Overachiever - achievement tools and tweaks - WoW AddOns

Tools and tweaks to make the lives of players seeking Achievements a little bit easier.

Most features listed here are optional. Options can be found using the /oa command or at Interface Options -> AddOns tab -> Overachiever.

General:

Slash commands to search for achievements by name.* (Also see the "Search tab" feature.)
Ctrl+click on an achievement link to open the GUI to that achievement. Ctrl+click again to track it.
Remember achievement tracking between sessions and resume when you log in.
Automatically track timed achievements when the timer starts.

Add information from progress bars and normally-hidden progress information. (For example, "Progress: 5/10" or "Assault 2 bases (0/2).")
Compare progress using chat links: Display your progress below that of the player who linked the achievement.
Optionally add the achievement's ID to its tooltip. (Convenient for addon authors.)

GUI Enhancements:

Draggable Frames: The achievement frame is draggable.†
Search tab added to the UI to search for achievements by name, description, reward, and more.‡
Suggestions tab added to the UI that suggests achievements based on your current situation: Location, recent tooltip reminders from this addon, etc.‡
Cooking Trade Skill UI:‡
- Display icons next to recipes you need to cook for "The Northrend Gourmet" and "The Outland Gourmet." Ctrl+click on one of these recipes to open the UI to the achievement that requires it.
- Works with the default UI, Advanced Trade Skill Window, Skillet, and lilsparky's branch of Skillet. (Users of lilsparky's branch must Alt+click instead of Ctrl+click to open to the achievement.)
Objectives Frame (Achievement Tracker):
- Display a tooltip when hovering over an achievement title to see more details about it.
- Shift+click an achievement title to add that achievement's link to chat.
Display a tooltip when the cursor is over certain achievements in the GUI:
- Part of a series: Give the names of other achievements in the series and its relation to them.
- Required by: Give the names of any meta-achievements that list this achievement as a criteria.
Meta-criteria (achievements displayed as the criteria for obtaining a larger achievement) in the GUI use a detailed achievement tooltip instead of simply giving the date the criteria was completed (or nothing if it isn't complete).

Achievement-specific Options:

World Explorer: Automatically track exploration achievements as you travel.*
Tooltip Reminders: Add information to units', items', and/or world objects' tooltips to help you complete...
- "To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before", "To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life": Do I need to /love this critter?
- "Pest Control": Have I exterminated this critter?
- "Well Read", "Higher Learning": Have I read this book?
- "The Scavenger," "Outland Angler," "Northrend Angler": Have I fished this type of node?
- "It's Happy Hour Somewhere", "Tastes Like Chicken": Have I consumed this food or drink?
- Holiday Achievements:
  - "Let It Snow": Do I need to use a Handful of Snowflakes on this player?
  - "Fistful of Love": Do I need to use a Handful of Rose Petals on this player?
  - "Shake Your Bunny-Maker": Do I need to use Spring Flowers on this player?
- "Northern Exposure", "Medium Rare", and many others: Do I need to kill this creature? (Includes many dungeon and raid-based achievements.)
Sound Reminder: Choose a sound to play when one of the above tooltip reminders shows up if you need to do something.

* See the included readme.txt file for more details.
† See instructions below.
‡ This is part of a modular component that can be enabled/disabled individually. See "Disabling Modules," below.

Key Bindings

You can associate key bindings with each of the new tabs added to the Achievement frame using the standard key binding interface. The new bindings are located under the heading "Overachiever."

Localization

Localized for English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese clients. Translations generously provided by users like you!
If you're interested in helping localize Overachiever for another client, please let me know.

Draggable Frames

The main achievement frame (where achievements earned and unearned are listed by category) is draggable when the proper Interface Options are set. Left-click on an appropriate area and hold the mouse button down to move the frame where you desire.

By default, the main achievement frame can be moved but it is still subject to some standard frame handling that will reposition it when it is opened or certain other frames are displayed. To unattach the frame from this position handling and have Overachiever remember where the frame is from session to session, check the "Remember position" option under the "Main Achievement UI frame" option. Once in the position you desire, you may want to uncheck the "Main Achievement UI frame" option so you don't accidentally move it elsewhere.

To customize the placement and more involving the "Achievement Earned" alert frames, try Achieved!

Disabling Modules

Some of Overachiever's features are implemented using modules, namely Overachiever_Tabs and Overachiever_Trade. Modules have their own folders that should be placed inside the Interface\AddOns folder alongside Overachiever. They can be enabled or disabled as you would a separate addon. Additionally, the individual Search and Suggestions components of the Tabs module can be disabled by deleting or renaming Search.lua or Suggestions.lua.

About the lengthy project name: "Overachiever" was not showing up on curse.com addon searches for "achievement"; the name change fixes that. Hopefully Curse will correct this problem in the future.

Buy Tuhljin a snack so he'll feel guilty about not yet implementing that suggestion you made. Or maybe just to show your support. That works, too.

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Radoznali Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:31:50
i think OA is going to have problems with a lot of quest tracking addons since i noticed that my own nquestlog has same problem -and that is -it " removes" default Blizz tracker-objective frames-so by removing it removes achivemnts tracker as well-i dont know if there is solution to this,but if someone knows answer to that pls post it since i would like to know it as well
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Sandcrab2000 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:55:37
Seems that if you are running Questguru and using the Questguru Quest tracker module, the Blizzard achievement tracker will not show up. This is NOT and issue wtih Overachiever.
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marsaeus Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:26:18
I had to disable Carbonite completely to get the Blizzard tracking frame to show (and therefore work) at all. With both Overachiever and Carbonite running, all aspects of both mods work just fine... with the one exception: no way to track achievements. The trouble is squarely with Carbonite, which I discovered with your advice, disabling the addons one at a time til I figured out which addon was causing the troubles.

Thanks for the quick reply, even though it wasn't your addon causing the trouble.

Mars
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Tuhljin Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:26:37
marsaeus: The best way to handle an issue that may involve some back-and-forth is to check if there's a ticket on the issue already, and if not, submit one, and be sure to check in once in a while to see if I've commented on it and need you to do something or answer questions for me.

As for this specific issue, Overachiever no longer handles the position of the achievement tracker, which has been folded into Blizzard's new Objectives frame, which also handles quest tracking. Are you able to track quests normally? Have you tried disabling Overachiever? Have you tried disabling all your addons? Please reply in a new ticket or a private message.
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marsaeus Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:52:05
With patch 3.1 I now am unable to "track" ANY achievement. I have updated to the latest version (r18) However, when I place a check mark on an achievement, the usual window does not show on my screen, and absolutely nothing shows up in the new "objectives" window. Nothing, nada. If this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize in advance.
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Tuhljin Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:12:47
gohowardtx: See Ticket #49.
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gohowardtx Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:18:52
with 3.1, I patched up and now any foods or drinks they all show need to be consumed. Even ones I know I had consumed in the past, and even if I do consume it, it doesn't change state to already consumed... Not sure if anyone else is having this. Any suggestions? Delete the save file maybe (wtf? i forget.. lol anyone refresh my memory?) Thanks,
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lionlin Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:00:11
Try to use.
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yoshimo Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:13:00
While doing the BG-Achievements i noticed that the tracker can only distinguish between 5 players to be killed at base Y and "done that". but the exact number is missing. like 1/2/3/4 left. Is there something you can do about that? ;)
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Tuhljin Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:03:27
Ah, they finished the localization app? I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip!