Is there an addon for allowing me to view skills/map w/out zooming in?

Tonturri · July 2014

When I'm RPing, I like to use /sit, or /sleep, or...whichever emote catches my fancy at the time.

However, sometimes I also want to check a passive skill or some such thing, or peer at my map to make sure I haven't missed anything, or make sure I haven't missed any lorebooks in other sections.

Yet...whenever I do, the camera deeeeerps and zooms in on my character, bringing him/her out of their emote and turning them, around to face me. It's awfully annoying, so - is there a addon thing that fixes that?

zgrssd · July 2014

No. And Yes.

That using the built in map starts a "use map" and using the bag starts a "work in bag" emote is hardcoded into the game.
It is an important peice of data in a competive environment like PvP.

Theoretically it would be possible to write an alternative map window.
The same way you could just open the Research Assitant or Craft Store window without emotes getting overrideen, you could open that alternative map window without emote firing.

But other people udnerstand working with the map (and in particular custom pins) a lot better.

Garkin · July 2014

This character rotation is done using the command:

SetFrameLocalPlayerInGameCamera(true)

This command is run every time when scene fragment FRAME_PLAYER_FRAGMENT is shown, so every scene which contains this fragment will rotate character. Simple solution is to remove fragment from scenes where you do not want to use rotation.

If you want to remove character rotation from all scenes copy&paste this code to the end of any .lua file in your addons folder:

EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent("SpinStop", EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED,
   function(eventCode, addon)
      if (addon):find("^ZO_") then return end
     
      for _,scene in pairs(SCENE_MANAGER.scenes) do
         scene:RemoveFragment(FRAME_PLAYER_FRAGMENT)
      end
     
      EVENT_MANAGER:UnregisterForEvent("SpinStop", eventCode)
   end)

SFBryan18 · July 2014

That's awesome Garkin. Keep up the great work!

Tonturri · July 2014

Thank you so much @Garkin

Dominoid · July 2014

This needs more love. The change is really cool!