Authors CurseForge

I have already made an "Issue" on their Issue page with 2 files containing all info on the new Rare's in Darkshore as I added them myself (Needed the info for my own Addon so I implemented them in NPCScan while I was looking for the data for my own Addon).

Here is a link, if you know how to add stuff to Lua files you can add them yourself with the data in my post.

It's been quite a long time since last update. Is this dead?

In reply to Dwarrior74:

 I don't think it's dead. Most of the Rares are in and if there are no mayor errors in your addon you don't have to push an update with nothing to fix.

I do think the author has something else on his/her mind at the moment and resume to add the latest Rare's whenever he/she's ready.

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It's been quite a long time since last update. Is this dead?

Of course it is. Torhal hasn't updated any of his mods in nearly a year (or longer) and isn't responding to communication attempts. 

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It's been quite a long time since last update. Is this dead?

Of course it is. Torhal hasn't updated any of his mods in nearly a year (or longer) and isn't responding to communication attempts. 

FYI the latest update of NPC_scan was 13 September 2018, that aint a year yet ;), also he's been working on Ackis Recipe List +modules that has a release version from February (and Alpha from April) this year so it's not like he's been doing nothing and i'm sure Torhal also has other IRL obligations to consider then just wow addons.

BUT, i can fully understand the feeling that it is taking awhile for new releases to come out ... , so far most 8.1+ Rare's seem to be included in the latest version but i always wonder if a phew are not lol ^^, anyway i really hope that for patch 8.2 we will be getting a new version because the new Nazjatar and Mechagon zones will surely have new Rare creatures that i highly doubt are already included (or pre-coded).

on another note, i'm also hoping the long awaited "rewrite" of NPC_scan overlay will be done as well :), now that one you can say it's been more then 'awhile' xD

Fix for error playing alert sounds introduced in 8.2

Open NPCScan\Preferences\Alerts.lua

Around line 108 you will see the following entries

LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Killed", [[Sound\Interface\RaidBossWarning.ogg]])
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Chimes", [[Sound\Interface\UI_Legendary_Item_Toast.ogg]])
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Gruntling Horn", [[Sound\Events\gruntling_horn_bb.ogg]])
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Ogre War Drums", [[Sound\Event Sounds\Event_wardrum_ogre.ogg]])
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Scourge Horn", [[Sound\Events\scourge_horn.ogg]])

Replace with

LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Killed", 567394)
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Chimes", 1489461)
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Gruntling Horn", 598196)
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Ogre War Drums", 567275)
LibSharedMedia:Register("sound", "NPCScan Scourge Horn", 567386)

If anyone else has the overlay working, you may have noticed the minimap now has a green tint over it. Just disable the detection ring for the minimap and it goes away. The detection ring is kind of pointless these days anyway.

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If anyone else has the overlay working, you may have noticed the minimap now has a green tint over it. Just disable the detection ring for the minimap and it goes away. The detection ring is kind of pointless these days anyway.

 Is there a way to get overlay working in 8.2? I thought it was long since broken

In reply to adrune:

I got it working but there is copyright issues in sharing the files (more details on page 8 of this thread). I can't remember everything I changed now but I think the 2 main issues when it stopped working were the renaming of the map frames and how player positions were calculated. I also had to convert to the new MapID's in PathData.lua

I haven't added any new pathdata to it, pretty sure that is stored in binary format and I'm not overly keen on investing the time into figuring that out. I think WoD is the last expac that has paths shown.

 I would have to upload files. I can't even remember all the changes I made but it was a lot.

The author was online 10 hours ago. I've been getting private messages telling me to release the files but I would prefer to get permission first. I will send Torhal a private message and see how that goes.

I did just fine this post (LSP) to take over NPCScan series of addons

Yeah well,   I have already started using Handynotes and manually marking locations of all rare spawns zone by zone for my personal use.

If LSP is taking over, then awesome, but I would rather have a semi-functional Overlay now, rather than in XX period of time.

The author was online 10 hours ago. I've been getting private messages telling me to release the files but I would prefer to get permission first. I will send Torhal a private message and see how that goes.

good plan :) ,

it's always best to ask instead of getting into trouble :p , but i do fear Torhal is too busy or loosing interest in wow to keep it properly maintained .... , maybe somebody should try and be a maintainer/2nd author for the good of the project ?

