Sunn's Viewport Art allows you to change the size of the rendered world area (viewport) and adds textured artwork in the non-rendered areas.
Usage
Configure the viewport and artwork options using the Minimap icon or FuBar.
Use /sunnart (or /sunn or /sa) for options
Keybindings
Bind a key in the wow options to show/hide the UI and SunnArt graphics
Art Packs
Art packs are optional and should be installed as if they were separate addons (although they are useless without the SunnArt addon).
Extract the zipped folder into your interface/addons folder for it to function.
Previews of the artwork in the packs are available in the screenshots on this page.
Custom Artwork
It's not difficult to create your own artwork if you have the right tools:
- Resize your artwork to 1536*256 (3072x512 for really high resolution images)
- Divide your artwork into 3 similar sized panels, left, centre and right, each with dimensions 128, 256, 512 or 1024 etc (these are the only dimensions that WoW will support).
- Save each panel as (or convert them to) Targa (.tga) format and replace any files in any artpack you like.
eg. you can replace the royal theme by saving your artwork panels as royal1.tga (left panel), royal2.tga (centre panel) and royal3.tga (right panel). place these files in the SunnArt folder and Bob's your auntie - Royal theme now displays your own artwork.
SunnArt fully supports transparencies, I just haven't found a use for it in my own artpacks.
Submitting Artwork
If you have artwork that you would like to submit for Art Pack 5 and onward, please mail it to sunnart@uksf.com and if I like it then I will include it in the next release.
2.12
- Updated toc for wow2.4
2.11
- Updated toc for wow2.3
2.10
- Added further scaling options
- Fixed minimap icon menu
2.00
- Added Left & Right art panels
- Reworked the menu system
- Added alpha (transparency) support
- Added texture scaling options
1.31
- Fixed default theme error for new profiles
1.3
- Separated Themes into separate "Art Packs"
- Added 5 new themes - Blackrock, Burning Crusade, Blue Glow, Scarab, Temporal
1.23
- Fixed frame error when using for the first time
1.22
- Added FuBar plugin
- Added minimap config icon
- Added finetuning options for bar heights
1.21
- Fixed various resizing bugs and initial artwork display
1.2
- Added 5 new themes (Silver, Green, Blue, Orange, Grey)
- Added Keybinding to Show/Hide UI
- Separated Artwork and Viewport - Backgrounds can now be displayed regardless of whether the viewport funtion is enabled or not.
/sunnart artwork
1.13
- Added ace2 profile support. and added an option to toggle the viewport on/off.
/sunnart viewport
- Fixed Deuce Commander compatiblity problem.
1.12
- Updated for 2.0.3.
- Added Viewport changing functions (no need for a separate viewport addon)
{{{
/sunnart top (0-100)
/sunnart bottom (0-100)
}}}
- Fixed problem of bars changing size when UI scale is changed
- Changed theme changing command to /sunnart theme [rogue/tribal/royal/forsaken/none]
1.11
- Added texture to the black area created at the top of the screen by viewport.
1.1
- Added 3 new textures - Tribal, Forsaken and Rogue
- Added commands to change texture theme:
{{{
/sunnart royal (default)
/sunnart tribal
/sunnart forsaken
/sunnart rogue
}}}
/sa and /sunn also work
1.0
- Initial release
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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Zepheus saidI had the same problem but i fix it by clicking the viewport on and Off in the fubarmenu
sorry for my bad english
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piazza702 saidI like this addon, but every time I ALT+TAB out of WoW the art gets messed up. It becomes distorted and pixelated. Anybody else having this problem and is there a way to fix it.
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Egan saidI'm having the same problem. /Reloadui works for me, but i really dont wanna do that every single time :(
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Crankeye saidFinally I can post something here that has been bothering me for a long time; I can't use other theme's that I have installed and I have to reconfigure after every character log-in...
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Sunn saidCrankeye, you have probably installed the themes incorrectly or not enabled them in WoW. The "per character" nature of the settings is by design. It's the way I like it.
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enarra saidI really like SunnArt, been using it for awhile now, but noticed post 2.4 that it is no longer on wowace? I'll bookmark this curse page, I'm happy to see it's still being updated. But everything is so much easier when it can be downloaded with the ace updaters.
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Mae0205 saidWill this be updated for patch 2.4? I just love SunnArt!
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Sunn saidAll the art packs are available in the download list on this page.
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justcallmefred saidArt Pack 5 in the pics says it includes 6 different art backgrounds, when I looked up art pack 5 it says it only adds 2.....is it possible to get the others?The Frozen and Mail ones are really kool!
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Abandon saidI can't seem to find the art packs 1 through 5.
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ixfisherxi saidHow did you configure Prat so that it fits in with the Sunnart?
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Sunn saidNothing to do with Prat. Just resize and reposition the default Blizzard chat windows.
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timdude001 saidok mabye this is just me but ive accidently pressed hide so i could take a screen shot, now i dont no how to get the SA minimap button up, help someone please on how to get it back?
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Sunn said/sunnart hide
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Ket1 saidI am being blind I know but here goes, Ive downlaoded Sunart and all is great but I want one (or more) of the artpacks also. It says I have to extract the zipped folder but I dont see no zipped folder to extract....help :(
Edit: never mind found it o.0
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yllasdivad080 saidI would make a custom artwork... but I have no idea how. With that said, someone who knows what theyre doing should make a Warcraft Three skin, with the artwork from Warcraft Three.
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Elemental123 saidHey I know it's a stupid question, but does this only add the art things or also the UI?
If not what are the names or the other Addons that are used in the screenshots?
Edit: Does this Addon and/or the other mods of the picture are compatible with Titan Panel? (Or is that the bar I see on the top and bottom of the screen? It look a little diffrent)
Edit2: Sorry for editing so much but I forgot to ask: Does this Addon and the other Addons of the picture work in 1680x1050 (widescreen) resolution?
(I haven't played WoW after I got my new monitor so I don't even know if my other Addons work with it, but I was wanted to know)
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Sunn saidThis addon adds a rectangular space at the sides of the screen and optionally resizes the 3D "game" part of the screen to fit around it without distorting the graphics. That's all, no more, no less.
The other addons you see in my screenshots are:
Bongos - Replaces the blizzard action bars and other standard ui things.
X-Perl - My unitframes of choice
Fubar - Exactly like Titan, both will work perfectly although there is an integrated config for Sunnart in Fubar
Other addons I use but you can't really see in the screenies are: Cartographer (map addon that does everything you'd expect from a map addon and more), Prat (customize the chat panels), SimpleCombatLog (for easy reading) and SCT (Scrolling Combat Text - still alot better than blizzards rip-off attempt)
There are so many others that I use - nothing is default blizzard any more, hence I created this addon to provide a space to keep all my addons organised without having all these little windows obscuring my view.
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Vith saidExactly what i was thinking. Can someone link to an addon that can replace the defalt blizzard actionbars n stuff? :o
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silentwarrior saidIn the Art Pack 5, theres skins like frozen or ice mail, but i dont see them on the addon, i have downloaded the art pack 5 (http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8453/) but i only see the Melted faces skin