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.
v3.1 Update: This addon no longer uses the fubar / minimap icon. Settings are now available in the standard Interface>Addons menu.
Usage
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.
Art Packs are available on this site.
Custom Artwork
It's not difficult to create your own artwork if you have the right tools:
- Resize your artwork to 1536*256 (1536x512 for wider panels)
- Divide your artwork into 3 similar sized panels, left, centre and right, each with dimensions 128, 256 or 512 (these are the only dimensions that WoW will support).
- Save each panel as (or convert them to) Targa (.tga) format and place then in the Interface/Addons/SunnArt folder with the names custom1.tga, custom2.tga and custom3.tga.
- Select "Custom" from the themes menu in the options in-game.
eg. the left panel should be called custom1.tga, the center panel called custom2.tga and the right panel called custom3.tga.
To set an overlap (for artwork containing transparency) please see the CustomTheme.lua file.
To add addition custom themes, please see the CustomTheme.lua file.
CustomTheme.lua should be opened in any plain text editor such as notepad.
Submitting Artwork
If you have artwork that you would like to submit for Art Pack 10 and onward, please mail it to sunnart@uksf.com and if I like it then I will include it in the next release.
FAQ
Art Packs are not available?
Make sure the art packs are installed in your addons folder, NOT in the SunnArt folder
3.30
- Added options for frame strata
- Added ability to set Battlefield Frame strata
- Added ability to auto-show Battlefield Frame
- UI restructure
3.21
- Added CustomTheme.lua with instructions on how to add custom panels to this addon (open CustomTheme.lua with notepad or any text editor)
3.11
- Fixed an error in the options and settings where no other ACE3 addons are being used.
3.10
- Updated with ACE3
- Settings now available in standard Interface>Addons menu
- All saved settings are reset to default for the new options system
2.26
- Toggle UI now hides/shows minimap dots
2.25
- Updated for 3.1
2.24
- Fixed an issue with unusual screen resolutions / dual monitors. Some users will have to re-set their panel sizes.
- Improved "Toggle UI" functions. Now works in combat.
2.23
- Fixed a typo which caused profile options to disappear from the menu
2.21
- Added better support for transparency with the viewport option enabled
- Added the option to disable rotation of the top panel so that artwork keeps the original orientation
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 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)...
