Stuf is a replacement to StellarUF. Stuf has the same initial layout and feel of StellarUF, but Stuf is highly customizable.
Do not expect much since this mod's purpose is to replace the Blizzard's main unit frames, not other unit frame mods. I'll most likely deny requests to copy random features.
Noteworthy Recent Additions:
- Option to only show custom text on mouse-over
- Latency indicator for player casting bar
- Stuf_VisualHeal (you need to delete old Stuf_IncomingHeals)
- Arena Frames
- ButtonFacade support for aura icons
- Option to use Lua instead of text patterns for advanced users
- Option to save per character
Supported Units:
- Player, pet, and pet target
- Target, target of target, and target of target of target
- Focus and target of focus
- Party with their pets and targets
- Arena with their pets and targets (new in v3.1.005)
- StufRaid - main raid, raid pets, and raid roles (tanks/assist) and their target and target of target (does not and will not support oRA2/CTRA MT/PT)
Notable Features:
- Easy transition from Blizzard default frames
- Cast bars for the main units
- Dispellable debuff visual
- Target and focus timer bars for your buffs/debuffs
- Threat bars on target and focus
- Shaman totem timers, Death Knight rune bars, and Druid mana bar
- Low memory and CPU usage compared to popular unit frame mods
- Customization similar to Discord Unit Frames
- LibSharedMedia-3.0 support for textures and fonts
- Ace3 dialog config is used for the options GUI
- Stuf_VisualHeal - LibHealComm-4.0 support for incoming heals for Stuf and/or StufRaid (disabled by default)
- Stuf_Range - LibRangeCheck-2.0 support for estimated distance on target and focus
- Clique support for click-casting
- ClassColors custom class color and ConfigMode support for one-button-config
- ButtonFacade support for aura icon skins
How to Use:
- Basic - make sure Stuf_Options is enabled; it's required for initializing defaults and changing settings
- Options menu - "/stuf" or check the Addons tab in Interface Options
- Hide party in raid - Stuf obeys Blizzard's option to "Hide Party Interface in Raid"
- Show/Hide elements - many are hidden/shown by setting the alpha or color alpha to zero
- Slider nudging - (bug Ace3 people for a better way), I do the following:
- Move your cursor over the text above the slider, a tooltip should be showing.
- Move your cursor up until the tooltip disappears.
- Left-click.
- Move your cursor back over the slider until the tooltip reappears.
- Now you can nudge using mouse wheel.
- For sliders, you can also manually input values and press enter.
- Many options, so I suggest checking each option one-by-one
- StufRaid:
- Options menu - "/stufraid" or check the Addons tab in Interface Options
- Basic - StufRaid does not require Stuf, and Stuf does not require StufRaid
- Special text - install UTF8 to support special characters for the name text sub-string feature
Features Lacking (forever):
- No profiles, but you can save per character. Profiles would at least double the memory usage (plus more for each profile you create) of Stuf due to its massive saved variables. Check out Reflux to add profiles options to Stuf and other mods.
- Showing raid instead of party frames when in a party.
- Advanced buff/debuff filtering for main units.
- Switching frames when in vehicle
- Full-featured casting bar (no GCD, breathe, cooldowns, etc)
- Anything that would really kill performance and lack usefulness
- Anything for which already has a great standalone mod
Known Issues:
- You cannot right-click Stuf's player buff icon to cancel shape-shift forms (ie. druid forms and shadow form) since they're protected now.
Please visit here for support.
3.2.007 11/06/2009:
- added support for 3.3 LFG role icons to player, target, and party
- load class specific elements only when necessary
- fix enemy units showing up as neutral when player is in vehicle
- fix Target/Combat Opacity issues where units do not show up initially
- hopefully fix all errors with leader/loot icons and group number when target frame is disabled
- update several libraries
3.2.006 10/30/2009:
- added support for 3.3 boss frames (not tested)
- reduced initial load time and memory usage by not building elements for frames that are not in use
- fix error that occurs when target is disabled when showing group numbers
- added options to buff/debuff icons and totem timers to make them non-interactive
- changed the word "Hide" to "Disable" in options
- default font will now depend on the client's localization
- Stuf_VisualHeal - updated to LibHealComm-4.0, don't upgrade if you need LHC3
3.2.005 09/23/2009:
- added option to only show custom text on mouseover
- fixed "Only on Mine" option for aura text timers
- minor options tweak
3.2.004a 09/13/2009 - fixed nil error caused when using aggro tag (only need to update if you get this error)
3.2.004 09/04/2009:
- added smooth fading for applicable bars
- added ConfigMode support
- fixed some rare nil errors
3.2.003 08/13/2009:
- update LibHealComm-3.0 to latest revision, may fix "You aren't in a party." spam
- tweaked aggro detection code
3.2.002 08/04/2009 - fix loading issues on fresh variables
3.2.001 08/04/2009 - toc to 3.2
3.1.017 07/31/2009:
- added option to show latency in player's casting bar
- added vehicle icon to player and party, hidden by default
- range fading will now fade on dead units
- added option to hide the text frame if there is no text to display
- added optional text frame argument to the Lua text function
- updated LibHealComm-3.0
- removed old 3.1 checks
- added option "Only Mine in Include Filter" to raid buff filter
3.1.016 07/24/2009 - initial upload
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)...
