In this case, where we just want to output text to the screen, we can either use the print function to output some text in the chat window, or the message function to create a pop-up box with some text. So now the addon setup is essentially complete, we just need to write the script which actually achieves the functionality we want! When writing Lua scripts for World of Warcraft, a bunch of custom functions and tables and things are made available to you to do different things to/with the game. toc file, HelloWorld.toc in our case, should look something like this: Apart from the version of the game your addon is created for, which is defined by the # Interface: XXXX directive (in which XXXX is the interface version), most other common property names are reasonably intuitive and guessable. These can be listed through the prefix of two hash symbols ( #) followed by a space, the name of the property you want to define, a colon, and then the value you want to set the property to. A number of directives can (and should) be written at the start of the file which list information such as the version of the game your addon is built for, the title of your addon, the version of the addon, the author, any notes, etc. The TOC file is essentially where the game is going to start looking at our addon, so it has to be formatted in a particular way. So let's do it - create a folder called 'HelloWorld' in /Interface/AddOns and create a file called 'HelloWorld.toc' inside this. toc ( Table Of Contents) file inside of this folder which has the same name as it.

So if we wanted to create our own basic addon to just output some text to the screen, the first step we would take is to create a folder with the name of the addon, and create a. toc file which has the same name as the addon folder and contains information about the addon.

Inside each addon folder there must be a.

Each addon must have its own directory inside the /Interface/AddOns folder.

If you open up the folder of any game addon, even the default ones which Blizzard provides, you should see that every addon follows a set of rules - the most basic two which we must abide to are:

If you're familiar with addons for the game, they usually come in a folder which you can simply paste inside the /Interface/AddOns directory inside your game folder (which is usually C:/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft) - if the versioning and everything is fine, the addon should work just great. This tutorial is going to build on a basic knowledge of Lua to create some basic World of Warcraft addons. World of Warcraft is a very popular MMO, and addons for the game are extremely popular as they can really add to gameplay and tactics to customise the experience.

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