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Old 03/04/08, 6:35 PM   #2926
Inno
Glass Joe
 
Draenei Shaman
 
Moonrunner
Originally Posted by Rott View Post
I downloaded Zork's UI and played with it. It's really great and a refreshing approach to UI design. I do have one problem though if you could help me Zork.

I attempted to install addons I need for raiding like omen, xrs, grid, etc and they just arent loading. They show up in the addon list at the character selection screen and are showing as enabled but they won't show in-game. It's like something in your ui is preventing other addons from loading? Is there any way around this? I see that you have those addons working in your raid screenshot so I assume its something I'm missing due to lack of experience with lua.
My Guess would be that you're missing the needed Libraries for those ACE mods to function.

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Old 03/04/08, 6:54 PM   #2927
Ammanas
Piston Honda
 
Tauren Shaman
 
Frostmane
Couple of raid shots of what I'm using currently:





Would love some feedback, I really want to find a way to have my grid in the bottom eePanel but I just can't find the room. Also would like a better solution to the buffs as having EBB where it is just looks kinda cluttered to me. Also, I've been looking for a simple cooldown mod that will display a cooldown timer on all of my icons (I use bongo bars and autobar) if anyone has a suggestion for a good one of these.

Last edited by Ammanas : 03/04/08 at 7:13 PM.

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Old 03/04/08, 7:08 PM   #2928
shabee
Von Kaiser
 
Undead Priest
 
Frostwolf
Originally Posted by Ammanas View Post
Couple of raid shots of what I'm using currently:

[SNIP]

Would love some feedback, I really want to find a way to have my grid in the bottom eePanel but I just can't find the room. Also would like a better solution to the buffs as having EBB where it is just looks kinda cluttered to me.
You can use bufflo or santrina's buff frame for displaying buffs.

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Old 03/04/08, 8:10 PM   #2929
Rott
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Goblin Warrior
 
Shattered Hand
Originally Posted by Inno View Post
My Guess would be that you're missing the needed Libraries for those ACE mods to function.
Hm, could have sworn I had those. I'll have to give that a try. I used the wowace updater to install them and picked "With Externals". Does that not download the libraries as well?

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Old 03/04/08, 9:50 PM   #2930
Rintrah
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Human Rogue
 
Stormrage
Here is my current setup, obviously a combination of ideas from a lot of posters here, using Hal's textures and borders:


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Old 03/04/08, 10:50 PM   #2931
arenei
Glass Joe
 
Blood Elf Paladin
 
Spirestone
Rbars question

Hello, i've been using Zork's ui for a few days now, and i'm pretty bad at editing LUA's files, and was just wondering if there was a way to make the main bar have buttons 1-12 all across the bottom, instead of 1-6 on the bottom and 7-12 on the top, and having the second bar next to it, in the 1-6 7-12 format. I find your UI to be great, absolutely perfect for my warrior needs, just found this a bit annoying, Also is there a way to make the right hand bars stay out all the time, and not hide when in combat? thanks for any help!

Last edited by arenei : 03/04/08 at 10:55 PM.

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Old 03/05/08, 12:04 AM   #2932
Quaunaut
Von Kaiser
 
Draenei Shaman
 
Feathermoon
Well, I gave Zork's UI 5 hours, 1 5 man and 1 Heroic to run.

I just can't stand it. Guh. Its a good UI, it gets a lot done, but there are so many things that just drive me up a wall:

No organized bags(/cry)

Unbalanced action bar placement

The complete inability to move or change anything(and when that means tooltips are in the middle of the screen...thats gg)

I'm sure it does well for a lot of people, but for me, it was 5 hours of lackluster play and just frustration. Guh.

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Old 03/05/08, 12:31 AM   #2933
Rott
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Goblin Warrior
 
Shattered Hand
Originally Posted by Quaunaut View Post
Well, I gave Zork's UI 5 hours, 1 5 man and 1 Heroic to run.

I just can't stand it. Guh. Its a good UI, it gets a lot done, but there are so many things that just drive me up a wall:

No organized bags(/cry)

Unbalanced action bar placement

The complete inability to move or change anything(and when that means tooltips are in the middle of the screen...thats gg)

I'm sure it does well for a lot of people, but for me, it was 5 hours of lackluster play and just frustration. Guh.
You can change all of the things you don't like about it.

For the bags you can download a separate mod. The tooltips actually have an in-game config menu that lets you put it wherever you want. The action bars I think require some lua editing.

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Old 03/05/08, 3:03 AM   #2934
Quaunaut
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Draenei Shaman
 
Feathermoon
Originally Posted by Rott View Post
You can change all of the things you don't like about it.

