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Power Bars

Version: 0.53 Beta

by: Lulia [More]

Development is on an indefinite hiatus until life can get settled out. If you're an AddOn author and want to see development continue, feel free to contact me.
Author Portal
Please visit my author portal for the latest news and to make feature requests and bug reports. Thank you.

News
1/7/2010: Weekly Update

Current Version
v0.5 BETA
- works with WoW version 4.01

Screen Shots
ChocoGoob > Screen Shots > Power Bars :: Photobucket

Featured Packages:
Images
- Hi-Res Images (Author: Lulia)

AddOn Plugins
None

Next Version
v1.0 BETA
Test version updates here: v1.0 (beta)

- General Changes
Power bars are getting an overhaul. The following features to be added:
Custom image support (0% done)

Text positioning options (0% done)

Text display ("lua" text) customization (0% done)

Color picker support (0% done)

- Class Specific
Death Knights
"Cooldown bars" option (0% done)

Paladins
"Play sound at x HPW" option (0% done)

Rogues
Combo points resource added (0% done)

Druid (feral [cat])
Combo points resource added (0% done)

- Miscellaneous
Script rewrite (20% done)
Power Bars is getting a complete script rewrite, from the ground up. Some features that you may be used to may not exist during the initial release of the new script's "beta" but I will announce any features that I intend to permanently remove.

Known Issues/Bugs
I cannot possibly know all of the bugs that might crop up, and will rely on others reporting bugs to me. For a bug to be listed, I have to be able to confirm it, or receive such evidence that even though I can't reproduce it, I believe it exists.

Current Features
These are the current features in Power Bars. If one of these features isn't working, then there's possibly a bug you need to report. Please see "Known Issues" before reporting a bug however.

Support for Holy Power, Soul Shards, Eclipse Bar, Rune Bar, Mana, Focus, Rage, Energy, and Runic Power
Death Knight Options:
- Optional Rune Timers
  - can use OmniCC instead of default
- Ability to toggle the "square" cooldown frame
- Alternative layout arrangements of runes, including: 2 rows by 3 columns, and horizontal or vertical lines of runes plus the ability to arrange the position of each rune as desired.
- Ability to rescale individual runes.
Paladin Options:
- Ability to throttle Holy Power display to only show when above a certain amount of Holy Power
- Alternative layout arrangements of Holy Power parts including vertical or horizontal and inverted arrangements plus the ability to arrange the position of each level of Holy Power individually as desired.
- Ability to rescale individual Holy Power
Warlock Options:
- Optional special image to notify you if Soulburn is still active
- Alternative layout arrangements of Soul Shards including vertical or horizontal and inverted arrangements plus the ability to arrange the position of each individual Soul Shard as desired.
- Ability to rescale individual Soul Shards
Druid (Balance) Options:
- A "foresee" energy feature similar to what's found in Balance Power Tracker, original idea belongs to Copialinex and credit will be given to him.
- An option to change the opacity of Eclipse if you change into a form other than the humanoid or moonkin forms
- Options to adjust various features of the Eclipse layout. You will be able to move the following: The "bar" along which the arrow moves, the real Eclipse value box and the "virtual" eclipse value box
Support for custom images for Resource systems (Runes, Holy Power, Soul Shard, Eclipse)
Rescalable
Movable
Ability to turn off default Blizzard resource frames
Toggle display of Power or Resource frames
Alter '0 power' image opacity
Saved Variables and Layouts by character
An Out-of-Combat opacity option for Power and Resource frames
A Resource-frame opacity option

License
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3
* Essentially, I don't care if you use parts of this AddOn or all of it. It's free to use and redistribute, and the images are part of that deal. All I want in return is a bit of credit for the work that I do, just as I credit others for the help that they give. A simple link back to this page (if applicable) and a reference to the user Chamenas (or Lulia) is all that is needed. As long as you aren't claiming the work is your own, I'm not terribly bothered.

