Including this library in your addon will automatically
- Have the player join the unified death notification channel
- Register the player for death notifications. The addon which includes this library needs to implement a function to handle death notifications
Only for classic era and Hardcore servers.
- ChatThrottleLib
-
Copy this repo into your addons directory. Something like
<youraddonroot>/Libs/DeathNotificationLib/
-
In
<youraddon>.toc
, includeDeathNotificationLib.lua
somewhere early in file loading. Note, this requires ChatThrottleLib and the includednpc_to_id_classic./lua/id_to_npc_classic.lua
. E.g.
Libs/ChatThrottleLib.lua
Libs/DeathNotificationLib/npc_to_id_classic.lua
Libs/DeathNotificationLib/id_to_npc_classic.lua
Libs/DeathNotificationLib/DeathNotificationLib.lua
<youraddon>.lua
- Register a function to hook onto death notification events (use
DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntry
). Here are the fields
-- DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntry(function(_player_data, _checksum, _peer_report, _in_guild) ... end)
-- @param _player_data metadata for player entry.
-- @field name Player's name
-- @field guild Player's guild
-- @field source_id ID of creature that killed the player
-- @field class_id Class ID of the player
-- @field level Player's level
-- @field instance_id Instance that player died in. Nil if player did not die in an instance
-- @field map_id Zone ID that player died in. Nil if player died in an instance instead
-- @field map_pos Map coordinates within zone specified by map_id, nil if player died in an instance instead
-- @field date Date that the player died. Unix Epoch.
-- @field last_words Player's last words.
-- @param _checksum A checksum for the player data
-- @param _peer_report Number of guildmates that verified the death
-- @param _in_guild Whether the player is in your guild
You can register DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntrySecure
instead, which will only notify when 2 guildmates to whomever died, acknowledge the death.
- Use the
_peer_report
field for added verification. This number is the number of guildmates that verify the death within 5 seconds of the initial alert. I recommend not using this to block alerts unless fake notifications become an issue. - There is a 5 second delay between death and notification. This is a grace period to transmit last words.