This addon builds a database of the locations of all quest goals you complete, for easy quest location reference.
NOTE: This is a first beta release, there may be ugly hairy bugs. Please let me know of any problems. Or any suggestions. Or anything related, really.
NOTE 2: NOT ALL QUESTS ARE IN THE DATABASE (yet). Unless you use the provided "starter" database (bundled in the archive, import it with "/qarea import"), you'll start with a clean database with no quests in it. The database will slowly be filled by completing quests and letting QuestAreas record the locations. So don't complain that you've downloaded the addon and the base and it doesn't have all possible quests in it - because it doesn't. If users submit their databases to me and I compile a large perhaps-all-quests-located base, I'll happily post it here. But until then, you're building your own.
NOTE 3: THIS ADDON HAS NO MAP-MARKING FEATURES OF ITS OWN. You'll need Cartographer, MapNotes, or MetaMap for that. On its own, QuestAreas can only give you text information (which isn't really all that bad!).
As much as this might seem pointless (why record quest goal locations, when they're only now being completed?), QuestAreas can indeed be useful when:
- returning to complete a quest when you had to leave the area
- levelling an alt in a zone already known and quested in with another character,
- using a quest areas database provided by someone else (or just downloaded)
- showing others where to do the quest
Features include:
- integration with Cartographer Notes or MetaMap
- sharing quest data ingame (through the party line, between QuestAreas users)
Usage:
- use /qarea for a list of options. Should be self-explanatory. If it's not, let me know.
- in Cartographer, use Cartographer's map menu to access QuestAreas settings.
To do:
- non-EN languages (the basic localication data is there, I just need translations from helpful users)
- a menu option in MetaMap's menu
Known bugs:
- sometimes QuestAreas causes a lockup right at the beginning of the game. Should be fixed by now, but you never know...
0.5.1:
- Quest Browser almost done
- fix: error when using /qarea locstyle all
- fix: error when entering a party (Casper85)
0.5:
- new: Quest Browser - activate using "/qarea browse" or a keybinding. Still under construction, though.
- fix: quest databases not saving if none were present
- fix: no longer lying about using "/qa". "/qarea" is the command.
- debugging no longer enabled by default :>
0.4:
- changed the command from /qa to /qarea
- fixed the lockup with many quests in the log
- added a basic version of trying to note quest start points
- added quest sharing for non-QuestAreas users: "/qarea show -s hogger" will dump quest info into /say, you can also use -p, -r, -g, -w name, -1 or any channel number, to tell the quest to a party/raid/guild/whisper/channel
- split the Horde and Alliance data! You'll need to "/qarea import" once for each faction.
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)...