How To Make a Good UIFollow

feel like a complete idiot. i opened up pitbull and fixed it. lol

I know these are bad, and that this is a noob question, but how do you turn on portraits on pitbull? I am leveling a new char and it makes it easier on me if i see the portrait of what i am attacking, at least until 70. thanks

tnx.

The 1.1 UI is almost a year out-of-date.

You can check all of his releases here: http://hosted.filefront.com/korz1894

For some reason, 1.1 did not have a read-me in the Rar. Here is what you do:
1) uncompress the files
2) copy everything in the addon folder to your <Wow Directory>/Interface/Add Ons
3) Make a copy of your WTF folder. Keep it in a safe place
4) Go in to the compilations WTF/Account folder and rename the accountnamehere folder to.... your account name
5) Go inside the newly renamed folder, and change the servername folder to... your server name
6) Inside the newly renamed servername folder, rename the charname folder to your character name
7) Move the compilation's WTF folder to your <Wow Directory>. It will overwrite your old WTF folder.(see why you made the back up)

Now have fun updating everything. I would suggest getting the Ace updater to update many of the addons.

Here is my latest UI. I know Psi and Theo both suggest hiding the action bars and FuBar, but I feel so empty without them. The two bars over the main block are my daily bars, and typically I do hide them when doing other stuff I just forgot. I really like Xperl now that I have gotten used to it and I like the Raid package and the target of targets target and so on. Very useful stuff when in a raid.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll23/AtrophyG4/Raid.jpg

**Edit - posted the image on photbucket for hotlink goodness.

Edited, Jun 4th 2008 1:55pm by AtrophyGFour

Copy and past into a new window/tab. For some reason they have banned Alla from direct linking.

I will check that out when I get home Psi. Thanks for the suggestion. Also, would a "posses" bar in Bongos3 do the same thing, as in only show the bar if I have the item?

I haven't posted my UI for a while. This is what I have been tweaking lately.


Inactive, targeting an NPC. Cooldowns shown between health bars. Buffs in upper right hand corner. Fubar shown simply for illustration (normally hidden).
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Highlighting more buffs, bag and waypoint placement. Weapon buffs are below my unit frame. The buttons under the cooldowns are dynamically created buttons for quest items.
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In combat. SCT, enemy cast bad on top of their frame (alerts sent to SCT when casting starts). My combo points on them displayed on their name plate (and sent to SCT).
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As you can see, there are still some issues to be resolved. The tracking button on the minimap needs to be moved to fubar. The map itself needs to align with something. I am considering moving the map to the upper right and the buffs to the lower right. As it stands now, the buffs feel rather disconnected. I would like them near my nameplate, but I have the weapon buffs under my unit frame, debuffs on my above my unit frame (with additional bars for flight time, casting time, and dot tracking).

I will try to get a few SS when I run arena this week so the rest of the UI can be seen.

1) Xperl's 30 yard indicator. If that icon (it's actually a hand) is there, then the target is 30+ yards away.

2) Probably.

3) Buffalo. He's not using a skin from CyCircled, unlike my normal use of Buffalo.

1) yes
2) yes
3) Using the included default weapon buff option they have. I wanted them separate from the other buffs.

yeah, that was the only way I could get it work right. For some reason something wasn't playing nice between Xperl and Buffalo. For a while Xperl was adding the default Bliz buffs back in.

Get a minimap mod to reshape the map and get rid of the top Bliz bar

Get Fubar and move all the icons around your minimap to there (remember to set the bar to only show when you mouse over it)

Find a better way to arrange the unit frames. Everything is all nimbly-pimbly right now. And do you really need Target's Target and Target's Target's Target?

No, I was saying you need to clean the clusterf*ck that is your unit frames.

Juice by you if they make sense to you, but when I looked at it, I thought it was

Your frame -> focus 
               | 
               -> Target ->ToT  
                            | 
                            ->ToToT 

Does yout Focus target or your ToT need to exist?

When you are leveling, do you really need a ToT? Wouldnt that be you?

Move one to the bottom... duh

Does Fubar allow you to change the delay before it hides itself again? You could always delve in to the LUA and see if you could change it.