Horde Translator

[damagepy]

I've never wrote a mod before, but always wanted to make a simple one that picks up horde words, and from a vocabulary it displays some "guess" what can it be in english. I just checked other addons format and wrote this very simple thingie:

HordeTrans.zip (3K)

If you are Alliance, and you see a horde say or yell, it shows what he say ( or at least tries). Only got the 50 most common word atm, mainly fro battlegrounds (AV), I havent got any horde friend to help to check some more word. ITs pretty inaccurate, later I will include multiple word replacement so that way searches and replaces complete pharses like "I am" or "dont't let them" instead of picking up only single words.

If anyone can write a better mod with interface and bigger vocabulary (some pro modder), then can upgrade my idea and write a real (more acurate) translator.
ATM it dont really helps, only can pick some yell in AV like balinda, ninja stoneheart, mages aoe, etc...

any opinion?

[Skahr]

heh, kinda cool. im anxious to get home tonight and see how accurate id does work. i dont mind guessing a bit. anythiing is better then nothing imo. thanks pal.

-Skahr

[conure]

interesting, I've been working on an addon like this.
I need to get my friend to create a ally toon (temporarly) on my server before he switches..

[ForgetMySoul]

Horde//Alliance translators are against Blizzard's EULA and ToU.
Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but Blizz doesnt want Alliance to understand the Horde, or visa-virsa.

[include]

jap, thats true! you could be banned using this addon...

[damagepy]

You cant really translate it.
Cause (for example) there are only about 7-8 4 letter word in orcish, that WoW chooses based on the horde word with some algorythm. And there are thousands of english words with 4 letter, and more in other languages.
Even only watching the most common battleground words is hard to "guess" what they said:

uruk=kill/flag/stun/fire/move/them
maza=push/back/good/free

but there are words that have one meaning (not much other word generates the same text as alliance):

osh'kava=warriors
tov'nokaz=frostwolf
maza'rotha=stoneheart
etc...

but using multiword replacement, it can be more accurate:
maza uruk maza = push them back
tov'osh nogah = destroy tower

Basically this multiword thing can be the really accurate way, replacing single words dont really help usually, because tehre are too much meaning.

[Wintrow]

Doesn't matter. Only use it if you wanna be banned :)

[Tuplad]

You wont get banned, Blizzard can not see what you are seeing on your screen, only the ingame things, like - where you walk and what you eat.

[include]

lolololol..
blizzard scans all your addons some times... and they have a blacklist. they have learned from DIABLO 2...


so: please dont waste your time developing an illegal addon...

[damagepy]

Then will only use myself, so no blacklist :) Just for fun