Does "WoW API: The Missing Manual" exist?

[chinajade]

Its sad when the bot to a game has better documentation than the game itself...

What's set me off is trying to find proper documentation for the WoW API--in particular VehicleAimRequestNormAngle, and how it differs from VehicleAimRequestAngle.

I've googled, and gone poking at code I see posted here and there, and I understand its basic use. But, there is a *lot* that is undocumented. For instance,

• what does 'normalizing' the angle entail?
• Does 0.0 mean horizontal, and 1.0 straight up? or does 0.0 mean 'lowest weapon height' position, and 1.0 mean 'highest weapon height' position?

There are dozens and dozens of questions like this about the WoW API. WoWWiki documentation and other similar resources about the WoW API, is largely empty pages.

Does anyone have a good or secret source for documentation that they'd be willing to share? If not, I guess the choice is to reverse engineer which will take a boatload more time.

What commercial company releases an undocumented API?

cheers & thanks for any help,
chinajade

 

[AlphaWolf]

Hi ChinaJade,

I've been using Home Page - World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons for looking up API references and also frameXML etc.

Perhaps this will be useful to you too.

-Alpha

Edit: The below is taken from the site which should answer the second question.

Causes aim angle to transition smoothly from the current value to the requested value (or to the closest allowed value to the requested value if it is beyond the vehicle's limits).

 

[chinajade]

THANK you, this is just what the doctor ordered!

cheers,
chinajade