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What's Overhead?

Overhead at this stage is a very simple nameplate addon. Its purpose is provide additional behaviors inside ARENA ONLY. It does two things:

Hides non-player nameplates in arena (totems, pets, mirror images, etc) and Note: The nameplates aren’t actually hidden, just the art is so you’ll still see them shuffle around if they’re clustered
Displays castbars on all enemy nameplates regardless of target selection.

Enjoy

4.0+ New Features

Now it's castbar also works with parties' and enemies pets' nameplate, and you can disable this feature by slash command.
A new slash command table, this will be presented later on this page.
Add blacklist and whitelist, you can show totems only that you want(eg. only show Grounding Totem), hide pets that you don't want to see(eg. hide Treant and Shadowfiend)

Slash Command

/oh party <on/off> -parties castbar on or off, default is on
/oh pet <on/off> -enemies' pets castbar on or off, default is on
/oh <disable/enable> -the addon on or off, works after reloading
/oh status -show addon status
/oh showlist <add/del> <name> -add or delete whitelist items
/oh hidelist <add/del> <name> -add or delete hidelist items
/oh <showlist/hidelist> -show all items in showlist or hidelist
/oh reset -reset to default and clean all lists, works after reloading

Some Addition Notes

When add or delete names in lists, you have to take care of the letters case and spaces and not add any kinds of quotation marks(eg. /oh showlist add Spirit Link Totem is just correct)
The hidelist is for parties, pets and enemies(default is shown), the showlist is for guards and totems(default is hidden), but all this config is under your game conifg of nameplates. In other words, if your game option of enemies pet is hidden, you can't show it whatever you do using overhead.

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Posted Apr 22, 2010
Hey Kollektiv,
Great work on this addon, it's amazingly useful.. Yet there is a few things I'd been begging for to get upgraded for months, so now I've finally made an account to write you... Back in February you promised to work in a filter for different totem names: So it was possible to setup the addon to show only say: Grounding totem + Cleansing totem.

Then I would also absolutely love for the possibility to configure what you want to have it show and what should be invisible (see-through).. Say I want to be able to see a felhunter, but not guardians, water elementals and such. Might this be a possibility? Or just configure the addon to show all castbars on nameplates in arena, and not remove pets + totems etc?

Thanks man, you've really made pvp a lot better!

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Posted Apr 18, 2010
Awwww man, please come back!

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Posted Mar 18, 2010
This still seems to work, but with it hiding pet's nameplates still, since i use the Pet's nameplates to quickly see if the felhunter is low on health or anything like that, its nice to have it, so is there any way to disable the function of overhead disabling pet nameplates?

(Yes i know this is very much after the latest post, but alot of people still use this addon :) )

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Posted Nov 2, 2009
Thanks so much for this and spellalerter addons! Awesome job, helps me manage multitasking role as Enh shammy in arenas. However similiar to Mezoh I have same reuqest if possible; is there a chance you can either allow users to check/uncheck showing nameplates for totems and pets or help me find in code how I could turn it off? Don't want to use 2MB weight addons just to be able for a fast switch on Water Elemental, Mana Tide or even hunters FD (their bar drops during FD as well).

Thanks in advance.

Once again, thank you for this addon, as previous one great job and never colliding with any other I'm using so real pleasure to use it.

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Posted Oct 23, 2009
Kollektiv..
I know that you are some kind of addon-wiz, you have written some simply amazing addons that are so userfriendly and you have probably helped alot of people (myself included) to gain alot of rating because of it. The only thing I do not understand, is why oh WHY, isnt there an option to show partner name-plate and, what so many before me have asked for, an option to select what totems to show? If you did this, Overhead would be THE best addon of all time, no joking.

Please, oh PLEASE Kollektiv.. Consider editing this addon to include what is asked for, I would do it myself if I could tell a code from a telephonenumber. :)

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Posted Oct 21, 2009
This hasn't worked for me since the last minor patch. Is anyone still using this? Is there a fix?

