Ask it! UI/Mods Edition

[Jeremypwnz]

I love you. Works perfectly, and I found the spacing setting. Never knew it was there. lol

[TellyTop]

You're welcome. It was a pain for me to figure out how to get a border on those bars about a year ago. Had to read through an old forum somewhere to figure it out, and I'm happy you don't have to do that now

[broodax]

I have a couple of goals for chat frames:

-I play on multiple machines, so I'd like to disable server-side config saving if possible (chatter claims to do this)
-I want to manually edit whatever lua or config is necessary to get exact placement
-I need all the standard functionality of an addon like Prat or Chatter, i.e. edit box placement, removal of buttons, ability to move window to the edge of the screen, etc.

But I have some issues:

-My chat-cache does not behave at all like expected. Sometimes the game saves no information to it at all when I logout and exit the game. Sometimes the game loads the config, but sometimes it seems to reset to the server-side config.
-Chatter sometimes completely forgets the previous config and reverts.
-The addon Een's Chat saver (... exact name not remembered) would allow me to continue using server side positioning, and just load a config each time. This is clunky, however, I'm not sure if it would play nice with Chatter/Prat, and I don't know the syntax of its saved variables, so I'm not sure how to edit them manually.

Anyone who's had success with this type of issue?

I've tried setting synchronizeSettings - which I suppose might help the specific issue, but A) Isn't really an option because I don't want to manage macros and bindings on multiple machines, and B) doesn't solve my more important problem - that I want to be able to manually adjust things - when I tried this the game didn't even save anything in chat-cache for me to change.

[Deleted]

Anyone around that knows how to hide the equipborder in blizzards original ui?

Thanks in advance!

[Quarla]

I've seen this on a few different European UIs lately and I tried to find out what mod it was but I wasn't easily able to. So here I am going to ask! In this video it shows the crit percentage at the bottom left. So.. what is this addon? Oh, and while I'm here I should ask what his player/boss bars are too (the one at the bottom middle area) if anyone happens to know? It's a pretty sleek UI and I'm totally digging it.

Here's the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NT0VwKjY2M

[Greevir]

I've seen this on a few different European UIs lately and I tried to find out what mod it was but I wasn't easily able to. So here I am going to ask! In this video it shows the crit percentage at the bottom left. So.. what is this addon? Oh, and while I'm here I should ask what his player/boss bars are too (the one at the bottom middle area) if anyone happens to know? It's a pretty sleek UI and I'm totally digging it.

Here's the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NT0VwKjY2M

That looks like a modified ElvUI. http://tukui.org/dl.php

[Quarla]

That looks like a modified ElvUI. http://tukui.org/dl.php

Oh, well that's unfortunate if I can't run it without the rest of ElvUi. That UI really doesn't like the resolution I run at last time I tried to fiddle with it. :/ I really liked that crit percentage thing too!

[Greevir]

Oh, well that's unfortunate if I can't run it without the rest of ElvUi. That UI really doesn't like the resolution I run at last time I tried to fiddle with it. :/ I really liked that crit percentage thing too!

Both of the things you mentioned can be easily imitated through other addons. The crit % thing can be done by many broker display addons and the unit frames can be done by addons such as Stuf.

[Balyn]

Yo! Just got myself this UI: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...-SkaarjUI.html
I'd like to add something though and I have close to none experience with LUA.

The UI are using caelNamePlates and I'd like to add my Debuffs up over them, like ElvUI/TidyPlates. So my question is, how could I fix this?
I've been looking trough the code but I can't really find anything with "debuff(s)".
I'm not sure if this is a big thing to do or not, and if it is, well it's not as important I presume, but I'd really love to have it.

local _, caelNameplates = ...

caelNameplates.eventFrame = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)

local mediaPath = "Interface\\AddOns\\Media\\"
local barTexture = mediaPath.."texture"
local glowTex = mediaPath.."glowTex"
local raidIcons = mediaPath.."raidicons"
local overlayTexture = [=[Interface\Tooltips\Nameplate-Border]=]
local font, fontSize, fontOutline = mediaPath.. "pixel.ttf", 5, "Outlinemonochrome"

local backdrop = {
    bgFile = [=[Interface\ChatFrame\ChatFrameBackground]=],
	edgeFile = glowTex, edgeSize = 2,
	insets = {left = 2, right = 2, top = 2, bottom = 2}
}

local UpdateTime = function(self, curValue)
    local minValue, maxValue = self:GetMinMaxValues()
    if self.channeling then
        self.time:SetFormattedText("%.1f ", curValue)
    else
        self.time:SetFormattedText("%.1f ", maxValue - curValue)
    end
end

