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• You know, I’m pretty sure that back when I started on Hunter’s Helper, you couldn’t find out about a beast’s tamed abilities using Beast Lore… but I recently noticed that you can now. So, some related improvements:
  • If you use Beast Lore on a beast which has tamed abilities, you won’t see those abilities listed twice in the tooltip (once by Beast Lore and once by Hunter’s Helper).
  • We parse the Beast Lore-enhanced tooltip, and can thus learn for future reference (in tooltips and /hh find) which skills a beast has without needing to tame it.
  • The text we add to tooltips matches the text you see when using Beast Lore (with an accordingly localized label).
  • We recolor the tooltip’s “Tamed Abilities:” line when it’s added by Beast Lore to show which abilities you already know and which you haven’t learned yet.
• First steps towards localized releases:
  • If we don’t recognize the name of the zone you’re in when you use /hh find, we’ll fall back to one of several default zones (chosen based on your race or faction if we can parse them) so that the search can proceed, instead of failing to search at all.
  • Our built-in tables are now indexed by locale-independent spell identifiers wherever possible, and we automatically reindex dynamically discovered info to match whenever we can. What does this mean? If you’re running a non-English localization of WoW, Hunter’s Helper might not show much in the tooltips or /hh find results at first… but once you’ve opened your Beast Training window and/or tamed a few mobs (enough for us to match English spell names to localized names), we’ll be able to provide additional search results. Since we can’t automatically map localized zone and mob names to their English equivalents, the additional results may be in English.
  • There’s now a localization.lua file with keys for known pet ability names and beast families. Users of other WoW languages are welcome to edit this file to provide the localized equivalents of these names — send back your edits and I’ll include them in future releases. (The more Hunter’s Helper knows about localized names, the better it can access its built-in database when running under other WoW languages.)
  • Our built-in database of zone names is now (mostly) localized into French, German, and Korean, thanks to contributors who helped localize Fizzwidget AdSpace and the listings at WoWGuru.com.
• If we see new beast ability info that isn’t in our static tables (which can now happen when mousing over a beast that has the Beast Lore “debuff”, in addition to upon taming a beast), the message requesting that you email me about it will appear no more than once per minute.
• In the past, we could sometimes run into situations where we wouldn’t notice we’d successfully tamed a beast with new skills, and then end up associating some other pet’s skills with it later. Added some checks to prevent such situations.
• Added, updated, and corrected several database entries thanks to user contributions. (Notably, all three species of Wind Serpent in the Sunken Temple have Lightning Breath 5.)

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 6th, 2005 at 2:04 am and is filed under Hunter's Helper.