Version 1.1
* Hear Kitty now has a UI for changing options in the AddOns section of Interface Options. You can also get to it by typing /hearkitty.
* Now supports playing a longer string of sound effects on when gaining more than two combo points. For example, if you had one combo point and gained three more from one attack, sounds 2, 3, and 4 would be played by default.
* Now supports talents that give you a combo point on a finishing move (Ruthlessness). For example, if you had two combo points and then did a finishing move that gave you a bonus combo point, sounds 0 and 1 would be played by default.
* Fixed an occasional bug where if you gained two combo points in rapid succession but not at the exact same time, the two sounds would play at the same time and sound like a single chord.
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 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- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.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)...
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aliethiya saidI play a feral druid and I wanted to tell you that this addon has helped me with my dps sooooo much, especially when in groups when I'm watching ninety-five different things to determine whether I need to shift forms and heal. It's so much more convenient to be able to just listen to the crits!
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VgerAN saidI'm glad you enjoy it. :) I enjoy it for the same reason, although I mostly solo with my druid.
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VgerAN saidI'm re-uploading version 1.1 so that it appears at the top of the file list, because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it the default Hear Kitty download otherwise. (Grumble, grumble. The old upload system was so much better.)
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tubesock saidIts not working for me and i've done everything right
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VgerAN saidCan you be more specific? You just don't hear sounds? Can you go to Interface Options, then AddOns, and then Hear Kitty, and see if that page is visible? Are both options checked? Are you playing a rogue or feral druid?
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Btaylos saidthese sounds are SOOOO quiet...
anyone else having trouble hearing them?
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VgerAN saidThey're actually pretty loud... loud enough that people asked me for a low-volume sound pack because they were drowning out other game sounds. You didn't accidentally download and install the low-volume sounds, did you?
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Btaylos saidredownloaded 1.1, same thing I had earlier. Not sure what my problem is.
EDIT:
After playing around, I realized that, while the sound of Hear Kitty is controlled by master volume, it is left untouched by the other three settings.
By lowering my "Sounds" and raising my "Master volume", I found a nice mix.
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VgerAN saidAh, glad you found it. Mods unfortunately do not have control over their volume settings. Maybe I'll add a note about that to the readme file.
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Nisch saidThanks alot! :)
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VgerAN saidHear Kitty 1.1 is here! In this version, I've added a configuration UI in Interface Options for those whopping two settings that Hear Kitty has. And, probably more importantly, I've rewritten the way that Hear Kitty plays sounds to support rogue talents that allow you to gain more than two combo points at a time, Ruthlessness, which can give you a combo point after a finishing move, and also fixed bugs where sometimes multiple sounds would play simultaneously, making them hard to count. I recommend this update for everyone who uses Hear Kitty.
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Psyboyo saidDear VgerAN,
HELP! It seems you have the knowledge to perform a miracle... I use Hear Kitty since the dawn of time, and it is the best there is. And still works for 2.4, wich is great. There is another mod I used a lot, lots of people use it, and that mod is BAM:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3107/
Now, Bam was so simple, like Hear Kitty: it trigered a sound everytime the player made a critical hit. BAM! that was it, and was great. It is not working anymore with 2.4, and I got me thinking, if Hear Kitty can manage sound so easely, integrating Bam critical mod shouldnt be that hard...
This ia a great fan of your sthat proposes a simple quest for you: can you make Hear Kitty detect player criticals and preform a audiable BAM along with it? :D
Thank you Kitty! ^^
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VgerAN saidProbably not what you're looking for: Definitely something I'm looking into for the future. I've been working on Pawn a lot recently, but I might get back to Hear Kitty in a bit. I'm going to be pretty busy at work for a couple months, so I'm afraid I probably won't be making many changes to my mods until afterward.
(I think that reacting to combo points is probably quite a bit easier than reacting to crits, as watching for crits requires monitoring the combat log -- that's likely why BAM stopped working in 2.4.)
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VgerAN saidHear Kitty is now at 1.0! I figured that it's been stable and full-featured enough for a while now to warrant a 1.0 release. The only big change in this version is that you don't need a separate VgerCore folder anymore; it's now embedded into every mod that needs it.
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egingell saidThere's really no reason to update it other than TOC. So long as it works... :)
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Henk85 saidthis hasn´t been updated in month... what has changed in this version?
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VgerAN saidNo new features; just an updated TOC and included version of VgerCore. The old version will work just fine. I haven't touched Hear Kitty much because I haven't played my druid in months. Once Wrath comes around I'm sure I'll get back to making Hear Kitty changes.
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rentual saidlol nice screenshot :P
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VgerAN saidHi all... I haven't abandoned any of my mods just yet; I just don't remember to check Curse as frequently right now. (I like wowui.incgamers.com since it's focused on WoW and not a dozen games I don't play, and the site isn't so slow. If you leave a comment or PM there I usually respond in under 24 hours.) I just uploaded version 0.2.1, which is a very minor change over previous versions.
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Eldredd saidWell this addon works still but it looks like the author has more or less abandoned it. I'm going to give it a little while longer and if I don't hear anything I might have to start messing around with it.
EDIT: I looked around some and it appears that the addon has been updated on May 23 over on what used to be ui.worldofwar.net. (Guess it is wowui.incgamers.com now, looks like they got bought out)