Important Notice for TipBuddy
I have stopped working on TipBuddy to work on my new tip mod:
<file type="tooltip">8709</file>
Reason I stopped working on TipBuddy was due to it not being my mod, it was the work of Chester, he made the mod originally, I just updated it.
When you are working on code you didn't write yourself, it is a lot more complicated to work with, and I didn't feel I could fix the bugs in TipBuddy, each new release had new bugs popping up and I was getting seriously annoyed with it.
Also, TipBuddy was taking way too much memory, I believe it was somewhere between 500 and 700k which is a lot for a standalone mod with no libraries. TipTac uses 30k.
My plan with TipTac was just to make a smaller mod, one that didn't hog so many resources and one that would be a lot easier for me to work with.
To all those who has used TipBuddy, thank you. I will ask you to try out TipTac and see if you like it. If you feel there is something missing which you could do in TipBuddy, post what it is on the TipTac page and it might be something I will add.
TipBuddy - Updated for WoW 2.0
This mod was originally made by Chester.
http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/.../tipbuddy/
I updated this to work with WoW 2.0, mostly for my own personal use.
But I noticed Curse still don't have a working TipBuddy mod, so I decided to release it.
Slash Commands: /tipbuddy /tbuddy /tip
Original Description by Chester
TipBuddy is the ultimate, most customizable tooltip mod you can find. With TipBuddy, you have total control over what you want to see in your tooltip. You can display your tooltips for units in two ways: Default mode and Compact Mode. Default mode's visual style is similar to Blizzard's default tooltip, but much much more customizable. Compact Mode has a unique style that is a bit more compact and (for some) much better to read. It has a few more options Default Mode. Using a combination of both is not uncommon to differentiate one type of unit from another. Check out some features below:
TipBuddy Features
- Anchor your unit tooltips to your mouse or to the TipBuddyAnchor (which can be dragged anywhere you want onscreen)
- Non-unit tooltips (buttons, etc) can be anchored to your mouse, the TipBuddyAnchor or with "Smart" Anchoring (will always keep the tip on screen no matter what)
- All of your tooltips clip to the edge of the screen. Even if you have it attached to your mouse, it will never get clipped off the edge.
- All modes of anchoring can be configured and offset however you like.
- Your tooltip's background color can be customized to your liking per unit-type (including guildmates). OR:
- Background colors can be set to reflect the difficulty of that unit towards you (red=impossible, green=easy, grey=trivial, etc)
- Easy to use Options Menu (see screenshot)
- Shows buffs and debuffs on your tooltip
- Shows rank icons next to name
- Show rank player rank titles next to name or turn them off
- All lines in the tooltip can be turned on or off per unit-type
- See your target's target next to their name which is color coded based on the target type (this is extremely useful)
- All tooltips can be scaled up or down
- Supports MobHealth database and can show health/mana text over the bars
- Adds Guild, Class, Race (all color configurabale) to your tooltip
- All text colors are configurable with easy to use color wheels
- Choose whether the Default tip fades away or disappears
- Plus more!!
Changes 2.40 | 2007 Oct 02
- Changed the TOC version to 20200 for the 2.2.0 patch.
- Should no longer give any errors on certain unit frames or elsewhere.
- Added "Thrallmar" to the faction list, missed it somehow, probably due to me not being horde.
- Corrected a few XML errors which caused a few color selection boxes to not show.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" 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
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- 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 World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...