Most important addon...maybe

Olenn · #1 09-12-2010, 11:31 PM

So I have been thinking a lot about plugins for LoTRO and it brings me back to what bothers me most about addons in WoW.

I think that there is a desperate need for a "profile handler" plugin. This would basically be middleware (similar to databroker) so that all plugins could save their profiles in the same mannor. They should all save to one profile. It would be wonderful if you were on another toon or server and you bring up your profile handler panel and load all of your addon profiles with one click of a button.

Just a though....

PS - Please please give me some type of bar plugin like fubar or titan panel....instead of making it a closed system like those though it would probably be good to make it similar to data broker.

Thanks for all of your hard work!!!!

MrJackdaw · #2 09-13-2010, 12:21 AM

There is a "One Bag" style addon in the Turbine sample at http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...Lua-UI-scripts

Currently there would be nothing for the bar to display as the API is so small - something like that will come much, much later I'm afraid...

Olenn · #3 09-13-2010, 08:22 AM

there is no access for gold , coordinants, or friends online? Well, what we have is a start I guess.

MrJackdaw · #4 09-13-2010, 11:55 AM

It is exactly that - I too am dying for a plugin to show the number of friends and kinmates online; I really miss that from wow.

Olenn · #5 09-14-2010, 08:14 PM

So, technically speaking, a bar mod would be possible right now, there just wouldn't be anything to put on it? It would seem that someone would want to lay the ground work down and as the devs release more of the API that things could be added to it.

My main question though is about the "profile handler" addon...is something like this even possible. I know form WoW that profiles are a mess...some addons have them and some don't, but there is no addon that has a standard meathod for saving profile information so that an addon could control the profiles. I am sure that we have all had to experience completey resetting up a UI from scratch because of a reinstallation. It would be great if you could just drop a file into a folder and then install your addons and just select your profile and all of your addons would reset themselves up.

Just a thought.

grezgorz · #6 09-15-2010, 04:57 PM

I agree. Even though this may not seem like the most important thing right now, in the long run it will be so much better to start early with creating a system for add-on management. I would suggest that maybe turbine could devlop the framework (profiles, and in-game add-on management menu) in-house, but that is probably not likely to happen any time soon :/