[AddOn] npcscan

[Bit]

While camping Nazjak on the PvE server I was sorely missing an addon like retail _NPCScan which alerts the player when certain NPCs are nearby - so I made one.

The detection method from retail (testing if the model is in the WDB by using a unit hyperlink) doesn't work in Vanilla afaik (or if so I would love to know how). On the other hand targeting is not a protected function so that can be used instead (which means no cache clearing required, but probably a smaller detection range).

I've exactly copied the alert of the retail version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYeXY5RSPi0) but the backend is kept very simplistic.

Also, showing your target on the minimap is probably not possible in vanilla (?).

There are three commands:
/npcscan lists the current targets
/npcscan add name adds name as a target
/npcscan rem name removes name from the targets
When a target is detected it is removed and you have to add it again.

Repo: https://github.com/shirsig/npcscan

[Bartolo]

I have installed your addon and I renamed the folder to npcscan.

So far I've been abble to test the addon on the Auctioner Stampi, yeah it seems to be working as it does on retail.

Thanks.