Moving the default Blizzard floating combat text

[oopsminded]

This is from a green post on the WoW UI&Macros forums:

To set the record straight: The floating combat text that appears over other characters or mobs is handled through the 3D world, but the floating combat text over your own character is a frame provided by a Blizzard add-on and can be relocated.

1. what add-ons out there are doing this, and this only, if possible?

2. if you don't know of any, do you know what the name of this frame actually is, so maybe a script or small add-on could be made?

3. I ended it up asking here after googling and looking through a lot of the Combat Text add-ons out there; I've seen a lot of people asking for 2 things about the default floating combat text - "how to make it smaller" and "how to move it" without changing anything else. Well, I can tell you, after trying very many of them, that there is one that changes the default combat's text font and size without pixelating, distorting it - Blizzard SCT Font Size Control.

So now, anyone that can help me - and others like me - with the moving part?

Thanks a lot.

disclaimer: this is all about the default Blizzard scrolling/floating combat text, NOT about the floating damage font on top of the mobs/players you attack/heal

[voodoodad]

Mikscrollingbattletext
Sct + Sctd

among others.

[oopsminded]

Sigh... no, they are not moving that frame; those add-ons disable Blizzard's default combat text and then create some scrolling combat text frames of their own.

As their descriptions clearly point it out, they are "replacement(s) for Blizzard's Floating Combat Text and Damage output"

[Ailae]

While it might be possible, it doesn't seem to be that trivial to do. Moving the parent CombatText does nothing, since all the fontstrings used aren't anchored to it. There's a lot of :SetPoint calls to position these strings correctly, in relation to each other, so you would have to hijack a lot of stuff just to move it a tinsy winsy bit.

If you're familiar with lua, the code is available for browsing here:
https://github.com/tekkub/wow-ui-sou...rd_CombatText/

Sorry this isn't that helpful, but I think it would be a major undertaking to do what you ask, albeit possible.

[Canities]

Originally Posted by oopsminded Sigh... no, they are not moving that frame; those add-ons disable Blizzard's default combat text and then create some scrolling combat text frames of their own. As their descriptions clearly point it out, they are "replacement(s) for Blizzard's Floating Combat Text and Damage output"

Have you tried looking at xCT?
I'm sure this addon uses the the standard blizard SCT and allows the changing of font, font size and location of diffrent SCT elements separately.

[oopsminded]

Originally Posted by Ailae Moving the parent CombatText does nothing, since all the fontstrings used aren't anchored to it.

Hmm, thanks for the reply, it's a shame if that's the case, but probably explains it why there is no script for it (PVPers in tournaments would've used it by now as they do with other parts of the UI to move them around). And no, no lua knowledge so I'll have to move other parts of the UI around, or learn to live with it.

It never bothered me that much untill now but with rated BGs coming others will maybe look into it, as with the camera totally zoomed out, when you're focused by 2-3 melees, all that flurry of text makes you miss some of the graphical effects on them, you, and so on.

Originally Posted by Canities Have you tried looking at xCT? I'm sure this addon uses the the standard blizard SCT and allows the changing of font, font size and location of diffrent SCT elements separately.

I did; looking through it's lua it still appears it's just a more streamlined MSBT/Parrot, not what I was thinking/hoping for.

I might look into TukUi's, nUI's way of dealing with the issue, but I can't say I held much hope now.

[Guardix]

It is indeed possible to move the combat text. You can overwrite CombatText_AddMessage. It didn't seem to cause any taint for me.

https://gist.github.com/670886