Where tf is square?

Raid markers on a ring that turns with your character. The marker at the top is the one you are facing.

The problem

Someone calls "square" and you are facing the wrong way. You do not think in north-east, you think in the square one, and working out which corner that is costs you the second you did not have.

This puts the room's markers on a small ring that rotates as you turn. Up is always where you are looking, so "square is behind me, star is on my right" is something you read rather than something you calculate.

What it does

• Sixteen segments, 22.5 degrees apart. Put a marker on any of them, leave the rest empty.
• Turns with your character. North stays north, so the segment at the top is the direction you face.
• Or does not turn at all, if you would rather have a fixed map. One checkbox.
• The icons stay upright whichever way you are pointed, so they never have to be read sideways.
• Set up by clicking. No import strings, nothing to copy off a website.
• A minimap button and a proper window if you would rather click than type, and slash commands if you would rather type than click. The two do the same things.
• A profile per fight, saved and loaded by name.
• Works inside instances, where the game will not normally tell an addon which way you are facing.

The window

Left-click the minimap button.

Everything is in there. On the right, the ring itself: show it, lock it in place, lock the marks, keep north at the top, show or hide the minimap button, and sliders for the ring and marker sizes. On the left, your layouts and the raid: a dropdown of saved layouts that loads one the moment you pick it, a box to save a new one, delete behind a confirmation, and the sharing controls. Buttons to empty the ring, undo a shared layout, and print the diagnostic.

Right-click the minimap button to show or hide the ring without opening anything. Drag the button to move it around the minimap. If your minimap is crowded, a checkbox in the window hides the button and /wtf ui still opens it - so does the game's addon compartment menu.

There is no separate options file and no settings to learn twice: every control runs the same code as the command it matches, so you can set the ring up with the window and share it with a command, or the other way round.

Setting it up

1. Log in. The ring appears above your action bars, empty, with a faint dot on each of the sixteen segments.
2. Click a segment to put a marker on it. Each click steps to the next marker, right-click steps back, and one step past skull leaves the segment empty again.
3. Drag the ring wherever you want it. /wtf lock pins it down so a stray click cannot nudge it mid-pull.
4. Click the padlock in the middle when the layout is right. Green and open means the marks can be changed, dark and closed means clicks are ignored and the empty-segment dots disappear for a cleaner read.
5. /wtf save sszorak to keep it.

The cycle order matches the raid target menu: star, circle, diamond, triangle, moon, square, cross, skull, then empty.

Profiles

One layout per fight.

/wtf save sszorak     keep the current layout under that name
/wtf load sszorak     put it back
/wtf profiles         list what is saved
/wtf delete sszorak   throw one away

A profile holds the markers and the ring and marker sizes. Where the ring sits on screen and whether it is locked are deliberately not part of it, so loading a profile never drags your ring across the screen or unlocks the marks while you are moving.

/wtf save with no name re-saves whichever profile you loaded last, so tweaking one is two words rather than a name you have to remember.

Sharing to the raid

The layout is worth setting up once, not twenty times. As raid leader:

/wtf share            everyone in the raid who has the addon
/wtf share nogi       one player
/wtf share g3         one group, g1 to g8

It lands on their ring immediately and chat tells them who sent it, so nobody has to be watching for a popup while the boss is casting. /wtf undo puts their own layout back if they want it.

Only the raid leader can share, and that is enforced on the receiving end as well as the sending end - the addon checks the sender's rank in your raid before it touches your ring, so a payload from anyone else is dropped.

An incoming layout is not written to the recipient's profile list. It is applied live and nothing of theirs is overwritten on disk; /wtf save <name> keeps it if they want it.

About two seconds after sharing, the leader gets told who did not answer. Those are the people without the addon - the ones who still need telling in voice.

Two things worth knowing: the game blocks addon messages in some situations, so share between pulls rather than mid-cast, and the addon says so plainly when it is blocked. And a name in the "no answer" list means exactly that - usually no addon, occasionally just a slow connection.

Commands

/wheretf works as well, in case something else on your bars has claimed /wtf.

If you would rather it did not turn

Some people want the marks as a fixed map rather than a compass. Tick Keep north at the top in the window, or /wtf north, and the ring stops rotating - north stays up, the segment at the top is north, and the marks sit where they sit.

That also means the addon no longer needs to know which way you are facing, so it stops reading it and hands your Rotate Minimap setting straight back. If you only ever wanted a static layout, this is the way to run it and the addon never touches your minimap at all.

About Rotate Minimap

Worth knowing before you install, because it touches a setting of yours.

Inside instances the game does not tell addons which way you are facing. The one thing that still knows is the minimap's compass ring, which physically spins with you, and it only spins when Rotate Minimap is switched on. So the addon switches it on when it first needs it, tells you in chat that it did, and switches it back off when you log out.

Out in the open world the facing is available directly and your minimap is never touched.

When it cannot read your facing

A compass that quietly points the wrong way is worse than no compass, so this one says so instead. Two captions appear under the ring:

• turn once to confirm the facing reads in amber. A reading has arrived but has not been seen to change yet, so it could be stale. Turn your character and it clears.
• facing unreadable in red, with the segment lines turning red too. There is no facing at all and the ring is frozen. Run /wtf status.

The usual cause of the second one is a minimap addon that hides the compass ring, since a hidden ring stops turning. /wtf status names any known minimap addon you have loaded, along with what the reader can actually see.

Notes

• Markers land on the nearest of sixteen segments, so a mark whose true bearing sits between two of them is drawn up to 11 degrees off. Which side of you it is on is always right.
• Settings and profiles save per account, so all your characters share one set.
• Saved variables are written when you log out or /reload. After building a layout you care about, a /reload commits it.

Made by Nogi.