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#1 Nov 20 2008 at 10:55 AM Rating: Decent
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I was hoping someone could give me a mod suggestion.

I kind of want to move the health bars to the bottom center of the screen, or the upper center of the screen. Snuggled in between the battle chat and the social chat, if that's at all possible.

After much fiddling I'm almost positive the feature to move the health bars doesn't exist within the game. I took a look at Titan Panel and Healbot which people seem to swear by, and while they seem to offer all other sorts of bells and whistles, I can't seem to find anything that allows to me to just move things around. Apparently there was a mod called Move Anything! that got left in the dust some months ago, which is a pity, because that sounds perfect.

Ultimately, the goal here is to move my central focus away from that lonely little corner.
If anyone has any suggestions for a mod that moves the health bars in this way, or allows you to move the health bars in this way, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.


#2 Nov 20 2008 at 10:56 AM Rating: Decent
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That's odd, I was under the impression Healbot allows you to move around the frames.

Look for Pitbull or xperl unit frames, I *think* both of them allow a move option.
#3 Nov 20 2008 at 11:18 AM Rating: Good
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Mozared wrote:
That's odd, I was under the impression Healbot allows you to move around the frames.

Look for Pitbull or xperl unit frames, I *think* both of them allow a move option.


No healbot doesn't move around the frames, it creates its own health bars that you can move around. That's probably the best thing for the OP to get. You can turn off the party frame in the default UI I believe and just use the healbot ones.

Or you could get Unit Frame addons like x-perl or pitbull, which allows you to cutomize the unit frams and move them where ever. I use xperl, but the only problem with it is you can't seperate individual party members, it is just one lump party frame.
#4 Nov 20 2008 at 11:30 AM Rating: Decent
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Maybe I just don't know how to use Healbot properly?
I see something about locking bars and anchoring in any of the four corners, icon scale, font size and what not. But it's not like I can drag and drop my healthbar with the locking unchecked, so I'm not really quite sure how to move things.

But I'll definately check out Xperl and Pitbull. Thank you. :3



(edit: Oh sorry, missed Syn's reply (somehow)
That sounds pretty good, thank you.
My question is, how do you get healbot's healthbar to appear? It doesn't just seem to be present automatically. Will I have to join a party, and then, it will pop up?)


Edited, Nov 20th 2008 2:40pm by Zemzelette
#5 Nov 20 2008 at 11:45 AM Rating: Good
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Their bars are always visible. The problem is the default opacity is almost clear.

What you want to do is go into your options and under the tab called Bar 2 (I think that is the tab) there will be a scroll option labeled Disabled Opacity. What that bar does is change the opacity of the healbot bar while it is disabled(out of combat). If you turn that scroll all the way up, you should be able to see the bar.


Edited, Nov 20th 2008 4:35pm by SynnTastic
#6 Nov 21 2008 at 8:37 AM Rating: Good
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I have used both pitbull and xperl. I prefer pitbull due to the cleaner frames and ability to customize the text info. It does require a bit of initial setup for frames, though. I wouldn't suggest plopping it in and running an instance before setting up your party frames (like I did!). Xperl, if I remember correctly, had a workable default setting.

I don't recall healbot having options for focus. Any party frame add-on should, though. Even the default ui has movable focus frame now.

Edited, Nov 21st 2008 11:41am by Trylofer
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