PitBull: New UnitFrame Addon

• alcaras · 04/03/07, 8:35 PM

Amazing UnitFrames that are in rapid development...

Information:
http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=5456.0

Download
http://files.wowace.com/PitBull/

Harmonics · 04/03/07, 10:16 PM

Not to be a jerk, but these look incredibly similar to augf. Whats the difference?

syeren · 04/03/07, 10:32 PM

They're updated with new features and fixes a lot more frequently than AG, and these things are a lot better in using your PC's resources

If you do arena, these things have Party targets too

Malan · 04/03/07, 10:43 PM

Hey all, ckknight here.

I started PitBull recently, which is my very own unit frames implementation.

It's relatively immature right now (2007-03-28), but things are progressing.

What sets it apart from other unit frames, such as agUF, is that almost everything is run in a modular fashion.
I have also paid extremely close attention to performance, especially with regards to frame recycling.
For example, if you hide one frame, all its child frames go into a big recycle bin. If you show another frame after that point, instead of making its own new children frames, it will reach into the recycle bin and reuse them. This cuts down on the number of unused frames immensely.

PitBull is made to be extremely modular and extensible, so as it progresses along, I hope you all like it.

Straight from the info page.

Harmonics · 04/03/07, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Malan

Straight from the info page.

Checking the info page... well played indeed.

Kalman · 04/04/07, 1:39 AM

Not to mention the aguf author saying "Man, I really like these... if a couple more features get added, I may discontinue aguf and switch to these!"

Cluey · 04/04/07, 2:05 AM

I recently switched to X-Perl and have been very impressed by them.
It did take a little while to go through the options and get settings I liked but now I am used to them it would take a lot to get me to change again.

Facktotum · 04/04/07, 2:26 AM

as already said before these unitframes take less memory which i always look in an addon. x-perl takes too much and its bloated with everykind of eyecandy i dont need.

pitbull is one of those addons you either like or dislike....best features and ace2=goodness

Oren · 04/04/07, 2:36 AM

Hows the buff/debuff configuring? Thats what pisses me off the most about aguf.

• alcaras · 04/04/07, 2:42 AM

Originally Posted by Oren

Hows the buff/debuff configuring? Thats what pisses me off the most about aguf.

Basically just post in that thread and ask for what you want and it'll get implemented quickly -- that's how fast development is proceeding on these

Nitz · 04/04/07, 3:02 AM

Being able to place buffs and debuffs separately, and self filtering some buffs/debuffs would indeed both be could features to add !

Dotts · 04/04/07, 7:43 AM

your timing is perfect ck. aguf went all buggy on me and i lost raid groups 1,3 and 5 and i couldn't figure out how to fix it. No one knew on wowace forums either. So tonight i went looking for a replacement and i find this

Only thing i see so far is that sometimes the spellbar doesn't work and I'd like to move the buffs/debuffs to underneath the target uf.

• Maestroquark · 04/04/07, 8:19 AM

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out. To be honest, I've never actually been particularly impressed with any unitframes addon, each I switched to simply fixed a deficiency I saw in another.

agUF is annoying me because it keeps resetting my options every time it gets updated. 90% of the code didn't change, why are 90% of my settings changing?

Miaxi · 04/04/07, 8:20 AM

I tried those when I saw the official thread. Nice start, but a lot of things are still missing. For example I have no idea how to set the max length for a string. Extremly long unit names made a total mess off my test configuration.

I still think Nurfed is better even if there is no crew creating "eyecandy" for it on daily basis.

boomix · 04/04/07, 9:16 AM

I was looking for a screenshot all over the place for these UF when I was looking to try out mods. So in the end I ended up with Perl Classic. I still think its memory hog and I am always on a lookout for better memory usage UF mods.

I saw these unit frames listed in wowace.com/files page so tonight I will give them a whirl.

kamii · 04/04/07, 9:40 AM

I woud love to try them out. But only if customization is possible (like in AG_UF). The default look of PitBull is hideous.

Mem · 04/04/07, 9:43 AM

I will give them a try as well, as agufs seem to seems to suffer from some bugs indeed. They look pretty neat and seem to have the functionalities I need.

Vektor · 04/04/07, 10:00 AM

Piqued my interest, especially as your demo setup looks almost identical to what I use live (well, the frames are in different positions, but the unitframe layout looks the same - ABF w/ portrait and castbar)

and anything with "performance" and "efficiency" prominently displayed earns points in my book

♦ selece · 04/04/07, 10:30 AM

Probably the wrong place to put this, but it seems to be a tad buggy at points.
I use Grid to display my raid frames, but the raid frames wouldn't stay hidden on a test AB run last night, so I had this giant -stack- of frames sitting in the middle of my screen the entire time. When I tried to hide them, I got an error ... I'll copy it out next time.

Anyone else having some rather odd issues with it?
Otherwise, I am liking the current feature set and the castbars work wonderfully.

boomix · 04/04/07, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by selece

Probably the wrong place to put this, but it seems to be a tad buggy at points.
I use Grid to display my raid frames, but the raid frames wouldn't stay hidden on a test AB run last night, so I had this giant -stack- of frames sitting in the middle of my screen the entire time. When I tried to hide them, I got an error ... I'll copy it out next time.

Anyone else having some rather odd issues with it?
Otherwise, I am liking the current feature set and the castbars work wonderfully.

If you read the comments under the mod on wowace.com you will notice that someone else posted about same issue. I am not sure what the workaround is if any.

Cafe · 04/04/07, 10:46 AM

Is it impossible to work together with aguf to implement your optimizations?

Vektor · 04/04/07, 10:47 AM

it's a fairly new mod, and as the author said, in a rapid development cycle.

It's probably just an oversight/error/bug in the code that will get fixed fairly quickly if reported.

Malan · 04/04/07, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Cafe

Is it impossible to work together with aguf to implement your optimizations?

If he is taking a modular approach to the code, believe me its much easier to start from scratch than it is to totally rework an existing piece of software.

Kalman · 04/04/07, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Cafe

Is it impossible to work together with aguf to implement your optimizations?

The author isn't posting here (alcaras is *not* ckknight), but no, it probably isn't possible.

Lurchington · 04/04/07, 11:07 AM

I'm still at work, but is this available from the the wowaceupdater application?