Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons

Klappentext:

World of Warcraft is the most popular video game in the world, with more than 11.5 million active subscribers worldwide. Every single one of them is made aware of the availability of add-ons (or mods ) and user interface customizability. Of that 11.5 million at a conservative estimate 8,106,256 users (not including downloads from Paul Emmerich s own site) have downloaded Paul Emmerich s add-on package, Deadly Boss Mods. Entire multi-million dollar games are less popular than Deadly Boss Mods, and the popularity and importance of Deadly Boss Mods to World of Warcraft play cannot be overstated; his add-ons are considered required downloads for serious World of Warcraft player-teams ( guilds ).
Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons capitalizes on the strong interest of WoW players in modifying their game experiences by leveraging Paul Emmerich s popularity to create interest in learning Lua and XML, and presents instruction on the basics of Lua grounded on real coding experience. Both WoW players, and those interested in learning Lua will be drawn by exercises carefully designed to match the reader s developing skill level. WoW players seeking to maximize their game experience will find the never-though-of-that tools they need, while those interested in programming will discover a readable, solid didactic work that guides them through Lua in a fun and easy-to-implement context.

Autorenporträt:

Paul Emmerich is one of the programmers behind Deadly Boss Mods, one of the most famous World of Warcraft add-ons ever with over 8 million users worldwide. He started programming in Lua when World of Warcraft was released in 2004 and since then has also created a variety of other projects in Lua. He currently studies computer science at the Technische Universität München in Germany.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

From the contents:
1. Intro.
2. Lua Basics.
"3. Hello, world.
4. Event handlers and building a tooltips mod.
5. Frame basics and extending Texas Holdem and Hello, World.
6. Advanced Lua.
7. Using advanced Lua in Texas Holdem.
8. Addon Communication.
9. Combat log and extending the Cooldownmonitor.
10. Secure templates & libraries.
11. Using LCC or DBM/DBT to extend Cooldownmonitor during 2/14 4/24.
12. Optimizing Lua and advanced Lua techniques.
13. Macros.
14. Other uses for Lua. Appendix A: Event Reference 10. Appendix B: Frame/Widget Reference 10. Appendix C: Unit IDs 10.

Themen:

• Lua
• World of Warcraft (Computerspiel)

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• Internet
• Fantasy
• Crossmedia
• Online-Kommunikation
• Netzwerke
• Mediennutzung