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LOTRO Plugin Compendium (LPC) is a utility application to assist in installing and updating lotro LUA plugins. It attempts to take some of the leg work away from user having to manually download, create folders, and unzip download. This is a platform independent version made available by request of the Mac and Linux crowd. Mac Client Known Issues 15.3. As of 15.3 30 March 2015: The OSX Launcher will no longer download all the splash screens every time you start it. It does make an HTTP request for each splash screen to see if you have the most recent one on disk each time. How do I download LOTRO when my Mac is Catalina? How do I work around it? I'm new to the Mac OS. Mac client download not working & SSG not helping:(Started by Salaliel, Jan 29 2020 06:04 PM. The Lord of the Rings Online, Shadows of Angmar, Mines of Moria, Siege of Mirkwood, Rise of Isengard, Riders of Rohan, Helm’s Deep, Mithril. Jan 21, 2013. Uninstalling On Mac (wine) Hey so i got a new computer and want to remove the game from my mac but it's not in app form anymore since the wine switch, is there a way to fully uninstall it another way? All i can find is the lotro client but its not the right file to remove any help would be much appreciated.
Using Lua PluginsIntroduction
In the years since the introduction of the Lua interface to LOTRO (Summer of 2010), plugins have matured significantly. Many Plugins have been created, and like fireworks, made a big splashy display then faded into the night.Others have been well maintained and 'honed to perfection' over the years. All are the work of volunteers.
Remember that all Plugins including support for the Lua interface itself are 'labors of love.' There is no commitment about their future.
From Turbine's point of view, the Lua interface itself is a 'Pet Project' -- something which the Turbine Developers are encouraged to have, but which has no official sanction from Turbine. If that Developer 'moves on,' support for that project may or may not be continued by someone else who has a similar interest.
Some aspects of Plugins, considered both desirable and mandatory by the players, are circumscribed by Turbine -- for example, no plugin may 'issue 'commands,' thereby preventing the creation of Macros or assisting 'Botting' in contravention of the EULA and TOS polices of LOTRO.
Other aspects, are requested features which have simply not been implemented in the Interface. (See the discussions in the Lua Forum at: Lua Scripting (BETA) )
A tremendos amount of 'standardization' has been created by Lunarwater's LPC and Turbine's Plugin manager.. see
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Coming to Terms with the subject
A Lua Script? A Lua? A Plugin? A Lua Plugin? or..
In the very short time since their introduction into LOTRO (Summer of 2010), and into Gaming in general, all three terms have come to be used in to mean the same thing. The most common 'short-hand' is to refer to everything simply as a 'Lua' or a 'Plugin'.
'Lua' - What's in a Name?
Lua has become the 'short-hand' way of referring to a LOTRO 'plugin' written in the Lua programming language.
Background
Lua Plugins are a fun, useful addition to the LOTRO User Interface (UI). A Lua plugin modifies or otherwise 're-formats' existing game information, presenting it in user defined formats, frequently providing not only a different 'look and feel' to the UI, but completely different functionality as well.
A 'Lua Scripting Interface' or 'Application Programming Interface' (API) is different from UI-Skinning. UI-Skinning is simply the ability to change certain Graphical elements of the UI, while a Lua plugin changes the behavior of the UI.
Many games (such as World of Warcraft) offer Lua APIs as does Apple's IOS.The variety and amount of information available to the LOTRO Lua API is tightly controlled by the game designers at Turbine.
UI-Skinning has been available almost since the beginning of LOTRO, back in 2007. Lua scripting was introduced in the summer of 2010.
Lua Scripting
Lua scripting is the method for extending and customizing the game's user interface (UI) by writing scripts in the Lua programming language.
Another article, Lua Scripting discusses the details of writing Lua Plugins for LOTRO.
Plugin
A plugin is a User Interface (UI) extension written in the Lua scripting language.
What does a Lua Plugin in LOTRO do for me?
As mentioned above, a Lua plugin modifies or otherwise 're-formats' exising game information, presenting it in User defined formats, frequently providing not only a different 'look and feel' to the UI, but completely different functionality as well.
A classic example of this is the very popular Lua Plugin called 'Buff Bars.' www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info361-BuffBars.html
Where to get Lua Plugins for LOTRO?The website www.lotrointerface.com has become the focal point for User Interface (UI) modificatios in LOTRO.
They are the most reliable source for Lua Plugins for LOTRO. (The site is moderated and the downloads screened.)It is site is where the most active Lua Plugin developers 'hang out.' It is the central repository and distribution site for most all currently working and maintained Lua Plugins for LOTRO.And therefore is used by those Plugin Managers (see below) which attempt to maintain your collection of Plugins up to date.
