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Updated:	09-21-10 09:19 PM
Created:	02-16-09 09:47 PM
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AmbientAura

Version: 1.2

by: Seerah [More]

It's Back! Now updated for Cataclysm!

This will not work on the live realms, as it uses a new function from the Cata client.
Since the previous models had disappeared, the new models are different. But this means that I finally found some that I like. Screenshots have been updated.

This addon creates a swirly fog effect along the bottom of your screen using animated models from the game, colored by combat/resting status. Height and alpha of the fog are configurable.

It was inspired by FogBG by yleaf, which creates frames that hold the blue fog to use as backgrounds for the elements of your UI. AmbienceAura, however, places the fog along the bottom of your screen, and will color green if resting, red if in combat, or blue if normal.

New in version 1.1
There is a new dropdown menu in the options, where you can select how to use AmbientAura. Settings are also now stored per character. You can use AmbientAura to display:

- Combat/Resting
This is how AmbientAura works by default.
- In Combat = red
- Resting = green
- Normal = blue
- Warrior stances
- Battle stance = red
- Defensive stance = blue
- Berserker stance = green
- Death Knight auras
- Blood presence = red
- Frost presence = blue
- Unholy presence = green
- Red fog always
- Blue fog always
- Green fog always

FAQ:

Where are the options?
The options panel is located on the addons page of the Interface Options panel. Hit escape, go to Interface, click the AddOns tab, and you'll see AmbientAura listed there. You can also get there by /ambientaura or /aa.

I want the fog easier to see (or to see through).
You can find sliders to set both the height and alpha/density of the fog in its options panel.

How can I give feedback?
Feel free to leave your comments/questions here, but all bug reports and feature requests need to go to my portal if you want me to remember to do them.

Bug Reports / Feature Requests

Can I use your code/textures?
All use of my code separate from AmbientAura must be for your own personal use and may not be redistributed separate from the addon. You may use snippets of my code in addons you intend to distribute only after receiving permission, and credit must be given.

Can I redistribute this addon?
My addons may only be redistributed in UI compilations, and any mention of the addon must point to its download page or my portal, both on wowinterface.

Do you accept cookies?
I love cookies! Unfortunately, they may turn to crumbs in the mail. Instead, you may donate to my cookie fund via PayPal.

v.1.2
- update for Cataclysm
- it's BACK!
- model texture has changed, but colors are the same

v.1.1.1
- fix bug for warriors/dks

v.1.1
- added support for the following:
- - warrior stances
- - death knight auras
- - using only one color all the time
- switched to per character saved variables

v.1.0.1
- InCombatLockdown is better than UnitAffectingCombat

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08-07-09, 08:52 AM
Seerah Fishing Trainer Forum posts: 10860 File comments: 687 Uploads: 33	It seems that there is a problem in 3.2 with the fog textures (other people are having issues as well). I haven't had time to look into it yet, though. __________________ "You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

08-07-09, 06:09 AM
Trond A Cliff Giant Forum posts: 74 File comments: 32 Uploads: 0	This stopped working for me now, any chance for an update? Miss it __________________ Trond, because you deserve it...? SDMF

07-14-09, 05:40 PM
runtu A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	Awesome addon Very pretty, thank you ^^

07-13-09, 06:28 AM
Havok A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 25 Uploads: 2	Would it be possible to have a kinda "box" the aura is inside? I would like it to stay within a set amount of pixels in height for my UI. If I change the height in the options the fog becomes almost transparent and you can't see it that well. If it's to high it bleeds into the rest of the screen area which looks bad. :P I want it to stay below the XP bar. :P http://dwimg.com/viewer.php?file=6fh...xh7ejxhq6b.png Thanks. Really awesome addon. ^^

06-27-09, 10:27 AM

sarkastikartist

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Trond
Got this weird bug today. Was giving a boost in SM and all was fine... Except in library the blue fog was a tad big, like more than half my screen... Jumped out of instance, everything fine, back in, blue fog at about 2/3 of my screen. Attack something, red fog normal, afterwards, 2/3 blue fog again... Havent noticed this anywhere else... (Would insert an image, but click of button gave me a 404. Guess it explains it well enough without a pic so...)

