Vex Power
Vex Power
Vex Power shows every powertype as an energybar. It also shows ComboPoints or similar important and trackable class/spec specific alternative-power and buffs. Currently supported are:
- Paladin: Holy Power
- Druid: ComboPoints
- Rogue: ComboPoints
- Monk: Chi
- Hunter (Beast Master): 'Frenzy'-Stacks
- Warrior (Fury): 'Raging Blow'-Stacks
- Shaman (Enhancer): 'Maelstrom Weapon'-Stacks
- Priest (Shadow): Shadow Orbs
- Priest (Discipline): 'Evangelism'-Stacks
- Warlock (Affliction): Soul Shards
- Warlock (Demonology): Demonic Fury (get an additional bar instead of combopoints)
- Warlock (Destruction): Burning Embers (get additional bars instead of combopoints)
- Mage (Arcane): 'Arcane Charge'-Stacks
The PowerBar
'Used'-effect
In Addition to the common settings (position, size, colors, etc) the powerbar has a 'used'-effect (can be turned off). This effect colors the power you just spent and then fades it out.
'Recolor'-effect
The Powerbar has 6 states in which the color can be changed (fully customizable). 3 states for each 'in combat' and 'out of combat' representing: 'power empty', 'power full' and 'power neither full nor empty'. The thresholds-% for 'power empty' and 'power full' can be set by the user. Changeable fo all 6 states are the color and the opacity of the bar. With this feature you can color the bar when the power is empty as a visual alarm or you can change the opacity of the powerbar to an adjustable amount whenever you are out of combat.
The ComboPoints
Colors
The colors are fully customizable for every single ComboPoint.
Position and Size
You have the choice between two modes to set the positon and the size. Intelligent-CP-Mode This mode only needs 3 numbers to automatically adjust the ComboPoint position and size to your PowerBar. Manual-Mode Deactivating the intelligent-cp-mode lets you set all combopoint positions and sizes by yourself.
'Fadeout'-effect
This effect is similar to the 'used'-effect for the powerbar. ComboPoints that have just been spent change their color and then fade out. You can toggle this effect
'Color ComboPoints on X'-effect
This effect overwrites the colors you chose for the combopoints when you have X combopoints gained. The amount X is selectable. You can choose whether all combopoints or only the first X combopoints should be colored when the amount is reached.
'Sound'
Whenever you gained Y combopoints a sound is played (deactivated by default)
The Textfields
The number of textfields is not static, meaning you can create/delete textfields at your wish. Textfields contain information that can be parsed with tags.
Tags:
(alternative power is currently working only for demonology and destruction warlocks and represents the amount of ember shards or the amount of demonic fury.)
- Current Power:
- [PowerCurrent]: Shows '19218' (current power)
- [PowerAltCurrent]: Shows '19218' (current alternative power)
- [PowerCurrentShort]: Shows '19' instead of '19218' (current power)
- [PowerCurrentSmart]: Shows '19.2' instead of '19218' (current power)
- Maximum Power:
- [PowerMax]|r: Shows '19218' (maximum power)
- [PowerAltMax]|r: Shows '19218' (maximum alternative power)
- [PowerMaxShort]|r: Shows '19' instead of '19218' (maximum power)
- [PowerMaxSmart]|r: Shows '19.2' instead of '19218' (maximum power)
- Missing Power:
- [PowerMissing]: Shows '19218' (missing power)
- [PowerMissingShort]: Shows '19' instead of '19218' (missing power)
- [PowerMissingSmart]: Shows '19.2' instead of '19218' (missing power)
- Percentage Power:
- [PowerPerc]: Shows '18' for 18.3%
- [PowerPercSmart]: Shows '18.3' for 18.3%
- ComboPoints:
- [CPsCurrent]: Shows your current ComboPoints/HolyPower/etc
- [CPsMax]: Shows your maximum ComboPoints/HolyPower/etc
- [CPsMissing]: Shows your missing ComboPoints/HolyPower/etc
- Buffs: (only parse information when buffs are tracked as ComboPoints)
- [BuffDurationLeft]: Shows the time left
- [BuffDurationTotal]: Shows the total duration
The position of the textfields is on the powerbar by default. But you can reposition them and put them on your combopoints to show the buffduration via [BuffDurationLeft] or the amount of demonic fury you gained as a demonology warlock via [PowerAltCurrent]
The Markers:
Markers are marks at specific places on your energybar. They can be placed at absolute positions(e.g. 1217) and at relative positions (e.g. 40%). Again they are fully customizable. You can set them for both specs or only for a specific single spec and you can choose in which combination to a powertype they are shown. That way a druid could set sepperat markers for his mana (no form, moonkin, tree), his energy (cat), his rage (baer) and set a universal marker that is shown with more than one or even all powertypes. The purpose of these marks is to give you a visual assisstance so you get to know better when you have enough power to use an ability or when you can use a mana-gain-spell without wasting mana.
