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TheRestedXP Addon is a free and open source leveling guide extension for World of Warcraft. The addon comes with a default 1-30 speedleveling route for all classes for WotLK, TBC and a default 1-20 speedleveling route for all classes for SoM and Era.

Elevate your gameplay across every World of Warcraft expansion and game mode with RestedXP addon. Seamlessly compatible, it enhances your journey in Azeroth, from classic adventures to the latest expansions.


RestedXP is the fastest World of Warcraft Classic leveling guide, created by the best speedrunners of the community. The guides are tailored specifically to every class and can be used within a free, interactive and modern in-game addon.


Is the a new guide for building addons for LE? Im looking at building dolphin 5.0 for LE. Chemster built the dolphin emu over in the openelec forums. Ive never compiled an addon before. Ive looked for a tutorial but cant find a recent one. Any help would be great.


Im not reinventing the wheel. There is no guide to building addons for either Openelec or Libreelec. Installing an old broken addon wont get anyone any closer to being able to build working addons for libreelec.


OK then can you give me an example of where id find this information or an addon that i can use as an example? Everything im finding is years old or been removed. I cant find anything in libreelec forums or the wiki. Ive searched the Openelec forums and wiki, the wiki page has been removed and the forums are full of old information thats out of date.


The LE/OE build-system is relatively simple to figure out (very logical) and full of "prior art" to crib and learn the process of extending the core OS and creating add-ons from. There have never been nicely written guides or tutorials because creating packages/add-ons requires developer skills, and people with the skills to succeed tend to poke about and ask a few specific questions, while those who do not have the skills (self included, I'm no developer) need to ask for tutorials and guides. Unfortunately, to package an entire Linux distro in two files requires greater up-front complexity in the creation process compared to a more conventional distro, and it raises the entry-bar on tinkering.


There is OE wiki entry and also this. But outdated.

Just start looking how other addons are made and start working on yours. If this is to hard then I assume whole addon idea is to hard for you also.


Looking at the dependencies it requires enet, libao, openal, soundtouch and wxgtk all of which are not currently packaged. Those packages likely have other dependencies as well. And then it uses cmake which can be challenging. Since there is no source available, I'm guessing that he simply zipped up all the binaries and libraries from some other distribution like many others have done when creating addons.


I've been thinking about creating a small tutorial with the basics, but every time I think about what to put in it I think the same thing as chewitt. Learning the basics is easy and fast by looking at other addons. However, you won't get very far with the basics. A lot of packages require patching to be able to cross compile correctly. You'll need to learn what autoconf is, how the cross compiling toolchain is set up, and what a makefile does. That means spending hours upon hours trying and failing until you get it working.


It turns out packaging Dolphin was easier than expected. It's buildsystem fetches and builds most of the dependencies by itself and links them statically to the binary. The only packages that needed packaging was portaudio (needed for mic support) and openal-soft (i think you can probably build without it). The rest was already in LibreELEC or available in the package tree.


You can find my package here. It can easily be turned into an addon, all it needs is an addon() function to populate the addon with the additional libraries, binaries and the resources Kodi needs to launch it.


Wow top stuff as usual escalade! I'm still very much learning so I couldnt even attempt making an addon. But this paves the way for someone to create one. I'll keep researching and playing (Im a carpenter by trade) so coding is very new to me. But I am a hobbyist


I don't know any programming languages either, this is all scripting and packaging. I've been using Linux since around 1995 though, and at that time if you wanted to do anything useful you'd need to compile some stuff and read manuals. Lots and lots of manuals. Because no google and no damn internet These days people tend to give up if there isn't a youtube video lol


Zygor Guides are the best and fastest way to level your characters in World of Warcraft and accomplish more in less time. Using our custom Guide Viewer addon our guides are displayed inside the game and use an optimized step by step format to tell you everything you need to do.


