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!
I am stuggeling with something. I am using SUF, and my guildie is using the incoming heals addon (healbarsclassic) with classic UI. Both don't show incoming heals from mouseover healing-macro, but if you target the player and heal normally it shows the incoming heals. I'm not using healing addon, just using the macro: #showtooltip /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Regrowth(Rank 10), same macro with all my other healing spells. Ever since i went over to mouseover healing instead of direct press target-healing, the incoming heals dont show at all. They dont show on any addons, not only SUF. Is there a reason for this? Anyone had this problem and know how to fix it? There is no way im letting go of mouseover healing and i really dont wanna have to use a healing addon
For the LibHealComm-4.0 lua errors fix:
Found this post in reddit worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/WowUI/comments/o2v69f/shadowed_unit_frames_incoming_heals_bug_help/h4r15n7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Suggestions to ONLY copy the HealBarsClassic lua file from the HealBars addons does not work, both need to be done.
The LibHealComm-4.0-BCC.toc needs to be present in ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0
does anyone know how to get rid of the Alliance icon on my frames? Like I know I am alliance and I want a clean UI with no clutter.
Also is it possible to hide big buffs(like fort etc) on raid frames after combat starts like wow raid frames work? I just want to see combat buffs ie renews PoM etc when in combat.
Getting this error from v4.3.1-classic-bcc
Message: Interface\AddOns\ShadowedUnitFrames\localization\frFR.lua:536: unfinished string near '"Filtres de liste prioritair'
Time: Tue Jul 13 13:44:44 2021
Count: 3
you forgot a " at the end of the string
In reply to Sultonmrp:
I'm getting this same error but idk if i should fix it coz it wont auto update anymore haha
In reply to Sultonmrp:
I'm getting this same error but idk if i should fix it coz it wont auto update anymore haha
In reply to Sultonmrp:
Hi,
You found any solution for this error?. I'm playing in classic TBC.
Thank you very much.
Error message when trying to set Master looter.
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua line 1084:
Action[SetPoint] failed because[SetPoint would result in anchor family connection]: attempted from: DropDownList1:SetPoint.
Debug:
[string "=[C]"]: SetPoint()
[string "@..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua"]:1084:
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:975
[string "=[C]"]: ToggleDropDownMenu()
[string "@..\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua"]:306: handler()
[string "@..\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua"]:616: SecureActionButton_OnClick()
[string "@..\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua"]:656:
..\FrameXML\SecureTemplates.lua:648
Is their some way of on your HP Bars to set the visibility down. As in, if i open another addons options, the bars are in the foreground of my options
as an example:
https://imgur.com/ob8IjEW
Has someone the same Issue, that in the raid after some time the UI gets completly blocked and you cant rightclick your potrait until you do reload?
In reply to ZwoxTV:
Same error
In reply to ZwoxTV:
Same error here, also affected by being master looter. After right clicking to go back to group loot, UI gets blocked.
In reply to ZwoxTV:
Same problem here. Right-clicking any SUF frame just does nothing, like it's blocked completely. Definitely SEEMS to be related to Master Looter. It has not broken for me in any 5-man, but breaks for me in every raid (and I'm my guild's ML, but not Raid-Lead).
In reply to TheSteelPhantom:
Okay so im not alone! Has someone managed to get an error out of that? Cause i cant see any errors poping up
I get the following error when casting heals as a paladin.
318x ...dUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0-92.lua:758: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'requiresLevel' (a nil value)
[string "@ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0-92.lua"]:758: in function <...dUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0.lua:751>
[string "@ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0-92.lua"]:973: in function <...dUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0.lua:971>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0-92.lua"]:1993: in function `?'
[string "@ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0-92.lua"]:2446: in function <...dUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0.lua:2442>
Locals:
spellData = <table> {
levels = <table> {
}
averages = <table> {
}
coeff = 0.714286
}
spellName = "Holy Light"
spellRank = nil
average = nil
requiresLevel = nil
(*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
(*temporary) = 62
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'requiresLevel' (a nil value)"
type = <function> defined =[C]:-1
min = <function> defined =[C]:-1
playerLevel = 62
In reply to Hynch:
Same error
In reply to Hynch:
same
In reply to Hynch:
same error, please fix:P
In reply to Hynch:
same error, please fix:P
In reply to Hynch:
ok i found the problem,
problem is libhealcomm.ua file is not updated to reflect changes in tbc,
Change the file \ShadowedUnitFrames\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\LibHealComm-4.0.lua with any other that is updated ( i used the one in HealBarsClassic )
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/healbarsclassic
its also mentioned somewhere beneath