RaidFrameCentre

Overview

RaidFrameCentre is a lightweight addon that does exactly what it says — keeps Blizzard's native compact raid frames pinned to the centre of your screen, with full control over vertical positioning. No bloat, no dependencies, no replacing the default raid frames with a third-party alternative.

If you've ever loaded into a raid and found your frames sitting in some arbitrary corner because EditMode reset, a resolution change shifted things, or you just never got around to placing them properly — this addon solves that permanently.

Why

Blizzard's default raid frame positioning system is tied to EditMode, which means your layout can shift between sessions, screen setups, or UI reloads. For players who want their raid frames dead-centre on screen — especially those using a bottom-centre HUD layout with WeakAuras, action bars, or personal resource displays — there's no native way to lock that position reliably.

But there's a bigger problem that EditMode simply cannot solve: raid frames do not auto-centre based on group count.

When you position your raid frames in EditMode, you're positioning the container's anchor point — not the frames themselves. As groups are added or removed, the frame container grows and shrinks, but it does so from that fixed anchor. This means:

• A layout that looks perfectly centred with 3 groups will be visibly off-centre with 5 groups
• A 40-man raid and a 10-man raid will never both look centred with the same EditMode position
• There is no setting in EditMode, no toggle, no option — this is simply not something Blizzard's system accounts for

RaidFrameCentre fixes this by anchoring the container to CENTER of the screen at all times. As groups are added or removed and the container resizes, it remains symmetrical on screen regardless of how many players are in the raid.

How It Works

The addon hooks into CompactRaidFrameContainer and overrides its anchor point, setting it to CENTER relative to UIParent every time the game attempts to reposition it. This means it survives:

• UI reloads (/reload)
• Entering and leaving raids
• EditMode updates
• Group roster changes
• Raid size changes mid-session

A configurable Y offset lets you shift the frames up or down from centre — useful if you want them sitting just above your action bars rather than literally in the middle of the screen.

The addon is raid-only. Party frames in 5-mans are completely unaffected.

Features

• Automatically centres raid frames on every load and roster update
• True centre at any raid size — works correctly whether you have 2 groups or 8
• Adjustable Y offset via a clean in-game slider (range: -600 to +600)
• Settings persist between sessions via SavedVariables
• Zero impact on party frames or any other UI element
• No third-party libraries or dependencies
• Fully compatible with Blizzard's EditMode (does not break or disable it)

Usage

Type /rfc to open the options panel. Drag the slider to adjust the vertical position of your raid frames. The frames reposition live as you drag. Click Reset to 0 to return to true centre.

That's it. There's nothing else to configure.

Compatibility

• Requires World of Warcraft: Midnight (retail)
• Uses only Blizzard's native compact raid frame system
• Compatible alongside any addon that doesn't also forcibly reanchor CompactRaidFrameContainer

Why Not Just Use EditMode?

EditMode positions are not always reliably restored, particularly if you play across multiple machines, use multiple profiles, or have had UI corruption. But more fundamentally, EditMode cannot centre raid frames dynamically — it sets a fixed anchor and leaves it there. If your raid size changes, your frames shift off-centre and there is nothing in the base game to correct this. RaidFrameCentre enforces true centre on every roster update, making it the only reliable solution for players who want consistently symmetrical raid frames at any group size.