For the bags you can download a separate mod. The tooltips actually have an in-game config menu that lets you put it wherever you want. The action bars I think require some lua editing.
Two of your 3 points outline my problem with it pretty well.

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Old 03/05/08, 3:26 AM   #2935
Ryas
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Moon Guard
Originally Posted by Quaunaut View Post
Two of your 3 points outline my problem with it pretty well.
I'm confused with this post. Are you saying that thanks to what he said you can now correct it and use the UI? Or are you saying it should work perfectly fine "out of the box" and work just the way you want it to without problem. Because if it is the latter, refer to the text under my name. If not, forget I ever posted this!


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Old 03/05/08, 3:50 AM   #2936
Blixa
Glass Joe
 
Murloc Warrior
 
Magtheridon (EU)
Originally Posted by Rintrah View Post
Here is my current setup, obviously a combination of ideas from a lot of posters here, using Hal's textures and borders:
Damn, thats hot! Would love to get my hands on that one.

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Old 03/05/08, 4:03 AM   #2937
Zapf
Von Kaiser
 
Troll Priest
 
Cho'gall
Originally Posted by zork View Post
I'm confused as to what exactly "VertexColor" is doing to the group frames in your picture. I can't see a difference between that and older group shots. What does VertexColor do anyway?

Another question, why did you switch the first 2 bar orientations around to 2x6? It doesn't seem to work well in regards to having one of those two disabled, or if happen to work with the default ui at times (my normal button configuration, changed to look correct on the 2x6 + 2x6 layout, would be split up in most default configurations of other bar addons/no addons at all).

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Old 03/05/08, 4:59 AM   #2938
Friccs
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Madmortem (EU)
So redid my UI and I think it has become better.



Although there are stills some things that need to be changed e.g.:
The Party Target's Names/ MTT's Names :


The Good - As you can see, the name is shortened to a few letters, because of the party Targe'ts Health.
The Bad - especially in Arena or Dungeons, the Names shown are too short.
The Ugly - If I Put the Name above the Unitframe - the names will overlay.

I'd appreciate a shortened name above the Unitframe, for instance - instead of "Gimp of the seven Stars of Azeroth" only "Gimp" - if you catch my meaning.

Give a man a fire and he is warm for the day, but set fire to him and he is warm for the rest of his life.

~Terry Pratchett~

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Old 03/05/08, 5:18 AM   #2939
zork
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Eredar (EU)
Originally Posted by Rott
I attempted to install addons I need for raiding like omen, xrs, grid, etc and they just arent loading. They show up in the addon list at the character selection screen and are showing as enabled but they won't show in-game. It's like something in your ui is preventing other addons from loading? Is there any way around this? I see that you have those addons working in your raid screenshot so I assume its something I'm missing due to lack of experience with lua.
That is strange since I use Omen and XRS myself in raids. Try to download them from files.wowace.com.

Originally Posted by Zapf
I'm confused as to what exactly "VertexColor" is doing to the group frames in your picture. I can't see a difference between that and older group shots. What does VertexColor do anyway?
Check the textures on the buff-icons and bar-buttons.

Originally Posted by Zapf
Another question, why did you switch the first 2 bar orientations around to 2x6? It doesn't seem to work well in regards to having one of those two disabled, or if happen to work with the default ui at times (my normal button configuration, changed to look correct on the 2x6 + 2x6 layout, would be split up in most default configurations of other bar addons/no addons at all).
My beloved 6 button-system. It works best for me in the matter of eye-tracking.
If you have a straight 1x12-button bar I find it hard to keep an eye at button 1 and 12 at once.
If you make the bar 2x6 its much easier.

I have another 2x6 bar right next to it for not so often used buttons.

It doesn't have to mean that this fits your needs, but you have the opportunity to edit the code and make it fit.

Originally Posted by Quaunaut
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I only provide a set of addons I use myself, that doesn't have to mean that its all perfect for everyone.
If you need some other addon, no problem go download it.
If you need some modification, no problem go and edit the lua code.

Anyway, I am just trying to give you some options that you could play with. Nothing more and nothing less.

Last edited by zork : 03/05/08 at 7:11 AM.


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Old 03/05/08, 8:47 AM   #2940
Velveeta
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Tauren Druid
 
Demon Soul
Originally Posted by zork View Post

I only provide a set of addons I use myself, that doesn't have to mean that its all perfect for everyone.
If you need some other addon, no problem go download it.
If you need some modification, no problem go and edit the lua code.

Anyway, I am just trying to give you some options that you could play with. Nothing more and nothing less.
I, for one, am extremely grateful that you allow us to download your collection of addons. I find alot of your tastes suit my play style just fine. Also, I find that the coding of your addons are easy to follow and edit if I want to change something. I'm not a coder but I can pick apart existing code and make changes so I don't mind editing some things to my taste.

