Addon Review: Rose Colored Glasses & State of Realm
January 28, 2009
Due to the huge day tomorrow with announcements and lots of supposedly great news, I will hold off any critiques of the game till I hear what happens tomorrow, so actually expect a few articles tomorrow that are not addon related, but for now, I will do some addons. Also for FYI, I myself am an addon author, but I will not review my own addons, if you want to use them, go to curse, and look me up. I’m sure the curious bunch can figure my username on there, its quite easy. Ok, without further adue, I present to you Rose Colored Glasses and State of Realm. People that suffer from Color-Blindness should look at Rose Colored Glasses especially.
Rose Colored Glasses
This addon, while not in-depth tested by myself, does prove to be a great tool for those that are color blind. It allows you to alter the colors of many aspects of the UI so that you can distinguish them better. While it can’t alter the red circles around quest areas on your map due to a limitation of the API, it does allow you to overlay the entire map and minimap with a color to better distinguish colors and handle many other things quite well. Rose Colored Glasses also allows you to change colors of many aspects of the UI that might be difficult to see. You can also change the color and add a letter over peoples head where the Arrow indicator of targets is. Lots of customization is allowed through the addon. So if you suffer from color blindness and you have problems seeing things on the map and minimap, be sure to give this addon a go and if it does work for you, do thank Bloodwalker for making it. Check out the curse page for more info and download links. I don’t have screenshots of this addon because I don’t currently have it installed anymore and Bloodwalker hasn’t posted any on the project page. But in all honesty, there is nothing to really screenshot.
State of Realm
State of Realm
Now this is a amazing alternative to ObjectiveTracker and RealmStatus. Made by Ratsug, it combines the two concepts provided by Aiiane in her addons, and makes them flashier and more graphical. I was gonna hold off reviewing this till some fixes were made, but Ratsug is fast, and managed to fix it up significantly in about 2-3 hours. Very configurable in colors, docking, positioning and very useful. I would recommend everyone giving this a try, I use it myself now. Head on over to the curse page for more info and downloads.
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