[GRID] Addons and Functionality - Page 21

Daboran · 03/05/08, 3:45 AM

Originally Posted by Natt

From the grid page at wowace:

My old style of changing alpha has been replaced with 4 ranges (>10, >30, >40, and >100) which was cool. But...

I only managed to get that "aura"(?I forgot the term they use) to show up in the standard corners. Nowhere did I manage to get it to change the alpha to notify that >40 was true. I had a hard time seeing who was out of range without looking closely at that frame, something that was not the case earlier.

Yup - that's the problem - I had it set up so that if a unit was out of range it was VERY obvious (i.e. the unit was totally faded out). Ah well, suppose I need to mess around with the settings for an evening to figure it out.

Kirion · 03/05/08, 4:12 AM

Eh? Enable range check that you need and check it in frame alpha indicator. Nothing really changed.

aadric · 03/05/08, 12:11 PM

I recently upgraded and I'm experimenting with the "incoming heals" functionality. The problem is its nearly impossible to tell the difference between the players actual life and an incoming heal. I only seem to be able to change the alpha of the "incoming heal" portion of the health bar. What I really want is for the health bar to be two different colors, one color representing the players actual life, and the other representing incoming heals. Is this possible?

Also, grid does an annoying highlight when I mouse-over a player. Any way to remove that?

♦ Penguin · 03/06/08, 10:20 AM

I've noticed a small thing that I haven't been able to fix. A few weeks ago, the names in the Grid boxes began ignoring the fact that GridManaSideBar is on the side, which means that the manabar clips overtop the first one or two characters. It's purely a cosmetic thing, but still somewhat annoying.

Ullas · 03/06/08, 10:58 AM

I have one significant issue with Grid, and that is its inability to recognize 30 and 60 minute buffs as the same buff. I am the improved divine spirit priest in my guild, and I would love to have a huge icon pop up on mana/spell damage users if they do not have Divine Spirit or Prayer of Spirit. As it stands now, I have to use an icon to show these two buffs, since the priority system makes it relatively easy to set that up (as long as they have one of the two, something shows up).

The way my grid is set up, I have small icons for fort, shadow protection, spirit and a much larger icon for encounter-related debuffs, dispellable debuffs and mortal strike. I would like to be able to have a class-filtered "missing divine spirit or prayer of spirit" status assigned to this icon as well, so that it's easier for me to spot someone missing the buff (group or single target version) who should have it.

I read every post in the priest compendium, and every post in this thread looking for my answer. The only thing I saw was a reference to GridStatusMissingDebuffs. Could someone who uses this grid plug-in elaborate on its function and use?

Tauftamir · 03/06/08, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Ullas

I read every post in the priest compendium, and every post in this thread looking for my answer. The only thing I saw was a reference to GridStatusMissingDebuffs. Could someone who uses this grid plug-in elaborate on its function and use?

It groups buffs into "Buff Groups", for example:

Buff Group: Prayer of Fortitude - Prayer of Fortitude and Power Word: Fortitude.
Buff Group: Blessing of Kings - Greater Blessing of Kings and Blessing of Kings

The addon has Buff Groups already set up and you just need to enable or disable the ones you are interested in viewing in the Status options, and then add them to your Grid layout.

For example it can show a colored square in a corner of your choice if someone lacks either 30min or 60 min Spirit, but you can show the Missing Buff status however you prefer.

I have one significant issue with Grid, and that is its inability to recognize 30 and 60 minute buffs as the same buff

It will get around this problem

Ullas · 03/06/08, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Tauftamir

It groups buffs into "Buff Groups", for example:
[...]
It will get around this problem

perfect. Thanks for your help.

I like the grid plug-in that druids can use for lifebloom stacks (i.e., different colors for 1, 2, 3 stacks ). Is there any equivalent for prayer of mending? Maybe this is a good opportunity to write my first mod

Tauftamir · 03/06/08, 7:46 PM

No, but on my Priest I have added Prayer of Mending as a buff and then (you can assign it to whatever you prefer of course) set it to show a white square in the top left corner the Grid of the player who currently has a Prayer of Mending buff.

This is obviously somewhat of a pain if there are multiple Priests using PoM, as all the people who have a PoM will be shown, not just your specific one.

If you want more detailed information than just "show a shiny box if person has a PoM" then try Mendwatch (available on the Ace SVN).

Holeman · 03/10/08, 10:23 AM

Is there a way to make grid show incoming heals on the entire raid? I click on the incoming heals box but it only shows my incoming heals on a target and no one elses, I know theres also boxes for druid and priest hots but I'd like to see gheals etc any type of healing cast on a target to show up as a dot.

uthavin · 03/12/08, 12:25 AM

Is it possible make another LUA file to change Grid border texture ? so that I don't have to change the code every time I update Gird.

(tried searching the thread but did not find anything useful

)

Tenelov · 03/15/08, 4:20 AM

Originally Posted by uthavin

Is it possible make another LUA file to change Grid border texture ? so that I don't have to change the code every time I update Gird.

(tried searching the thread but did not find anything useful

)

Im upload lightweight addon based on Tenelov UI (module panels from TenUI)
BorderFrame
WoWInterface Downloads : General GUI Mods : BorderFrame

james · 03/17/08, 4:08 AM

Has anyone experienced any problems with Grid recently? As in, disconnects/freezes upon joining the raid, extremely low FPS. Also freezes during the raid.

When I enabled CPU Profiling for 10 mans, Grid was eating up 60% of my CPU. For 25 mans, I can't even join with CPU profiling enabled - and sometimes with it disabled too.

ImageShack - Hosting :: wowscrnshot031308184855zq9.jpg <- Now my PC ain't the best (and I have no idea why I have 2 shackle buttons, although the second mind blast key becomes mana burn when I do Arena) but that was 4 FPS with frequent freezes and jerky play. With SRaidFrames and Grid of 3-4 weeks ago, I'd get a stable <20 or so.

Mr. Pokeylope · 03/26/08, 8:01 PM

Originally Posted by james

Has anyone experienced any problems with Grid recently? As in, disconnects/freezes upon joining the raid, extremely low FPS. Also freezes during the raid.

When I enabled CPU Profiling for 10 mans, Grid was eating up 60% of my CPU. For 25 mans, I can't even join with CPU profiling enabled - and sometimes with it disabled too.

Yep, I've been having these problems for a while. I haven't looked at the code to see if there's any opportunity for optimization, but I guess that might be a thing to do.

Bunni · 03/27/08, 2:57 AM

Originally Posted by Rerolled

Quick question: Is there a way to have Grid show an indicator on anyone below 8500 health?

I've been looking around for this as well. Having an indicator for an absolute health value strikes me as useful for multiple fights. Blizzard seems fond of the "Phase X - Everyone take Y damage" mechanic so having grid light up in some way for everyone under Y health would be quite useful. Even outside of fights it would be handy for a raid leader to be able to easily see everyone that didn't hit a certain buffed health mark.

Snowglow · 03/27/08, 4:29 AM

Is anyone's Grid not working yet? Grid has been updated on its own but all the side addons haven't for me for weeks.
It was also acting very strange 'cos I couldn't see myself on it last night either.

Was hoping people would have already posted some alarm messages but apparently I'm the only one

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I surely hope I won't have to reconfigure everything again.