PitBull Unit Frames 4.0

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Classic

PitBull works with WoW Classic! Classic Era/Vanilla is supported in v4.3.x-vanilla releases. Cataclysm Classic is supported in v4.2.x releases (the same releases retail use).

Classic Era caveats:

Aura duration is not available from the API, so PitBull uses LibClassicDurations to show them. The duration can be inaccurate if it's affected by rank or talents.
Cast info is only available for your spells from the API. PitBull uses LibClassicCasterino to show cast bars for other units, but this can be inaccurate since there is a lot of guess-work involved.

Download

CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pitbull-unit-frames-4-0

Wago: https://addons.wago.io/addons/pitbull4

WoWInterface: https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info20021

GitHub: https://github.com/nebularg/PitBull4/releases

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_ForgeUser1073194
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Posted Oct 19, 2010
@movies

The best way I know to achieve what you are looking for is through profiles. Make one profile set for raids/parties and another for soloing. You will need to swap profiles when you go to party raid, but it would achieve what you are looking for.

PS - There are multiple PB4 guides available. If you dont' like mine, I really won't be offended if you look at others. I wrote it as a baseline guide to get people a starting point from there they can try all KINDS of things. And for it being pretty basic... there are at least 5 people a day that need really basic help.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Why not create something similar to soulshards?

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Hello Pitbull Team!

I like your Addon more thank XPearl, but would it possible to implement an extra unit for Holy Power, so it doesnt need to be sticky on any other unit? That would improve my heal effectivity more and more! :>

Thank youu!!

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Thanks for being so nice!

At this time (*dramatic pause*) it is not possible. But as my German teacher would say prior to giving us a quiz the next day.... it would BEHOOVE you to check back in the future to see if it is a possibility then. (And no this doesn't mean it will be available tomorrow... just that perhaps I have heard of something in the works that would make this possible when it gets finished)

Until then I do believe there are some add ons that are specific to Holy Power so you may want to check one of them out. :)

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I think you misunderstood the original posters question. He wants a display that is detached from the unit frame. We already provide a HolyPower display. He just wants it changed.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
How would you say this compares to Shadowed Unit Frames in terms of:
- Resource utilization? (CPU, onUpdate, UI mem, etc.)
- Capability?
- Ease of use?
- Profile/layout management?
- Interaction/conflict with other addons/Blizzard UI?

I was a long time user of PB2 & 3, then transitioned over to SUF and while I find it very light on resource use, I do find it rolling right into "PB3-itis" and more worrying, a sense that community is being ignored.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Having not used Shadowed Unit Frames I can't provide the comparison you are looking for. You may have better luck asking this type of question on the UI and Macros Forums or Elitist Jerks where you will get people that have tried both.

You can also use the Guide linked above to get some idea of how PB4 design and layout works.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
We use more resources than SUF, a lot of that is features of our layout system. We do dynamic positioning. SUF does static positioning. Dynamic positioning lets us do things like placing two indicators in the same spot and having them not overlap. Downside is it uses more resources. It's on my todo list to dig into this and see if I can't improve it some more, but I don't think we'll ever give up the feature.

There are things that SUF can do that we can't and vice versa.

We have entirely different designs when it comes to layout systems. SUF uses something more akin to what PB3 had where each frame has a configuration. PB4 is a very different animal with abstractions (we call them layouts) to configure the looks of each frame, with the ability to choose the layout for each frame.

Ease of us is entirely subjective. Some people find the layout system very easy to use and intuitive, some people are entirely confused by it.

There's not much in the way of conflict that I'm aware of with PB4, can't speak to the state of SUF at this point. Most of the conflict issues we run into are people running OmniCC and want it not to mess with their auras and people using some other addon that shows Blizzard frames if it isn't configured to hide them.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I'd hesitant to say no because you might be able to do this by setting it as an indicator and positioning it inside the frame.

You might need to do some modifications to the Portrait module to let you arbitrarily size the Portrait and to let you set the strata/level of the frame.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I played with this a little today to see what I could come up with... I think the main challenge to making it work is that the strata of portraits if you don't use position as bar is on top of the bars.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Just one question... is it possible to use the Portrait as a background of the whole Frame? I mean just as you can see it in many oUF frames?
I wanted to create a Frame where Healt and mana are small lines somewhere in the middle and the portrait as a background... you know what I mean?

It would be so awesome to create my favourite oUF style with my favourite Unitframe Addon (Pitbull) :)

Keep on your great work!!!

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I've used the guide, but think it's more of a brief overview than a real in depth guide. Since I can't spend time with it due to maintanence, I just need to know if it's possible (and I"m just doing it wrong) to hide my player box only when I'm in raid/party but have it visible while solo. I can't seem to figure that out.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Thanks for the help I checked it out when I was writing my comment, seems I had to restart the game in order to see the changes on the border vs healthbar agro option.

Huhh, that seems saves my ass. :D

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
youre right. i can relate that its a huge time sink. i just feel less in control over pb4 than pb3. spent two hours yesterday trying to set it the way i had.
<- pb3 set-up
struggling trying to get pb4 to do this.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I agree with Khamaelx. I was hesitant to move to PB4 because I'd have to redo my whole layout. In the end, it was a blessing. I found ways to do so much more with PB4 than I ever would have thought about had I just imported my old PB3 layouts. And PB4 is a lot easier to work with than PB3 was, IMO.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
can we please just make a way to import from pitbull 3.0?

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
The time investment to make a functional importer from PB3 to PB4 would be huge. Would you rather have us work on functionality or an importer that you'd use once and never need again?

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
Seriously... tale it as a chance! PB4 offers some quite new ways to costumize your unitframes :)
Perhaps you create one that looks even more cool than you PB3 style!

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Posted Oct 20, 2010
Panda-

Do you have specifics of where you are getting stuck? From what I've seen it should be quite do-able with PB4

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
@ movies and jimy:

PB3 = each individual frame had its own layout, if you liked a layout you couldn't use it again without replicating your steps each and every place you wanted to use it. PB4 = make as many or as few layouts as you like and then apply them to the frames you like.

So if you want the same thing as PB3, just make that many layouts. If you prefer not to replicate your work, just make as many layouts as you need.

Details on making layouts can be found in the guide... linked above

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