How To Make a Good UIFollow

Cool. I'll try that.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd149/Pwnzage/WoWScrnShot_091607_110934.jpg

Any suggestions?

TheoUI addon pack, anyone?

Now, for a brief eepanels2 tutorial on how to make gradients.

See this screenshot for what I'm talking about.

As you can see, I've got some spiffy gradients going in that screenshot. The one problem is, eepanels doesn't do just little 10-12 pixel wide lines. It makes--gasp--panels.

So, what's one to do?

Make 10-12 pixel wide panels.

The tricky part, though, comes in the parenting, and advanced option to make your art follow your frames around. If I moved my bongos bar around, the art would follow it due to parenting.

How do you parent in eepanels? It's pretty simple, really. All you need is a macro and some time.

[code]/print GetMouseFocus():GetName()[/code]

That's the macro we'll be using for this little exercise. With it, you can hover your mouse over a frame (say, your minimap) and attach a panel to follow that frame around. When you first parent a panel to a frame, it'll set the width and the height to 100%. That means it will be the exact size (albeit square) of the frame you're adding art to.

I tend to prefer to dictate what exact size my panels are going to be, but percentages can work too.

Now, how did I parent my actionbar art to a bongos bar, since you'll only be able to get individual buttons frame IDs? Simple; I chose one of the middle buttons, parented to that button, and went from there. That's where sizing by pixels and not by percents comes in handy, so you don't have to do things at 1000% and such.

I'm sure that I'm forgetting parts, so please, any questions to allow me to add to this would be appreciated. (I'll also be linking to this post in my first post to make it easier to navigate through this thread.)

It's Pitbull that's giving you a crapton of frames. You can shift-click the Pitbull fubar icon to change the configuration mode, but I usually just disable every frame but party/party targets other than the normal stuff.

Edited, Sep 16th 2007 5:21pm by Theophany

Shift-click again until the tooltip says "Configuration Mode: Off".

Lmao I was clicking the Bar thing not the Pitbull picture >_>. I'm an idiot.

Thanks for posting this Theo. Rate ups for you. I'm definitely going to have to check out some of the mods that you have listed. I've been getting pretty pissed of recently at my lack of screen real estate, and I've been having trouble finding ways to clean it up.

I just have one question for you. Do you use the same type of set up on your priest or is it totally different. I play a warrior alt, and I find the portraits nice to be able to tell whether other group members are taking damage. How do you monitor your party as a priest without using portraits?

Yeah, my UI looks pretty much exactly the same.

Granted, my priest is shadow and an alt that I use pretty much just for farming and alchemy.

I'm thinking of new tutorials to put in here, but if anyone has any requests, feel free to ask.

I was really in mind of a UI tutorial. That's my specialty, since I'm not a hardcore raider or a hardcore PvPer.

Edited, Sep 18th 2007 11:40am by Theophany

Pick one to be, then write a guide about it!

I actually use EBB for that; I white list the debuffs that I need to see (i.e. Deadly Poison, Crippling Poison, Wound Poison, Mace Stun, Kidney Shot, Cheap Shot, Sap, etc) et voilá, I have a good-looking CC watch.

Updated my UI a bit.

Here's the new version.

I think I may upload this one.

Theophany,

What is your resolution set at?