ArcHUD3
Help wanted: I'm no longer playing, so please help with creating Pull Requests on GitHub. If you are an author or programmer and if you are interessted in taking over this project, please let me know.
ArcHUD displays smooth arcs around your character in the middle of the screen to inform you about the health and power (mana, rage, ...) of you, your pet, and your target. In addition, it shows casts, combo points, holy power, soul shards, and a couple of other things. It discretely fades when you are out of combat and at full health/power.
This is a continuation of ArcHUD2 which managed to survive various patches... until the Cataclysm. Thanks to Nenie, the original author of ArcHUD2, for supporting me with this new version.
Please report any bugs or feature requests via the ticket system.
These arcs are currently supported:
- Health and power (mana, rage, focus, energy, runic power) for player, pet, target, and focus target
- Player's secondary power (Holy Power, Soul Shards, Chi etc.)
- Casting/channelling progress for player, target, and focus target
- Fatigue/breath (mirror timer)
- Combo points (including unconsumed combo points on previous target, e.g. on dead corpses)
- Custom (de)buff arcs: Ever wanted to keep track of the stacks and/or remaining times of some specific (de)buffs such as Evangelism, Savage Roar, Beacon of Light, Weakened Soul, etc? Then just create your own custom (de)buff arc for it!
In addition, some additional target information is displayed:
- Current target (name, class, guild, 3D model)
- Current (de)buffs on target
- Target-of-target and target-of-target-of-target
Small warning: Using this addon apparently bears a high risk of getting addicted to it, as these user comments suggest. I received those after taking over the development of ArcHUD when the Cataclysm happened:
- "...nothing ever quite matched the smooth, clean simplicity of ArcHUD's graceful rings."
- "Great job!! I've used this addon for years! None of the other HUDs come close to the functionality and elegance of ArcHUD."
- "Thanks for the work on it so far, much more lightweight than IceHud!"
- "Was staring at the various icehud/metahud alternatives with discomfort and sadness right after the patch [4.0]."
- "Awesome! Thank you so much for that miracle!"
- "Thank you so much for continuing this fantastic addon."
- "...nothing could compare to ArcHUD..."
- "For a whole 4years I had this mod and I missed it so much in the passed few weeks. I tried other HUD mods but they were too in my face >.< . Best HUD mod IMO! Thanks for resurrecting an old friend :D"
- "Loving the new ArcHUD my favorite HUD by far :)"
- "I don't think I could play wow without this addon :)"
- "I've actually grown kind of dependent on it because I'll occasionally run out of Mana/ die without this."
- "Hey mate, just came to thank You again for taking over this beauty, awesome job!"
- "THAT addon! So long I have been searching for a replacement when the development stopped, thanks for bringing it back to live!"
So use it at your own risk ;)
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I add a arc for a specific buff/debuff (remaining time & stacks)?
- Where is my Combo Point/Soul Shard Numeric Indicator?
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Posted Aug 18, 2012Thanks ;)
This issue might be related to the mouse-over issue desribed here: http://www.wowace.com/addons/archud3/tickets/52-invalid-click-target-name/
It should be fixed in current alpha and will be available as beta once 5.0.4 hits.
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Posted Aug 8, 2012The Pet Power arc is not responding to changes to the side anchor point- when I change it to left side it stays on the right. Any ideas?
I installed today, v1.0(r50) on the Pet Power page under Arc Options.
Side note- why does each arc option have a different version number?
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Posted Aug 8, 2012Thanks for the ticket.
Regarding the version numbers: Each arc is considered a module which could be distributed independently of ArcHUD. This is mainly important for 3rd party arcs (none of them exist to my knowledge). For arcs shipped with ArcHUD, this just shows whether there have been some major updates.
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Posted Jul 26, 2012Is there a way to have Holy Power show up like a Druid/Rogue combo point number on the HUD? I find it harder to use the arc at a quick glance with my healing, and think that would be a lot simpler.
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Posted Jul 26, 2012Yes: [ESC] / Interface / AddOns / ArcHUD / Combo points options
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Posted Jul 17, 2012Any plans for a mop beta release?
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Posted Jul 17, 2012Not before August, sorry. Too busy at the moment...
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Posted Jun 29, 2012Thanks for updating this, I used the original ArcHUD and for a while I didn't think I was going to find a replacement back in the day until I found this. I hope you continue development in to MoP as this is one of the addons I can't live without!
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Posted Jun 9, 2012Brilliant Addon, makes life so much easier, only comment i could make would be that it doesn't show the cooldown on runes for Death Knights, if that was added it would be flawless. :)
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Posted Jul 24, 2012Yes, this is on the long-term TODO list. If you have any suggestion on how to integrate it graphically in the HUD, feel free to add a ticket with a picture: http://www.wowace.com/addons/archud3/tickets/
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Posted May 19, 2012Awesome addon, really like it.
One thing: while I know how to conceal the player text/percentage HP/power quantities, I would like to be able to move them as well. Or maybe have them reanchor to the same side (left/right) as their corresponding arc does. I don't think this is currently possible. Would that be too hard to implement?
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Posted Jul 24, 2012I try to add something with the MoP release. If you want get sure, please open a ticket: http://www.wowace.com/addons/archud3/tickets/
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Posted Aug 26, 2012reanchoring them is now possible (see options in health/power arcs)
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Posted May 17, 2012now that I look at it I don't have that style of menu as in your picture
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Posted May 18, 2012You'll find the settings menu in the addons tab of your interface settings ([ESC] / Interface / Addons / ArcHUD). There you can also change the positions of the arcs and the nameplates.
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Posted May 17, 2012is there a way to make this more customizable? like I would like to change some of the health formats and positioning and positioning the bars, nameplates, and other trivial things.
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Posted Apr 30, 2012I see a fresh update :-) Gonna test it today.
On a side note, don't know if you're using a 64 wow client, if you would you would notice there are taints on bars, like... half bar visible on target health during fight or when my hp bar half cuted when I use faign death etc. Can do more accurate description or post pics if needed.
Anyway, first things first - off to testing!
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Posted Apr 30, 2012Thanks for your continuous feedback ;)
There was indeed a graphical glitch which happend for me often (and only) to the target's cast ring. Now that you mention it, it might be related to the 64bit client... (I didn't encounter it before). Anyway, it was an issue of the ring template, so it might well happen on other rings as well. If it is the same bug, it *should* be fixed in v1.4 beta 1. Happy testing ;)
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Posted Apr 21, 2012Date: 2012-04-21 16:59:06
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AddOns:
Swatter, v5.13.5258 (BoldBandicoot)
ArcHUD3, v1.3
DebugLib, v5.1.DEV.312(/embedded)
Prat30, v3.4.25
Prat30HighCPUUsageModules, v
Prat30Libraries, v
SlideBar, v5.13.5258 (BoldBandicoot)
Stubby, v5.13.5258 (BoldBandicoot)
BlizRuntimeLib_ruRU v4.3.4.40300 <eu>
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