Happy Holidays/UI/Addons/varia
I know, it’s been rather quiet on this site. The holidays are a good opportunity to step back from the game though, enjoy some RL stuff or just relax in-game. So don’t expect any big updates on this site in the next few days.
In WoW, I’ve spent my raid-free time with leveling a warlock on my girlfriend’s account. I just couldn’t bring myself to start an own lock at level 1. So I’m currently at lvl 75, enjoying SL/FG leveling. At the same time I’m still tweaking my UI. I ditched the pixel font from my last WIP, this just didn’t work out for my eyes. I then tried to get an old-school Lyn-look, this UI compilation textures/fonts bring back so many good memories.
WIP with Lyn textures
While working on this layout I was amazed to find out, that Lyn updated his latest UI layout here. I wasn’t all to happy with the functionality of the oUF layout though, so I adapted the looks into Stuf. Also, I went from Filger to rFilter2, Filger somehow doesn’t track debuffs correctly in my case. I’m quite happy with the result so far.
Stuf adaption of most recent Lyn UI
This just leaves me with one big question. Teal from screenshot one or the more standard blue from screenshot two? I just can’t decide.
Various stuff:
- If you’re looking for actual content: I love Vixin’s latest post on viability of theorycrafting in the real raiding world.
- AlphaButtons is a fantastic little addon for cooldown management. It will apply a low alpha value to everything off the cooldown, making the buttons transparent if they are not on cooldown. This works with Dominos or Bartender. You can also specify if this should work with all bars or just a few selected (in my screenshot only bar 4 is activated, that’s the bar on the left side of Grid).
- LFGStatusIcon is a very sweet little addon, which makes the status of your group searching visible right on the minimap button.
- Last but not least: I finally switched my dual spec back to enhancement. I’m loving it, very complex but great flow. A most welcome break from the rather simple elemental DPS rotation.
Guys and Girls: Blue or Teal? Any good enhancement blogs? Any good Christmas stories? Or any good addon tips?
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Blue, definitely.
Teal just sticks out to the point of being distracting IMO.
For enhance I got to Big Hit Box (http://bighitbox.com/). Stoneybaby’s pretty cool
Christmas stories… there was a guy on my server giving out presents if you got onto the top of the Christmas tree in Org ^^ I thought it was sweet!
Your Stuf adaptation looks great. I played around with Stuf very briefly and then went to the out of the box ouf layouts. Just too much work setting it all up. Share your settings?
I am not an oldschool shaman, so I say blue instead of teal.
Okay, another stupid question, what font are you using? I really like it.
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As always most of the UI WIP you post are quite interesting, too bad you haven’t provided us with a download link of the current WIP package you are showing to us. Perhaps that way we could try it out, provide some better critique and/or helpful hints or modifications and see how it plays out.
So /vote for a download link on this one please
Thanks!
Upload is ready: http://www.shieldsup.ch/2009/12/28/ui-wip-v2/
The font is Myriad Pro Semibold without any capital letters. This can be somewhat confusing if you use correct grammar or a lot of abbreviations. In this case, just use the standard font for the chat window. The font which will be used for your chat window is called ARIALN.ttf in your Fonts folder.