Small enhancement for the standard player, target and party frames.
What to do?
Enter '/cleanplayerframe' to access option window.
Leave untouched - Addon does not change player frame text.
Hide text - Addon removes text 'health', 'mana', 'rage', 'engergy' from the player frame.
Show only current value - Only show your current health or mana / rage / energy value. Same is true for your pet.
Disabled - Do not show party member health at all.
Show health values - Show health value right to the respective party frame. It will copy the text layout from the player frame. So, if you have selected Show only current value in the option player frame above, it will also just display the current health value. Otherwise it will display 'current health / max health'.
Show colorized health values - Same, but also change color according to health status.
Show colorized health values + assist messages - Same, but display a message if health gets critical. See notes at end of documentation.
Disabled - Do not overlay target frame with any information.
Show current value if possible, otherwise percent - If the exact hp or mana value of the target is known it is displayed, otherwise displayed as percent.
Show always percent - Even if the exact value is known, it is always displayed as percent.
Show both - If exact values is known, it is displayed togehter with value in percent.
Use font without outline - A font without shadow / outline is used for target and party frame overlays.
Use font with outline - A font with shadow / outline is used for target and party frame overlays.
- Option Colorize health bars
If enabled, the player / target / party health bars will change color according to their status.
- Option Show party member health in percent
If enabled, the health of party members is displayed on top of their health bars.
- Option Use small font for player frame
If enabled, the the font used to overlay the target and party frame is assigned to the player frame.
- Option Use 3D models on player, party and target frame
If enabled, the 2D portraits are replaced by the actual 3D models. If a party member is to far away, his 3D model can not obtained, the 2D portrait is displayed then.
Make your choice and press Okay button.
Note on assist messages
At the party combo box you can choose to show messages. This option will display a message right to the party member frame, if the health drops below a certain point.
Currently there are only two messages in. If you play a Priest and you enable this option, it will show 'Healing recommended' if health below 45% and 'Heal NOW!' if health below 30%. See file localization.lua to change the message and / or generate new ones for your class. There will be no GUI to setup this.
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 has 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)...