Post your Interface - Page 17

archz0r · 10/03/07, 6:23 AM

Teohetimokan · 10/03/07, 8:22 AM

Originally Posted by Halkyon

I really love how much this UI has evolved through symbiosis; now I'm gonna borrow a couple of your ideas.

What would that make it, Saeto? My ripoff of Ryas' ripoff of my ripoff of your ripoff of my TBC UI?

Sexy.

That's what i mean Ryas ....

Bridonna · 10/03/07, 9:18 AM

Caith · 10/03/07, 11:17 AM

fixed the mm ..

Xelopheris · 10/03/07, 11:19 AM

Ryas, which texture do you use for your UF Bars?

savantido · 10/03/07, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by Xelopheris

Ryas, which texture do you use for your UF Bars?

How many times a day do we get this question?

Glamour7
custom_textures.rar - FileFront.com

Ryas · 10/03/07, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Halkyon

I really love how much this UI has evolved through symbiosis; now I'm gonna borrow a couple of your ideas.

What would that make it, Saeto? My ripoff of Ryas' ripoff of my ripoff of your ripoff of my TBC UI?

Sexy.

(I (re)use ripoff endearingly, blame Rob!)

Haha, of course I knew what you meant! I even said straight up I was ninjaing the layout.

Originally Posted by savantido

How many times a day do we get this question?

Glamour7
custom_textures.rar - FileFront.com

It's a never ending battle Tap.

lazerpewpew · 10/03/07, 12:45 PM

Not a big fan of the minimalist approach. I like my screen lit up with actions when I am in raid.

And also a big fan of X-perl, the new big debuff icons feature is really neat.

Teohetimokan · 10/03/07, 1:41 PM

Originally Posted by lazerpewpew

Not a big fan of the minimalist approach. I like my screen lit up with actions when I am in raid.

And also a big fan of X-perl, the new big debuff icons feature is really neat.

omg O_O my eyes... it burn!

lazerpewpew · 10/03/07, 1:46 PM

Originally Posted by Teohetimokan

omg O_O my eyes... it burn!

I know it is against the minimalist approach.

But it gets my adrenaline going. And I like stuff to be flashy.

Thanks to the hard working mod writers and nvidia, the performance is not so bad for all the flash stuff.

Balroy · 10/03/07, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by Kelfar

You need to download SharedMedia from files.wowace.com

Put your fonts in there and then add some stuff to the .lua file.

Go into C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\SharedMedia

Click SharedMedia.LUA

Where it says

-- -----
--   FONT
-- -----
	SML:Register("font", "Adventure",				[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Adventure.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Bazooka",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Bazooka.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "BigNoodleTilting",		[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\BigNoodleTilting.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "BlackChancery",			[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\BlackChancery.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Diablo",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Avqest.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Emblem",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Emblem.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Enigma",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Enigma__2.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Movie Poster",			[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Movie_Poster-Bold.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Porky's",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Porky.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Tangerine",				[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Tangerin.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "TwCenMT",					[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Tw_Cen_MT_Bold.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "Yellowjacket",			[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Yellowjacket.ttf]])
	SML:Register("font", "CenturyGothic",			[[Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\CenturyGothic.ttf]])

Copy one of these -
SML:Register("font", "Adventure", Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\Adventure.ttf)

And replace these parts with the Name of your font and the file name

-
SML:Register("font", "FontNameLeaveQuotations", Interface\Addons\SharedMedia\fonts\FilenameofFont.ttf)

I cant open the .lua file, says windows cant open it, but can you open it in wordpad like the TOC files? If so let me know so i may try this and put in some new fonts =D, also after i do this can i drag that font into the font folder or will i get that font for putting the font name in the quotation areas you showed me.

savantido · 10/03/07, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Balroy

I cant open the .lua file, says windows cant open it, but can you open it in wordpad like the TOC files? If so let me know so i may try this and put in some new fonts =D, also after i do this can i drag that font into the font folder or will i get that font for putting the font name in the quotation areas you showed me.

Yes - you can use Wordpad to edit the file. Put all the fonts you want to use in the fonts folder under SharedMedia and just add the name and path for each font as listed there.

Nuke · 10/03/07, 2:17 PM

Originally Posted by lazerpewpew

Not a big fan of the minimalist approach. I like my screen lit up with actions when I am in raid.

And also a big fan of X-perl, the new big debuff icons feature is really neat.

This is not about minimalistic even. You cant even optimize your ui look.
Top Left bar is almost fully binded,yet visible.
Menu bar - whats that one for.
Whats the point of having EBB if you have Buffs enabled on your player frame.
Much of small stuff which is utterly useless.

lazerpewpew · 10/03/07, 2:30 PM

Originally Posted by Nuke

This is not about minimalistic even. You cant even optimize your ui look.
Top Left bar is almost fully binded,yet visible.
Menu bar - whats that one for.
Whats the point of having EBB if you have Buffs enabled on your player frame.
Much of small stuff which is utterly useless.

Thanks for the advices!

I can auto-hide the top left bar and menu bar. The buff thing is troublesome though. As a DW Fury warrior, I wanna know that when my rampage expires so I can recast it in time not to lose the attack power.

That is why I keep the buffs on top my player frame.

But I also would like to know how much time is left for my regular buffs, namely fort, mark and several pally buffs, so I can click them off and ask for new ones.

That is why I keep EBB bars on the side.

Yes it is quite troublesome and redundant, what can I do to improve that?

Kaelvanas · 10/03/07, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by Nuke

This is not about minimalistic even. You cant even optimize your ui look.

I didn't realize this thread was about minimalism, but about finding a UI (or parts of one) that work for you/him/me. For most of us, elegance and minimalism are helpful and desirable. In his case, he likes flashy stuff. It helps him have situational awareness cues, or the like. I realize one of the earlier UI threads said "post something that represents good design...", but many don't even know what that is. I'm not even sure I do.

In this case, his design choice was specifically for MORE information showing, rather than less. I think that's valid, even if you or I think it's ugly or potentially redundant.

I think a ton of the clutter would be reduced if he hid the party interface in his raid (since he has Grid). *shrugs*. The rest of it, I can see value in most of it.

(For example, I have a ton of bindings, but still show my bars... so ~60 buttons on-screen. I don't like it, but it's effective. I haven't figured out how I'd manage to survive with only ~24 slots visible, since so often there are optimal things I want to hit at any given time, and they aren't always things I use often enough to have the bindings in muscle memory.)

edit:
You post great points about the small tweaks that can be made for optimization. I think we're all trying to refine our UI to something that doesn't get in the way, but that lets us be most effective. I think it's good that we can see examples of unoptimized UIs that we can criticise, and identify WHY they are good, or WHY parts are undesirable. Your point about redundant debuff/buff information is especially helpful.