Viewports? [Skinner, Sunnart, etc]

Finx · 03-14-07, 03:31 AM

Hiyo ^.^,

I'm in a bit of a fizzle here.

Being a big fan of bottom-bar mods, I started off with using Skinner, which I thought was great. However, the one-color gradient for the bar got a bit boring.. so I seeked out a textured bar.

That's when I found Sunnart. The textures were excellent, BUT - there's something different with the viewport than Skinner. With Skinner, the bar just covers a part of the screen, whereas with Sunnart, the bar actually replaces the screen, moving the view area upwards. Is there any way around it, or another mod that does not do this?

THANKS! ^_^

ReverendD · 03-14-07, 06:11 AM

If Sunnart is anythign like XArt, then you shoudl be able to disable the viewport function with a command. I suggest looking thru the options for sunnart (/sunnart) to see what commands you have and if you can disable viewport. If you are unable to, I suggest trying XArt then. It does the same as Sunnart, but gives you the ability to disable the viewport function.

PathMaster · 03-14-07, 07:42 AM

EEpanel, ZomgBox, are two I have used and endorse.

ReverendD · 03-14-07, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by PathMaster

EEpanel, ZomgBox, are two I have used and endorse.

I cant say much about EEpanels since I did not care for it, but it has the ability to assign images to each panel. ZomgBox is nice, but it gives the 2 tone gradient as opposed to images like Sunnart and XArt.

PathMaster · 03-14-07, 01:33 PM

Also available: CT_Viewport, Discord, ElectrofluxTextronator

I have not used the above, but their proclivity is obvious.

Farook · 03-14-07, 11:25 PM

Probabely the most simple viewport mod is "Aperture":

http://www.wowace.com/files/Aperture/

Just viewport, nothing else....

dysphunktion · 03-15-07, 12:03 AM

Change Log
1.13

* Added ace2 profile support. and added an option to toggle the viewport on/off.

/sunnart viewport

As to not start a whole other thread...

What, exactly, does a viewport do? I mean, what purpose does it serve? I have skinner with a top/bottom bar and I don't really see much of a difference with viewport. Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention.

ReverendD · 03-15-07, 12:14 AM

Easiest way to explain is think of a DVD movie, you have two formats, Wide Screen and Full Screen. You normally play your game in full screen, viewport allows you to make it look like Wide Screen by creating a box at the bottom of the screen. It changes the view of what you see by limiting (not entirely a correct term) a portion of it, depending on what you set it at. Try Aperature (? mispelled?) on this site with no other bottom addons and play with the settings. You will see soon enough what it does.

Lacindas · 03-15-07, 01:04 AM

could someone please post a link to Sunnart, I would like to check it out, used all the other mods above and they are all, indeed, very nice. It's really a matter of prefference as to what you use, hence my searching for Sunnart to try, to no avail. lol

dysphunktion · 03-15-07, 01:12 AM

http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/files...-viewport-art/

That is the latest, afaik. I had just downloaded it and played with it a bit. Looking at Electroflux right now, seems promising!

Lacindas · 03-15-07, 01:28 AM

thanks most kindly, gonna check it out

Finx · 03-15-07, 04:12 AM

So disabling the Sunnart viewport will prevent the textured bar from actually replacing my screen?

ReverendD · 03-15-07, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by dysphunktion

That is the latest, afaik. I had just downloaded it and played with it a bit. Looking at Electroflux right now, seems promising!

Electroflux was fun for awhile. I used it until I decided I wanted to make my own graphics. But it is a nice little addon with little memory footprint. I find it to be like ZomgBox - it was made to do one thing, and it does it well.

Originally Posted by Finx

So disabling the Sunnart viewport will prevent the textured bar from actually replacing my screen?

No, disabling the viewport will turn off the viewport functionality only. The graphics are not part of the viewport portion of the addon.

Rollak · 03-15-07, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by dysphunktion

What, exactly, does a viewport do? I mean, what purpose does it serve? I have skinner with a top/bottom bar and I don't really see much of a difference with viewport. Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention.

It changes the size of the rendered world so you don't miss anything. Basically, it makes it so you can still see EVERYTHING that is rendered in the 3D world, and still put large solid bottom bars, side bars and top bars. You don't cover anything that's happening up with UI junk.

Supposedly, it helps with frame rates as well, but I can't comment on that.

blay · 03-15-07, 10:22 AM

Off-topic (and probably stupid) question, but how do I add that large bottom bar that I see in so many UI's? would like to give it a try.

dysphunktion · 03-16-07, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by blay

Off-topic (and probably stupid) question, but how do I add that large bottom bar that I see in so many UI's? would like to give it a try.

There are a few options for that. I use Skinner myself. Very simple to use and customize. It also lets you do a top bar! Wooty! But Sunnart will do it too..

blay · 03-16-07, 06:02 AM

Thanks, I'll look into them.