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[Fishing] Looking for feedback on an addon I wrote

  1. Age <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Hi, a while back (way back when fishing buddy's ability to recast when catching was removed in fact) I wrote an addon to help streamline my fishing experience.

    I was poking about with it yesterday fixing a few things and I decided I might as well release it into the wild and see if anyone else finds it useful.

    It adds a button to the minimap which toggles "fishing mode" - when active, buttons are shown for creating a campfire, cooking, attaching a lure (automatically selects your best lure) and casting your line (though this is rebound to middle mouse while the menu is open).

    Also, activating fishing mode sets your tracking mode to fish (if available) and equips your best rod, fishing hat and boots (if available) - when leaving fishing mode your original gear and tracking options are restored (and if you get attacked while fishing, it'll automatically re-equip your weapons).

    You can get it from http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/12079/ and if anyone could test it with the fishing boots and the new hat (neither of which i have) I'd really appreciate it.

    Thanks for reading =]

    • Character: Age (EU-Shadowsong).

  2. Longhunter <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    you know i saw this Last night while up dating my addons and i was thinking it was nice. But i did not want to mess up fishing buddy. I do like the idea about the cooking and fire making it would save a few secs. Do you have to have it open to get the icons.

    does it work with the new fishing hooks to? and does it would like fishing buddy and drop all your aromr you want and equipt. your fishing gear? like my blue overalls and fingerless gloves?

    one other suggestion, i would rename it. sometime fishing net or tackle box exp. Give a bit more info, i was unsure what it did. Or i would have picked it up.

  3. Longhunter <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    ok i went and Down loaded the file but it is not in the normal file type so i dont know where to go with this now so.............

  4. Age <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Thanks for the feedback =]

    At present, yes, you do have to have the fishing mode open to get the cooking icons, but I'm changing that cause it bugs me too.

    It does work with the new fishing hooks (and it should choose the new hat's on use ability if you have no +100 lures on you) but no, it doesn't change you into a fishing outfit - it only changes hat and boots (if you've got a fishing hat or nat pagle's boots). I do like the full fishing costume feature in fishing buddy but I opted for a more "combat ready" approach, as befits some of the fishing I do in outland =]

    I'm not sure what you mean about the file type, it should just be a folder you extract to your interface\addons folder like usual.

    Oh and as for the name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abt6wGtWVX8

    • Character: Age (EU-Shadowsong).

  5. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 1 year ago:

    I think Longhunter is referring to the RAR format, which probably means he doesn't have any software that can open it (Try WinRAR, IZArc, or 7-Zip).

    I'd suggest, Age, you stick with zip. It's the only thing you can be reasonably sure everyone can open. And efficiency of compression is irrelevant on a 10KB of data.

    (And, um, yes - I need to write a proper tutorial on the addons page.)

    I've only had a brief look, but my first reaction was "what do the buttons do?" Ergo, it needs tooltips.

  6. Age <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Ahh, my apologies - I tend to do everything in rar cause that's what winrar defaults to when I create an archive, I'll switch to .zip for future versions.

    And yes, tooltips - can't believe I forgot those.

    Thanks again for the feedback =]

    • Character: Age (EU-Shadowsong).

  7. Longhunter <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    OH i get it Now! Sry, i did not know what that ment but know i do. now if you said Bill Dance.....

    thanks, Sounds good. could you make it so you could do a quick change button on the titin panel or make an option so you can do i full change?

    Sounds sweet i will be glad to test and give a review.

    Oh one last thing could you make a button for the Fishing chair and Mr. P.

  8. Age <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Ok, there's a newer version up on curse (in zip format) which has tooltips, a cooking only mode (accessed by right clicking the icon) and should manage to replace your gear ok if you log out while fishing.

    As far as swapping all your gear for a fishing outfit, I could add that but I'm not really keen to because it drastically increases the complexity of the mod for something that's not really needed. As it stands the mod achieves it's aims without you needing to configure it in any way, which is something I'd like to keep as much as possible.

    The fishing chair however, is something that I *will* add - how does it work exactly? Does it just appear next to you when you cast it or do you have to choose where to place it?

    And as for Mr Pinchy, I'm assuming you mean add a button for casting his wishes? I'll likely add that to the chair button as a right-click option.

    • Character: Age (EU-Shadowsong).

  9. Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 1 year ago:

    the fishing chair is an item in your inventory. When you use it the chair appears next to you after a 3 second cast. The owner can then right click on it to sit.

  10. Longhunter <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    First i would like to say Thank you thank you thank you!!!

    the Fishing Chair is an item you click in you bag and it shows up in front of you like the fire Mr.P "pet" is the same way but the Chair has a cool down.

    I understand your point about felling a bit naked when Fishing, With out being Combat ready i have come under attack from mages and rouges many times.I have died becuse of there 12 year old games, but i tend to turn the check. Rez get some freinds and then camp them for the nexts 48 hrs.

    i feel better in the morning

    the cooking button will be Great i plan on opening a Food supply chain for other ppl and farm the meat and cook for them so that will be very helpful

    It would be nice if Blizz would come out with a fish Bag or something

    Thanks for your help i plan on down loading it tonight and take it for a spin and see how it goes look for my review Saturday

    Longhunter
    korgath, if you are on pst me and i will do some fishing with you

  11. Longhunter <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    ok after 2 days of fishing the only thing i would like to see if a Double click cast.

    Mainly becuse i am to lazy to move the mouse and click the button other then that i like it, Fishing buddy's Fish tracker is nice but i can live with out it i do like the idea of being combat ready the 12 year olds seem to really like the gank fisherman.

    Longhunter

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