Powerauras: Melee range?

[Shinela]

Hi!

I tried tweaking around on Power Auras lately. I never had my skills visible on my screen but knowing when something procced, I use to have to look at my buffs.
Power Auras helped me off of that, of course! However, I'm still trying to find a way so that a sword icon appears above my head when I'm in melee range of my target.
To currently reach that goal, I'm having one skill slot visible: Devastate, which will stop being red when I'm in melee range. I prefer the Powerauras way, though.

And whilst we're at it, is there a way that I can play around with it for, say I'm playing a mage, I could change it to 40 yards and such? ^.^

Thanks in advance,
yours truly
Shinela

[SlippyCheeze]

I don't know if PowerAuras allows custom lua triggers like WA does, but ... my advice to you is to use librangecheck to do the "what is the range" rather than trying to implement it yourself. If you want to know why, glance at the code in that library to gain an understanding of the complexity of implementing this yourself.

[ComputerNerd]

In short you can't query directly the distance from a given target.
The above described library will instead test abilities with varying range requirements and see if you are close enough for them or not.
That will at best give you a lower and upper range estimate, where x ability with 8 yards range can hit, but one with 5 yards cannot.
Therefore in that hypothetical example you will be somewhere between 5 to 8 yards.

Edit:Wrong way round with the numbers.

[lawomous]

Maybe this will help SkeenMelee.

[crakerjack]

Why do you need a power auras to know when you're in melee range? Haven't you noticed the circle below every single target? That's their melee range. The red tinted circle below any hostile npc is its melee range.

[Shinela]

Why do you need a power auras to know when you're in melee range? Haven't you noticed the circle below every single target? That's their melee range. The red tinted circle below any hostile npc is its melee range.

I have, but unfortunately it's not very true. Considering I can hit some bosses whilst standing twice the distance of the red circle and other bosses having to stand halfway the circle, I got a feeling that this idea on complies within Warcraft III and not within WoW, sadly enough.

Maybe this will help SkeenMelee.

Now this is a good one. Sad that I can make it fit my UI, but at least it's something ^.^

To the others here.. Well I didn't think it'd be that difficult but having given the explanation, I do suppose you're quite right. Thank you none the less for helping on this! ^.^

[Kaustos]

If you want to determine only if you're within melee range with a power aura, you could use a conditional like IsSpellInRange("Devastate","target"). Change the spell to Ice Lance or whatever for a mage. You might give RangeDisplay a try as well, you can set up colored indicators for various ranges.

Why do you need a power auras to know when you're in melee range? Haven't you noticed the circle below every single target? That's their melee range. The red tinted circle below any hostile npc is its melee range.

That is not and has never been true. Targeting reticule doesn't mean anything.