The Lua Plugin developers here are attempting to develop standards and tools to make the selection, tracking, installation and updating of Lua Plugins both simple and accurate. Today, that ability is in its infancy and not all Plugins conform.
What's this about Skinning?
Source of the LOTRO Lua Plugin APIs
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First things first: Managing and Controlling Plugins
Since Lua's in LOTRO are still evolving and maturing, every month brings a new development.
The Turbine Plugin Manager
With the release of ROI Update 5, December 2010, Turbine included a Lua Plugin Manager on the Character selection page. The Turbine Plugin Manager is the SECOND thing you need to understand in order to work with Plugins in LOTRO.FIRST you need to use LPC to download and install your plugins. (Don't stop reading here, LPC is explained as you progress.)
If (when) you first launch Turbine's Plugin Manager from the Character Creation Screen it is empty, it is either because the Plugins directory does not exist, or there is nothing in it.
So then, how to begin?
LOTRO Plugin Compendium (LPC)
Using LPC is the easiest and cleanest way to install and maintain your Lua Plugins in LOTRO!
With LPC, you simply launch LPC, pick the plugins you want to try, and away you go. (More detailed instructions follow, keep reading!)
Minion + LotROnion
Minion has only 'just' been given an LOTRO plugin. Compared to its capabilities under WOW, it's capabilities under LOTRO are in their infancy.LotROnion, therefore still requires a fair amount of 'hand-holding,' and it has 'this thing about WOW.'
The good news is, however, Minion is written in Java and runs with no problem on both Mac and Linux systems, as well as under Windows.
More information on both is below in the section: Keeping your Plugins up to date
How to use Lua PluginsInstalling Plugins in LOTRO for the first time?
There are two mechanisms for installing a plugin the first time in LOTRO -- Let LPC do all the work :) or do it all your self, manually :(.
Method one - Using the LOTRO Plugin Compendium (LPC) (highly recommended)
Method two - Copying files into the appropriate directories. (It's manual labor, but sure, why not)
Which Plugin should I use? Picking Plugins
How to find plugins?You can browse around the LOTRO forums yourself:
OR: simply use LPC to do the browsing and to supervise your downloading and installation efforts.
Trouble shootingThe Plugin doesn't work!The Plugin Manager doesn't show my, or any, plugins
Missing components
Extra components
Keeping your Plugins up to date
You can always do this manually.. checking websites periodically for new versions, then updating your plugins.
However, two programs address this issue -- the installation and updating of LOTRO Plugins.
Both will list, and update your installed plugins. LPC will also give you a list of plugins you have not yet installed and offer to install them for you.
Minion + LotROnion
Minion (MMOUI) has recently (January 2012), been 'augmented' with a plugin of its own to support LOTRO.
Previously heavily used by only WoW players, this new plugin allows Minion to also be used by players of LOTRO, but only to track plugins. (Other WOW features are not available.)
To use this option, you need to first install Minion, and then LotROnion.
This is different from the LOTRO Plugin Compendium (LPC) which is a single, stand-alone program (Windows or Java).
Minion is written in Java and runs 'cross-platform.' That is to say, it will run anywhere you can run LOTRO -- on Windows or on a Mac or Linux box.CrossOver Games (CXG) is not necessary, only a Java installation. Which also means, you can run it without running either CXG or WINE
LOTRO Plugin Compendium (LPC)
LPC is the more 'mature' of the two options -- having been 'first' and therefore having been around longer! Minion is still 'WOW centric' and therefore not as 'seamless' for LOTRO users.
Similarly, at the moment, at least, LPC can be downloaded and installed BEFORE you have ever installed a Plugin (See the section above - Installing Plugins in LOTRO for the first time?). LPC will take care of the necessary 'housekeeping' chore of creating the Plugins Folder for you, if you do not have one, and then installing your selected plugins in it.
While originally a Windows only application program a java version is now available which also runs cross-platform.
Managing Plugins once installed, and in-game
Some other plugin managers in-use before Turbine created their Manager, can be found at lotrointerface.com - LotRO Tools & Utilities for Users
If you are doing a lot of experimentation with plugins, having multiple managers can be quite useful.
PluginManager
A scrollable, sortable list of plugins that loads other plugins that you enabled with it.
Ordered Plugin Loader (OPL)
OrderedPluginLoader is a simple plugin which allows you to load any number of plugins in any given order.
Bootstrap - Plugin Manager
Bootstrap is a plugin manager for LotRO. Its purpose is to ease using other plugins through a graphical user interface and some degree of automation.
A typical user's Lua usage
The Lua's used constantly (i.e. loaded for all characters by the Turbine PLugin Manager at login) are:
Also loaded on an 'as needed' basis
Typical display in the General Chat window when loading plugins at login with the Turbine Plugin Manager:
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