] - change WSCT output frame to 1, 2 or 3.

Customize layout options

Alert Window

Known issues

Currently if you have the same ability on the button bar more than once you will receive an alert for each of those copies on the bar.

When the .mod file revision is updated it forces the SavedVariables.lua and windows to reset. I've stopped updating that until a work around can be found.

Report all bugs and RFE's here: http://war.curseforge.com/projects/ab.../create-ticket/

Created On:	Sun, Sep 14 2008
Localized:

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "Warhammer Online" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
Verify your WAR Installation Path
That is where you are running WAR from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your Warhammer Online folder. (default is C:\Program Files\Warhammer Online\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start Warhammer Online

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of WAR. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

Directory Structure

Warhammer Online
    |_ Interface
    |_AddOns
    |_*AddonName*
    |_ *AddonName*.mod
    |_ *AddonName*.lua
    |_ (possibly others as well)...

Downloads (5)

	File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
	Addon Curse.com	Beta	2.3.3	0	9/29/2008

File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
Ability Alert! r22	Release	1.2.1	2,922	6/16/2009
Ability Alert! v2.9.2	Release	1.2.1	965	6/1/2009
Ability Alert! v2.9	Release	Beta 3.0	1,921	11/30/2008
Ability Alert! v2.8	Release	Beta 3.0	246	11/11/2008
Ability Alert! v2.7	Release	Beta 3.0	209	11/5/2008

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Screenshots (1)

Standard display (white) and WSCT display (blue)

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Zodan said

Any other addons doing the same thing? (No I don't want graphical fluff) ^^

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Skwisgaar1 said

Sat around for several hours to figure this one out.

Action bar CD, as mentioned before, is a big problem for this addon.

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Djarudiin said

Alerts bug / issue: Tendancy to spam a myriad of allerts for certain skills.

Example:
"Whirling Pin"
"Whirling Pin"
"Whirling Pin"
"Whirling Pin"
"Whirling Pin"
"Whirling Pin"

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Thurax said

I can't get this to show up.

I'm using Vertigo, WSCT and Ability Alert!.

I want to have AA show when my Silence the Heretic ability is ready etc.

I've tried configuring it, but it won't show up :-/

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korofrog said

Has anyone gotten this to work with the bright wizard's flashfire tactic? I haven't installed this yet and would like to know before I do.

Otherwise, I guess the other way to do it is to be able to make it say "flashfire" or something to the top of the screen. Is that doable and what's the best way to do it?

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StealthStalker said

I've disabled show reactive (or thought I had? /aa reactive off) yet I still get the pop ups for block/parry/etc. I have no need for this, I only want to see cooldowns - however I want to see -all- my cooldowns for my characters and going through and adding in everything after filtering it all of would be a bit much.

Is there any other way to disable reactives?

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Celestian said

Parry, Dodge and block are not reactive alerts. Those are just like normal alerts. If you want to hide them filter them /aa add parry and so forth.

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filoufil said

would like to be able to filter everything and add the ability I want to show

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Celestian said

You can.

/aa show none
/aa add AbilityYouWantToSee

If you want to hide only certain ones then:

/aa show all
/aa add AbilityYouWantTohide

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JarikaWar said

Ok, now that I got Pit of Shades to show up, I have another problem.
It shows up too often. I don't mean like twice or so when its cooldown is over (it doesn't and its only on my quickbar once).

Its a ground targeted AE spell and therefore doesn't need a target, yet its range its set to 80ft, which is the range I can set it on the ground.
Now when i have a target >80ft away, the spell marks as unavailable (i can still cast it though, since it doesn't need a target).
Now whenever I cross that 80ft mark, or target someone closer or noone at all (no target=button shows as ok), basicly whenever the button switches from not available to available and back, AA triggers a "Pit of Shades" ready message.
Its quite disturbing.

Its just that spell, all other spells that mark as red or not don't cause that problem.

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JarikaWar said

Nevermind, it was again my mistake... I guess when i was checking out why it wasn't displaying the Pit of shade messge in the first place, i added it to the reactive filter, and forgot about it, thats why it triggered all the time.

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JarikaWar said

No matter what I do, I can't get the mod to alert me when Pit Of Shades and Hand of Ruin (both sorceress spells) come of cooldown. Both these spells are channeled spells, perhaps thats the reason?

It works for other "normal" sorc spells like Gloom of Night or Grip of Fear though.

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Celestian said

@jarikaWar it should work for channeled spells. I play a Archmage and searing touch and funnel essence both alert for me. I can't really do any testing for ya to determine why but I'll poke around.

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JarikaWar said

I did some digging into the code and found the problem.
Its nothing with the code, but with one of my filters. On my swordmaster a long time ago I tried to filter out the Parry messages, since I had not after-parry style i didn't care for them. The filter "[parry]" accomplished that...
Unfortunately its interpreted as a regular expression in your isFiltered function and basicly filters out any ability with one of those letters in, I'm surprised I didn't notice any odd behaviour earlier (i guess it filtered alot more abilities, I just never cared for those).

So its nothing with your code, but for curiousity sake, how do you filter out those parry notifications?

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DaggonWAR said

Omg I love this mod! Also, what inia said, is there a way to put the 5 point scale on alert? for Shaman and Archmage? Thanks

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inia said

this mod work with the high magic point of the arcmage ?
is there an alert when the point are 5 ?

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Celestian said

I'll see about adding an alert for "career" features but there are already several mods that do this.

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couch1971 said

Will this work for a Bright Wizard's tactic: Flashfire which activates when a spell is disrupted?

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Celestian said

It should with the reactive monitor. It works similar to blocks/parries. I don't trigger off block/parry I trigger if the ability becomes active on the button bar.

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FuriCuri said

Can we have the showall option which can invert logic of filtering? I.e. I want to be alerted only for specified abilities - I don't want to fill list with all other abilites I don't want to see (so I need to invert filtering logic).

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