FAQ

What Is Power Bars?
Power Bars will be a Power & Resource display AddOn. Its purpose will be to offer customizable displays for all Power and Resource systems in the game, this includes (but isn't necessarily limited to): Mana, Rage, Energy, Runic Power, Focus, Eclipse, Holy Power, and Soul Shards.

The frames for these resource systems will be movable, will be offered with various display options "right out of the box" and offer the user the ability to customize them with their own personal images and colors if they so wish.

Why Power Bars?
I'm aware that there are already similar AddOns out there. So you might be asking yourself "Why re-invent the wheel"?. Well, for starters, this is my VERY FIRST AddOn. I've NEVER made one before. Now, I have some experience scripting and coding, but no experience with the WoW API and my Scripting/Coding skills are novice at best. Thus, I have a LOT to learn.

I wanted an AddOn that I could use to personally customize for Holy Power and Soul Shards, since I didn't see any single AddOn out there that did it in such a way as I would have liked. Power Auras did pretty well, but I wanted something a bit better, and something a bit easier to adjust.

However, like most things in life, I really like to share what I make with the world. I didn't want to make a small AddOn that only I would use. I figured: if I'm going to learn how to make AddOns, then I'm going to make AddOns I can share with the community. Thus the origins of Power Bars. The intention of this AddOn is to be an intuitive and easy Power & Resource display management system, offering the user total control and power over how they see their resource and power bars.

Version 0.52 (BETA)
* Made changes to fix a potential issue with 4.1's new implementation of the event COMBAT_LOG_UNFILTERED, the change is intended to make sure the "foresee energy" feature for druids still works

Version 0.51 (BETA)
* Brought up to current WoW version

Version 0.5 (BETA)
* Numerous Script changes
* Changed the Class pages to show only options for player's current Class
* Support added for "foresee" energy for Balance Druids
* Added opacity sliders for Resource textures, Power textures (both main and overlay).
* Added opacity sliders for out of combat for both Resource and Power bars
* Added opacity slider for when Druid is in a different shapeshift form
* Fixed a bug which would cause "Disable power bars" to be checked even if it wasn't active
* Adjusted druid Eclipse text to a more reasonable strata level so it won't overlay on other addon windows
* Added support for a new internal error tracking system
* Changed how the Unlock system works slightly
- Frames can now be moved and rescaled at the same time
- Yellow frames can be both moved and rescaled, green frames can only be moved
- Classes with individual frame elements that can be unlocked may now do so easily from the unlock dialog
- /powb unlock or clicking the unlock button will now unlock the frames, you will need to select the lock button to lock them again
- Power Bars will try to grab smaller frames when they are beneath larger frames and both are unlocked
- Highlighted opacity for the current-focus frame for unlocked frames

Version 0.42 (BETA)
* Fixed a line error when changing specs as druid
* Fixed an error with setting custom aspect ratios for Paladins and Warlocks

Version 0.41 (BETA)
* Fixed runes to properly display rounded numbers for rune cooldowns with haste

Version 0.4 (BETA)
* Added the ability to individually move and rescale frames for multi-frame resource systems such as: Holy Power, Soul Shards and Runes.
* Added support for custom images and custom aspect ratios for custom images
* Added a "Filter" that only shows Holy Power when it's at a certain amount (1, 2 or 3 as set by the user), this is an optional feature. Off by default.
* Added a an option for Warlocks to change their shard images when Soulburn is active. On by default.
* Added an option for Deathknights to turn off "Square" cooldowns. If the cooldowns are turned off, runes will be replaced by darker versions of the rune image.

Version 0.32 (BETA)
* Fixed an issue with Runes being auto-disabled for Death Knights

Version 0.31 (BETA)
* Fixed an issue with Eclipse bars not showing for some players

Version 0.3 (BETA)
* Fixed the edit box for '0 power' opacity
* Added Power bars for: Mana, Runic Power, Focus, Energy, and Rage
* Changed resize controls and made resize based off of a scaling factor
* Fixed reset issues

Version 0.2 (BETA)
* Various script changes
* Added option to disable the resource frame
* Added option to disable Blizzard resource frames
* New images for all the Resource systems
* Added opacity slider for '0 power frame'