I did just fine this post (LSP) to take over NPCScan series of addons

that thread is like 6 years old, what does this have todo with our current predicament ? ^^

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that thread is like 6 years old, what does this have todo with our current predicament ? ^^

 It says the original author Saiket has made it open source which means it can be shared freely. I assume Torhal was the person that took it over when that post was made. On curse the addon has an "All rights reserved" set for the license so I will wait for a reply.

Here is a list of commands to add all the rares added in 8.2

This is based off an NPC list created on wowhead. You can do a search for items and add an ID filter which will add an ID column but when you do the same with a list of NPC's it doesn't add the column, very annoying, I had to export the raw HTML for each page of results and do some shenanigans in excel to get all the NPCid's.... anyway,  just use an addon like "Paste" to enter them all at once. When I first entered them quite a lot showed up as unkown on the custom tab, just reloadUI and they should all appear.

I still haven't heard anything about the Overlay, I have come up with a way to add new paths which I am currently doing for Legion and BFA, if I haven't heard anything by the time I finish that I will provide a link.

8.2 rares below -

Because the NPCs were being added as "Unknown" i modified the addon to Add Naz and Mechagon Island rares for the achievment

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lLon1SLL8vcTaiENbiWqn4saBAaPLkK-

Link Removed: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bx1fm6z7mlny7bw/_NPCScan.Overlay-8.0.zip/file

There is a link to the working version. It will only be valid for a couple of weeks. I'll let someone else share it around to a better host.

I have altered the toc to state it's not an official or approved release.

Known issues -

- I have only fixed the enUS localization files. If you are in a different zone you will probably get a lot of messages about the addon not knowing the NPC's name. You just need to enter the NPCid and NPCname to the locale file that you are in. I guess you could just copy paste the enUS locale file but you won't get the names for your locale.

- The battlefield map frame doesn't always refresh. Just hit Shift+M twice and it will fix it.

- When mousing over rare names on the worldmap the path flashes. After a while the wrong paths will flash, a reloadUI fixes it. I could never figure out the cause.

- The detection ring for the minimap will cause the minimap to be covered in green if it is enabled in the settings.

- I have added rares for Legion and BfA but not all of them. Some mobs on Nazjatar have an enormous amount of spawn points, I didn't see the point of adding those.  I'm not sure how accurate some of the locations listed on wowhead are, I know some were clearly wrong so some of my paths could be incorrect. It was quite a lot of work and by the end I was seeing numbers everywhere....

- I don't know how demanding it will be. I know the BattlefieldMapFrame does constant refresh calls and I did an ugly workaround to get path tooltips to display on the worldmap. But I don't notice any issues and my comp is getting on the old side.

The old path data was being stored as binary data. I have added another method using an array so you can add your own paths. I wouldn't mess with the binary data though.

PathData.lua stores the path as mapID ->NPCid->path data. An example below

[ 1462 ] = { -- Mechagon
           [ 149847 ] = {{81.2,20.2,83.2,22.2,81.2,22.2},{81.2,20.2,83.2,20.2,83.2,22.2}};

};

Each group of numbers draws a triangle on the map based on the coordinates. its basically - {Ax,Ay,Bx,By,Cx,Cy} where A, B and C are the 3 points of a triangle. To drawer a square you just drawer 2 triangles that share 1 face. So you just need coords for the 4 points of the square, 2 of the coords are shared between the 2 triangles.

eg) with 4 points A, B, C and D it would be done like this -

{{Ax,Ay,Bx,By,Cx,Cy},{Ax,Ay,Dx,Dy,Bx,By}};

You can add as many triangles as you want for longer more complicated paths. One of the longer ones I did had 20 sets.

You will also see an entry like this -

[ 137374 ] = { [ "present" ] = true, {36.09,38.21,38.09,40.21,36.09,40.21},{36.09,38.21,38.09,38.21,38.09,40.21}};

The "present" key is for zones that have 2 timelines like Darkshore and Arathi Highlands. Any NPC with the "present" key will only be displayed if the timeline is set to the present time. You change that by talking to Zidormi in the applicable zone. There is an Array in Constants.lua called ZidormiZones. It contains the mapID and MapArtID for the present time. In case blizzard add anymore zones you can enter them here. C_Map.GetMapArtID(mapID) returns the ArtID.

If you add a rare you need to make sure it is listed in locales\locale-enUS.lua, it just needs the NPCid and the NPC's name entered.

If the rare is not present in the locale file you will get a message about it in game when the map loads.

I hope I haven't crossed any lines here. I didn't get any response in here or from private message and I'm not getting any benefit from it. I just put in a fair bit of work and don't see why other people can't benefit from that.

That's it, enjoy.