local ThreatUpdate = function(self, elapsed)
    self.elapsed = self.elapsed + elapsed
    if self.elapsed >= 0.2 then
        if not self.oldglow:IsShown() then
            self.healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)
        else
            local r, g, b = self.oldglow:GetVertexColor()
            if g + b == 0 then
                self.healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(1, 0, 0)
            else
                self.healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(1, 1, 0)
            end
        end

        self.healthBar:SetStatusBarColor(self.r, self.g, self.b)
		
        self.elapsed = 0
    end
end

local UpdatePlate = function(self)
    -- Reset text color just in case
    self.name:SetTextColor(0.84, 0.75, 0.65)
	
    local r, g, b = self.healthBar:GetStatusBarColor()
    local newr, newg, newb
    if g + b == 0 then
        -- Hostile unit
        newr, newg, newb = 0.69, 0.31, 0.31
    elseif r + b == 0 then
        -- Friendly unit
        newr, newg, newb = 0.33, 0.59, 0.33
    elseif r + g == 0 then
        -- Friendly player
        newr, newg, newb = 0.31, 0.45, 0.63
    elseif 2 - (r + g) < 0.05 and b == 0 then
        -- Neutral unit
        newr, newg, newb = 0.65, 0.63, 0.35
    else
        -- Hostile player - class colored.
        newr, newg, newb = r, g, b
        self.name:SetTextColor(r, g, b)
    end

    self.healthBar:SetStatusBarColor(newr, newg, newb)

    self.r, self.g, self.b = newr, newg, newb

    self.healthBar:ClearAllPoints()
    self.healthBar:SetPoint("BOTTOM", self.healthBar:GetParent(), "BOTTOM")
    self.healthBar:SetHeight(8)
    self.healthBar:SetWidth(100)

    self.healthBar.hpBackground:SetVertexColor(self.r * 0.33, self.g * 0.33, self.b * 0.33, 1)

    self.castBar:ClearAllPoints()
    self.castBar:SetPoint("TOP", self.healthBar, "BOTTOM", 0, -4)
    self.castBar:SetHeight(5)
    self.castBar:SetWidth(100)

    self.highlight:ClearAllPoints()
    self.highlight:SetAllPoints(self.healthBar)

    local oldName = self.oldname:GetText()
    local newName = (string.len(oldName) > 25) and string.gsub(oldName, "%s?(.[\128-\191]*)%S+%s", "%1. ") or oldName -- "%s?(.)%S+%s"

    self.name:SetText(newName)

    local level, elite, mylevel = tonumber(self.level:GetText()), self.elite:IsShown(), UnitLevel("player")
    self.level:ClearAllPoints()
    self.level:SetPoint("RIGHT", self.healthBar, "LEFT", 0, 0)
    if self.boss:IsShown() then
        self.level:SetText("??")
        self.level:SetTextColor(0.8, 0.05, 0)
        self.level:Show()
    elseif not elite and (mylevel == MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL and level == mylevel) then
        self.level:Hide()
    else
        self.level:SetText(level..(elite and "+" or ""))
    end
end

local FixCastbar = function(self)
    self.castbarOverlay:Hide()
    self:SetHeight(5)
    self:ClearAllPoints()
    self:SetPoint("TOP", self.healthBar, "BOTTOM", 0, -4)
end

local ColorCastBar = function(self, shielded)
    if shielded then
        self:SetStatusBarColor(1, .9, .4)
    else
        self:SetStatusBarColor(0, 0.7, 1)
    end
end

local OnSizeChanged = function(self)
    self.needFix = true
end

local OnValueChanged = function(self, curValue)
    UpdateTime(self, curValue)
    if self.needFix then
        FixCastbar(self)
        self.needFix = nil
    end
end

local OnShow = function(self)
    self.channeling  = UnitChannelInfo("target")
    FixCastbar(self)
    ColorCastBar(self, self.shieldedRegion:IsShown())
end

local OnHide = function(self)
    self.highlight:Hide()
    self.healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)
end

local OnEvent = function(self, event, unit)
    if unit == "target" then
        if self:IsShown() then
            ColorCastBar(self, event == "UNIT_SPELLCAST_NOT_INTERRUPTIBLE")
        end
    end
end

local CreatePlate = function(frame)
    if frame.done then
        return
    end

	frame.nameplate = true

    frame.healthBar, frame.castBar = frame:GetChildren()
    local healthBar, castBar = frame.healthBar, frame.castBar
    
    local glowRegion, overlayRegion, highlightRegion, nameTextRegion, levelTextRegion, bossIconRegion, raidIconRegion, stateIconRegion = frame:GetRegions()
    local _, castbarOverlay, shieldedRegion, spellIconRegion = castBar:GetRegions()

