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IceHUD

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: 12-09-2009
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Unit Frames, and HUDs
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Project Manager: Parnic
Additional Authors: Nemes , ProfesorNeurus
Current Version: 1.5.16
License: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 427
Downloads Total: 920,667
Favorites: 1,019
Comments: 583
  • About IceHUD
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Summary

IceHUD is another HUD addon in the spirit of DHUD, MetaHUD, and others. It is written completely in the Ace2 framework.

What it is

Player and target health and mana bars, casting and mirror bars, pet health and mana bars, druid mana bar in forms, extensive target info, ToT display, and more

What it is not

A complete unit frame replacement. IceHUD has no party/raid/battleground support.

Short feature list

  • Lots of different textures to make the HUD look like you want
  • Class-specific bars such as combo point counters, sunder application counters, lacerate application counters, Slice'n'dice timers, druid mana trackers, and more
  • Target-of-target bars, Crowd Control timers, Range Finders, Threat meters, and plenty of other helpful modules
  • Lots of DogTag-supported strings for extreme customizability
  • Cast lag indicator (optional)
  • Alpha settings for in combat, target selected, etc.
  • Highly configurable (can totally re-arrange all bars, change text display, etc.)

Slash commands

/icehud - opens the configuration UI to tweak any setting

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do I hide the default Blizzard player, target unit frames and party unit frames?
Type /icehud, expand the "Module Settings" section, click "Player Health" or "Target Health," and check "Hide Blizzard Frame" and/or "Hide Blizzard Party Frame". (NOTE: before version 1.3.7, the player/target unitframes were hidden by default. Follow the same steps to enable them if desired)

2. How do I turn off click-targeting and menus on the player bar?
Type /icehud, expand the "Module Settings" section, click "Player Health," un-check "Allow click-targeting." Note that as of v1.3, there is now an option to allow click-targeting out of combat, but turn it off while in combat.

3. How do I hide the HUD or change its transparency based on combat, targeting, etc.?
Type /icehud, check the "Transparency Settings" section. Nearly any combination of states should be available for tweaking.

4. Even if the rest of the HUD is transparent, the health percentages seem to show up. Why?
Type /icehud, expand the "Module Settings" section, expand "Player Health," click "Text Settings," look for options about keeping the lower/upper text blocks alpha locked. If the text is alpha locked, it will not drop below 100%, otherwise it respects its bar's transparency setting. Player Health/Mana, Target Health/Mana, and pet bars should all have these options.

5. Is there any way to see combo points for Rogues and Druids or sunder applications for Warriors?
Yes, check the "combo points" and "sunder count" modules in the /icehud configuration panel. (Note that these modules may not show up if you're not of the appropriate class to see them. They should be present for their respective classes, however.) There is also a "DruidMana" module for feral druids in forms.

6. Any plans for a range finder?
Why yes! One was added in version 1.3.

7. What's this thing at the top of the player's cast bar and threat bar? It's darker than the rest of the bar. (and may be colored red)
That's the Cast Lag Indicator (or the aggro-pull warning for the Threat bar) that shows you when you can start casting a new spell and still be able to finish the current one (based on your lag to the server). You can disable this in the Player Cast Bar settings under the /icehud configuration screen.

8. Is there a bar that shows breath underwater and if so, how can I adjust it?
Yes, this is called the MirrorBarHandler in the module settings portion of the /icehud configuration. It's called that because it mirrors casting bar behavior, displays more than just breathing (fatigue is one example), and that's what Blizzard calls it. It can be moved/adjusted/resized/etc. as with any other module.

9. There's a long green bar that sometimes shows up below everything else. What is it?
That would be the TargetOfTarget module. That module is available for people who don't want the full ToT health/mana bars, but do want some sort of ToT representation on the screen. It's configurable through the /icehud module settings.

10. IceHUD needs a bar or counter for buff/debuff X!
Good news: as of v1.5, you can create as many bars and counters for any buffs or debuffs you want! Type /icehud and click either "Create custom bar" or "Create custom counter". This will create a module named MyCustomBar# (where # is a number based on how many custom bars you've made so far) or MyCustomCounter#. You can then expand the Module Settings group and modify all sorts of settings on the new custom module. It is highly recommend that you rename the bar as soon as possible to avoid any confusion later. These custom modules are full-featured enough to replace some of the class-specific ones that are already there, but I will leave them so as not to upset people who are already using them.

11. How do I turn off the resting/combat/PvP/etc. icons on the player or target?
Type /icehud, expand Module Settings, expand PlayerHealth (or TargetHealth for targets), click Icon Settings. You can control every aspect of the icons there including location, visibility, draw order, etc.

12. How do I turn off buffs/debuffs on the player's or target's bar?
Type /icehud, expand Module Settings, expand PlayerInfo (or TargetInfo for targets), and set the number of buffs per row to be 0. These cannot be controlled independently (e.g. you can turn off buffs and debuffs, but not just one or the other).

  • Downloads (5)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  IceHUD 1.5.16 Release 3.3.0 64,458 12/9/2009
  IceHUD 1.5.15 Release 3.2.0 49,626 11/11/2009
  IceHUD 1.5.14 Release 3.2.0 83,096 9/10/2009
  IceHUD 1.5.13 Release 3.2.0 59,389 8/15/2009
  IceHUD 1.5.12 Release 3.2.0 49,773 8/4/2009
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    I appreciate all the hard work you've put into it.Very simple.

