DHUD is a highly configurable and customizable HUD addon in the spirit of DHUD, MetaHUD, and others designed to keep your focus in the center of the screen where your character is.
What it is
Player and target health and mana bars, casting bars, pet health, and mana bars, druid mana bar in forms, bars with alternative power, spell circles with short player auras, target self auras and cooldowns, extensive target info, and much more.
Short feature list
- Health Bars are able to display shields, heal absorption and incoming heal effects.
- Class-specific tracking such as combo point counters, druid mana trackers, Eclipse bar, Holy Power monitoring, warlock alternative resources tracking, and more
- Lots of DogTag-supported strings for extreme customizability (strings are parsed only once so it won't take much CPU time)
- Alpha settings for in combat, target selected, etc.
- Fully customizable bars and counters capable of tracking buff/debuff applications on any unit, spell/ability cooldowns, and the health/mana of any unit you specify.
- Highly configurable (can totally re-arrange all bars, change text display, etc.)
- WoW Vanilla Classic Servers are supported by the latest version.
Slash commands
- /dhud - opens the configuration UI to tweak any setting
- /dhud settings <settingName> = <settingValue> - to change setting using command line
Recent changes
- Added support for WoW Vanilla Classic Servers.
- Addon code has been rewritten and uses OOP design. Cpu and memory consumption is reduced
- Code is documented and easily readable.
- Added new features:
- Health bars are now able to display shields, incoming heal and absorbed heal.
- Numbers are now truncated if enabled in settings
- Cooldowns can be shown like it's done with auras
- Auras whitelists, blacklists, and priority lists
- DHUD Settings addon is also rewritten to support new code
- And more
Support
If you want to support the addon development tell about it to your friends, the more users will use it - the better. I will update it more regularly as it becomes easier for me to maintain addon after full rewrite.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: AddOn DHUD attempted to call a protected function (CompactRaidFrame...) during combat lockdown.
- A: DHUD addon doesn't call any protected functions. Blizzard code can taint itself even without any addons loaded. Good article on this topic: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6933303515
First and foremost, this is by far the best HUD addon I have ever used. It has everything that I need. Thank you so much for putting in the time and the work needed to make this addon all that it is today.
I have been using the Classic version of this addon, which has a few things that I think are a little odd. The first is that for some reason, as a warlock, the HUD is not showing any of my targets debuffs that I have put on them unless I add them to the target short aura list. This solves my issue but the second issue is that the short auras that are displayed for my target do not have timers in them. Is there any way at all possible to get timers working on short auras?
Thanks a ton for looking into this. We all appreciate all that you have done for us.
Hud dont work anymore for Shamans - they changed somthing in the totem API (since Dec 13 Update)
In reply to Exilog:
I will look into it on the weekends.
Great Add-on. It really looks great.
I've just started using it in Classic, and I'm having this issue:
"Player: Spell and Item Cooldowns" is not showing all cooldowns, only some. For example, I play a rogue and it shows the cooldown for Kidney Shot (20s) but not for Distract (30s); it shows the cooldown for Perception (3 min), but not for Vanish (5 min), Evasion (5 min) or Sprint (5 min). under the Timers tab, the minimum duration for cooldowns is set to 0 and the maximum to 3600. I've also tried to put the spell names in the white list and the priority list, but that didn't help.
anyway, hope you find the time to continue working on this great add-on. cheers.
PS. After using the addon some more, it now seems to me that many auras / cooldowns are not recognized for some reason. I noticed, for example, that not all target auras show up, only some (that should show up according to duration / charges settings). I can't find a reason why some did and others didn't, so I assume it's some problem with classic. I'm guessing that it all works fine in retail.
In reply to rokabard:
I think this bug should be fixed in latest version (It works on both retail and classic wow versions), but there is a possibility that it's not committed yet. It was tied to spellbooks, there is only one spellbook on retail, but 3 spell books on the classic. Addon was iterating only the first spellbook to track spell cooldowns.
What addon version do you use?
