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o m g! my priers were listened! (runs to grab ArcHud3!) Thanks mate!

Nyyr will you be keeping the 3D model in this version? It's a big part on why I use the HUD over any other and would be amazing if you continued it!

Archud3 looks awesome, I just have a little personal tweak, is there anyway to get rid of the health text, and just have the percent? Anything in the LUA that i can change. I like to have it pretty simple with just percent and bars.

Awesome job on it, looks extremely smooth. Even in alpha im using it over icehud. Thanks Nyyr.

http://www.wowace.com/addons/archud3/

Nyyr, I salute you in your efforts! Please keep us as updated as possible. I am dying way too much (I'm having to try different huds while I wait for this :D ).
Wish I could help you with the coding... But I havent had any dabbling in LUA coding, so I wouldn't be of much help in development.

My 2 cents: The text at the bottom (and you said something about the 3D icon, include that here too)... Could that be an option to show or hide? I hated that, I like the arcs/percentages and how they faded when full, beyond that I hid most of it off screen anyway...

And again, thank you!

I'd just like to say thanks Nyyr for taking this project on in any capacity. Porting the project to the more current Ace3 platform makes a lot of sense, but is sadly beyond my capabilities. I've had some slight success simply hunting down the broken and outdated code in the ancient ArcHud, unfortunately mostly in restoring the options menus, rather than the actual utility of the addon (the frames themselves). It has however been a learning experience for me, and I'll continue tinkering with it as a pet project while I wait for updates on your own success.

Hero!! Can't wait! :D

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Nooooooo! I can't play this game without this addon!!!!!! pelase updateSASDFASDFASDF

Such a shame, seriously, nothing can replace ArcHud! Please, someone, update.

I've used ArcHud in all of it's incarnations for over four years now. 4.01 seems to have finally killed it, but I'm not going to let it go without a fight. My knowledge of xml and lua is minimalistic bordering on nonexistant, but I've done a cursory examination of the API changes hinted at in the UI and Macro forum as a starting point. My preliminary findings center around the removal of the old global variables from the event handler script. To quote the post in the PTR Addon discussion "* The global variables this, event and arg1[b], [b]arg2... have been removed." These changes have been foreshadowed as far back as 2008, so most maintained addons have long since changed to the new local parameter style variables. Since ArcHud hasn't been updated for a few years now, the code is far behind the times. My first look shows multiple uses of these old-style variables in the core code, as well as in the libraries that make up the bulk of the Ace2 dependencies. When I get some time, I'll try a simple search and replace procedure on each of the pertinent lua's, and see if I can restore any functionality. Regardless of my success, I'll be posting results here in the hopes someone more capable than I might stumble across them.

ArcHud is an important centerpiece to my own UI, and I know it must be for others as well. It's old, it's utilitarian, but I've come to rely on it, and to me it's irreplaceable.

Thank you! You would be the biggest life saver!

I've been using Archud since vanilla, It's gotten to the point now where I won't play without it. Even though people insist that icehud is it's replacement, I hate it. It's a resource hog and doesn't have the simplicity and smoothness I like out of Archud. (I only have the bars and the percentage for each bar). If you updated this or at least made it work for 4.0.1 you would be a saint, this goes to anyone who could help maintain or at least update this for Cata. I would but I have no experience with the coding. If someone could tell me what the change in the LUA to make it work i'm ready to get my hands dirty.

You would indeed be a hero. I played an evening without it and it feels just wrong. Been using it since I started WoW. Can't play without Archud2! =)

This addon is great but it has some redundant features. Such as target 3D image underneath a player. I just want the basic functionality restored - mana/health/energy/casting/combo arcs - will keep my fingers crossed! Best of luck Punkcartoons.