Ultimate Castbars

Unreleased

Version 0.9.1 - [23-02-2026]

• Support for automatic Curse and Wago releases

Version 0.9.0 - [23-02-2026]

Added

• Castbars for player, target, focus (supports casts, channels, empowered).
• Preview simulator that uses the real cast pipeline:
  • Preview cast / channel / empowered
  • Looping previews
  • Select preview spells from detected spell lists
  • Configure duration, empower stages, and “not interruptible”
  • Drag the preview bar to reposition and write offsets back
• Copy settings between bars (per section/category).
• Import/Export profiles + profile management (copy/reset/delete; optional dual-spec support).

• Frame search using a frame picker
• Anchoring with anchorFrom / anchorTo pairing + X/Y offsets
• Late-loading frame resolution (retry + delay/interval)
• Size options:
  • Manual width/height
  • Frame sync (sync width and/or height + offsets)
  • Min width/height
  • Border-aware sizing (include border thickness)
• Spell icon:
  • Show/hide, anchor around the bar, offsets
  • Sync icon size to bar height or set explicit width/height

• Text options with a tag/token system and custom text
• Text items can be added, deleted, or edited
• Text items can be positioned and styled per item or globally per bar
• Text items can be conditional based on cast/effect state
• Tags support types: Cast / Interrupted / Cancelled, with show rules by cast type/state
• Performance-aware updates for text: Static / Semi-Dynamic / Dynamic
• Text list includes useful defaults for convenience

• Styling for textures (LibSharedMedia) for fill, background, and border
• Styling for colours for fill, background, and border:
  • Class colour / Ombre / Custom colour (optional gradient start/end)
  • Target/Focus can use separate enemy NPC colours
• Borders:
  • Thickness + per-side offsets
  • Bar + icon border handling (synced/independent options)
  • Dynamic negative border offsets based on border thickness

• Uninterruptible visuals for uninterruptible casts:
  • Hide bar or change opacity (optional icon inclusion)
  • Custom fill/overlay/background/border for uninterruptible state
• Kick/Interrupt cooldown awareness:
  • Hide bar until kick is ready, or opacity changes while on cooldown
  • Optional dynamic alpha updates during the cast
  • Kick-ready tick marker
  • “Until kick” fill region with optional overlay/background

• Visibility options: Strata and Frame Level for the bar

• Other features:
  • Channeling: global per-bar option to show ticks (plus global tick visuals)
  • Spell Queue Window overlay for player castbar (+ read/write SpellQueueWindow CVAR, optional custom ms)
  • Invert and/or mirror the castbar fill (per cast type)
  • Interrupted/Cancelled overlays and effects (per effect type + cast type, textures/colours + duration)
  • Kicked/Cancelled effects with custom options for text/colours and per spell type

• Class specific:
  • Channel ticks per spell per class for player bar (spec-aware UI)
  • Channel ticks per class for target/focus bar (class defaults + spec placeholders)
  • Blacklist/Whitelist spell filter for player bar (add by spell picker or spell ID)
  • Evoker:
    • Dynamic Disintegrate tick logic (Devastation) + fallback to static ticks if disabled
    • Empower visuals: stage tick marks/segments, per-stage tick + colour control, optional textures
    • Manual tick placement (percent-based) + reset
    • Custom empowered effects for ticks/background/fill (all)
    • Custom tick positions (target, focus)

• Default Blizzard castbar:
  • Show/hide default castbar (debug/compat)
  • Resize, reposition, and scale default castbar
  • Optional static bar for comparison/testing
  • Baseline capture + “late restore” to reduce drift
  • Re-apply hide/show if Blizzard attempts to show frames again
  • Debug mode that disables all other addons and restores them later