OnScreenHealth provides basic text displays of health and power for yourself, your target, and your pet.
- Shows health and power for player, target, and pet
- Shows target-of-target name
- Shows combo points
- Shows combat status
- Can be hidden while out of combat or while dead
- Customizable text formats, fonts, colors, transparency, and position
- Supports LibSharedMedia-3.0 for additional fonts
Usage
Type /onscreenhealth or /osh in-game to access the options.
Localization
OnScreenHealth is completely locale-independent, so it will work in any locale. The options text is currently localized for English, Russian, and Korean clients. If you would like to provide translations for the another locale, please send me a PM.
Future Plans
- Hide/show pet frame independently
- More flexible show/hide states
- More flexible text formatting
How To Request Features
Post a ticket.
Please note that OnScreenHealth is intended to be very minimalistic in nature, and show only vital information. It is not intended to be a unit frame replacement, or a full HUD. In keeping with this intent, OnScreenHealth will never include unit names (other than the ToT), levels, classes, creature types, classifications, buffs, debuffs, or spell casts.
How To Report Bugs
Post a ticket after you've verified that the problem hasn't already been reported. Be sure to include all of the requested information in your ticket. If you do not include enough information for me to identify the problem, I will probably just close your ticket.
License
Please do not redistribute OnScreenHealth in compilations without asking me first. See the license page or the README included in the download for the full license terms under which OnScreenHealth is released. Thanks!
3.0.3.29 (2008-11-14)
- Fix power text for death knights (for real this time)
3.0.3.28 (2008-11-13)
- Fix power text for death knights
3.0.2.17 (2008-10-23)
- Fix combo points
3.0.2.15 (2008-10-21)
- Fix combo point errors in WoW 3.x
- Remove support for MobHealth3 / LibMobHealth-4.0 (no longer needed)
- Remove support for LibSharedMedia-2.0 (nobody should still be using this dinosaur)
- Update README and TOC for WoW 3.x, including copyright notice and full license terms
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)...
