Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons

Addons are a really exciting topic, as they allow you to modify your game and improve your gaming experience. Only a few online games allow you to modify the user interface to such an extent as World of Warcraft does; you can replace the complete user interface or you can add completely new funct...

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Tác giả chính: Emmerich, Paul
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-307732014-01-20T06:43:16Z Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons Emmerich, Paul Technologies Addons are a really exciting topic, as they allow you to modify your game and improve your gaming experience. Only a few online games allow you to modify the user interface to such an extent as World of Warcraft does; you can replace the complete user interface or you can add completely new functionality to it. There are literally thousands of addons available, and hundreds of helpful macros can be found on the Internet. You are probably already using a lot of addons and macros as a World of Warcraft player, but do you know exactly how your addons and macros work? Virtually all players make use of these tools, but there are only a few people who can write their own or modify existing ones. You will soon be one of them! Addons can modify almost every aspect of the game's user interface. There are many small addons that make simple but powerful additions to the interface. For example, you can add timestamps to the chat frame with just a few lines of code; you will see how in Chapter 6. Or you can add tooltips to links in the chat; you will try this easy example in Chapter 4. There are also some big addons, however, that consist of tens of thousands of lines of code. So you will also build a big, advanced addon in this book, a fully featured multiplayer Texas Hold'em poker game within the game. 2012-06-01T00:58:19Z 2012-06-01T00:58:19Z 2009 Book 978-1-4302-2372-6 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/30773 en application/pdf Apress
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description Addons are a really exciting topic, as they allow you to modify your game and improve your gaming experience. Only a few online games allow you to modify the user interface to such an extent as World of Warcraft does; you can replace the complete user interface or you can add completely new functionality to it. There are literally thousands of addons available, and hundreds of helpful macros can be found on the Internet. You are probably already using a lot of addons and macros as a World of Warcraft player, but do you know exactly how your addons and macros work? Virtually all players make use of these tools, but there are only a few people who can write their own or modify existing ones. You will soon be one of them! Addons can modify almost every aspect of the game's user interface. There are many small addons that make simple but powerful additions to the interface. For example, you can add timestamps to the chat frame with just a few lines of code; you will see how in Chapter 6. Or you can add tooltips to links in the chat; you will try this easy example in Chapter 4. There are also some big addons, however, that consist of tens of thousands of lines of code. So you will also build a big, advanced addon in this book, a fully featured multiplayer Texas Hold'em poker game within the game.
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