Death Knight UI's - Page 8

Goetterdaemmerung · 01/16/09, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sonrisa

I know ag_uf rune display is pretty terrible, but I haven't found a rune addon I like and have growned used to it. The thing that irks me, although I'm not sure if this is addon related, is that sometimes blood runes display as if they are death, but they are actually blood, and it messes up my rotation for a couple seconds until I realize it.

I suspect this is yet another deathknight API bug. I noticed this among other rune display bugs, and downloaded an array of different rune mods to watch all at once, and they all displayed the same errors at the same time.

Oke · 01/16/09, 1:33 PM

Out of Comabt:

In Combat:

I tried to keep everything pretty central while trying not to cover my whole screen with addons. I have 2 DogTags that display Bone Shield stacks and whether I have Horn/SoE. The buff timer bar is the only thing that i really have to look away from the center for, which is really just Bone Shield. All my procs are handled with Power Auras...

Red upper half of the circle is Fallen Crusader proc. Orange lower half of the circle is Mirror of Truth. Blue dashes are Freezing Fog. Cross swords are Killing Machine. Finally, the purple ring is Haunted Dreams.

Ive played with most the rune mods out there but most just seem to be to gaudy for what im after. nRune (slightly modified) seemed to fit just right.

Edit: Added DogTag line.

Eucharion · 01/16/09, 3:38 PM

I didn't much fancy waiting for an addon author to create what I was looking for, so I remembered the extreme level of customisation afforded by OpenRDX Open RDX at WowInterface and made this:

Currently, the disease timers and proc bars are created with Elkano's Buff Bars, but I may shift them into RDX too. Not especially visible in the screenshot is the light grey background behind the bars and rune timers, which helps make them more visible.

DapperDan · 01/16/09, 5:41 PM

Originally Posted by Sonrisa

- Purple ring is Boneshield, it turns whiter as charges expire.

What's the process to get this set up? I tried something like this when I first got Power Auras, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

diospadre · 01/16/09, 8:10 PM

You can set auras to only show when you have X amount of stacks of the buff, I suppose you could make copies that show when you have 1 stack, 2 stacks, 3 stacks etc., altering only the color of each one.

Sonrisa · 01/16/09, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by diospadre

You can set auras to only show when you have X amount of stacks of the buff, I suppose you could make copies that show when you have 1 stack, 2 stacks, 3 stacks etc., altering only the color of each one.

Pretty much yes, only problem is I had to redo the timer position for the 4 copies because for some reason that part wouldn't copy over. Also, but this is personal taste really, I made it so that charge 5 had a start animation and charge 1 hade an end animation, and the rest just fade into eachother. However, while writing this I came to realize that maybe it would be better for me to make them all have a transition animation, in order to have an even more direct way of seeing the charges expire.

Sympa · 01/17/09, 1:48 AM

PowerAuras is a very interesting way to solve the problem of displaying information about the buffs and debuffs. I'm going to look in to this and possibly customize some of the graphics. I'll post my mockup later.

Originally Posted by Eliza

Wrong topic. There is already a "discussion" thread about a Rune Addon: Death Knight rune addons: How can we do better?
This thread here is about to post your DK UI.

And no, your "better" is not really better. Tastes are different.

As for you.. well. Grats on not reading my OP or any of the rest of my posts.

level12wizard · 01/17/09, 3:53 AM

If you have issues with NeedToKnow, check out the comments posted HERE on WoWInterface. e4e gives a few suggested fixes that are pretty easy to implement, and have fixed all my issues with it.

Another problem I had other than Unholy Blight being weird was the Bone Shield bar not refreshing properly if it already had charges left when I recast it.

I've got my UI mostly where I want it now, both in terms of functionality and lightweight-ness. One large issue that I can't find a good answer to is displaying target debuffs without it being incredibly sloppy. Normally I hide all debuffs on the target and just go by an external tracker for my debuffs or any stuff I would need to know for arena (Cyclone, HoJ, etc), but doing stuff like riding a bronze drake in Oculus throws me off. I guess I'll give have to track things like those drake charges too.

