Glass Unit Frames

By
Spotnick

Lightweight Unit Frames for World of Warcraft Forever

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Description

Glass Unit Frames

Liquid-glass unit frames for World of Warcraft: Forever: your player, pet, target, target of target (and its target), focus and focus target, in the glass look shared by the Glass addons. A streamlined take on Shadowed Unit Frames, with no party or raid frames (that's Glass Raid Frames).

Alpha: in daily use, but young. Please report anything odd.

Every frame in glass, in preview mode: the player with its pet and a combat timer, the target with its target and its target's target above it, the focus and focus target, and two detached cast bars

Install it, then /reload: your Blizzard frames are replaced at once. Every setting is under Esc > Options > AddOns > Glass Unit Frames, or /glass options.

Features

Seven frames in glass, each with the unit's name and health. The player, target, pet and focus add a power bar; the player, target and pet a 3D portrait (or 2D, or none, per frame); the target its level and classification. Left-click targets, right-click opens the menu, hovering shows the tooltip.

The look: Pearl glass by default, or Clean and Classic; a clear or smoked body; two fonts. With Glass UI installed, it can set the glass for every Glass addon at once.

On the frames:

health and power text in a few formats per frame;
a red segment for health just lost, and incoming heals on the player, target and focus;
the target's buffs and debuffs in two rows under it;
raid marks, leader, master looter, PvP, resting, AFK and your raid group number;
neutral creatures turn red while they fight you or your group;
combo points for rogues and cat-form druids, a mana strip for druids in bear or cat form;
your hunter pet's happiness.

Cast bars for you, your target, focus and pet, in Quartz's style:

spell icon, "Spell -> Target", remaining / total time and a spark;
a green flash when a cast lands, a red one when it fails, and pushback (+0.4);
a craft count (Heavy Linen Bandage (3/5)) and one bar for a whole craft batch;
a red latency block on your own bar: roughly the end of the cast too late to cancel.

Keep each one on its frame, or detach it to drag, size, scale and colour it.

Combat zoom: in a fight, your cast bar and your target's glide above your frames and grow, then glide home after. Per bar, with your own spot and scale, and per role (Healer, Tank, DPS).

In a fight: the player's zoomed cast bar above the player and target frames, with its spell icon, "Smite -> Scorpid Worker", the time and the latency in ms />

For casters and fighters: a swing timer, the five-second rule on your mana bar, your next 2 seconds of mana regen, and a combat timer over your portrait.

Place everything: /glass unlock to drag frames and bars, nudge them with the arrows, snap them to a grid, align them and mirror the player and target. /glass preview shows every frame and bar with sample data, so you can set things up without a target or a fight.

With the other Glass addons:

With Glass Raid Frames' centred raid layout, your frame and your target's sit just beside the raid grid (/glass link off to keep your own places). Your cast bars stay where you put them, lifted just clear of the grid if it would cover them.
Glass Action Bars' stance and pet bars follow your player and pet frames.
Click-casting addons that use Clique's convention (Clique, Glass Raid Frames) bind the frames.

Good to know

No party or raid frames: use Glass Raid Frames. Blizzard's party frames are left alone.
The glass is painted: the game gives addons no blur, so it doesn't blur what's behind it.
The numbers stay the game's: Forever hides many unit values from addons, so the frames hand them straight to the game. That's why the text has a few fixed formats and the target's auras can't be filtered: the game picks and sorts them.
Some changes wait for combat to end: moving frames, a portrait set to none, /glass reset.
Shaman totems don't show while Blizzard's frames are hidden: the game hides their details.
Not yet checked in game: the combo points and the druid mana strip. Reports welcome.

Commands

/glass help lists them all. The most used:

/glass options, /glass unlock, /glass lock, /glass preview, /glass reset
/glass look pearl|clean|classic, /glass body clear|smoked (after a /reload)
/glass portrait player|target|pet 3d|2d|none
/glass link on|off
/glass blizzard show|hide (after a /reload)

Bugs and ideas

Open an issue on GitHub. With /console scriptErrors 1 on, the error text helps a lot.

The glass comes from LibGlass-1.0 (MIT), included. Glass Unit Frames is MIT licensed.