Version 0.1 (BETA)
* Added support for Runes
* Added a new Interface panel "Class-Specific Options"
* Runes have an optional timer, you can also turn on OmniCC timers for the runes if you wish.
* New Eclipse bar image
* New slash commands for /powbar
- <panel> "Opens up the corresponding options panel"
- unlock "Opens up the unlock dialog"
- config "Opens up the main interface panel"
- About "Gives general information about the AddOn"

Version 0.03 (ALPHA)
* Added support for Eclipse bars
* Resize now assesses proportion constraint checks after user finishes resizing, causing the frame to scale

Version 0.02 (ALPHA)
* Changed the background texture for movable frames
* Added a Resize option
* Added the ability to restore defaults for size and location
* Changed Move and Resize toggles to a separate dialog toggle, opened in the Interface panel (General Options)
* Added Saved Variables and Layouts, separated by characters

Version 0.01b (ALPHA)
* Added Power Bars logo to the Interface Panel
* Added "Introduction" text section to the Interface panel
* Added "toggle '0 power' frame" to the Interface panel (General Options)

Optional Files (1)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date	Type
Hi-Res Images	v1.0	1MB	Lulia	11-09-10 06:42 PM	Addon

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12-24-10, 04:35 AM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Originally posted by 6eyki
1st. You brought the attention on yourself with this awesome AddOn.
2nd. Going for combo points with numbers is wrong approach in my opinion.
3rd. The tracking for rogue's energy is kinda..unfinished. It delivers it in phases and not very equal at that instead of smooth steady rise. It'd be nice if you looked into that, or is it in 0.7?

You should notice that mana, rage, energy, runic power and focus all have the same issue in that it updates in "chunks" as opposed to a smooth steady rise. This is somewhat intentional, as the alternative is significantly more CPU intensive.

I could add an alternative option though, so you could use the more CPU intensive one to get smoother updates or, if you're worried about CPU usage you can use the "chunkier" one.

In any case, what I said about versions earlier is probably changing. I may end up wrapping updates from 0.6 and 0.7 into a push for v1.0 and simply begin work on that release version now.

12-24-10, 03:42 AM
6eyki A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	1st. You brought the attention on yourself with this awesome AddOn. 2nd. Going for combo points with numbers is wrong approach in my opinion. 3rd. The tracking for rogue's energy is kinda..unfinished. It delivers it in phases and not very equal at that instead of smooth steady rise. It'd be nice if you looked into that, or is it in 0.7?

12-23-10, 04:15 PM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Re: Vote in favor of adding Combo Points . . .

Originally posted by ysrafel
I truly appreciate your addon, I think it is the best for the items you have selected to display.

I would like to put in a vote in favor for your addon to also display Combo Points.

I believe then this addon would truly be complete. I will understand if you have misgivings about adding anything, but I figured I should post a vote anyway . . .

Thank you for your hard work on this addon.

Right now here's the tentative plan:

v0.6: Power Bar changes, this will include numerous changes to power bar functionality, keep checking the AddOn info box for more information on specific changes and if any "beta"s of the beta go up.
v0.7: Combo points added, Vengeance tracking added, a few new options for existing resource systems.
...
v1.0

I'm still iffy on whether or not I want to do the Vengeance stuff as well, or if I even can, but I'm considering it at least. As far as Combo points go, I will try to add them in v0.7. I'm not sure how much, feature-wise I will add for combo points and I'm sort of looking for community feedback on what would be useful (within reason) to add to a combo points feature. Right now, visually, I'm thinking of keeping it simple with numbers, but may add options later for a more aesthetic approach to combo points display, similar to how other resource systems work.

After v0.7, barring anything else major needing to be added, I will work towards pushing towards a v1.0. What does this mean for you guys? Well, it won't see any major differences functionally between v0.7 and v1.0, however I will probably looking at small, minor things I can do to make it run better, and a few options I can add. The effective difference is that I'd like to begin work on a new AddOn, and that, going forward, changes to Power Bars will come in smaller doses, focused on suggestions from you guys.

