Poster: Xenoronin at 2008-07-04 10:41:53
Subject: Pimp My UI - Episode Fifty |
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Ah the sweet feeling of a milestone reached, but that does not give me permission to be complacent or lazy. Oh no. The next milestone must still be clambered up to. Onward we go!
Mod subject of this weekInterview with an AddOn Developer
- Name and Realm, (US or EU?)
Moonfann US-Ysera
Kagaro US-Ysera (my old main)
- How long have you been playing WoW / creating Addons?
I’ve been playing since release, and started working on mods about year and a half ago.
- How and why did you get involved in creating addons?
I started reading over the ace forums, at first it was to change up
ndkp to fit our guild needs. After that it was for the fun.
- What addons have you created so far?
GatherMate, kgPanels, Talismonger, LuckCharms (macro based raid target marking), I also did a bit of work on Cartographer (Mining/Herbs/Fish/Stats/Sharing)
- Are you a professional programmer or did you learn the Lua language informally by yourself?
I am a professional developer, but I learned Lua on my own. My day to day work has been varied over the years. C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Objective-C, RubyCocoa.
- Any advise for people thinking about getting involved in Lua programming?
Read the Lua book, visit the forums, ask questions, and a lot of questions. I learn something new all the time.
- Memory usage and performance seems to be becoming a big issue nowadays. What are your thoughts on it and do you consider it when making your addons?
Memory was a big issue for me, my previous rig was a PowerMac Dual G5 with a very weak graphics card. So reducing cpu/memory was my main concern. I myself try to stay under 30 megs of ram and I ditch mods which use to much or slow down my raid performance. That why kgPanelsConfig is a separate LOD addon, and why GatherMate exists. Cart got too big and was being a hog on memory/cpu so GatherMate was the direct result. My next endeavour is replacing FuBar, I find the Rock libraries to be a bit intensive, so I’m trying to replace all my mods that use it.
- kgPanels is your newest* addon.(*I could be wrong)Why did you take over the programming from the original author Evil Elvis? Or is this simply an upgraded version which has nothing to do with him?
I originally had asked EE if he was going to port over eePanels2 from Ace2 to Ace3. I had done a bit of work at this point already in something I called Galleria (it was never up on wowace). We spent a bit of time working together (Evil did a good chunk of the config layout) and he even suggested the name kgPanels.
- What addon could you simply not play the game without?
Bartender right now, I can’t stand the default ActionBars
- Has patch 2.4 affected you in any way?
Well the new combat log required me to rework some code for Gas Extraction. It is now a combat even without putting you in combat!
There is also some info mods I liked that no longer work due to the combat log change.
- What are you planning for the future as your next project?
A replacement of some sort for FuBar, even if I’m the only one using it, would be enough for me.
- What changes would you like to see Blizzard make in relation to addons and the interface? Or what could they have done better?
Some more built-in functions for image manipulation so I could rotate and crop an image. I would love to see a move playback api so learning nights in raids people could not only see the strategy in game but watch a quick clip of it without alt-tabbing out.
- The one addon that you cannot live without?
A Dot tracker of some type (I use Quartz right now) and an ActionBar mod (I use Bartender)
Macro of this week
Name: Lament of the Highbourne
Author: wweduff (WoWUI)
Macro:
Q u o t e:
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\Music\GlueScreenMusic\BCCredits_Lament_of_the_Highborne.mp3")
Not tested but it should work.
“This song can be heard in-game from Lady Sylvanas Windrunner and her Highborne Lamenters after finding her locket, a gift from her sister Alleria, and returning it to the Dark Lady.
With this macro you can listen the song again, and again, and again...”
Worth checking out
[ Post edited by Xenoronin ]
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"The PMUI is just ace as usual. Great job Xenoronin :-)" Vaneras
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Poster: Slorkuz at 2008-08-04 01:06:03
Subject: Re: Pimp My UI - Episode Fifty |
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Milestone bump! Fantastic work here!
