Belgarath101

Does anyone know of any good guides that kind of walk you through setting up Grid ? I have been playing around with it for the past several days and all I want it to show are: Color Health Bars, Outer Frame for Aggro, and either of the corners for low or out of mana. Nothing special at all just those basic items.

I have tried about everything I know of and I can not get it to look like other peoples screen shots with the bright colors as there health bar. All my colors are light gray on top of a black. The few times I have got any color to show after about 5 minutes it reverts back to the first settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

evielwine

Hi, I tried to setup the indicator (be it top left, top right, bottom left etc) for my mage's arcane brilliance/arcane intellect buff, so that I can know which raid member have the buff expired, but it just doesn't seem to work. Any ideas how to setup for that?

 

Fraax

If I remember correctly all the buffs are disabled by default. You have to enable it in the Status options. It's under Status->Missing buffs for me, but it may also be under Status->Auras.

 

• Richelieu

Check this out, sounds like what you're looking for:

Raid Rx: Unkicking butt (a Grid story) - WOW Insider

 

• Richelieu

A puzzler I'm hoping some Grid genius can solve:

My Grid freaked out a few days ago the first time I ever did Reliquary of Souls. During Phase 1 (when all get a -100% healing debuff) my entire Grid went to about 20% opacity and had weird cross-hatched thin black lines all over it. It was very difficult to see who needed dispelling. As soon as we entered Phase 2 Grid reverted to normal and worked fine again.

Guildmates said their Grid was working fine during Phase 1 and it must be one of my Grid addons. I use about eight Grid addons I think.

The problem is, it's rather difficult to test for which addon is causing the problem, when it only occurs during one phase of one boss fight. I can't ask the entire raid to wait for me to logout and play with addon mixes, or ask them to purposely wipe so I can retest Phase 1 for Grid.

Perhaps someone out there already knows the addon culprit, or can help narrow my search? Any help appreciated.

 

• Polleke

Something like this:


Should be on the WowAce SVN soonish.

* Bla

 

Margot

Yeah really I would like one Status module that showed incoming Res, or Soulstone, or Divine Intervention, so I could just assign it to a corner and it would be useful no matter what state combat or wipe recovery was in.

 

• Polleke

Ok. GridStatusRes is online. Compatible with CTRA/oRA2 using LibResComm-1.0

Download
Wiki

* Bla

 

Intoxify

Read through the thread and didn't find what I needed so...

Is there a way to enable grid to show a count of how long a raid member has had a debuff? Say... the curse during the Kalecgos encounter. Similar to how the Lifebloom counter works, but backwards?

 

Mandra

There is a Grid addon for Kalecgos (Index of /GridStatusKalecgos/) that does exactly what you want.

 

Intoxify

Thank you! I hadn't been able to look on wowace when I posted due to it being down. TY again.

 

evielwine

Ok I really couldn't get it appear no matter how I　ｓｅｔ it, enable it, that forcing me to use perfectraid in order to track buff Is there anyone did this before and success one?

 

Lilcure

VERY cool and it works great, thanks for tossing this together!

 

Arrox

Hi guys.

I had to reset my grid the other day so i could get on specific thing changed from when im a priest to when im a shaman. I was pretty comfident that i could get grid to look the exact way i had it to look before. And now it also does BUT.. there is one thing, thats fucking me.

The center Icon. Before i reset it. When someone got a magic or a disease debuff the center icon would display it. Now. I still get the center icon but i also get a big fat light blue thing that coveres the whole healthbar so i cant see how much health the person actually has before i dispel the debuff. before i reset it, I only had the center icon and could still see the amount of health in the box.

I tried to go into auras and changed the opacity of the magic debuff to 0 but sadly that also resulted in me not being able to see the debuff icon itself.

Is there a way to get rid of that blue box covereing the whole box and only have the center icon?

 

dyree

Grid -> Frame -> Advanced and then set the Icon Border Size to 0

 

Arrox

thanks - it works!

 

mattrk

I've been looking for this for a long time. Thanks!