Before v0.6 happens I'm planning on possibly streamlining the script quite a bit, so it might take awhile before you actually see a "beta" for 0.6 go up with new features that you can test. The reason I'm doing this is because I'm hoping to learn techniques and coding practices that will help make adding things easier, and thus allow me to do the actual coding of v0.6 and v0.7 much faster.

Thank you for your patience, I'm humbled that people do enjoy and use this AddOn and I hope that you guys will continue to do so and share it with your friends.

12-22-10, 10:42 AM
ysrafel A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	Vote in favor of adding Combo Points . . . I truly appreciate your addon, I think it is the best for the items you have selected to display. I would like to put in a vote in favor for your addon to also display Combo Points. I believe then this addon would truly be complete. I will understand if you have misgivings about adding anything, but I figured I should post a vote anyway . . . Thank you for your hard work on this addon.

12-17-10, 12:46 PM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Originally posted by renerie
Is there a way to change the height?
I like the lenght but its a bit fat for my liking.
Thanks

You can use the Aspect Ratios section under Custom. It's intended for custom images but can work for default images as well if you wish to adjust them.

12-16-10, 07:54 PM
renerie A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 21 Uploads: 0	Is there a way to change the height? I like the lenght but its a bit fat for my liking. Thanks

12-10-10, 04:59 PM

6eyki

A Kobold Labourer

Forum posts: 0

File comments: 18

Uploads: 0

Originally posted by Lulia
Moves fine for me. Try deleting the settings file for your character. It's not the optimal move, but I suppose that something might be screwed up with your settings file.

WTF -> Account -> <Account Name> -> <Realm> -> <Character> -> Saved Variables -> PowerBars.lua (and PowerBars.lua.bak)

Delete both files and then see if it works.

That worked. Thanks.

12-09-10, 02:49 PM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Originally posted by 6eyki
There is something wrong after the update. The number is now fine with the layers but the arrow barely moves, so when in an eclipse state it's only ~10% from the middle marker. In both directions. =\

Moves fine for me. Try deleting the settings file for your character. It's not the optimal move, but I suppose that something might be screwed up with your settings file.

WTF -> Account -> <Account Name> -> <Realm> -> <Character> -> Saved Variables -> PowerBars.lua (and PowerBars.lua.bak)

Delete both files and then see if it works.

12-09-10, 11:31 AM
6eyki A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	There is something wrong after the update. The number is now fine with the layers but the arrow barely moves, so when in an eclipse state it's only ~10% from the middle marker. In both directions. =\

11-28-10, 09:36 AM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Originally posted by 6eyki
Only 10% done in the Final bug testing. I want the next version as fast as possible.

Edit: Just noticed the vertical eclipse screen-shot(thanks for making it happen ). But wouldn't it be better if you flipped the moon to match such layout as well?

Edit 2(yeah i forget stuff): About the combo points maybe you should just use all the 3 suggestions that you made for the sake of choice.

Yeah, despite seeming rather small feature-wise, this has actually been the largest update I've done yet (and v0.4 was the largest before that). Couple those things with a desperate job search (if I don't find one soon, I won't be able to make addons for much longer!) and it's been hectic trying to get this one out, but it could easily be another week before it's realized.

My hope is to get this out before Cataclysm drops, but it might not hit until after. Once the version is complete though I'll be taking a short break to focus on my characters and getting them ready after Cataclsym, just in case I'm forced to take that necessary hiatus while I look for a job.

The moon has been flipped accordingly, just thank Blizzard that I hate their texture Rotation feature and made a new texture instead of rotating the old one or it wouldn't have been possible.

As far as combo points. I'm still deciding at the moment. If I did do it, it wouldn't happen until v0.7 which would be somewhat into Cataclysm at that point. I'll briefly go over my thoughts so that it makes sense (hopefully):

Technically Power Bars is still in a beta stage. It's working and has many features, but it's not where I envision the "release" version to be and thus it's not yet hit version 1.0. I had hoped to release a version 1.0 of the AddOn before Cataclysm, but I now know that that won't happen. Still, the priority is to get to version 1.0 as quickly as I can without sacrificing quality, stability, or my own personal sanity.

