The following will be a series of entries which will represent a sort of diary I'm writing while developing a mod I thought of for quite some time now. I'm calling it the ring mod. I'm not even sure if I will succeed in creating it but maybe the techniques I'm going to use will help someone else to do better. I'm currently learning object oriented programming so I'm not that kind of "pro" in that.

The mod should be able to create an undetermined number of rings on the screen....

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This is a repost of a tutorial I wrote sometime ago. It is about how to do 360° rings in World of Warcraft based on Iriels findings in his addon StatRings.

Sources:
API Texture SetTexCoord - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
SetTexCoord Transformations - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
StatRings - Anchor configuration preview - WoWInterface
StatRings : WoWInterface Downloads : Iriel's Castle

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Lets start by creating your first mod. I make all the sourcecode available at my GoogleCode project page under the trunk-folder called blog.
You could checkout my whole project via SVN.

So what I want you to show you today is how you can create your first mod and make it available in the game World of Warcraft. I set up a small...

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