by JahwoIntroduction
This is an addon for ingame guides of every sort, including the famous guides by Jame: Alliance/Horde
Please be considerate because this addon has not been made by a professional! If you find errors please make a screenshot and send it to me (Jahwo) with a description of what you did when the error occurred.
If you find mistakes in the guides or wrong/missing coordinates please write a comment or send me a PM.
Currently Included
Alliance:
- Maw’s Human Leveling Guide (1-12)
Horde:
- Jame’s Leveling Guide Dragonblight (74-75)
- Jame’s Leveling Guide Grizzly Hills (75-77)
- Zernij’s Durotar Leveling Guide 1-12
More guides will follow soon.
Installation
- Download the latest version of the Addon: WoW-Pro Addon (v0643)
- Unzip the package
- Copy the folder WoWPro to your Addons folder. (\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons)
How to use it
- Before you start with the guides you should bind a key to the “Next Step” function. You can do that by going into the Key Bindings-Menu (press ESC –> Key Bindings) and scroll down to the bottom.There you should find a Option called “JamesAddon Next Step“. Bind a key to it you can easily reach, because you’ll use it a lot.
- To open a guide click on the
button. The WoW-Interface menu will open. There you can choose a guide from the categories “Alliance“, “Horde“, “Both” and “Other“ - In the options menu you can also change the transparency of the frame. Just drag the Transparency-slider to the right for more transparency.
- If you want to go to an other step you can enter the step-number in the edit box at the bottom and press enter.
- Many steps have a coordinate you have to go to. The arrow at the topleft circle shows you where to go. If it shows to the top and becomes golden you’re on the right way.
- Additionally you can see the distance to the actual target in the progressbar next to the arrow.
If you reached the coordinate the arrow will change to this:
- You can toggle the window wit the slash-commands /jamesaddon or /ja
- You can change the height by dragging the top or bottom of the textarea. The area where you can drag will change red if you move your mouse over it, like that:
Now you’re ready to go! Choose your guide and start leveling.
Include new Guides
If you downloaded a single guide from the list below, or got it from wherever else you should have a .lua file.
Put this file into the Guides-folder in the Addon-folder. The full path is:
World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\WoWPro\Guides
Now you have to register that guide in the “table of contents“. Just open the “Guides.xml” file with a text-editor of your choice.
There you have to add a line between the < Ui > and < /Ui > tags:
<script file="theguide.lua"/>
Where theguide.lua is the filename of the guide you want to add.
Single guides
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Dragonblight
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Grizzly Hills
- Maw’s Human Leveling Guide 1-12
- Zernij’s Durotar Leveling Guide 1-12
more to come…
Contribute
If you want to contribute by rewriting one of Jame’s guides for the addon, please read this:
Very good.So, I have just finished Dragonblight using this guide (I’ve started with this addon, worked with the site and I did the last 40% with the addon. So, I see you have improved a lot, now it’s nearly perfect for me. It’s easily movable, re-sizeable and finally it is very easy to browse to the steps. The only thing I miss it’s the Dragonblight group quest-map, but I know it is impossible to add that in the addon. Anyway, once I clear the group quests in DB, I’ll go onwards wit Grizzly Hills , always using the addon. I hope that you keep it updated mate 🙂
-Benhir
Hrm :/
I guess this wasHrm :/
I guess this was bound to happen eventually.
See, I’ve been doing something similar; I’ve been writing a plugin for the [url=http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7674-TourGuide.html]TourGuide[/url] addon by Tekkub. Admittedly, I’ve been a wee bit slack about it, but so far I’ve managed (Horde side, haven’t even looked at Alliance yet):
Ghostlands
21-31
Hellfire Peninsula
Zangarmarsh
Terokkar Forest
Nagrand (this should take you to 70… I think)
Howling Fjord
Borean Tundra
Dragonblight
~50% of Grizzly Hills
Unfortunately, the TG format, while pretty much as time consuming as yours (perhaps a little less, it would come down to familiarity, I’d say), is pretty much incompatible.
