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    Orb Unit Frames

    Version: 40300.beta1
    by: Maul [More]

    PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AT BEST A BETA QUALITY ADDON.
    DO NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.


    I have always been very dissatisfied with the rectangular madness that is the predominant Unit Frame addon. Rectangles are practical, I agree, but aesthetically I have always had a fondness of circles in my UI.

    I then came across Zork's oUF_D3Orbs. Which are very cool and much of my own addon is based on it as far as concept goes. However, I wanted more orbs! I wanted every unitframe to be an orb.

    So I embarked on my own experimentation and found a very efficient way to use standard textures to animate the orbs while also creating all unit frames in orb-form.

    This addon is not intended to become a release-level unit frame addon, but to introduce what I have done. Much of it's current code is redundant and not refined. I would love nothing more than for someone else to take off on what I am doing here, like I did with Zork's concept, to make a full-blown orb unit frame addon.

    There are some options in the Orbs main menu. More are to come. Also there is a slash command /orbs to enter/leave config mode. To move a unit frame enter config mode and alt-drag the frame.

    My plans are to eventually release a solid beta version that can be configured beyond the initial install but not offer a gazillion configuration options.

    40300.beta1
    -updated for 4.3
    -made many small tweaks and changes since the last version.
    -updating due to Diablo III being prominent.


    40000.beta3
    - Added more options to resize/scale.
    - Added a Druid eclipse bar and a paladin holy power bar.
    - Moved the DeathKnight rune bar to the player frame.

    40000.beta2
    - Fixed an issue with role assignments.
    - Cleaned up the static animation so it was no so dark sometimes.
    - Hides the new Blizzard raid frames.

    40000.beta1
    - I have been slowly updating the code and addressing bugs.

    30300.1 *very beta*

    Okay, I changed some things since it was known as "Plasma" -

    - I removed most of the Diablo 3 art and focused on purely the Orb feel.
    - I added 7 new animations. The animations are -

    Bubbles
    Energy
    Plasma
    Rain
    Smoke
    Snow
    Sprites
    Water

    I trashed the old config options and starting to build new ones. The current option to enable/disable units is not stable.
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    Unread 10-26-10, 11:38 AM  
    Maul
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    Originally posted by zork
    You are the orb-maniac. I could not stand with that many orbs.


    Guilty as charged!

    Maul I have a tip for you since you use animations aswell.

    Cataclysm introduced "SetDisplayInfo" and I wrote a modelviewer to show all the current models. That gave me the opportunity to find out that the fogs are back in town.

    If you want to get a quick view on the fogs check Seerahs mod, he is using the SetDisplayIDs I found:
    http://www.wowinterface.com/download...bientAura.html

    Fogs are constantly moving model files in different colors available. They need no onUpdate, they look awesome, they are circular...they are perfect!

    But, just a tipp.

    Wait a few days, I will have a testmod up and running by then.

    Complete list of all model files as csv:
    http://code.google.com/p/rothui/downloads/list

    Look out for "cloud".
    I shall look forward to more orby goodness, thanks!
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    Unread 10-26-10, 12:02 PM  
    lodewijk
    A Deviate Faerie Dragon

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    great to see the circle/orb idea has been picked up again for now! let's see how far you're willing to take it and who shall pick it up next. 1 request tho, is there any chance to have my own health/mana(rage/energy/etc) on one side (left in my case) and targets health/mana(rage/energy/etc) on the other side? that would make this addon THE addon of choice as far as unit frames go.

    edit: maybe even make bars in set-up mode auto-center like the bars in macaroon! do.
    Last edited by lodewijk : 10-26-10 at 12:04 PM.
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    Unread 10-27-10, 12:21 PM  
    zork
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    Orb testmod:
    http://www.wowinterface.com/download...iscoKugel.html
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    Unread 12-06-10, 02:47 PM  
    cmv1087
    A Kobold Labourer

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    I'm just curious if this is still something you're working on. I've been wanting this sort of unit frames addon for ages now (even have a mental picture of how I'd set it up!) so I was more than a little interested when I saw this. It seems that no updates have been done to for a little while, though?

    I've been tempted to try my hand at it myself, but it seems a daunting task, particularly given that I know no LUA and such. :s
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    ufgunk
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    Hide player & pet frames
    Trinity user and macaroon user right from day one. I have to say amazing work Maul.

    I have been eyeing up your unit frames for sometime now and have finally replaced my unit frame add-on with Orb unit frames and incorporated it with my interface. I think I'm pretty happy with it all so far.

    Here is my question, I'm wondering if there are some simple lines of code I code add to normally hide the player and pet frame but show frames upon targeting a unit.

    Just looking for away to clean up my screen when not targeting or in combat.

    Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks in advance
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