Ventrillo

[robszr2]

Any possibilities of having an info panel that shows the vent information? not sure if it is even possible to have as an add-on.

[Seerah]

Nope, not possible, as you suspected. There is an overlay in Vent, iirc, though.

[Xrystal]

I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working. I can't remember the name of the addon but it was very popular.

The testing I did was a year or so ago now though so there is a chance it will work now but not sure.

[Melikae]

Originally Posted by Xrystal I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working.

As those overlays don't interact with WoW at all it's pretty unlikely that Blizzard would be able to break it. The overlay hooks directly into Direct3D and creates an additional layer above the 3D application currently running, so WoW should have no handle to do anything at all against it...

[OmegaExtreme]

Just get yourself a Logitech G15 (or better) keyboard.

[Petrah]

Originally Posted by Xrystal I looked into it before as a former guildie used to use the vent overlay in wow but the changes made to stop the overlay based addon that drew circles on the screen during a fight to tell you where to step stopped the overlay from working.

The overlay for Vent still works.

[Xrystal]

Ah cool, thanks for that Petra. Either it got changed or it was a different overlay that I was looking at .. was a long time ago.

[crazzzzi]

where can i get this overlay and what is it called, please

[Petrah]

Originally Posted by Xrystal Ah cool, thanks for that Petra. Either it got changed or it was a different overlay that I was looking at .. was a long time ago.

I could be mistaken, but I think that addon you are talking about (the one that caused Blizz to make the changes that stopped the addon from working) did something quite differently than the Vent overlay. There's also that popular gaming software, can't remember the name of it to save my life, that allows a chat box overlay to sit on top of Wow so you can chat with people in other games, same game, or whatnot. If I'm not mistaken it's the same principal as the Vent overlay. At any rate, I think those two things are much different than the addon that I think you are referring to.

If my info is wrong, pretty please someone correct me?

[Dridzt]

Originally Posted by Seerah Nope, not possible, as you suspected. There is an overlay in Vent, iirc, though.

Not entirely true.
Starouscz has found a rather clever workaround for a year now and made a library out of it.
libRaidVoice
Users need to have the library installed but as part of a compilation that's not an issue, everyone using the compilation would have it if it's part of the package.

Raid Voice is a standalone addon using his lib.

[crazzzzi]

hey Scott! glad to see you peekin in, how is NUi6 goin? any idea on a date for beta? not tryin to be a PiTA, just askin

[Melikae]

Originally Posted by crazzzzi hey Scott! glad to see you peekin in, how is NUi6 goin? any idea on a date for beta? not tryin to be a PiTA, just askin

Nice work posting in a completely unrelated topic -.-

btt.: libRaidVoice depends on everybody running it ingame, though and on the ingame VoiceChat, which is not yet available for the new x64 client, afaik.