time about them. KuronaFrames
GameOn MAG: I think most
and KuronaBags are currently
players are fairly ignorant
numbers 2 and 1 for Curse.com’s
comment on the process of writing
you everything about your player.
about addon creation, could you
“Top Monthly Downloads.”
“GameLib.GetPlayerUnit()” can tell
an addon? (very open ended)
part scripting and part UI editing.
Basically when creating a UI, you
GameOn MAG: How do
you come up with ideas for
Kurona: Addon creation is
Potato: There’s 2 portions - the
use an editor that lets you place
GUI (graphical user interface)
pictures, progress bars, and
and the LUA code (programming
basically anything that’s not 3D. The
language). The code triggers
scripting part is basically writing
in the game and go, “Wwow, the
things you see in the GUI. Both
some code to interact with whatever
interface for [insert thing] sucks,”
of these are easily edited in thea
you’ve placed in your UI editor.
or, “Iit’d be cool/easier to be
prepackaged program by Carbine
This can get pretty complicated for
able to do/know [insert thing]”.”
- Houston; it can be found in the
people new to it. If you are curious,
That generally prompts me to
Wildstar folder. I generally make
the UI editor is actually included
do something. I also like to get
a GUI first, then add functionality
with your Wilstar client. It’s called
suggestions from the community
to it via code. The code references
Houston64.exe. Once this is open,
and guildies. That being said… if you
things in-game. For example
you can click [File -> Open Carbine
new addons to write?
Potato: Usually I see something
have an addon idea, LET ME KNOW!
Kurona: Well this usually happens
when there’s functionality missing
from a Ccarbine addon or an addon
I like is bad on performance. I
think about if I can do a better job
or not. A lot of time, it’s to help my
performance in rRaids. I had a hard
time figuring out where I needed
to be for Kuralak, so I wrote an
addon and I was never confused
again. While doing Ohmna my
first night, I ended up going to the
wrong spot several times. Again,
I wrote an aAddon for that. Now
I’m always in the right spots.
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