In reply to MADCATXXX:
I'm using 65-classic. I don't play retail at the moment. Should I be using 66-release for Classic?
PS.
OK i've tried 66-release now and it seems to be the same. Some cooldowns and auras are tracked and some are not.
I've also noticed that this version conflicts with the addon OmniCC for some reason (OmniCC just stops working with 66 - it works fine with 65).
In reply to rokabard:
Suffix "release" or "classic" doesn't matter, the difference is only in TOC file version (can't write both WoW versions to TOC file). LUA code supports both versions of WoW - release and classic. I've checked code on my local machine, code with cooldowns fix is not committed to the repo. I will upload it on weekends along with target short auras support for classic.
It's strange that omni cc conflicts with version 66, as mostly it differs TOC file and few lines of LUA code that shouldn't alter other addons.
Love the Addon <3
but found some problems with Raidgroups and Guildlead (classic)
Raidroups -> cant set assist/Maintanks
Guildlead -> Guildmaster name changes everytime i open the options to another groups name
Keep the good work Up the addon save my Chars life xD
In reply to Exilog:
I will look into it on next weekend.
I play a shaman on classic. When I have lightning shield active the hud will not disappear out of combat even with the OOC Alpha setting set to 0.
Is there a setting I'm missing or is there anyway to work around this?
In reply to landoperk:
HUD is not hiding when you have an active short aura (such as sprint, etc..., in your case it's lighting shield). Long auras don't affect HUD visibility unless they are going to fall off (such as deadly poison, etc...) - so you see that you need something to reapply.
You can decrease the duration of short auras at which they are going to be visible - it will allow HUD to be hidden.
I have another solution on my TODO list so that you can configure each aura separately, but I won't be able to make it happen during BFA.
Hay, great add-on. As an idea, it would be nice to have an option for rectangle hp/mana bars. Great work.
In reply to Ceph777:
Hi, I have this option on the TODO list, but my time is very limited.
In the last 2 months, I had time to enter the game only twice for 2-3 hours. In this very limited time frame, I'm not always developing an addon.
I've some uncommitted changes, like target short auras for classic, they were ready 2 months ago, but they require a bit more time (like 1 hour) to finally commit them and I didn't have that time.
I don't think I'll have an option to do this during BFA.
I've changed repo to GitHub, so it's now easier to make pull requests to this project, through such feature requires a lot of artwork (if not reusing texture from another addon) and codework (mostly to make this configurable).
That could explain why the bug didn't occur yesterday after being zoned from Zul'Dazar to Drustvar during this quest. Sitting in that mech-vehicle probably did something differently in regards to when that UNIT_MAXHEALTH-event was fired.
In reply to iiiiiiiiiiiiiik:
UnitMaxHealth is correct after "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" event, so I will rely on it, no hacks are required. But the purpose of adding UNIT_MAXHEALTH event with value of 0 is not known to me.
I will upload fix later today.
Any news or update for 8.2.5 randomy diapering health bar?
In reply to bumbak12:
Sorry, but I didn't actually have time to check it. I will try to check it today in the evening.
In reply to MADCATXXX:
I'm not sure that I'd call it "random" disappearences. The error seems to happen fairly consistently when loading into other zones (e.g. via portal). A "/reload ui" fixes it. The problem hasn't occurred directly after logging in for me yet, only after subsequent loading-screens due to zoning.
In reply to iiiiiiiiiiiiiik:
Thanks for the info. It seems this is another game API bug, the game started reporting UnitHealthMax("player") as 0 after using portal, it causes addon to stop tracking health until max health is back to normal (addon waits for UNIT_MAXHEALTH change event), unfortunately, the game doesn't want to send UNIT_MAXHEALTH event again.
I will make a fix for this situation on weekends, but from my point of view, problem is on the blizzard side, unless they have added another event about porting data ready.
In reply to bumbak12:
DHUD version 66 is available that should fix this problem.
Please check if "Other times, I will see the health bar outline, but it will appear as if I have 0 health, despite being at full health." is still applies to this version.