 

Will7

Hey, quick question about Grid/Grid Mana Bars. So, this is my current layout for grid:



The area I've circled shows my problem. I'm not sure why, but my mana bars seem to show behind the health bars, and I want them to be shown ABOVE them instead. Right now, I cannot see the targets mana bar unless their hp is less than their current mana which is quite awkward. I have changed the mana bar's priority so it is higher than that of the health bar and played around a bit, but still no solution.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance

 

jrosa

Is there a way to seperate the grid boxes?

I use GridDynamicLayout and it helps a ton. But what would be even better is if i could move the boxes around individually on my screen. That way i could prioritize certain members who i'm responsible for by putting them in the center.
Is this possible? If not, anyone else have a layout that's better than GridDynamicLayout? thanks.

 

lightstrike

Is there a way to have grid showing a stack count for the buff/debuff displayed in the center icon?
I've been looking for this for a few weeks now, and couldn't find it anywhere.

 

Mokhtar

This is not something you can do with Grid. Grid will always be a semi-rectangular thingie. As for GridDynamicLayout there are some alternatives (although aiming at slightly different things) like GridLayoutPlus.
What I do when I have to specifically keep an eye on some raid members is use Ora2 player targets or simply drag the individual names out using the good old Blizzard frame.

I don't think this is possible, although it's interesting enough that I might try and have it added into the standard Aura status. I will ask the other devs blessing on that.

 

Dynalisia

It seems like any Grid plugin that somehow expands on the default layout causes rather significant stuttering when something in the raid changes, like people leaving/joining or changing group. This isn't an issue most of the time, but people tend to be swapped around for heroisms and such midfight and this is usually not a time when stuttering is welcome. Is this something others experienced as well and if so, how did you deal with it or alleviate the problem?

 

Mokhtar

About stack count : apparently center icon indicator is scheduled for an upgrade doing just that (whenever Pasta gets time to actually implement it)

I cannot speak for all the extended layouts plugins but as for GridDynamicLayout :
Each time there is a noticeable change (someone enters raid, the plugin detects a role change for one of the member etc...) > there is a noticeable micro-freeze, this is inevitable. BUT :
1/ It won't occur in combat (actually adding someone in combat to a raid shouldn't even register until ooc)
2/ The add-on is specifically tailored for raid use, in raid the role changes should be minimal, you shouldn't use this specific layout in typically fluid situations (like in BG)
3/ Switching people in groups should not trigger a "stutter" (not actually sure about that)

 

Sheshonk

I ran into a problem with my layout last night and can't seem to find the perfect solution anywhere. For reference, I'm just using the stock 25man 5x5 layout. During a Brut attempt, we, like many, swapped a shaman around for bloodlust rotation. Since groups automatically sort alphabetically by name, this moved the position of a burn victim from the 2nd box from the top, to the 3rd. I ended up healing the old position and lost my triple stack on the burn victim, which resulted in a raid death.

To solve this problem I changed the layout to be sorted by class, but I don't want to do this for two reasons. The first is it makes using group buffs difficult, I don't know if the entire group is in range to cast motw. The second, which is much more important to me, is that I'm no longer using a 5x5 layout. This is really important when having to maintain triple stacks, you only have .25seconds between hot refreshes and grid does an amazing job at minimizing the amount of mouse travel time (human error) to the next target.

I've been looking around and can't seem to find an addon that is a perfect solution for my problem. I could setup GridLayoutPlus to sort by class and have a unit per column = 5, but that doesn't help with my group buff issue. Is anyone aware of a way I could have my cake and eat it too?

I really don't want to re-invent the wheel, but my initial reaction was to look for a way to freeze the raid layout upon entering combat. This would give me what I want. I'm not a coh priest so its not the end of the world if people aren't in their exact groups, it will be the end of the world if I lose a triple stack due to group swapping. Was looking at the source and would have to alter the GridLayout.LUA, not GridLayoutLayouts.LUA which is something I'd rather avoid since it would be something I couldn't turn on and off without rewriting the source. That, and I'm not sure if you can freeze raid layout position without messing up updates to each frame. Would probably work eventually with some sweat, but is there an easier way to solve my problem?

 

ppilatee

If you use GridLayoutPlus, you can go into Class Order:



and change Shaman to last. should negate at least half of the problem...