Default Settings
Default Profile
You can set a saved profile to be a default profile. That way every char that has no config for this addon will load the default profile instead of the addon defaults.
Default Color Sets
You can save color sets that contain the colors of the ComboPoints. Those color sets can be set as a default color set for a specific class. That way the addon can this color set that is set as default for the class. Default color sets overwrite the colors from the loaded default profile.
I'll start coding a addon for ember shards and burning embers this evening. Can't give you an ETA though.
I didn't implemented a bar for burning embers, but they are now shown like combo points and the number of ember shards can be displayed as a text in the powerbar
Just released a new alpha with bars for the burning embers and the demonology alternative power
May I make a request? Let us unlock and drag the power bar to where we want it instead of trying to figure out proper x & y values?
Also, can you give us options to change alphas for the bars for in combat and out of combat? An example of this would be me having it set to "hide out of combat" but I want it to hide out of combat *after* my mana is full, so I know when I don't see anything on screen I am ready for my next pull.
If it hides immediately out of combat and I was out of mana and tank starts to pull next group of mobs im SOL because I couldn't see that I was low on mana. So to know that mana was full *before* the bar was hidden would be helpful. If this isn't making sense to you, would it help if I said I play with the player unit frame *off*/hidden?
So max of six extra settings - IN COMBAT - alpha when full, alpha when zero, alpha (more than zero, less than full) and OUT OF COMBAT - the same three settings.
Up to you of course, but thanks in advance.
And if you like maybe some more skins/textures for the bars too. A lot of addons out there have the standard choices so it would be nice to match them. (i.e. healbot, litestep, aluminum, wood, blizzard, banto etc etc)
EDIT: Your profiles don't work. I created a MASTER profile while setting up my Death Knight, when I logged on my Warlock, I selected MASTER then hit the load button. Nothing changed. I even tried logging out and back in again, nada. Curious, why did you change the way the profile page works and not use the one that every other addon uses? They use it because it's tried and true! It simply works (TM).
hi there, I'm looking into your request as soon as I have time to code again (about this evening), but for now I think I can easily add them.
Profilebug:
Personally I don't like the standard ace profile page, because changes to your current profile are instantly saved. I prefered a version where you have to say "I want to save the changes I currently made".
Did you create a profile on startup, made changes to your settings, switched to a twink and tried to load the profile there?
or did you made changes to your settings, then created a profile, switched to a twink and tried to load the profile?
As I allready mentioned changes are only saved to your current profile when you say you want them to change, by overwriting the profile, so the order is quiet important and when you used the "save before make changes"-method you just loaded default settings.
BG Texture:
To be honest I just failed there hard. This addon is the first addon where I used the LibShardMedia(-Widget) Library and i just used the "normal frame background texture" instead of the "status bar background texture".
Simply switching the widgets would lead to a lua-error or an energybar without oppacity, I haven't tested it yet. So I'm trying the option to add the status bar widget without losing the normal frame widget.
just released a new alpha
http://www.wowace.com/addons/vexcombo/files/
the color funcs are all added and I added a little text to the profile page.
I'll tag it as release (making it downloadable via Curse Client) when I went a few dungeons/raids to check for failures, but the tests I've have done the last hour worked fine.
Tested the profile menu again and it worked for me as long as I used it the way i stated earlier. I still would like to hear, which order you used to save the profile.
For future requests, failur reports, etc you can also use
http://www.wowace.com/addons/vexcombo/tickets/
to write a ticket
that way I'll be notified way faster than here ;)
Looks like a nice addon, however I can find no way of moving the combopoints. There also seems to be no option for just using the combopoints, and not the energy bar. If this could be implemented it would be awesome :)
hi,
you can change the combopoints in the optionpanel
Vex Power -> VexP Combo Points
Currently there's no option to hide only the energy bar, but I think that i will implement that
just implemented the option to hide only the energybar
Awesome addon, thanks !