Mau Guild Map

MauGuildMap shows your guild mates on the world map.

Everyone in the guild who runs the addon sends their position over the guild addon channel every couple of seconds while they move. Everyone else with the addon sees them as small round race icons with a ring in their class colour on the world map, on the zone map as well as the continent and world views. Hover an icon and you get the name, level, race, class, health, mana or rage or energy, experience to the next level, the zone they are in and how old the position is.

If someone is inside a dungeon, raid or battleground the game does not give out their position, so the addon shows them at the spot where they went in, slightly greyed out, with the instance name in the tooltip. Dead members get a skull and their icon stays where they died until they are back up.

What you share is up to you. The options page has switches for sending your position at all, and for sharing your health, your power and your experience. Everything is shared by default, and everyone else only sees what you chose to share.

Icons disappear when a member logs out, hides themselves, or hasn't sent anything for a minute. Nothing is drawn on the minimap.

A few things to know

• Both sides need the addon. You only see guild members who have it installed, and they only see you if they do.
• It works across the whole world. Nobody has to be nearby or in your group.
• Your position goes to the whole guild. If you would rather not be seen, turn off "Send my position" in the options and the others drop you right away.
• The messages are tiny, under 100 bytes, and only go out when something actually changed, so it does not add any noticeable chat traffic.
• While the game is in the background it goes quiet and only sends a heartbeat now and then.

Options

There are no chat commands to remember. Type /mgm or go to Escape > Options > AddOns > MauGuildMap and everything is on one page:

• Map: whether the guild is shown at all, the skull on dead members, the icon size in pixels, how much of the icon's rim is cropped, and how faded members inside instances are drawn.
• Class ring: on or off, and how thick it is.
• Name labels: on or off, font, text size, outline, above or below the icon, distance from the icon, and class colour or white.
• Tooltip: whether health, mana/rage/energy and experience are shown.
• Privacy: whether you send your position at all, and whether your health, your power and your experience go with it.

Changes show on the map right away, so you can tweak things with the map open.

Made for World of Warcraft: Forever (the 1.60 client). It uses Blizzard's own map pin system, so it gets along with the regular map and with other map addons.

Known bug

• When joining a guild, you will not appear to other players unless a reload/relog

If something breaks, a screenshot or the error text from /console scriptErrors 1 helps a lot.