World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

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Posted by: Sol Solus.3167

Sol Solus.3167

A Rainmeter skin styled to blend in with the game interface, transparent until moused over.

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Why Rainmeter?

Rainmeter is a lightweight, customizable widget platform. Rainmeter skins are easily modified scripts, and their .rmskin installers can be opened as zip archives, making them more trustworthy than executables.

Features

  • One-click waypoint link copy with boss name and countdown
  • Countdown and local time
  • Mini mode with next standard and hardcore bosses, with countdowns on mouseover
  • Normal mode with current and next standard bosses, and next hardcore boss
  • Long mode with infinite scrolling
  • 4 size settings corresponding to GW2 interface sizes
  • Mark events as done
  • Automatically reset done status at daily reset
  • Activate audio alerts for events

Usage

  • GW2’s display resolution must be set to “Windowed Fullscreen” or “Window”.
  • Left-click to copy waypoint link to clipboard.
  • Middle-click to toggle event done status.
  • Double-click to toggle audio alert for event.
  • Use controls on bottom bar to change mode/size.

CHANGELOG

[2015.10.25]
- Changed font to match GW2’s typography.

[2015.01.17]
- Minor aesthetics: aligned T+ times with T- times.

[2014.09.09]
- Refocus GW2 on interaction.

[2014.08.20]
- Autoset self to topmost when GW2 is running.
- Removed topmost toggle button.

[2014.06.19]
- Added a button to toggle topmost position.
- Fixed mini/normal mode displaying incorrect hardcore countdown just before daily reset.

[2014.06.18]
- Updated boss rotation for June 17th patch.
- Mini mode now shows next standard and hardcore bosses.
- Normal mode now shows current and next standard bosses, and next hardcore boss.
- Long mode shows standard and hardcore bosses together, arranged by time.
- Long mode now scrolls 2 lines per step.
- Scrolling now supports arbitrary step sizes.

[2014.06.15]
- No longer sets self to topmost on refresh.

[2014.05.30]
- Fixed mini mode not showing next boss if switching from long mode after scrolling.

[2014.05.29]
- Added date check to reset done status in cases that skin was not active at daily reset.
- Default position on refresh is now topmost instead of stay topmost.
- Fixed mini mode boss name not updating, broken in previous update.
- Fixed alert/done erasing that could corrupt storage of those values.

[2014.05.28]
- Added a “+” next to T+ times.
- Normal mode now shows current and next 2 bosses.
- Fixed rare possible incorrect sign on copied countdowns.
- Fixed a Lua stack overflow.

Rainmeter overlays:
World Boss Timer | WvW Map

(edited by Sol Solus.3167)

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

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Posted by: Alcarin.9024

Alcarin.9024

Very good, thank you for sharing it!
I have a little problem, I use your overlay in my second monitor, and I don’t want that it stay always on top of other windows. I can set the position to normal and it works (don’t stay on top), but when I restart windows, the overlay is again on top of every other window. Is there a way to permanently set to normal? I’ve tried to change the rainmeter.ini from alwaysontop=1 to alwaysontop=0 but it change somehow back to 1 on unmount/mont the skin…

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

in API Development

Posted by: Sol Solus.3167

Sol Solus.3167

Ah, sorry, this was deliberate to require one less step for user setup. Change this line:

In GW2WBT.ini:

   [Rainmeter]
   OnRefreshAction=!ZPos 1  <-- erase line so you can use your own setting

Rainmeter overlays:
World Boss Timer | WvW Map

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

in API Development

Posted by: Alcarin.9024

Alcarin.9024

Thank you very much, it worked!

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

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Posted by: Urquell.1504

Urquell.1504

Update this overlay ini pls

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

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Posted by: Sol Solus.3167

Sol Solus.3167

It’s been updated!

Rainmeter overlays:
World Boss Timer | WvW Map

World Boss Timer Overlay in Rainmeter

in API Development

Posted by: Gimp.9460

Gimp.9460

Awesome thank you.

Particle effect slider would be ‘too confusing’