Shadowed Unit Frames
SUF focuses on a simple configuration while maintaining the flexibility that most users will care about, preventing unnecessary bloating of the addon that sacrifices performance. While you aren't going to be able to set the health bar to be exactly 3.14 pixels outside of the unit frames, you can change options you actually care about such as bar height, ordering, frame height and so on. To speed up configuration, you can configure multiple units at the same time through the global configuration. For example, if you want to set the height of the Player, Target, Focus and Party frames to 50 then the height of Target's Target, Target's Target of Target, Focus Target to 30 you can easily do this by changing two options instead of having to do it seven times.
However, should you need a little bit of extra configuration do not despair! An advanced option is included that will unlock additional configuration giving finer control over the configuration.
Shadowed Unit Frames in WoW Classic
There is in-development Beta versions available for WoW Classic!
Note that WoW Classic does not provide all the information that you might be used to:
- There is no Focus Frame
- Information about the HP of enemies is not available, and they'll show as 100 HP
- Cast Bars for anyone but the player himself are not available
- Debuffs have no duration information
Some of this data can be restored with additional libraries/addons, but it'll always be guesswork and potentially inaccurate. Shadowed Unit Frames comes bundled with LibClassicDurations for debuff durations. Mob HP can be provided by Real Mob Health, which you need to install manually.
Note on copying your layout from Retail to Classic:
In general you cannot copy your layout between the two versions, since they are quite different, and doing so will result in certain elements exclusive to one version (like Pet Happiness on Classic) not always working properly. There are some provisions in the code that makes copying from Retail to Classic mostly work, use at your own risk - however, never copy a Layout from Classic to Retail, this will absolutely result in the Class-specific power bars and other elements not available on Classic to cease to function.
Slash commands: /shadoweduf (/suf)
Anchoring
Are you driven crazy by your party frames not aligning up exactly with your player frames, even if it's only half a pixel off? The anchoring system will let you solve all alignment issues, by allowing you to anchor a frame to another and set a simple offset from the frame it is anchored to, or by manually setting the X/Y position of the frame.
Using the screen shot as an example, if you drag the player frame the other frames will move with the player frame preserving the alignment and spacing. Each frame can still be manually positioned wherever you want, but this gives you a way of easily anchoring and moving frames around without having to use a ruler.
Zone configuration (Disabling options/units by zone type)
Units and modules can be enabled or disabled based on the type of zone you are in. For example, if you want to see party targets and party pets while you are in an arena but nowhere else then you can use the visibility options to enable it only while inside an arena. Modules can also be disabled by zone type, if you want to see party auras while in a raid instance but nowhere else you can disable the module in raid instances only.
Profiles do not have to be swapped and it is all automatic.
Units
Supports unit frames are as follows:
Player: Player, Pet, Pet Target
General: Target, Target of Target, Target of Target of Target, Focus, Focus Target
Party: Party, Party Pets, Party Targets, Party ToT
Raid: Raid, Raid Pet, Main Tank, Main Tank Target, Main Assist, Main Assist Target, Boss, Boss Target, Boss ToT, Main Assist ToT, Main Tank ToT
Arena: Arena, Arena Target, Arena Pets, Arena ToT
Battleground: Battleground, Battleground Target, Battleground Target
Features
- Tags: Includes a simple tagging system that can be customized in virtually any way using Lua, even if something isn't included by default odds are you can make the tags
- Incoming Heals: Supports the Blizzard Events for incoming heal data, no external libraries needed
- Auras: Can be set to only show auras you casted, or can cast on others. Can enlarge auras that you casted, and hide the cooldown ring on the timers of auras you didn't cast as well to make it more obvious which ones you casted and which ones you didn't
- Aura Timers: You will need a mod such as OmniCC to show timers on buffs and debuffs
- Aura Indicators: Display colored squares or icons for certain auras on any unit
- Fader: Fades frames when out of combat and inactive (100% mana/no target)
- Class Power (Eclipse, Holy Power, etc): Supports all of the class power features from Eclipse to Burning Embers.
- Highlighting: Border highlighting of frames based on mousing over them, curable debuffs, aggro or you are targeting/focusing them
- Range Checking: Fades frames out that are out of range of you
- Exportable Layouts: If you have a layout, or your friend has a layout you want to try out you can export/import SUF layouts by going to /suf -> Layout Manager
- Profiles: You can change from any profile to another one without reloading your UI, should you want to use a completely different layout based on zone you can easily switch profiles without hassle
Pretty much all the general unit frame settings are in, health bars, cast bars, power bars, portraits, indicators and so on.
