I recently learned a bit more about the animation system from Blizzard that is imo way to underused by most addon authors.

Maybe it's just because the have no clue that it exists or maybe they are not capable of doing (which I doubt). I think its laziness. In my opinion the reward of getting into it will be worth it.

I'm using the new animation system from Blizzard at the minimap and for the orbs. You can create really cool stuff without major texture spam. Some basic...

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For some reason the animation fogs (RedRadiationFog.m2) stopped working with patch 3.2, which had a major impact on my UI since the glow stopped working. So I had to develop a different solution.

I had already tried some stuff with rotating textures before, so my first thought was: "Lets try to overlay 1-3 cloudish textures with blendmode and let them rotate on the orb".

No sooner said than done, I started a new testmod called rGalaxy. My idea was to have...

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I finally have overcome all the issues and made it through. The first version of the mod is out. Later posts will describe how it was done.

Mod
The RingMod : WoWInterface Downloads : Unit Mods

*Update* Mod is in the Pick-of-the-Week on wowinterface.com
Pick for 7/26: TheRingThing (new) - WoWInterface

*Update #2* First derivated mods released:
oUF RingThing : WoWInterface Downloads : oUF: Layouts
oUF RingThing2 : WoWInterface Downloads : oUF: Layouts...

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"Butter bei die Fische!" how we call it in Germany. I started the first version of the mod. You can track the developement via Google Code SVN.

Screenshots with and without alpha blending:


SVN / LUA script:
rRingMod Google Code

Download:
rRingMod.zip - rothui - Google Code

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The following will be a series of entries which will represent a sort of diary I'm writing while developing a mod I thought of for quite some time now. I'm calling it the ring mod. I'm not even sure if I will succeed in creating it but maybe the techniques I'm going to use will help someone else to do better. I'm currently learning object oriented programming so I'm not that kind of "pro" in that.

The mod should be able to create an undetermined number of rings on the screen....

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