Forever Addons

Forever Speed

A speedometer for your movement speed: a gauge with a sweeping needle, km/h and the percentage of run speed, five designs.

v0.6.0 Free WoW Forever

Download on CurseForge How to install

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Forever Speed: Overview
Overview

What it does

How fast are you, really? Forever Speed puts a speedometer on your screen: a round gauge with a needle that sweeps to your current speed, big digits and the percentage of the normal run speed. Compare running, Plainsrunning, mounts, sprint, slows and trinkets at a glance.

  • km/h, yd/s or % only. Running is shown as 13 km/h by default, and everything else scales with it (/fspeed run 15 changes that).
  • Colours that tell you something: the reading is orange when you are slowed and green when you are faster than running.
  • The scale fits your unit: 0 to 200 % of the run speed by default, /fspeed max <percent> for fast mounts.

Five designs

Design Look
Classic dark face, gold rim
Chrome ivory face, silver rim
Neon black face, glowing cyan
Minimal only the ticks and the needle, the world shows through
Azeroth a riveted gold rim like the game UI, a stone face and a sword for the needle

Or switch to a single line of text (/fspeed text) if you want it small.

Options

/fspeed, or a right click on the minimap button, opens the options in the game's AddOns settings:

  • show or hide the speedometer, and hide it in combat (it comes back when the fight is over);
  • the minimap button (a click shows or hides the gauge; drag it around the minimap);
  • lock the position so clicks go through;
  • gauge or text line, the design and the unit;
  • sliders for the size (50–300 %) and the opacity (10–100 %).

Drag the gauge to move it. Everything is saved per account.

Commands

Command What it does
/fspeed or /fspeed options open the options and list the commands
/fspeed design classic \| chrome \| neon \| minimal \| azeroth choose the design
/fspeed gauge / /fspeed text the gauge or a single line
/fspeed kmh \| yards \| percent the unit
/fspeed size <50-300> / /fspeed opacity <10-100> size and opacity in percent
/fspeed max <110-1000> the end of the scale, in % of the run speed
/fspeed run <km/h> what running is shown as
/fspeed combat on \| off hide in combat
/fspeed minimap on \| off the minimap button
/fspeed lock / unlock / reset lock, unlock or reset the position
/fspeed hide / show hide or show the speedometer

Good to know

  • In combat the game hides your speed from addons on Forever; the gauge then shows "-" until it can read it again.
  • Made for the Forever client (Interface 16001); it also loads on the 1.12.1 client, where the speed is measured from your position on the map.

Changelog

0.6.0 current

Features

  • Three digital displays beside the round gauges: LCD (grey-green, dark digits), LED (black glass, glowing amber) and HUD (glowing digits, the world shows through). Seven-segment digits with the unlit segments faintly visible, and a bar of 20 segments with a mark at your run speed instead of the needle. /fspeed design lcd|led|hud or the options panel.
0.5.0

Features

  • The options panel has sliders for the gauge size (50–300 %) and the opacity (10–100 %); /fspeed opacity <10-100> does the same from chat and is kept for the next login.
  • A fifth gauge design, Azeroth (/fspeed design azeroth): a riveted gold rim like the classic game UI, a dark stone face, gold ticks and a sword for the needle.
0.4.0

Features

  • An options panel in the game's AddOns settings (a window of its own on the 1.12 client), opened with /fspeed, /fspeed options or a right click on the new minimap button. "Hide it in combat" (/fspeed combat on) hides the gauge while you fight and brings it back afterwards. Four gauge designs to choose from: Classic, Chrome (ivory face, silver rim), Neon (glowing cyan) and Minimal (ticks only); /fspeed design <name>. The minimap button shows or hides the speedometer with a click and can be dragged around the minimap; /fspeed minimap off hides it. Not yet checked in game.

Changes

  • /fspeed hide is remembered after a reload or relog; /fspeed alone opens the options and lists the commands.
0.3.2

Bug fixes

  • No more Lua error in combat on Forever, where the game hides your speed from addons; the gauge shows "-" and "hidden in combat" until the speed is readable again.
0.3.1

Bug fixes

  • /fspeed size keeps the gauge where it was on screen instead of moving it away; the gauge stays on screen when dragged.

Help and feedback

Questions, bugs and ideas are welcome on the Forever Addons Discord: #help for setting it up, #bug-reports when something is broken (the addon version and the error text help a lot), #feature-requests for ideas.