    frame.oldname = nameTextRegion
    nameTextRegion:Hide()

	frame.name = frame:CreateFontString()
	frame.name:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", healthBar, "TOPLEFT")
	frame.name:SetFont(font, fontSize, fontOutline)
	frame.name:SetTextColor(0.84, 0.75, 0.65)
	frame.name:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)

	frame.level = levelTextRegion
	levelTextRegion:SetFont(font, fontSize, fontOutline)
	levelTextRegion:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)

	healthBar:SetStatusBarTexture(barTexture)

	healthBar.hpBackground = healthBar:CreateTexture(nil, "BACKGROUND")
	healthBar.hpBackground:SetAllPoints()
	healthBar.hpBackground:SetTexture(barTexture)

	healthBar.hpGlow = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, healthBar)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetFrameLevel(healthBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 > 0 and healthBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 or 0)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", healthBar, "TOPLEFT", -2, 2)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", healthBar, "BOTTOMRIGHT", 2, -2)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdrop(backdrop)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropColor(0, 0, 0, 0)
	healthBar.hpGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)

	castBar.castbarOverlay = castbarOverlay
	castBar.healthBar = healthBar
	castBar.shieldedRegion = shieldedRegion
	castBar:SetStatusBarTexture(barTexture)

	castBar:HookScript("OnShow", OnShow)
	castBar:HookScript("OnSizeChanged", OnSizeChanged)
	castBar:HookScript("OnValueChanged", OnValueChanged)
	castBar:HookScript("OnEvent", OnEvent)
	castBar:RegisterEvent("UNIT_SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTIBLE")
	castBar:RegisterEvent("UNIT_SPELLCAST_NOT_INTERRUPTIBLE")

	castBar.time = castBar:CreateFontString(nil, "ARTWORK")
	castBar.time:SetPoint("RIGHT", castBar, "LEFT", -2, 0)
	castBar.time:SetFont(font, fontSize, fontOutline)
	castBar.time:SetTextColor(0.84, 0.75, 0.65)
	castBar.time:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)

	castBar.cbBackground = castBar:CreateTexture(nil, "BACKGROUND")
	castBar.cbBackground:SetAllPoints()
	castBar.cbBackground:SetTexture(barTexture)
	castBar.cbBackground:SetVertexColor(0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 1)

	castBar.cbGlow = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, castBar)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetFrameLevel(castBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 > 0 and castBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 or 0)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", castBar, -2, 2)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", castBar, 2, -2)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetBackdrop(backdrop)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetBackdropColor(0, 0, 0, 0)
	castBar.cbGlow:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)

	castBar.HolderA = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, castBar)
	castBar.HolderA:SetFrameLevel(castBar.HolderA:GetFrameLevel() + 1)
	castBar.HolderA:SetAllPoints()

	spellIconRegion:ClearAllPoints()
	spellIconRegion:SetParent(castBar.HolderA)
	spellIconRegion:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", castBar, "BOTTOMRIGHT", 3, 0)
	spellIconRegion:SetSize(17, 17)
	spellIconRegion:SetTexCoord(.07, .93, .07, .93)
	
	spellIconRegion.Background = castBar:CreateTexture(nil, "BACKGROUND")
	spellIconRegion.Background:SetAllPoints()
	spellIconRegion.Background:SetTexture(barTexture)
	spellIconRegion.Background:SetVertexColor(0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 1)
	
	spellIconRegion.Glow = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, castBar)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetFrameLevel(castBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 > 0 and castBar:GetFrameLevel() -1 or 0)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", spellIconRegion, -2, 2)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", spellIconRegion, 2, -2)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetBackdrop(backdrop)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetBackdropColor(0, 0, 0, 0)
	spellIconRegion.Glow:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)

	castBar.HolderB = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, castBar)
	castBar.HolderB:SetFrameLevel(castBar.HolderA:GetFrameLevel() + 2)
	castBar.HolderB:SetAllPoints()

	highlightRegion:SetTexture(barTexture)
	highlightRegion:SetVertexColor(0.25, 0.25, 0.25)
	frame.highlight = highlightRegion

	raidIconRegion:ClearAllPoints()
	raidIconRegion:SetPoint("RIGHT", healthBar, -8, 0)
	raidIconRegion:SetSize(20, 20)
	raidIconRegion:SetTexture(raidIcons)	

	frame.oldglow = glowRegion
	frame.elite = stateIconRegion
	frame.boss = bossIconRegion

	frame.done = true

	glowRegion:SetTexture(nil)
	overlayRegion:SetTexture(nil)
	shieldedRegion:SetTexture(nil)
	castbarOverlay:SetTexture(nil)
	stateIconRegion:SetTexture(nil)
	bossIconRegion:SetTexture(nil)

