(maybe weird) new ui-idea, could use some advice

[Kashydan]

Hullo there,
so, after going mentally enrage on my last few raids, i decided to come up with a new interface for myself (and maybe others) that was rather unintrusive, while being versatile, informative and, at the same time, should look fresh. long story short,today after a few rounds of crysis 2, i looked at it's honeycomb-style menuscreen and... it hit me.. honeycombs
so
i want to build a wow user interface based on honeycomb-structures to know what it should look like, i quickly went into photoshop and scrobbled together something that came out like this:


[clicky to enlarge n stuff]

layout explanation as followed:
left side bar is health(green),primary resource(here mana,blue),secondary resource(adjacent in its color,here gold for HP)
lower left side is a roll-out menu for the chat-window
center, from the middle down is target-hp+energy, 5 honeycombs full of skills, with major cooldowns/cd-timers to be embedded at their respective center
top is group-interface, with hp/ressource-bars, menu/bag/stuff buttons adjacent on the right. in raid situations,the group-interface should be replaced with raidframes (reskinned grid maybe? :O )
upper right corner is buffs
i havent decided on a placement for debuffs yet. either next to the player-healthbar ("blossoming up" into some comb-structure to the right, eyecatching and awareness-increasing ) or diagonally down from the top right corner are my 2 top preferences

now the magical question

how do i build this darn thing?
just kiddin (well..not completely)... i happen to stumble accross a few rather big stones, to name them: unit frames.
does anybody here know a Unit-Framework in which you can easily implement custom bars/animations? or will i have to code it all from scratch? :/
i'm thinking about using a lightly modified bartender for the circular skill-combs, and the buffbars shouldnt really be a problem :P
so.. any wizard here with a little advice on what i could maybe try out for those frames,where to start from, or what addon to conquer in the name of glory?

thanks in advance <3
and yeah, i couuuld have just posted this in the ask-it-thread,but i figured that it maybe could turn into a more complex discussion/sorry-could-you-explain-that-again? than just "how do i change the color of the bar?" and so i didnt want to spam the quick-question-quick-answer-thread

[Deleted]

Build an addon i think, though when finished i want the link to dl it

[Deleted]

oUF would be your best bet, though I haven't actually worked with it yet.
A custom ButtonFacade skin should work for Buffs and Bars. If you can't get it to work perfectly, do it yourself instead.

[Herecius]

Very interesting idea. Would love to see some in-progress work once you've got it figured out. oUF is extremely flexible and I'm going to add my vote into that pool.

[ComputerNerd]

Bit out of date, so no idea if it works or not but there is a buttonfacade skin which has amongst its options a hexagonal version.
Buttonfacade Trinity @ Curse.
Buttonfacade is a framework, which given an appropriate skin can restyle compatible buff/debuff displays, and action bars and other addons.
I have yet to see buttonfacade used in a unitframe however, but that is worth looking into for at least some of it.

[Lothanah]

This sounds amazing, would love to see this finished

[Mordret]

Bit out of date, so no idea if it works or not but there is a buttonfacade skin which has amongst its options a hexagonal version.
Buttonfacade Trinity @ Curse.
Buttonfacade is a framework, which given an appropriate skin can restyle compatible buff/debuff displays, and action bars and other addons.
I have yet to see buttonfacade used in a unitframe however, but that is worth looking into for at least some of it.

Button Facade is called Masque now.

[ComputerNerd]

News to me, i'll bear that in mind.

[Deleted]

Nice Idea, like it. Hope to see some cool stuff rollin' out of it.

[Kashydan]

thanks on the feedback so far, i'm tryin to get into oUF right now.. documentation truly is a bitch, a.k.a. nonexistant, but thank the lords of the 7 kingdoms for commented sourcecode