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?
If I may add a request - I use the current hud (IceHud) to track debuffs on the target too, however, it shows my debuffs only, while ArcHUD shows them all and can't find easily what I want. Can you add an option to show my debuffs only? Thanks.
Date: 2011-05-13 19:30:14
ID: 1
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Message: ..\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Locales\deDE.lua line 8:
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Debug:
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ArcHUD3\Locales\deDE.lua:8: in main chunk
reverting back.
Combopoint counter is turned on, but the holypower counter only updates if i switch ist off then on again in the config menu.
But for itselfe it stops counting.
Anny ideas?
ArcHUD3 is developed for WoW 4.x only since I have no means to test it with older versions. Please use ArcHUD2 for WoW 3.x.
Hi...
I have a problem .. im playing Wrath of the lich king patch 3.3.5a
but the arcs dont appear ... the addon is working i know cuz i can see my name and the target's image and the others stuff idk if is my bad config or the archud3 is just for cataclysm....????
how can i cancel the fading effect???
Thnx
This link for sm Unit Frames seems solid:
http://dl.qj.net/pc-gaming/mmorpg/world-of-warcraft-smunitframes.html
though i figure it'd prob be difficult to set up though...
well i found some DLs when i googled it.... 2 from chineese and 1 from worldofwar or wow something.... altho they all were from 2006 so... if you want i can skype it or email it to you ? [email protected] skype ThisIsBunny
Yes, it was based on NurfedHUD, though there is probably not much left from it. I didn't find smUnitFrames anywhere for download - you have a pointer to it?
btw.... any idea if archud is closed to or base on nerfed hud or something like that ? cause i am trying to find someone who wants to help with smUnitFrames.... i had a quick look at it and doesnt need that much work... just can quite understand it sense i have below low knowladge of programming. + i think it works from english and goes thrue french :(
my bad.... the addon was smUnitframes so sorry :D