[Addon] SAOUF - WIP

[Shozokui 2]

Hello Community. I'm a software engineer that is taking the re-launch of Nostalrius to finally pick up addon development.

I've known LUA for a long time, not sure why I never just bit the bullet to learn more about WoW's API.  Either way, I'm using this thread to document my process and progress. Should be fun :P

I'm open to usability feedback, but this addon will not be designed to be highly customizable.  It's very niche and only the people who really like SAO are going to be into it. If you're looking for something super customizable LunaUnitFrames is where it's at.

Thanks for following along with me! Also, you can clearly see my in-game character names. I play on PvE.  If you're leveling up let's hook up!

** UPDATE 1/1/2017 **

Slowly moving forward. Have some custom icons for Devotion Aura & Blessing of Might.

Not sure how deep I want to go in making a ton of custom icons for what I'm calling my "mini buff" bar.  The bar is designed to only show buffs which were cast by you. That does not include consumables/etc.

I'm still working on re-imagining the class icons. Not sure quite what I want to do there either.

I added some cool features around how large your power bar is.  For rogues/warriors or anything with a 100/100 based bar, it'll be small.  For mana users, it calculates it's width based on your level or how close to maximum base mana you are. I thought it was interesting, maybe I'll think it's stupid once these things are usable, who knows.

Currently have Player and Target units implemented.  Since target won't always be a player, I'm thinking about re-designing it to be more appropriate.

 

 

Edited January 2, 2017 by Shozokui

[EffToyz 12]

So far so good. Are you gonna make them highly customizable?

[Nihi 0]

4 minutes ago, EffToyz said:

So far so good. Are you gonna make them highly customizable?

This.

[Renew 26]

looks good, dont make it " highly customizable", thats what luna already is...keep it simple and unique!

[coldlol 0]

good!

[Heymom 1]

1 hour ago, Nihi said:

This.

this.

Edited December 30, 2016 by Heymom
i fail at quoteing..

[Shozokui 2]

4 hours ago, Renew said:

looks good, dont make it " highly customizable", thats what luna already is...keep it simple and unique!

 

6 hours ago, EffToyz said:

So far so good. Are you gonna make them highly customizable?

I don't really want to make them "highly customizable", there's already addons that do that better than I could program. LuaUnitFrames are much more customizable, Pitbull, etc.

I hate cluttered displays. I'm looking for the cleanest possible design.  While this design is not original, (some may recognize it :P), I felt it was a great mix of usability and minimal.

[Ignas 0]

Love this design :D Somehow it reminds me of SAO :D

[Shozokui 2]

@OP updated.

[martinjlowm 0]

I can recommend oUF as a framework (https://github.com/oUF-wow/oUF) if you don't want to start from scratch. I've mostly ported it to Vanilla (as well as my personal layout), but I am missing the reimplementation of state drivers (as a library), which would makes things much more clean in terms of unit frame visibility (as well as a more robust implementation for macro conditions than existing solutions).

I just realised that I haven't committed my backport for a long time, but if you are interested you can look out for changes on my fork on GitHub (vanilla branch).

[ZaWarudo 0]

I like the idea of a simple and clean unitframe , but i don't think it's a good idea to change the icons of the buffs , i think you shouldn't make modification that would make the addon less user friendly ( by changing buff icons , and rare/elite blizzard frame for exemple )

it would be better if you could make it compatible with debufftimer : https://github.com/Voidmenull/DebuffTimers and Mobhealth/info.

 

And about the raid frame , how's it gonna look ?

[Shozokui 2]

This project is dead. I don't support the recent activity that's been going on on reddit/this forum and have no interest in continuing to be a part of a community that supports such heinous bullshit.

Leaking people's real info over something as stupid as gold buying is extremely stupid. I haven't purchased gold, as can be proved by the list, nor do I intend on doing so, however I cannot agree with how terrible this community has been.

Gold sellers will always exist, gold buyers will always exist. Grow up. 

Gold sellers spammed me, it's a mild inconvenience, better perform a felony level offense to release everyone's personal data so their video game account can get banned.  You guys ваууing serious?

[DamirH 3]

While I agree that the gold buyer witch hunts are at best exaggerated, I think you're overreacting too. The only thing leaked were email addresses, no credit card infos and such. 

At worst people affected will have more emails in their spam folder.

[abraa 0]

soooooo.... I love these frames <3