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?
I adore ArcHud and I have a slight but persistent and distracting problem. When I play my (mistweaver) monk, the bar on the right where I assume chi is displayed continually flashes a dull grey regardless of how many chi points I have. This happens both in and out of combat.
Please excuse me if I'm missing something completely obvious, but is there a way to fix this? I've been using ArcHud for years and the game just isn't the same without it so I have to try to ignore this playing my monk.
Thank you for keeping this fantastic addon going for so long!
Thanks, I will look into it. Meanwhile, you can disable the Chi-Bar entirely in the addon's configuration.
Just tested it with a Mistweaver and could not reproduce it. Could you make a screenshot?
Is there a way to reverse the DK rune bar so that unholy runes are on the top and blood runes are on the bottom? I couldn't find an option for it and would prefer it to be that way.
I'll try to put it into the next release. Open a ticket to be sure that I will not forget about it ;-)
I have recently been having issues with the cast bar on archud where sometimes it will not show channeling/casting. I notice this most, possibly only on my mage characters no clue why and was wondering if you knew how/if I could fix this?
No, haven't noticed or heared about it. Are there any lua-errors associated with it or is there any mean to reliably reproduce it for you?
Hello,
i have a big problem with archud. i have turned all things off just the bars are there. when i go with the mouse around the bars then i can see the target and the targets target even if it is turned off, what can i do?
i am a mouseplayer and everytime i do a click to turn me i cant because i click on the hidet targetframe...
Strange. Did you disable them both under "Display Options" and "Nameplate Options"?
Hello,
yes i have disabled all, under Display Options and Nameplate Options. Here are some screens. On the LUI Frame Identifier you can see what the Frames are called, when i mouseover.
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5042/wowscrnshot010613101344.jpg
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/1239/wowscrnshot010613101351.jpg
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/686/wowscrnshot010613101354.jpg
I found a solution, but i must do this everytime i reload ui or logon. i can hide these frames thru a script in a macro.
now i just want to know how to build a addon so it will hide it automatically.
Well it seems more like a bug than something you need to build an addon for ;)
I have those frames disabled myself and could not reproduce this. Could you try to save and then delete ArcHUD's config from the WTF folder and reconfigure it ingame? If that solves your problem, please send me your old config via the ticket system (same login as with curse).
I have uninstalled and deleted and reinstallt but it ist the same. i think there is aproblem with another addon. but i have 160 addons installed, most of them works in the background, and to find the addon which makes the problem, will be hard :-)
now i have moved the frame outside my monitor above right corner, so it is ok. thank you.
best regards.
Gosh, ok. But you mentioned that it also happens if everything else is disabled?
The problem does not appear if all other addons are off, then your addon works just fine. but it is ok just how it is now. thank you.
@atreestump
In the config under "Positioning" you can unlock the frames and move them freely on your screen. After you are finished, you should lock them again. Does this help in what you are trying to accomplish?
Maybe this already exists, but it would be nice to have the target info above the bottom left and right action bar. I guess it's in a good place for the ones who don't use them but i can't see it where my action bars are
Hey there, there seems to be an issue with the DK runes ring where I cannot move the side it anchors to, nor can I move the number placement of the arc so it's basically stuck in that one place.
Minor annoyance but I've gotten so used to having enemy statistics displayed on the Right side and my own on the left. Thanks for an awesome addon btw :)
I'll look into it, thanks.
Chi point tracker is displaying worng for me, shows "1...." does not track chi points but looks like it's tracking energy instead.
Thanks, fixed with v2.1.1.