Finding where to go is made simple thanks to our 3D waypoint arrow that points you exactly in the right direction at all times and will even tell you the fastest directions to your location using hearthstones, flight paths, portals and more.


Players creating a new Dracthyr character can use our all new Forbidden Reach starter guide to quickly level up to 60. This guide is written around the new Evoker class that is exclusive to the Dracthyr race.


Key to the new Dragonriding ability are Dragon Riding Glyphs, which are located all over the Dragon Isles and most be flown through to collect. These glyphs are used to customize your Dragonriding abilities and our guide will direct you to the location of each of these throughout all the new zones.


Once you've reached level 70 you can dive into our guides for the endgame content which includes Dragon Isles World, Weekly, and Daily Quests and miscellouness others. You can also use these guides to raise your renown with the numerous new factions of the expansion.


In order function optimally, the Zygor addon needs certain character specific data only a player can access, such as flight map data to provide better travel instructions, and profession data for the Gold Guide. The new Startup Orientation feature will walk you through synchronizing your character with the guides for the best experience possible.


Zygor Guides can provide important information while using the guides such as when upgrades are available, or when you see a pet or mount out in the world you'd like to load a guide for. We've updated this system to feel more seamless with your gameplay, with new toast notifications that pop in with relevant info when you need it but fade away automatically if you don't act on them.


For Dragonflight, we've completely revamped our Home Screen, transforming it into a central hub for all your guide and game needs. You can now fully customize it with Zygor Widgets, individual blocks of info that you can resize and reposition however you like. You can even add them to the Game UI if you wish to monitor them at all times. Here's just a few of the widgets you can add:


Zygor Guides is 100% safe to use and will NOT get you banned. We make sure to follow all of Blizzard's Policies and do not add any features they do not allow. We have been providing the community with guides since 2007 and no one has EVER been banned for using our guides.


Since we do have a lot new members in our ArmAverse, i think it isn't wrong to have a guide on how to install usermade mods and addons. For this guide i assume that you know how to use the Windows Explorer.


Well, at first you will have to download them, obviously. Mostly they come in compressed format like .zip, 7zip or .rar format. So the very first step is to unpack it. Personally i prefer the software 7zip for this but you might use other software that can handle the corresponding format. Please note that Windows by default can decompress the .zip format.


While technically it is possible to simply put the addons into the already existing addons folder, this should be prevented. If ever a usermade addons screw anything up, you might have a hard time to locate which addon it is. Using Modfolders will put you on the safe side.


Most Mods/Addons already come with the above structure preset. So after decompressing you might find a folder named @ModName with a addons folder in it and in there you will find at least one file named modName.pbo. Most likely there will be other files like modname.bisign2.pbo, they all belong together. Simply copy the @ModName folder into the Arma 3 directory, like in the example above.


If the Mod/Addon doesn't come with the required file/folder structure, you'll probably have one or more .pbo files. Simply create a folder inside the Arma 3 folder. Here you're basically free how you name it. Common practice is to start with a @ as the Windows Explorer always orders folders and files alphabetically and therefor modfolders will always be listed on top. For the rest of the name, you're free, just give it something that is meaningful. If it's a A-10 addon, something like @A10 would make sense. You get the idea.


Inside this folder now, you create another folder and this one has to be named addons and nothing else. Inside this folder you copy now all those .pbo file you've downloaded and decompressed. Don't move the .zip, 7zip or .rar files in there, this wont work. It has to be decompressed first.


Organizing Mods is mostly not necessary as they already come organized. For single addons you may organize them in a way you feel comfortable. Say a addonmaker released several single addons over time, it is up to you if you prefer to have them all in separated Modfolders or you create a single Modfolder for all addons of this addonmaker. You also might create Modfolders for specific servers if you wish. This is completely up to you.


This is done ingame. Go to Options -> Expansions. There you will find your Expansions. They are disabled by default unless you enable them in here. Enable those you need and disable those you don't need. Keep in mind that some addons do require other addons to work properly.

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