Viewport Problem

Tunga · 07-11-07, 07:15 AM

I have most of my UI elements (chat, bars, map, etc) at the top of the screen. The problem is that this effectively puts my character about half way up my actual viewing space whereas with the normal chat/bar layout it's virtually at the bottom. To fix this I'm trying to do one of two things:

1) Slide the whole of the WorldFrame down so that it goes off the bottom of the screen partially.
2) Crop the WorldFrame asymmetrically so that it actually takes part of the bottom of the frame away rather than just resizing it like the viewport mods I've tried do which always keeps the view centralised.

I have a feeling nether of these are possible though.

Any ideas or other suggestions?

Sajomatic · 07-11-07, 08:36 AM

Honestly, I don't know if that's possible.

I'm not a code monkey but I've never heard of being able to do that.

Mah2cents.

**Seerah** · 07-11-07, 09:09 AM

Read this post I just wrote on wowace about what a viewport does: http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.p...9389#msg119389

Your character is *always* in the middle of the rendered area, and there's nothing you can do to change that. All you can do is cover up part of the rendered area (with an eePanel or something) but then there are parts of the game that you cannot see.

PathMaster · 07-11-07, 09:43 AM

There was a viewport that shifted things. It was not a cover, like some viewports. That functionality may of been removed since that was a long while ago.

jedybg · 07-11-07, 10:01 AM

used sum addon for viewports - Its called Skinner , im not sure will it do exactly the thing u want but u can still try it

Tunga · 07-11-07, 10:21 AM

Read this post I just wrote on wowace about what a viewport does: http://www.wowace.com/forums/index....19389#msg119389

Your character is *always* in the middle of the rendered area, and there's nothing you can do to change that. All you can do is cover up part of the rendered area (with an eePanel or something) but then there are parts of the game that you cannot see.

I know what a viewport does, I even described it. What I don't get is why I can't move the WorldFrame partially off the screen.

There was a viewport that shifted things. It was not a cover, like some viewports. That functionality may of been removed since that was a long while ago.

When you say "shift", do you mean it would an edge inwards so that the WorldFrame was a different size? If so, that's easy to do with one line of script and exactly what Aperture does too. Or do you mean it would actually move a full size WorldFrame around (and therefore let you put it off the screen)?