Cosmos
... for World of Warcraft: a UI add-on that does 'all sorts of things', according to Pete "Darknet" Biddle. One for the to-do list for when I get back.
Unless I catch a sly game here. Bet WoW is a bit fiddly with a thumbpad though. It would make a change from all this bleeding typing! Divas party at the Argent soon. Thank god. This industry needs women. Sod Mars, games need women.
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Gotta do a bit of advertising for one of my colleagues here - he wrote a plugin for WoW called "AlphaMap". Transparent map overlay while running around!. You do want Cosmos *and* AlphaMap and life (at least on WoW) is bliss.
See http://drunkenlords.com/ui.php for the download.
Posted by: Robert 'Groby' Blum | March 11, 2005 at 01:34
I've been using Cosmos since Day 1, and I wouldn't play without it. If it's any indication, many of the features associated with Cosmos have been so popular, Blizzard is implementing them as permanent features.
Posted by: Rob Stevens | March 11, 2005 at 05:56
Cosmos, while a nice introductory UI package, is also known as the least stable compilation package. Furthermore, most of their improvements are cribbed directly from other WoW UI developers, with little or no credit, most of which are better outside of Cosmos. Also, the sections of code that the Cosmos team did write, they purposefully obfuscate via code-munging. This despite the fact that the most popular pieces of their package were written by other people!
I started with Cosmos but am much happier now installing a bunch of smaller modifications. If you have the time or interest, check out ui.worldofwar.net or www.curse-gaming.com and find the mods that you want.
Posted by: Clint | March 12, 2005 at 12:20