While perhaps not as pretty (and requiring an external plugin for coordinates, namely the addon TomTom), TG does have the advantage of automatically moving on upon objective completion (just that it occasionally takes some… imaginative formatting).
So, I guess the question is now… what do I do with it? If this one is going to become the standard, I’d rather just cut my losses and not waste any more time transcribing Jame’s guides into TG format…
So… what now? 😕
Rapidshare –> WoWProI see some people complaining about rapidshare. Why not just host the addon here? Upload the file as an attachment and link to it from there. Just an idea 🙂
If we could get some peepsIf we could get some peeps to go through an rate the early guides, we could enter the highest rated guides (the best therefore).
There are only a very fewThere are only a very few parts of the guide written into the addon atm. For some reason most of us guide writers are hordies.
Unfortunately there aren’tUnfortunately there aren’t any Alliance guides available at the moment. If you would like to help contribute, please check out [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/general_guides/jahwos_addon_contributing/]Jahwo’s Addon: Contributing[/url]
AllianceHow do I get Alliance guides to work? I can only access horde ones….
400 downloads already400 downloads already :jawdrop: 😀
I can’t wait until you addI can’t wait until you add more areas. I’m in the Outlands at the moment and something like this could be very useful out here that way I don’t have to have two mice on my mouse pad (one for my pc & one for my laptop).
Keep up the good work!
Will this support dungeon guides as wellJust as a thought, but will this support the various dungeon guides on this site as well? Would be great to make sure you have all the quests before venturing in as well as having a guide on the various bosses so you would not have to go out of the game to find them.
Something to think about perhaps. Otherwise, this is a great idea and I will be getting the add-on to start helping tonight!
Sorry, not at theSorry, not at the moment.
But maybe someone has some nice webspace and wants to mirror it?! 😉
Yup thought about that, too.Yup thought about that, too.
I also want to somehow make that guides by everyone can be included, without having to implement them into the “core” of the addon first. But atm I have no idea how 😀
Another download siteIs there anywhere else to get the addon? I am having no luck with Rapidshare.
Name Change Request:
Jame’sName Change Request:
Jame’s Addon –> WoW-PRO Addon
Will the 1-12 non-jameWill the 1-12 non-jame guides for the alliance be supported in this addon. I can put them in if needed.
I can’t seem to get itI can’t seem to get it downloaded from Rapidshare. Could anyone put it up somewhere else? 🙂
I’ll get to work on 41-51I’ll get to work on [H]41-51 asap. Brilliant addon, going to kick up one hell of a storm. I might even try break my old levelling record :D.
w00t, will test when i getw00t, will test when i get the time 😀
Grizzly Hills is finishedGrizzly Hills is finished 🙂
Oops ya, I forgot the DKOops ya, I forgot the DK guides :O I’ll fix it later on
I’ll start working on theI’ll start working on the horde 21-31 guide. If someone is already on it, then just give me something to work on, horde side :p
This is absolutely great 😀
got two alts at lvl 54, sogot two alts at lvl 54, so before leveling them ill try to work on horde leveling guide 51-60.
Alliance SideIs anyone working on the alliance side? I’ve got 3 toons about to start jame 30-40 guide (alliance) and this would be awesome to have.
Death Knight GuideI’d like to make Jame’s DK guides for the add-on but there is not a placeholder in the guides folder. How do I go about getting it started?
Of course everybody canOf course everybody can contribute :). I think I’ll add some lines about how to edit a guide for the addon.
Awesome job!Plugging the guides into this addon is a huge job, and many people seem keen to help out, so I did a quick guide showing peeps how to plug the guides in themselves. I’ll leave it to sit there, it’s up to Jahwo if he wants to accept help or organise some kind of way for people to contribute, but it’s extremely easy to do, just time-consuming.
[url=https://www.wow-pro.com/general_guides/jahwo039s_addon_contributing]here it is.[/url]
Excellent work with the addon!
I’d like to helpI want to contribute to this. I took a look at the code and it seems pretty straightforward; even a coding newbie like me could do it pretty easily, I think. Who would I collaborate with to make sure both of us aren’t doing the same one? Or do you want this to be a one-person project for consistency’s sake?
