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?
Could you briefly describe their resource model or point me to some resource on the Internet?
Brewmasters no longer have a resource except for energy. No Chi, no rage.. literally only energy. If possible, removing the Chi arc altogether would be incredibly beneficial for just the Brewmaster spec.
Just posting an update on this. It appears 7.1 "automagically" fixed this issue. ArcHUD is no longer building "Chi" for Brewmasters which is ideal.
Hi there,
There seems to be a problem with refreshing combat points during combat.
At least for now noticed on Warlock that number of available shards is not refreshing.
Will check on other classes later on.
EDIT: Never mind... didn't have it ticked in options ;-p
Works fine!
Looks like you guys progressed a hole of a lot while i was on vacation, and there is no need to post my code as you have fixed the animations and the runes.
Thank you nyyr & jasonolive for the fixes and all the good work you guys have been doing. :)
I'm using this add-on for years now and I love it. After the last update I did (Didn't play wow for a few months so i'm not sure how many versions I missed) I noticed there is a power bar fading in in the centre while engaging combat and fading out again once combat is done. I've never noticed it before so it has to be a new feature but I'm a bit annoyed by it as i have the info on the rings already. I've been searching through the options pane and tried a few but I couldn't manage to disable that specific bar. Does anyone know where to look for it?
It is built into WoW now with the legion pre-patch. To turn it off, go to Interface options, Names, and uncheck Personal Resource Display.
Thanks for this info. Didn't know it was from WoW itself. I'll try this once the servers are up again.
is worth to mention that on balance druid it tries to track eclipse swings
how I can disable that?
Could you try to describe the issue in more detail?
If you want to disable the eclipse-ring, you can do so in the addon settings.
I uploaded a beta version with the new changes from jasonolive (thanks again):
In addition there is a Chinese translation now included (thanks to yuningning520).
Can anybody test these changes an confirm here? I'll than create a new release for everybody.
PS @jasonolive: I didn't include the pulse animation changes. The reason why it is done manually is to synchronize the pulse based on system time. It is pretty likely that the pulse becomes asynchronous with the pure animation class.
Thanks for the updates - your code is clean and thoughtful, so it is easy to integrate ;-)
That's brilliant, I didn't even think of that one. I can definitely see 2 rings wanting to pulse and them not pulsing together could be an annoyance.
at first: thx for the update!!!
this ist the best HUD i ever used in WoW.
i have one wish:
could you put in a ring for the warrior tanks?
i would like to see my "shield" from ignore-pain
(http://www.wowdb.com/spells/190456-ignore-pain)
a friend of mine use ice-hud or something and see the "load" of the shield
excuse my bad english
faithfully
Riggs
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAAAAAANK YOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to pay you money! This addon is my lifeline! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
You have to thank all the other supporters for pushing me ;-) And of course, jasonolive who saved me a lot of time.
If you want to donate, you can actually do that (see donate-button above).
I second this!!! You guys are awesome. Nyyr, you ROCK!!! And yes, double thanks again to Jasonolive!!! I have money coming in a week or so. Donation on the way! But I know you guys do it for the love of the game. We really appreciate that :-D
Thanks, nyyr!
More updates...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4479488/ArcHUD3.zip
@Nyyr, from your latest commit, rev 158, here is a patch file for you.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4479488/ArcHUD3.patch
jasonolive, you must be a rock star in real life because you sure are rocking the ArcHUD fixes.