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  • AbacusBus said

    I've been looking for a great Dot/Buff/Cooldown tracker, and it seems EVERY addon intended for that purpose has something missing and doesn't fit my criteria (I've tried Ellipsis, DoTimer, ClassTimers, NugRunning, Timers, ForteExorcist, and probably a few more that I can't remember). All of them have been either slightly off or way off for what I'm looking to do. This, on the other hand, is absolutely PERFECT.

    Having all this stuff in the center of my screen is distracting to me, so I remove the self/target HP/MP/Cast bars, leaving only my DoT/Buff/CD that I'm concerned about. I'm an elemental shaman, and I have set bars for my Flame Shock duration, Lava Burst cooldown, Elemental mastery duration and cooldown, Heroism (mine or another shaman's) duration on myself. I like that I can set the timers to appear in their designated spots, and be their designated colors, and especially only the spells/abilities I want to monitor and not every stupid buff and debuff that happens.

    Now that that essay is out of the way, my 1 problem. I have set the bars to have the simple straight vertical bar texture. Is there any way to rotate them so the bars are horizontal? Would you please consider implementing this feature (it doesn't seem like it would be too much of a pain in the butt, but what do I know)? It seems like it wouldn't be too bad for the curved (( )) bars either if you only wanted to set them on one side.

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  • Parnic said

    I have had this request many times but don't have time to implement it at the moment. I welcome any and all code submissions if anyone wants to help develop IceHUD. Email me at icehud@parnic.com

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  • asforme said

    Is there any way to set a maximum duration for a bar? Example: Having slice and dice right next to hunger for blood is great, except that when SnD has 10 seconds left and HfB has 15 seconds left, the bars make it look like HfB needs to be refreshed first. If I could set both SnD and HfB to have a maximum duration of 20 seconds (any longer than that and the bar is always full) then I could easily at a glance decide which to refresh first.

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  • Parnic said

    No, there's currently no way to do that.

    However, I would recommend that you simply change the color of HfB versus SnD bars and use the color as a visual indicator of which one needs to be refreshed.

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  • neoxeon said

    Thanks for this great hud addon. Icehud is my "MUST HAVE" addon when playing WOW.

    What I want to know is that: Is there a guide to build a new module?

    I know some parameters(ex. bar width) can be added in .lua files. But how about the texture of bars?

    I have ever tried some tool to convert images into blizzard-type image, but their looks in game are not the same as I expect. Sometimes the bars just disappear, and some times their transparency is gone. So I hope to know if there is any limitation or specification for texture of bar? Or any tool/guide to build texture of bars?

    Thank you.

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  • Parnic said

    You can add custom bar textures by dumping your files in the 'textures' directory and updating IceHUD.lua's validBarList. Just take a look at the textures that are already there and build yours to match it. The .blp format is tricky to get right, so you may be better off leaving your custom textures as .tga's assuming you did the 32-bit transparency correctly (make an alpha channel - it's the only way for the game to read transparency). There is no tool or guide to build bar textures since the mod isn't meant for that level of customization.

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  • david2999 said

    Is there any way to set the refresh rate of the healtbars? They seem to be changing alot slower than the default bars.

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  • Parnic said

    No, there's no way to set the refresh rate. They are triggered by the same events that the default bars are. If you'd rather IceHUD appear to update faster, then you only need to set the animation to be faster. Check the "Animation Duration" setting on any bar.

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  • david2999 said

    Thanks for your reply. I did remove the animation duration option but sadly there's still a considerable diffrence in the update rate of these bars and the default UI. For a casual player this is probably a nonissue, however in PvP and endgame PvE it definetly adds up to reaction times and lag and can cause problems. Hope you don't mind fixing it in a future update, seems like a really nice addon.

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  • Parnic said

    I don't know what to fix :). I'm listening to the same events that the default HUD is listening to so there should be no reason that this is "slower" if the animation is turned off unless they changed something in the game API that I'm unaware of.

    I've never experienced this and this is the first complaint I've ever heard in 3 years about the bars being slow to update, so either something changed in the game or there's something odd about your setup/combination of mods :). I'm happy to help diagnose the problem if you can find out any more information.

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  • david2999 said

    I made a short clip of what im experiencing. The "lag" is not always noticeable. It may be a coincidence but most of the times when I used melee attacks rather than spells the lag would not occur and most of the times when using Hand of Reckoning and Exorcism there would be a very noticeable UI lag. I disabled all addons except Icehud prior to making this clip.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaihBhEkEus

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  • Parnic said

    Thanks for the video. I don't have an active account any more, but I'll see if I can borrow one and reproduce the problem.

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  • MrDreamers said

    y is it when i put it transparent in combat it sometimes stays on 4 a minute or 2 then dissapears?

    but sometimes it does what i want it to that is disappear when im not in combat

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  • Parnic said

    Probably because you're technically still in combat.

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  • hey great addon, but is there any way to turn off the target info text but still see their debuffs?

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  • Parnic said

    Open the Text Settings and erase the lines in there.

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  • tried that, and it did not stay erased :P

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  • Parnic said

    Works fine for me. You pressed 'enter' after erasing what was in the box, right?

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  • sirsamxox said

    Is it possible to include a function allowing you to add your group into bar setup, eg, currently you can see your own health and mana, plus who ever you target, but I would really like to be able to constantly have myself plus 4 others in group (or more) on display to help with a visual aid etc, thanks.

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