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WoW-Vanilla-Addon-Resources

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Addon development toolkit for WoW 1.12 / Turtle WoW: API documentation, BLP converter, MPQ extractor, extracted game assets (all frames & icons), Lua 5.0 reference, and UI guides.

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# wow-vanilla-addon-resources

Addon development toolkit for WoW 1.12 / Turtle WoW: API documentation, BLP converter, MPQ extractor, extracted game assets (all frames & icons), Lua 5.0 reference, and UI guides.

## 📖 Contents

This repository contains essential resources for developing addons for World of Warcraft 1.12 (Vanilla) and Turtle WoW:

### 🛠️ Tools

- **BLPNG_Converter.exe** - Convert BLP image files to PNG and vice versa
- **BLPView-1.2.exe** - View and inspect BLP texture files
- **MPQEditor.exe** - Extract and edit MPQ archive files

### 📚 Documentation

#### Main Resource
- **World of Warcraft Programming - A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons.pdf** - Complete official programming guide and reference

#### English (EN/)
- **WoW-Addon-Development-Reference_EN.md** - Complete API reference for WoW 1.12 addon development
- **WoW-Programming-Guide-Summary_EN.md** - Summary of the official programming guide
- **LUA-5.0-COMPATIBILITY_EN.md** - Lua 5.0 compatibility guide and reference

#### French (FR/)
- **WoW-Addon-Development-Reference_FR.md** - Référence complète de l'API pour le développement d'addons WoW 1.12
- **WoW-Programming-Guide-Summary_FR.md** - Résumé du guide de programmation officiel
- **LUA-5.0-COMPATIBILITY_FR.md** - Guide de compatibilité et référence Lua 5.0

### 🎨 Game Assets

The `Interface/` directory contains extracted game assets organized by UI component:

- **Frames** - UI frames for various game windows (Character, Bags, Auction, Spellbook, etc.)
- **Icons** - All game icons extracted from the client
- **Buttons** - Button textures and assets
- **FrameXML** - Default UI XML definitions

### 🧩 Examples

The `Examples/` directory contains complete, real-world addons to study end to end:

- **[AutoLFM](Examples/AutoLFM/)** - Archived snapshot of a polished Turtle WoW addon (automated LFM broadcaster). Demonstrates file separation, saved variables, XML templates, and a command-bus (Maestro) architecture, with full developer documentation in [`Examples/AutoLFM/_wiki/`](Examples/AutoLFM/_wiki/). See [Examples/README.md](Examples/README.md).

## 🎯 Target Versions

- World of Warcraft 1.12.1 (Vanilla)
- Turtle WoW

## 💡 Use Cases

- Creating new WoW 1.12 addons
- Modifying existing addons
- Learning WoW's UI framework
- Extracting and converting game assets
- Reference for Turtle WoW addon development

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