Tinker

1.0.0

First release.

Tinker is a settings window for the console variables WoW Forever does not put in its options menu, plus a handful of interface changes the client gives you no way to make at all.

The window

• 94 settings worth changing, sorted into 10 categories: Camera, Nameplates, Graphics, Quality of life, Targeting, Sound, Raid profile, Chat, Interface and Developer.
• Graphics is split under sub-headings for view distance, visual clutter, performance and shadows.
• Every setting shows its current value and its default, and hovering it explains what it does in plain words.
• Search covers all 1,795 variables on your client, not only the ones Tinker writes about, and finds the interface toggles by name too.
• Settings the options menu already covers are marked, so the ones you cannot reach any other way stand out.
• Anything the client reports as locked, secure or read only is shown greyed and cannot be written.
• Changes needing a reload are flagged, and the Reload button only lights up when something is actually waiting. Put a value back and it greys out again.
• Resizable window that remembers its size, right click a row to copy its variable name, and a minimap button you can drag around the edge.

Settings you can reach

• View distance past where the slider stops, including horizon start, terrain detail range and object cull distance.
• Fog, including volumetric fog on or off, fog quality, indoor fog and light scattering.
• Visual clutter: spell effect density, weather, bloom, glow, ambient occlusion, sun shafts and more.
• Shadows: mode, cascades, resolution, soft edges and fade distance.
• Camera: maximum zoom past the usual limit, turn speed, terrain tilt and water collision.
• Raid profile, a second graphics profile that only applies in raids and has no menu anywhere in the game.
• Plus nameplates, targeting, sound, chat, interface scale and developer options.

Interface changes

• Hide surnames in chat. Mull Tate reads as Mull. Only changes what you see, not what you type or how others see you.
• Hide surnames above players. The same for the name over someone's head. Separate toggle, since nameplates and chat are unrelated. Health and level text on the plate are left alone.
• Square minimap, with the mask, border and addon buttons all following. Four border styles: thin, slim gold, wood or none.
• Chat copy button on each chat window, opening that window's text in a box you can select and copy. Each tab copies only itself. The corner is configurable.
• Hide action bar art, the gryphons and the panel behind the main bar.
• Minimap clutter toggles for the clock and its sun and moon dial, the zoom buttons, the zone name and the tracking eye.

Commands

• /tinker opens the window. /cvar and /tink do the same.
• /tinker find <text> searches from the chat line.
• /tinker audit checks every setting against your client and reports any your build does not carry.
• /tinker rescan re-reads the variable list.

Known limits

• A few settings need a full client restart rather than a reload. These are marked in the window.
• Settings this client does not carry are left out rather than shown as broken rows. /tinker audit will tell you if your build differs.