I just wanted to say thanks for the contributions you've made, they've changed my mod-heavy memory-hogging UI into a low-mem beast. I went from almost 200 addons at 90mb to 33 addons at 12mb and its nice and smooth and still does everything I want.

Thanks for the work you've done and keep it up, I just wish I spoke German so I could participate in the forums at TDMOG.

*Edit: I guess I should include a screenshot since this is a UI thread:
http://i26.tinypic.com/90953s.jpg

Last edited by Velveeta : 03/05/08 at 10:07 AM.

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Old 03/05/08, 9:11 AM   #2941
Tys
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Troll Warrior
 
Madmortem (EU)
Originally Posted by zork View Post
In that last screenshot, are you using Aloft for the Nameplates, or is that Nameplate-tweak done by one of your Addons (and if yes, which one?)? I downloaded your UI but didn't find anything that seemed to change the Nameplates

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Old 03/05/08, 10:21 AM   #2942
Lymphatik
Glass Joe
 
Undead Warlock
 
Conseil des Ombres (EU)
I'd say it something based on evl_nameplates evladdons - Google Code
Or a ptags but this one is based on evl_nameplates

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Old 03/05/08, 10:36 AM   #2943
Led ++
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Undead Death Knight
 
Draenor (EU)
Originally Posted by Tys View Post
In that last screenshot, are you using Aloft for the Nameplates, or is that Nameplate-tweak done by one of your Addons (and if yes, which one?)? I downloaded your UI but didn't find anything that seemed to change the Nameplates
Its pTags which is based on evl_nameplates I think.

http://thepiratebootybay.com/ THE best Addon site out there!

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Old 03/05/08, 10:48 AM   #2944
Tsune
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Eonar
Originally Posted by Rintrah View Post
Here is my current setup, obviously a combination of ideas from a lot of posters here, using Hal's textures and borders
Love this UI, can you tell me what you're using for the unitframes. Also i'm assuming that's eePanels for minimap and action bars?

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Old 03/05/08, 10:55 AM   #2945
Tys
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Troll Warrior
 
Madmortem (EU)
Originally Posted by Led ++ View Post
Its pTags which is based on evl_nameplates I think.
Thank you 2

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Old 03/05/08, 11:14 AM   #2946
Vranx
Von Kaiser
 
Undead Mage
 
Gurubashi
pTags looks like this.

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Old 03/05/08, 11:44 AM   #2947
Borsch
Glass Joe
 
Dwarf Paladin
 
Madmortem (EU)
OOC:


Raid:


Tried my best to make an interface that
a) shows me what i need
b) saves memory
c) looks good


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Old 03/05/08, 12:33 PM   #2948
Ileron
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Gilneas (EU)
http://i32.tinypic.com/2mg8u2s.jpg

Working on it at the moment.

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Old 03/05/08, 1:33 PM   #2949
Zapf
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Troll Priest
 
Cho'gall
Originally Posted by zork View Post
Check the textures on the buff-icons and bar-buttons.
What part exactly should I be looking at - it appears to be the same glossy square you always use. Is there some subtle difference in the border that I'm missing?

edit: maybe I was looking at the wrong picture when I originally posted, I guess it looks more like the new pic lacks the distinct glossyness of the others. I guess I'm still confused as to what vertexcolor actually does however.

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Old 03/05/08, 3:30 PM   #2950
Eliza
Von Kaiser
 
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Human Death Knight
 
Draenor (EU)
Originally Posted by Zapf View Post
What part exactly should I be looking at - it appears to be the same glossy square you always use. Is there some subtle difference in the border that I'm missing?

edit: maybe I was looking at the wrong picture when I originally posted, I guess it looks more like the new pic lacks the distinct glossyness of the others. I guess I'm still confused as to what vertexcolor actually does however.
The gloss on this screenshot is black/grey/whatever. Not that white glossy stuff like the other screenshots.

Originally Posted by Tys
In that last screenshot, are you using Aloft for the Nameplates, or is that Nameplate-tweak done by one of your Addons (and if yes, which one?)? I downloaded your UI but didn't find anything that seemed to change the Nameplates
It's a modified pTags which can be found on zork's google account.

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My current UI, modified rBars for my 1x12 button display and added ic/ooc fading. Also edited rBuff for my needs (whole debuff-colors and so on)
http://deponie.org/ui/079.jpg
http://deponie.org/ui/080.jpg

... what I changed in the last ~10 minutes:
- oCD got same texture like rBars etc have
- oCD got spacing between icons.

Naeva/Lyn/Haydn

I miss the things I’ve never done...

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