![]() ![]() The healthbar was the main feature of the OTM mod – at least for iBat. ![]() This included for example the health bar, which at that point was not implemented into World of Tanks yet. OTM means Over Target Markers and it changes the icons of the tanks (the class, hitpoints etc.) to other ones, created by players. That drove him to try various mods (including UI-changing mods) but he wasn’t satisfied and deleted all the mods after one battle until he ran into the OTM mod. The author of the post (nickname is iBat it seems, the habr blog is really bad in not showing the author identity without manual signature) stated that he started with mods as early as 2011, when he found World of Tanks and learned about the existence of mods for it in the first place. Also, if some of the technical stuff could be translated or expressed better, feel free to let me know. I will not be translating the entire entry literally – instead, I will make it a bit more compact to make sense. One of the reasons this is posted in the WG programming blog is the fact that XVM developers and WG “buried the hatchet” and started cooperating more. You might have heard about the Wargaming developer contest and these guys decided to participate in it as well, but they also decided to write series of posts about how one of the most popular WoT mods in the world came to be. Recently, there was a Wargaming programming blog entry by the developers of the very popular XVM mod on how the mod was actually created. ![]()
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