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Posted Oct 18, 2009
Yep it would be nice if u can still see the nameplates of your partners so you know where they are.
Also it would be nice if you can see specific nameplates like tremor totem etc.
Thx for this great addon and for all your addons btw!

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Posted Oct 6, 2009
First off I'd like to thank you very much for this addon as it made my life as a warlock in arena much easier.

Any chance you could split the addon into 2 different addons? I'm mainly looking for an addon that does ONE thing and ONE thing alone: displays in arena cast bars under every enemy nameplate not just the ones I target.

Due to the recent change to how totems work, and how I now manually have to kill them, I'm pretty much forced to use Aloft for my nameplates, because I can make the tremor and grounding totem nameplates stand out. If I could also use the part of your addon in addition to Aloft so that I can view the cast bars under each nameplate it would be great!

Any chance you can help me out? Thanks in advance, Soh

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Posted Oct 6, 2009
When I turn on raid icons overhead would hide my team's raid icons and keep mine. Is there a way to keep their raid icons and hide mine?

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Posted Sep 4, 2009
does it possible to show specific totems like tremor? if not, can u make an option to show non-players nameplates?

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Posted Aug 15, 2009
I updated it for 3.2. It still uses the old yellow cast bar border, which I think is better, instead of the new silver shield border. Enjoy!

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Posted Aug 18, 2009
Amazing. Thanks a ton!

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Posted Aug 23, 2009
I would love to see hunter's snakes from their snake trap to be hidden. =P

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Posted Sep 29, 2009
The silver shield border is only up when the spell that is being casted can not be interrupted. It is a pretty nice feature to be honest.

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Posted Aug 15, 2009
Hi, I updated it for 3.2. It still uses the old yellow castbar border instead of the new silver shield one.

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#5 Posted Aug 14, 2009

Broke in 3.2

Date: 2009-08-14 10:33:56
ID: -3
Error occured in: Global
Count: 8
Message: ..\AddOns\Overhead\Overhead.lua line 201:
   attempt to call method 'GetText' (a nil value)
Debug:
   [C]: GetText()
   Overhead\Overhead.lua:201: GetNameplate()
   Overhead\Overhead.lua:211: AnchorNameplates()
   Overhead\Overhead.lua:234:
      Overhead\Overhead.lua:231

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Date: 2009-08-14 10:34:56
ID: -2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 528
Message: ..\AddOns\Overhead\Overhead.lua line 94:
   attempt to call method 'SetText' (a nil value)
Debug:
   [C]: SetText()
   Overhead\Overhead.lua:94:
      Overhead\Overhead.lua:93

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Does anyone have an update? Broke in 3.2.

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Posted Aug 7, 2009
Any plans on updating this addon? I absolutely love this addon and helps my arena play a ton.

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Posted Aug 6, 2009
Broken as of 3.2 This may be due to the new events
* New events: UNIT_SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTIBLE, UNIT_SPELLCAST_NOT_INTERRUPTIBLE
* Updated - name, nameSubtext, text, texture, startTime, endTime, isTradeSkill, castID, interrupt = UnitCastingInfo(unit) -- new interrupt result
* Updated - name, nameSubtext, text, texture, startTime, endTime, isTradeSkill, interrupt = UnitChannelInfo(unit) -- new interrupt result

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Posted Apr 9, 2009
sweet mod, castbars on all nameplates is really helpful. Reduces the 5's clutter considerably.

Im not entirely sure how you hide the nameplates but if it would be possible to show specific totems still that would be helpful. Like poison cleanse or tremor.

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Project ID

18517
Created

Apr 2, 2009
Last Released File

Jun 28, 2011
Total Downloads

25,852

kollektiv Owner
superk589 Maintainer

0.4.2
Jun 28, 2011
0.4.1beta
May 7, 2011
v0.2-beta-3-g65d7f5b
May 3, 2011

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Overhead

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What's Overhead?

4.0+ New Features

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