A lot of UIs I see show all the debuffs on a target, even worse with OmniCC timers running on them, and I think it just looks awful. Unless you're a raid leader I highly doubt you would ever need to see any of it, yet it takes up so much space and causes so much noise from all the different icons.

oll · 01/17/09, 6:24 AM

I have a really annoying problem with my localized interface : I can't find an alert addon that works with "Death Trance !". All my other translated buff/proc work.
It appears that it's related to the white space at the end of the french translation : "Transe mortelle !".
And indeed, I have the same problem with "Slam!" ->"Heurtoir !"

This is really frustrating since that's the most useful proc that doesn't work. I tried with TellMeWhen, NeedToKNow, DK.Notes, and others I don't remember.

Does someone know an addon that work with localized version of "Death Trance!".

Edit : I answered to myself in case of it might help future readers. EventAlert, which uses the spell ID instead of the spell name, should work with every localized interfaces. (It works at least for the french one)

Valora · 01/17/09, 3:02 PM

I'm currently using this UA. In a none solo the action bars wouldn't be shown and instead there would be boss timers/pvp timers but when I'm solo it just looks a bit empty so I enbale the bars again.
Timer above nRune is just for horn of winter. I use nRune and magic runes the former because I like the look and the latter because I wanted a positionable RP bar right below my rune timer.

myrn · 01/18/09, 5:22 AM

What is the name of the party/raid mod being used here? Seeing names and %s only make this UI clean.

Fleischbaum · 01/18/09, 5:39 AM

Originally Posted by myrn

What is the name of the party/raid mod being used here? Seeing names and %s only make this UI clean.

This UI is not made by him. You can get it here: Raynes Burnt Black Cherry Lite : WoWInterface Downloads : Minimalistic Compilations

And the raidframes are Pitbull.

norg · 01/18/09, 7:01 AM

Seriously, can people please stop just saying "heres my ui: [screenshot]"? No one gives a shit what your UI looks like unless you're going to talk about how you've done things and why. In the main 'post your UI' thread they are very strict on this so I don't see why it should be accepted here.

This thread is meant to be about Death Knight-specific UI challenges and the design processes we use to overcome them, not a pointless collection of screengrabs.

Eliza · 01/18/09, 8:44 AM

Originally Posted by norg

Seriously, can people please stop just saying "heres my ui: [screenshot]"? No one gives a shit what your UI looks like unless you're going to talk about how you've done things and why. In the main 'post your UI' thread they are very strict on this so I don't see why it should be accepted here.

This thread is meant to be about Death Knight-specific UI challenges and the design processes we use to overcome them, not a pointless collection of screengrabs.

Cry more please.

And for the "information stuff":

Why it looks like it looks

No extra runic bar because I have already one in my player unitframe. Buffs/Debuffs below and above my player frame so I can see my debuffs fast (-> grobbulus). Same for buffs.

For Runes: Using Runevolution because it's quite nice how it displays the runes. It's position is there so I can see it all the time.

About actionbars, always centered, dont really need them that big.

Now the target frame: My debuffs are the first, so I can see them clearly, ToT text color changes to yellow when target is targeting me. Buffs are small because I dont need them all the time - but disabling them isnt a way for me.

I use MSBT for dmg etc, above my player frame is the incoming damage/healing, above the target is the outgoing damage. In the middle (where the "Fel Intelligence" buff is) are my proccs or buff gains/loss.

And why it is so "minimalism" - because I want to see the f--king game and not panels and stuff.

What's missing at the moment?

I still have to write a nice small debuff display because I sometimes miss my Sudden Death proc.
Also I dont like bars to be honest, so need something different... that is the real "problem".

Addons used

Pitbull for unit frames
Satrina Buff Frames for buff frames
Bartender4 for bars
ButtonFacade for skinning BT4+SBF
MikScrollingBattleText for scrolling combat text
AzCastBar for casting bar

These are the "main" addons you see, minimap and stuff are self written and I think its not needed to mention them.

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Should be enough. Sorry for misunderstanding

Originally Posted by Eucharion

I've tried a few different rune mods, including MagicRunes, and am currently using Runica, although I can't seem to get omnicc to display the countdown text that I think it needs.

You may have to change the size of the buttons in Runica so that it works. When I was written the mod I hadn't OmniCC so don't know why it is not working since I am just reskinning the original Rune Frame.

Kaveli · 01/18/09, 12:58 PM

i see no problem in posting cleverly made ui's without long posts about why they did what they did. Most the time I don't anyone is really reading word for word cause people are just trying to get some ideas on how to make their Ui's. Posting mods that are a bit unusual are always helpful.