1013
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Poster: Xenoronin at 2008-07-04 10:41:53
Subject: Pimp My UI - Episode Fifty |
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Ah the sweet feeling of a milestone reached, but that does not give me permission to be complacent or lazy. Oh no. The next milestone must still be clambered up to. Onward we go!
Mod subject of this weekInterview with an AddOn Developer
More commonly known as Kagaro from the wowace forums.
- Name and Realm, (US or EU?)
Moonfann US-Ysera
Kagaro US-Ysera (my old main)
- How long have you been playing WoW / creating Addons?
I’ve been playing since release, and started working on mods about year and a half ago.
- How and why did you get involved in creating addons?
I started reading over the ace forums, at first it was to change up
ndkp to fit our guild needs. After that it was for the fun.
- What addons have you created so far?
GatherMate, kgPanels, Talismonger, LuckCharms (macro based raid target marking), I also did a bit of work on Cartographer (Mining/Herbs/Fish/Stats/Sharing)
- Are you a professional programmer or did you learn the Lua language informally by yourself?
I am a professional developer, but I learned Lua on my own. My day to day work has been varied over the years. C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Objective-C, RubyCocoa.
- Any advise for people thinking about getting involved in Lua programming?
Read the Lua book, visit the forums, ask questions, and a lot of questions. I learn something new all the time.
- Memory usage and performance seems to be becoming a big issue nowadays. What are your thoughts on it and do you consider it when making your addons?
Memory was a big issue for me, my previous rig was a PowerMac Dual G5 with a very weak graphics card. So reducing cpu/memory was my main concern. I myself try to stay under 30 megs of ram and I ditch mods which use to much or slow down my raid performance. That why kgPanelsConfig is a separate LOD addon, and why GatherMate exists. Cart got too big and was being a hog on memory/cpu so GatherMate was the direct result. My next endeavour is replacing FuBar, I find the Rock libraries to be a bit intensive, so I’m trying to replace all my mods that use it.
- kgPanels is your newest* addon.(*I could be wrong)Why did you take over the programming from the original author Evil Elvis? Or is this simply an upgraded version which has nothing to do with him?
I originally had asked EE if he was going to port over eePanels2 from Ace2 to Ace3. I had done a bit of work at this point already in something I called Galleria (it was never up on wowace). We spent a bit of time working together (Evil did a good chunk of the config layout) and he even suggested the name kgPanels.
- What addon could you simply not play the game without?
Bartender right now, I can’t stand the default ActionBars
- Has patch 2.4 affected you in any way?
Well the new combat log required me to rework some code for Gas Extraction. It is now a combat even without putting you in combat!
There is also some info mods I liked that no longer work due to the combat log change.
- What are you planning for the future as your next project?
A replacement of some sort for FuBar, even if I’m the only one using it, would be enough for me.
- What changes would you like to see Blizzard make in relation to addons and the interface? Or what could they have done better?
Some more built-in functions for image manipulation so I could rotate and crop an image. I would love to see a move playback api so learning nights in raids people could not only see the strategy in game but watch a quick clip of it without alt-tabbing out.
- The one addon that you cannot live without?
A Dot tracker of some type (I use Quartz right now) and an ActionBar mod (I use Bartender)
Macro of this week
Name: Lament of the Highbourne
Author: wweduff (WoWUI)
Macro:
Q u o t e:
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\Music\GlueScreenMusic\BCCredits_Lament_of_the_Highborne.mp3")
Not tested but it should work.
“This song can be heard in-game from Lady Sylvanas Windrunner and her Highborne Lamenters after finding her locket, a gift from her sister Alleria, and returning it to the Dark Lady.
With this macro you can listen the song again, and again, and again...”
Worth checking out
[ Post edited by Xenoronin ]
http://files.wowace.com/
http://wow.curse.com
http://www.wowinterface.com
"The PMUI is just ace as usual. Great job Xenoronin :-)" Vaneras
"I know how to pick my posters! >:-)" Schwick
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