New version is out, withNew version is out, with super cool features xD
Damn, Marty McFly isDamn, Marty McFly is tampering with my site again!
Haha
I just noticed thatHaha 😀
I just noticed that I’m from the future!
[i]Jame’s Addon
Submitted by Jahwo on Wed, 2009-01-07 15:29. [/i]
NiceNice, glad to see one of these finally coming out. My computer can be slow at times when alt-tabing to James guide constantly. Ill be sure to test it out when I reach that level.
AwesomeThis rocks
😉 glad to see someone else with the same idea I have been playing with. Now I just have to wait for the ally side and the lower lvl stuff. If I can help in anyway shoot me a message and I will do what I can.
Looks good, but ILooks good, but I unfortunately don’t have a character in this level bracket so I’ll have to wait until other guides are put in. I’m hoping to level up an Alliance character for the first time, looking forward to using this. 🙂
I could try to helpI could try to help implementing guides into this addon, if you want any help 🙂
one more thing, when there is room for it, there could be more steps at one time.
It’s annoying when each step is like
Pick up/turn in (quest)
next:
Pick up/turn in (quest)
and so on :p
Excellent! I’ll test thisExcellent! I’ll test this thoroughly once I finish the Borean Tundra guide with my paladin. I’d like to give a hand with implementing more guides but my knowledge of addon writing is zero 🙁
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It’s not “hard” but it’s aIt’s not “hard” but it’s a lot of dull work 😉
Yes I will put it on curse
You could use the new feature on wow-pro called “Watch List” 🙂
This is great! I can’t waitThis is great! I can’t wait to try it out. Thanks Jahwo!
Thank you
You canbringThank you 🙂
You canbring back the window with the slashcommands as now described in the guide above 🙂
Ok. I used it to finishOk. I used it to finish Dragonblight and i must say it was very enjoyable being able to play in full screen.
The directional arrow is very useful and nicely done. I didn’t see any bug so far but i also closed the window and wasn’t able to figure out how to bring it back.
Very nice work !
Haha, nice it’s the hordeHaha, nice it’s the horde Dragonblight guide, my Tauren Boomkin just finished the Borean guide, so I’ll check it out 😉
BTW, how hard is it to implement a guide into the addon?
Can you put it on Curse?
How do we know when there’s a new version?
Ahh very nice. Should addAhh very nice. Should add that to your guide 😉
Thanks
I don’t think aThanks 🙂
I don’t think a auto target is necessary beacause the coordinates send you directly to neraly every npc in the guides. Also auto-targeting is not ver reliable. 🙂
Yes you can use it in anyYes you can use it in any language you want, but the addon itself will remain english 😉
oh yeah i forgot to mentionoh yeah i forgot to mention that. you can toggle the window with the slash commands /ja or /jamesaddon
Hey nice job. I tried itHey nice job. I tried it this afternoon but sadly I don’t have any character available at the moment for this level bracket, so I could only check the layout. It’s looks promising though.
One suggestion:
It would be great to be able to minimize the window. I clicked it away once and then I couldn’t get it back up. I think it would be a nice addition, being able to minimize it / maximize it at will.
Awesome job, very well done.Awesome job, very well done. One suggestion, maybe when you click the next step if there is a npc you need to interact with it could auto target that npc? Thanks for such a great addon!
Sound very good, that wasSound very good, that was THE missing feature of Jame’s guide : have them in game.
Can we have a video of the working addon (as “images speak better than words”) ?
Can we use it in non english environnement ?
Thank you anyway.
I have a war currentlyI have a war currently questing in Dragonblight, i’ll test it right now.
Since I’m already to 80 onSince I’m already to 80 on my main I won’t be able to test this for a while until I start leveling my alt. But once I do I’ll be sure to load this up. Followed your post on the forums and like the direction you’ve taken with the addon. Sorry I can’t look at it yet. 😛
We got to put it on curse,We got to put it on curse, you know!:)