Venantes is a mod designed to help the Hunter manage the aspects, tracking, traps, pet spells, potions, drink/food and messages.
It provides a variety of buttons for common spells in an easy-to-use,
small, convinient package.
The idea was adapted from Serenity and Necrosis LdC to make
it usable by hunters. I needed something like it for my hunter :-)
Venantes will provide you a sphere and 10 buttons. The sphere will
display information and the outer buttons will provide quick access
for several things.
Venantes is splitted into 3 mods.
Venantes - the main mod
VenantesOptions - configuration dialog
SphereLoader - loads Venantes only if the toon is a hunter
Sphere
- Left click/Right click to activate a configured action
- You can put the Venantes Sphere wherever you want
- Detach the buttons from the sphere and move them whereever you like.
- Show or remove any of the visible buttons
- Rotate the buttons around the sphere to fit your settings
Sphere Circle - selectable
- Nothing!
- Current Mana
- Current Health
- Current XP
- Current Pet Mana
- Current Pet Health
- Current Pet XP
Sphere Text - selectable
- Nothing!
- Ammo Count (turns yellow at 600, red at 200)
- Current Mana
- Current Health
- Current Pet Mana
- Current Pet Health
- Drink/Food Count
Buttons
- Aspect Menu
- Tracking Menu
- Traps Menu
- Pet Menu
- 3 Action buttons
-- Left click/Right click to activate a configured action
- Mount Button
-- Right click to use hearthstone
- Potion Button
-- Left click: Health Potion
-- Right click: Mana Potion
- Drink/Food Button
-- Left click: Drink
-- Right click: Food
Random chat messages
- available for Hunter's Mark, TranqShot, Pet Call, Pet Revive and mounting.
- configurable to a short, raid-ready version (disables pet/mount messages)
2.0 RC6
- disabled bag scans in combat
- optimized memory handling
- optimized ammo count
- small bugfixes
2.0 RC5
- readded Zone check for AQ
(why are the aq mounts "useable" outside AQ?)
- added zone check for outland
- added texture check to item data function
- moved call pet button in pet menu
- added some fallbacks for problems with external libs
- updated to PeriodicTable-3.0
- added new mount icons
2.0 RC4
- modified mount handling
- updated to PeriodicTable-2.0
2.0 RC3
- updated toc number
- updated ace libraries
2.0 RC2
- added several textures
- fixed tooltip bugs
- now remembers aspects/trackings/traps casted in combat
- localized spells in pet macro (right click)
- added pet happyness to sphere circle
- added FuBar support (includes minimap icon)
- moved Venantes to Ace2 category "Hunter"
- fixed some toc file issues
- removed all translations from SphereLoader
2.0 RC1
- added several textures
- added traps to button actions
- added skin selection
- redesigned "Solid" skin
- added "Flat" skin
- added "Sprocket" skin
- added option for sphere transparency
- added option for button transparency
- added option to order buttons counter clockwise
- reordered aspects
- added icons for frostwolf/stormpike trinkets
- move/close option window if another windows is opened
- added new option tab debug (get item ids, missing textures)
- moved all internal language dependent strings to one place
- added Totemus and Arcanum to SphereLoader
- improved SphereLoader
2.0 beta 10
- smaller font size for cooldowns
- dragable options window
- added French localisation and speeches
- added Chinese localisation (dummy file)
- added Chinese speeches from Venantes 1 (dummy file)
- added option to show tooltip at default position
- using PeriodicTable for item information now
- added grid function for button alignment
2.0 beta 9
- fixed hearthstone bug
- fixed problems with actions in sphere tooltip
- added trinket slots to button actions - removed items
- added "Eagle Eye", "Eyes Of The Beast", "Beast Lore" to button actions
- menus can now stay open (only closed with menu button left click)
- menus now hide after 4 seconds delay
- pet menu now casts "Mend Pet"/"Eyes of the Beast" on right/middle click
- aspect, tracking and traps menus now remember the last two spells casted
while not in combat, can recast on right click (second last spell) and
middle click (last spell)
- aspect, tracking and traps menus now show icon of the remembered spell
(right click)
2.0 beta 8
- fixed option dialog bug (BC)
- fixed option action tooltip bug (low level char)
- fixed toc to include Gratuity-2.0
- better memory use (hopefully)
2.0 beta 7
- minor bugfix for option dialog action tooltips
2.0 beta 6
- removed some debug stuff
- added several spells and items
- increased the size of the buttons in the menus
- if not locked to the sphere menus expand now depending on the
horizontal menu button position
- cooldowns on buttons and in tooltips
- added mana to action tooltips
- tint buttons if not enough mana
- highlight mountbutton if mounted
- better mount handling (for aq, prepared for outland)
- ammo name in sphere tooltip
2.0 beta 5
- removed some debug messages (hearthstone)
2.0 beta 4
- fixed Hearthstone bug
2.0 beta 3
- added Volley, Bestial Wrath, Intimidation to actions list
- added menu tooltips
2.0 beta 2
- added option to block texture errors
- removed some debug messages
- fixed mount random message
- set the circle to 90% opacity
- added % output to circle text
- added missing texture für snake pet
- added Flare to button actions
- fixed tooltip for third action button
- some minor cleanup
- smaller clickable area for sphere
2.0 beta 1
- first public release of Venantes 2
- complete rewrite based on Ace2
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)...