Addon Installation Tutorial

Prepare Folder Permissions

  1. Navigate to your Windower installation (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Windower4). Right-click the Windower4 folder, and then click "Properties".
  2. Click on the "Security" tab on the top, then click the "Edit..." button.
  3. Click the "Users" group name, then click the box under "Allow" for "Full control".
  4. Click "OK".
  5. Click "OK" again. It is now possible to edit files in the Windower folder without being an administrator. This will be important later when we are editing addon files.

Download Addon Files

  1. Click this link to visit Lorand's page on GitHub.
  2. Click on the "addons" repository to find my smaller addons.
  3. For this example, we'll install the StratagemCounter addon. Click the StratagemCounter folder.
  4. This one only contains one file. Click on it.
  5. Click the "Raw" button to see the raw file. GitHub's default view adds some formatting and line numbers.
  6. On the raw view, right-click on a spot on the page, and choose "Save Page As..."
  7. We'll save it in the Downloads folder.

Move Addon Files to the Proper Location

  1. Open Windows Explorer (double-click on Computer on your desktop), and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windower4\addons. Right-click on the addons folder, and choose "New" then "Folder".
  2. Name the new folder "StratagemCounter", to match the name of the main lua file that we downloaded for this addon.
  3. After typing the name, hit [Enter] on your keyboard to save the new name.
  4. Navigate to your Downloads folder, and copy the StratagemCounter.lua file that we downloaded earlier.
  5. Navigate back to the folder that we created for it, and paste it inside.
  6. The file should now be in ..\Windower4\addons\ in a folder with the same name as the addon's main lua file. For addons that include multiple files, those other files go in the same folder.
  7. To reiterate, when installing the StratagemCounter addon, its final location should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Windower4\addons\StratagemCounter\StratagemCounter.lua
  8. In FFXI, you can load StratagemCounter by typing (no quotes) "//lua load stratagemcounter", and you can unload it by typing "//lua unload stratagemcounter".