HoloUI

A holographic sci-fi interface for World of Warcraft: Midnight.

HoloUI turns your screen into a starship HUD: giant 3D health numbers on curved glass screens, your own character as a turning hologram, a spell ring that follows the game's combat suggestions, and a cyan holographic skin over every part of the game's interface. It is a single standalone addon. This addon was heavily inspired by SilverUI2 by SilverLion (2015).

Combat HUD

The HUD opens when targeting an enemy unit, and it is removed when untargeting or finishing the battle

• Holographic health: curved side screens with giant 3D numbers for you and your target.
• Your character as a hologram: your character as 3D model.
• Spell ring: a rotating drum that brings Blizzard's Assisted Combat suggestion to the front, with cooldowns and charges. Big cooldowns are never suggested; they glow gold when ready.
• Power and defense cards beside the ring: your strongest cooldowns, clickable in combat.
• Class resources on holographic arcs for every class and specialisation: combo points, holy power, chi, runes, essence, soul shards, arcane charges and so on
• Cast bars, cast and power rings, a global cooldown ring, pet gauge with a heal hint.
• Interrupt banner, target lock on the nameplate, low-health alarm, damage glitch.

Unit frames and encounters

• Unit frames included in the HUD. Target info includes level, class or reaction colour, creature type and a 3D portrait.
• Boss timers and warnings from the game's own encounter data, as holographic bars and banners.
• Damage meter in the bottom-right panel, using the game's own meter.

The whole interface, holographic

HoloUI uses the game's own frames, so everything keeps working the Blizzard way:

• An Edit Mode layout "HoloUI" places the action bars, pet bar, micro menu, bags, chat, minimap, buffs, party / raid frames and the objective tracker. Your own layouts are kept, and you can still move them in Edit Mode.
• Holographic skin for action bars, chat, tooltips, bags, buffs and debuffs, party and raid frames (class-coloured borders), nameplates (sharp names, target lock), experience and reputation bars.
• Minimap radar with a rotating sweep, coordinates and the zone name; red alert in combat.
• The game's windows have a cyan glass color, for the HoloUI: character, spellbook, talents, collections, achievements, group finder, professions, world map, options, dialogs and so on.

Exploration and immersion

• Boot sequence when you log in, a boot sequence animation appears on the UI.
• Compass at the top of the screen: heading, your tracked quest or map pin with its distance, and your corpse when you are a ghost.
• Skyriding HUD: speed tape, vigor, top speed and Thrill of the Skies.
• Holographic zone banner and notifications for quests, loot and gold.
• "SIGNAL LOST" death screen and "SYSTEM STANDBY" AFK screen with your hologram and an orbiting camera.
• Tracked buffs from Blizzard's Cooldown Manager on a holographic arc above your character.
• Synthesised sci-fi sounds: boot, target lock, combat, cooldown ready, alerts, take-off.

Quality of life

• Merchant helpers: junk sold and gear repaired when you open a merchant (guild funds optional).
• Dialog keys: Space accepts, 1-9 pick gossip options. Risky popups are never accepted by a key.
• Error console that catches every addon's Lua errors in a copyable window.

Setup

1. Install HoloUI and log in.
2. Accept the welcome message (or type /holo install). The installer sets the UI scale, the interface layout and a few game settings, then reloads once.
3. Target an enemy unit to see the HUD.

Options are in Esc → Options → AddOns → HoloUI. Every module, effect and sound can be turned off. Colour themes: cyan, amber, red, Matrix green, violet.

| Commands List |

| /holo | help and options |

| /holo install | run the installer again |

| /holo preview | show the HUD without a target |

| /holo scale 1.1 | HUD size (0.5 - 2.0) |

| /holo theme amber | colour theme |

| /holo spells | spell ring back to your specialisation's default |

| /holo bars | apply the HoloUI Edit Mode layout again |

| /holo boss test | preview the boss timers |

| /holo vendor | merchant helpers (junk, repair, guild) |

| /holo errors | error console |

| /holo reset | reset all HoloUI settings |

Compatibility

• World of Warcraft: Midnight 12.1 (Retail).
• Any resolution from 1920x1080, including ultrawide (21:9, 32:9) and 16:10 (MacBook).
• Windows and macOS. All 39 specialisations.
• English, Português (Brasil), 简体中文.

In Midnight, health, auras and enemy casts are "secret" to addons. HoloUI only uses the APIs Blizzard provides for them: nothing is automated, and the game decides what is shown in combat.

Credits

HoloUI is made by Trisword. It is dedicated to SilverUI2 by SilverLion (2015), whose holographic HUD inspired it. HoloUI is a new, independent addon: all of its code, textures and sounds were made for it.

License

MIT for all of HoloUI (code, textures and sounds). Fonts (Exo 2, Orbitron, Rajdhani, Share Tech Mono, Silkscreen) are under the SIL Open Font License; the libraries keep their own licenses.