At first I thought there was something special between WoW and Ace but nope, Ace is nothing but a 3rd party wrapper library over the WoW API. If you’ve been reading about addons you’ve probably heard about Ace. MyAddon = print ( 'Character Initialized' ) end end We can register to events with the code below.

UI (sorry, I won’t be covering this, see Extended Character Stats for ideas)Įvents are fired when various actions happen in the game world ie open mail, learned a new spell, etc.

The rest is filling in the details of your addon. Key Conceptsīuilding an addon can really be boiled down to these concepts. When you load into the game you should see “Hello Azeroth” appear in the chat. If it isn’t then double check that everything is correct. On the character select screen check to see My Addon is listed in the addon menu. We’ll come back to the toc file later but for now load up WoW. This tells WoW what client version our addon supports (if the current version is newer than 80200 you’ll see the “addon out of date” message), our addon name, and the files our addon needs. # In game run '/run print((select(4, GetBuildInfo())))' and use that for the interface number # Your client version is probably different than 80200 Create a new file named MyAddon.toc and add the below snippet.

Next we need to tell WoW about our addon, this is done in the toc file. Place this statement print('Hello Azeroth') in the file.

In _retail_/Interface/Addons create a folder named MyAddon, inside create a lua file named a. Clone your favorite open source project and check it out someday! Hello Azeroth You’ll be amazed at the things you can learn just from reading someone else’s code. Reading other people’s code is always an excellent way to learn (for anything). Aim for smaller addons that will be easier to understand. Generally, googling and reading docs are great tools but when developing Track Sales nothing was better than seeing how other people did things. The version I wrote this with is 80200.įirst and foremost, if you’re struggling with your addon, the best advice I could give you is not to google, not to read the docs, not to read this post, but to read other addons! I’ve found hands down that has been the best way to learn how to do things. Though this guide isn’t specific to retail or classic, please use the retail version to follow along. It’s not all doom and gloom though, there’s really only a few key concepts to understand and everything else falls into place. I recently wrote my first addon for classic called Track Sales, so I know your pain. The fact that it’s all community driven and nothing official from Blizzard doesn’t make it any easier. So you want to write a WoW addon? Well, you better get used to crappy docs, old websites, and skimpy examples.

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