What do I require to make it to v1.0? I wanted a sort of "complete" list of features for each resource system that I included. When version 0.5 is done, that will be completed. I also wanted a "complete" list of features for the power bars (mana, energy, rage, runic power, focus...). With v0.6 complete that will be done. So, technically, after v0.6 is fully bug-tested I would be at a place where I would feel safe making the release version of v1.0 and hopefully spreading the word enough that more and more people download it, like it, and use it.

If I add combo points, that's yet another resource system to put in, as well as a list of options I'll need to add, which pushes back when I "release" it a bit further. However, people do seem to want this feature, which is a vastly gratifying feeling that they would like to use this AddOn on more of their characters. The ultimate intention of Power Bars is that you can have all of the resource management systems combined in one AddOn for all of your characters. It's an extremely ambitious plan, especially for a first AddOn, but I like ambitious plans.

I'm not without options. I could go to a release version and make combo points, etc... an update to the release. The problem with that is that people may see Power Bars as something which doesn't deal with combo points and thus never use it for that and decide not to take a look at it. So, at present, I'm still deciding. Chances are that I will add combo points, so the question just becomes a 'when' as opposed to an 'if'.

Also, a quick note on "complete", by a "complete" list, I mean a list which covers a good portion of the things users would want to manage their resource with. Obviously people may have suggestions in the future and I'm inclined to add them if they're reasonable.

In any case, that's some of my thinking, hopefully it makes sense. Thanks for using the AddOn and supporting me thus far. Tell your friends, spread the love! Hopefully plenty of you are excited for v0.5, it's definitely close!

11-28-10, 04:12 AM
6eyki A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	Only 10% done in the Final bug testing. I want the next version as fast as possible. Edit: Just noticed the vertical eclipse screen-shot(thanks for making it happen ). But wouldn't it be better if you flipped the moon to match such layout as well? Edit 2(yeah i forget stuff): About the combo points maybe you should just use all the 3 suggestions that you made for the sake of choice. Last edited by 6eyki : 11-28-10 at 04:20 AM.

11-23-10, 02:02 PM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Re: Awesome addon

Originally posted by nydgirl
I really love this addon... I don't suppose you have considered adding a combo points feature for rogues/drood cats/MW shammys and the like?

There's been a few requests for it, but I don't yet have specific plans for it. Still, it's an option I'm considering. One of the main problems is I don't have any Rogues, Feral Druids or... Enhancement? Shamans to work with to test it out on those various classes. I don't have a Balance druid though, and I managed to work on an Eclipse bar (leveled a druid to 10 and also used a premade on the PTR) so it's certainly doable with some work.

What would people want to see in a combo points addition to the AddOn? A bar? Straight up numbers? Or the sort of fancy image distinction that makes this AddOn "different"?

11-23-10, 07:12 AM
nydgirl A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 10 Uploads: 0	Awesome addon I really love this addon... I don't suppose you have considered adding a combo points feature for rogues/drood cats/MW shammys and the like?

11-19-10, 07:04 AM

Chamenas

Premium Member

Forum posts: 14

File comments: 43

Uploads: 4

Originally posted by 6eyki
Oh and another idea for the Eclipse bar. In my case i use IceHUD and it's kinda hard fitting the bar with it. If you can add in your to-do list for 0.5 an option where you can make the bar vertical you'll be priceless.

I'll certainly look into it. I've just finished the "foresee" energy stuff but am playing around with possible ideas to be implemented based on it as well as fixing little kinks in the system for it. I had to make a premade on the PTR to do that testing though and since it might be going away soon I should probably focus on that stuff before considering other things which can be tested on my lvl 10 alt.

Certainly keep the ideas coming though. It helps motivate me to continue adding more!

11-18-10, 05:36 AM
6eyki A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	Oh and another idea for the Eclipse bar. In my case i use IceHUD and it's kinda hard fitting the bar with it. If you can add in your to-do list for 0.5 an option where you can make the bar vertical you'll be priceless.

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