Other than that, still love this one, and it aint gonna stop me from using it

i had the same problem in sm.. the fog covers almost all of the screen.. it doesnt look so bad when the red for combat pops up.. but the blue tint is huge

06-14-09, 02:06 AM
Trond A Cliff Giant Forum posts: 74 File comments: 32 Uploads: 0	Got this weird bug today. Was giving a boost in SM and all was fine... Except in library the blue fog was a tad big, like more than half my screen... Jumped out of instance, everything fine, back in, blue fog at about 2/3 of my screen. Attack something, red fog normal, afterwards, 2/3 blue fog again... Havent noticed this anywhere else... (Would insert an image, but click of button gave me a 404. Guess it explains it well enough without a pic so...) Other than that, still love this one, and it aint gonna stop me from using it __________________ Trond, because you deserve it...? SDMF Last edited by Trond : 06-14-09 at 02:14 AM.

05-29-09, 07:22 PM
Apraxia Clippy Crit Chicken Forum posts: 46 File comments: 31 Uploads: 0	also thank the stars and wowinterface.com for the 15 minutes of fame box. I swear I check every new and updated addon every damn day for at a few months now and NEVER saw this one! This is quite a cool and neato thing you've provided us! I would like to second the question someone asked below as well, any type of estimate on or IF this can greatly effect FPS in game? I'm wondering how much harder my or anyone's addon memory might be effected to. I run addon heavy as it is already averaging 35mb usage standing around doing nothing, don't even ask about 25 man's or 40 man WG's runs... I'd love to look at something more pretty but it will be all I'm doing if I add to much more memory intensive addons lol... thanks in advance and great addon please add or tell us how to do moreeee! __________________ Last edited by Apraxia : 05-29-09 at 07:25 PM.

05-29-09, 07:18 PM

Apraxia

Clippy Crit Chicken

Forum posts: 46

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Originally posted by Nakawe
Any chance for some black fog loving for when you are dead with option for black fog always? This would make my death run from Uldar much prettier.

If I'm not mistaken that actually isn't a fog but rather a full on enviromental aura glow effect (probably mystified type like effect added as some sort of filter to make it seemingly more like fog).

However, now that I think about it though, I'm trying to remember what being dead looked more like back in the day before the death effect video option was added to the game video settings... think then it was more just white hueish with a sort of linear/negative like overlay to the environment setting.

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05-08-09, 09:56 PM
Seerah Fishing Trainer Forum posts: 10860 File comments: 687 Uploads: 33	I don't remember if there is a black fog... I'll look into it. But post your feature request at my portal, please, so it goes on the list. __________________ "You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

05-08-09, 10:21 AM
Nakawe A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 65 Uploads: 0	Any chance for some black fog loving for when you are dead with option for black fog always? This would make my death run from Uldar much prettier.

04-17-09, 12:38 AM
srzbznz A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 5 Uploads: 0	Thank you very much for the reply, although setting that option turns in to an error, it gave me the motivation to try playing with the code some more and found the solution . Anyone experiencing the same problems just has to find the line -- f:SetPosition(0,1,0.8) and remove the --

04-16-09, 07:59 PM
Seerah Fishing Trainer Forum posts: 10860 File comments: 687 Uploads: 33	The fog itself doesn't cover the whole frame that the model is in. I have no clue why yours seems to be different than his screenshots, but you could try fiddling with the model scale. You'd need to know the frame names and do Code: frame:SetModelScale(x) where frame is the name of the frame, and x is the scale value (1 = 100%) http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widge.../SetModelScale __________________ "You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

04-16-09, 01:43 AM
srzbznz A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 5 Uploads: 0	I know this probably isn't a great place to ask but..could you(Seerah) or anyone else show me how to increase the height/transparency of the FogBG addon by yleaf? (the commenters on fogBG itself doesn't seem to know how) All of the blue fog in his screen shots show it rising to at least 50% of the (actionbar)frame while the one I have installed only goes up to 15%~. I've maxed my spell detail etc. and even tried to mess with the code for a few hours, any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

04-16-09, 12:50 AM
Jeania An Aku'mai Servant Forum posts: 39 File comments: 170 Uploads: 0	lol I think that this could be fun I don't have the mental energies to do it now, but when I do get to it (after spartan's updated, etc etc, have time) I'll try to upload a pic. Might be a while though lol __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words to Remember: "You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk." ~ George Clooney ۝Jeania/Anjelie ~ Dalaran۝ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

04-15-09, 07:41 PM
Seerah Fishing Trainer Forum posts: 10860 File comments: 687 Uploads: 33	Hi, Jeania. There's nothing stopping it from working with SpartanUI. Currently, the frame that holds the fog textures sits in the background. So, you'd have to fiddle with the height slider to get it where you can see it over the SpartanUI panel. If you want it over the SpartanUI panel at the bottom (with a low height) then you'd need to add a line of code to the lua changing it's level/strata to be over Spartan's. __________________ "You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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