	UpdatePlate(frame)
	frame:SetScript("OnShow", UpdatePlate)
	frame:SetScript("OnHide", OnHide)

	frame.elapsed = 0
	frame:SetScript("OnUpdate", ThreatUpdate)
end

local numKids = 0
local lastUpdate = 0
caelNameplates.eventFrame:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, elapsed)
    lastUpdate = lastUpdate + elapsed

    if lastUpdate > 0.1 then
        lastUpdate = 0

        local newNumKids = WorldFrame:GetNumChildren()
        if newNumKids ~= numKids then
            for i = numKids + 1, newNumKids do
                local frame = select(i, WorldFrame:GetChildren())

                if (frame:GetName() and frame:GetName():find("NamePlate%d")) then
                    CreatePlate(frame)
                end
            end
            numKids = newNumKids
        end
    end
end)

[Deleted]

Hello.

I'm posting from work so dont have the luxury of time to stroll through the UI thread, but I was wondering if someone could remember right of the bat, if there's an ui compilation available for UI shown in this youtube video: /watch?v=xw6cQVHShEY&feature=g-upl

[Deleted]

Is there a debuff addon that would allow to customize where it shows debuff depending on which one it is?

Ex: debuffs from bosses more in the middle of the screen, but leaving satiated and mass rez debuff smaller and on the far right.

[Hakto]

I use Dominos for my action bars and also fader to change colour of the bars when out of melee range, however I've noticed too many times recently that it wont be faded indicating I am theoretically in range but I'm not, is there any way to play a sound when you try and use an ability but you are not in range?

[Millen91]

Hi

Just watched the Blood Legion Empress Shek'zeer World first and there is an addon to the left, tracking all raid cooldowns. Any1 know the name of it?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=8TqC52YnHcM

[Deleted]

I think it's BLRaidCooldowns. But last time I tested it, I had some errors. I'm interested in a properly working version.

[Khadjid]

I don't think this has any numbers for you, but you'd get a bar at least.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gcd

I'm curious about what exactly prevents you as a melee dps in using a cast bar addon? Does your melee weapon stop working?

[Chickensoup23]

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gui-v3#t1:description

In this, if you look closely in the 3rd picture, in the UI, to the left there are raid frames. How can I get something similar?

[abni]

Hello,

I'm looking to make a very minimalistic interface, do you have some advice to do so ?

I'll probably use :

Bartender4
Chatter
Masque + skin (low opacity to have a clean ui ?)
OUf (raid + player/target frames) is it a good idea ?
DeadlyBossMod (Or Bigwigs or the other one (is it VOX or something))
one minimap addon (if you have suggestion)

If you have any idea to have a more minimalistic ui, tell some addons names

Thanks in advance..

[Deleted]

If you want a lightweight one
Bartender4-->http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ctionBars.html
chatter-->http://www.wowinterface.com/download...319-rChat.html
Masque + skin-->any from these http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/search.php
OUf (raid + player/target frames)-->best out there!
DeadlyBossMod (Or Bigwigs or the other one (is it VOX or something))-->BW was better during T11 and T12.
For T13 DBM had better timers,while for this Tier i think i am gonna swap to BW again(even tho on hc spirit kings DBM was updated sooner than BW).
one minimap addon (if you have suggestion)-->many out there
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...5-QuseMap.html
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...map3.html#info
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...-bMinimap.html
Additionally:
You could check these:
Textures:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...89-Aurora.html
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...atch5.0.4.html
Raid frames:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/compactraid
Stats/Autorepair/Autosell gray items:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ttooStats.html
Scrolling Combat Text:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...18053-xCT.html
Raid cd tracking:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/ora3
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...dCDs.html#info
Personal cd tracking:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/clctracker
Damage Meter:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...0-TinyDPS.html
Tooltip:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...93-TipTac.html
Castbars:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/castbars
Nameplates:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ameplates.html
Power bar:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/betterpowerbaralt
Cooldown Count:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tullacc

[abni]

Thanks a lot Louna, this will help me a lot !

(Textures looks very nice.) I'll post my UI when it's done (maybe tonight)

[Deleted]

Hi there,

I was wondering if there is an addon that shows the swing timer for auto attacks? I know Quartz does it for abilities but I don't think it does for auto attacks.

My reason for wanting to track this is this: I seem to have rather lower DPS than I think I should, and when I look at other rogues' logs with similar gear/boss kill time, my Melee damage is usually lower than theres (yes I have /startattack in everything) and my poison damage is usually lower too (yes I pool). Heres a log: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/r...=10492&e=10836

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Mutix