Modules
Basic module support is included, should you be interested in building a module see the documentation on github for more information.
Feedback
For feature requests and bug reports, please continue to use the Ticket tracker. Feel free to ask on the thread first, if you're unsure what to do!
Nope. Read it earlier. Hence, why I asked.
Eido1on - thanks for the info. will look again.
@evergamer
I guess my post worked. You actually went back and read more than 2 or 3 posts.
@evergamer
No reason to go off on people, be the bigger man:
from config menu: Enabled Units - make sure Raid is checked; under Unit Configuration (once Raid has been enabled) - you should see the Raid configuration category.
@simmdogg
From Nev, about 6 hours ago: "Group/Raid frames work, and all errors should be fixed."
Ok, smartass?
@simmdogg @evergamer
I'm able to configure raid/party frames just fine, and have them showing up perfect after testing in Wintergrasp and Battlegrounds. There are some minor bugs in changes not taking effects after being changed in configs, but after a quick logout/login everything shows up as specified. Make sure you remove any traces of previous installs and other addons that might conflict with this one. (I found an old version of Shadowed Aura Indicators i had before that was causing problems with SUF)
WOW v. 4.0.1 SUF v. v3.2.12-21-gba21d99
I understand the developers have their hands busy with fixes at this time, but at some point, when the new version stabilizes, would it be possible to implement a feature under "Hide Blizzard" category to hide Blizzard's new native raid frame and show/hide window that come up whenever a player joins a raid? Thank you in advance, and a tremendous thank you for continuing this unparalleled addon
I think by default, after every post, the system should post a message stating that RAID and PARTY frames are broken. It seems that every other post is asking how to make them show up or is it broken.
I don't think anyone has scrolled down or over a page or two to get the answer. If the answer isn't in the post right below the one they are posting, they won't know.....cause scrolling takes skill.
I might also want to incourage the Dev's to post in bold letters at the top of this page, actually post at the top line in the description, that Raid and Party frames are not working.
This might cut down on the redundant inquiries about Raid and Party Frames.
P.S. Raid and Party Frames are still broke!!
Ok, this is probably an rtard question, but, how do I enable config mode for raid/party? I havent set up SUF in a very long time.
@jyces Thanks :D I looked around for a few minutes and just wanted to ask before I gave myself gray hairs trying to find and option that might not even exist :D
@ColbyWolf No, it does not yet support holy power. The only version that currently does is Simplistic Unit Frames. My guess is that that feature will be added within the next few updates. :)
i cant seem to get party frames to work... i get the standard blizz party frame
Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out if SUF supports holy power just yet.
also, I litterally squealed with joy with I saw that this had been updated, having given it up for lost. I wandered to many other unitframe addons, trying to find one that would come close to the awesomeness that is SUF... but didn't find a single competitor. :D
@Lowtoxic It is an error on SUF. Everyone who has it, has the same problem (including me). It should be fixed soon, I'm sure. :)
Very happy to see this updated! Thanks a ton!
One question though, I've seen Simplistic Unit Frames over on WoW interface as being the new version picked up by Aviana. Which is which here? Is this one the one to use or Simplistic? I switched to Simplistic yesterday and got it all set up now this seems to be working again with raid and party frames.
Can this update that one (I doubt it but figured I'd ask), or should I remove Simplistic and load this?
Alright, I'm hopelessly confused. SUF is not giving me any errors outright, but I cannot seem to make the party/raid frames appear, no matter how I try.
I feel I'm missing something obvious or more people would be suffering from this dilemma... Thoughts?
In the latest version posted "ShadowedUnitFrames-v3.2.12-21-gba21d99" it mentions the Druid Eclipse bar and the Warlock Shard Bar as being added but I do not see them. Is there a setting to bring them up?
Also omniCC support does not seems to work ?
No, the credit goes to Antiarc and Nevcairiel who are updating it, they're just people I know who are reliable and competent so I had no problems with having them maintain the official version.
Sounds good! I take it that you changed your mind and have decided to keep it update? This addon is truly one of the best out their, and I could not play WoW without it. Keep it up. :)
Simplistic Unit Frames is a fork of SUF, while I allowed people to fork the codebase, none of them are official takeovers or continuations of SUF. Shadowed Unit Frames (the page you're on now) is what you should be using if you want SUF.
People are welcome to use whatever they want, but if you want SUF, you want the official one. SUF should already be working as it did before 4.0, although not all the new features that Cataclysm is adding are in yet.