AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft
AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is a WoW AddOn editor which features a professional Lua editor, a WoW UI designer, and support for Curse Forge repositories.
Details
AddOn Studio is a fully-featured integrated development environment, with many tools and features specifically for use with Lua and World of Warcraft development.
AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft includes:
- Modern Lua editing and project management
- Curse compatible and integrated SCC
- Real-time 'Intellisense' style tooltips and code completion
- WoW UI visualization and editing
- WoW asset management and browsing
- WoW AddOn deploy and launch features
- WoW compatible integrated test runtime for Lua snippets
- WoW Lua and WoW Widget and API documentation
- and more...
Editions
For World of Warcraft
- This version is based on Visual Studio 2015, internally version 4.0, and has been available since late 2016. Originally released during Draenor and Legion, support continues for new versions of WoW. This is a currently maintained edition.
- This version is based on Visual Studio 2010, internally version 3.0, and has been available since late 2010. Originally released during Cataclysm, support continues for new versions of WoW. This is a currently maintained edition.
- This version was based on Visual Studio 2008, but was never formally released. The last downloadable release was version 2.0 Beta 2, on or around February 11, 2009. This edition is no longer maintained.
- AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft version 1.0
- The original product version 1.0 based on Visual Studio 2005, and was released around the 2007 time frame. This edition is no longer maintained.
Other Editions
For WildStar
AddOn Studio for WildStar is a version of AddOn Studio for the NCSOFT game WildStar.
- The initial Beta release of AddOn Studio for WildStar was May 2017 for testing.
- The initial Beta release of AddOn Studio for WildStar was May 2017 for testing.
Press
- From 2007 Engadget article, AddOn Studio for WoW: [1]
For a big chunk of the gaming population, AddOns are mysterious things you download and hope will run. But for many talented people, they're an opportunity to help the community and make things easier for the rest of us. [...]
Specifically, AddOn Studio will provide an interface that allows AddOn creators to build in familiar surroundings. You'll also have the ability to auto-generate items like the table of contents or lua events. Error checking for FrameXML and Lua parsing also helps to speed the AddOn process up. Likewise, they have included Ace2 templates so you can still tap into one of the most commonly used AddOn libraries and updater systems. [...]
