I've been using this mod since September and (depending on your class) it is arguably the MOST useful addon in the game when configured correctly.
It's ironic that it's not more popular or well known and that people just seem to stumble upon it. I've written a few plugins for personal use and would love to see someone from the Ace community pick it up.
For anyone who doesn't know, "Power Auras" provides the ability to create custom auras that show up on your screen. An aura is simply a graphic you that you choose and set alpha, color and animation style. These auras display based on certain conditions that you specify. For example, I can set up different auras to display based on how many Combo points I currently have. Or alternately, you can display when your target has a buff (or debuff) or when you have a buff or debuff.
A couple of examples of use with a Fury warrior...
When I do NOT have Battleshout and I am in combat, I have a custom aura that creates big flashing neon green circle in the center of my screen. Since this is a 2 min buff that I always want to have, it's pretty important to make sure I have it and this addon makes it clear as day.
When Rampage is active, show a countdown timer for how long it will remain active. This tells me how much time I have before I need to renew Rampage. Since Rampage is on a 30 second timer and I need to renew it before 30 seconds expire to keep all 5 applications--this is pretty important.
All three of those can be done by setting them up with the current version. I added my own options to provide me auras based on 1) whether or not I had aggro of my target, 2) my target was below 20% health and ready to be executed, 3) I have over 30 rage and Bloodthirst is ready.
Anyway...I just wanted to throw my $0.02 out to say that this mod is definitely worth continuing and supporting.
I think a good use of this would be to make it modular and allow people to create plugins for it. That way, different people could create different plugins for different classes. Also, an SCT plugin would be awesome as it already acts as a combat log parser.
If the performance isn't that bad and it's still in active development, I see no reason to rewrite it ^^.
Actually... It ISN'T still in active development. The author has stated he doesn't have time to pay attention to it and that someone is welcome to pick it up.
Also-- The addon doesn't NEARLY reach the potential that it could reach because it only really works with buffs/debuffs and combo points.
The best solution would be the following:
1) A core module used for showing and hiding custom auras. An "aura" is a graphic that has options for color, alpha, scale, position. It would also be nice to have animations (like POWA) but not absolutely required. This core addon would be responsible for the framework of showing and hiding auras and providing a config gui for editing them. A simple API for this core module would provide other authors what they need to create their own auras for thier addons.
2) Optional modules that use the API framework of the core module. Multiple authors could create their own modules. Examples:
Aggro: show/hide auras based on who has aggro
Buffs/Debuffs: show/hide auras based on buffs (like POWA)
Health/Mana: show hide auras based on health and mana bars
Rogue: show hide auras that are useful to rogues (combo pts, riposte, etc)
Warrior: and so on...
While I could fumble around with #1 and eventually come up with something, there are much better authors than I am that could do a better job setting up the options gui and the core framework.
I will say that I would immediately commit to helping with #2 by helping develop some of the modules.
I've nabbed the show/hide functions out of the addon, added textures, and am manually calling them for things that aren't supported by the addon (low health warnings, generalized warnings for when I don't have an aura/blessing up on my pally unit specific (party memebers) debuffs... Stuff like that...)
Saving me a lot of work, and the animations POWA is capable of are far prettier than anything I could ever hope to toss together.
is there any ace2 addon that does the same things as Powerauras ?
I just stumbled upon PowerAuras and this was really seems to be what i was looking for but it is no longer updated :\
I'm currently taking a look into PA and making a bit brainstorming, testing some things.
Probably I'm going to re'ace it (I'm not "porting" PA to ace, I'm rather going to rewrite it, PA code is really horrifying >_<), will post updates
I can only imagine what could be done in this way :)
I would really love to be able to link any type of trigger to a displayed picture, like health < x, mana < x, those sort of things.
I can only imagine what could be done in this way :)
I would really love to be able to link any type of trigger to a displayed picture, like health < x, mana < x, those sort of things.
Jep, this will definitly be in. I'm currently working on the display part, testing a bit around with OnUpdate and ScheduledEvents.
I can only imagine what could be done in this way :)
I would really love to be able to link any type of trigger to a displayed picture, like health < x, mana < x, those sort of things.
Jep, this will definitly be in. I'm currently working on the display part, testing a bit around with OnUpdate and ScheduledEvents.
Sounds really nice, I can't wait to try this one out when it's done. Small-ish feature request though, could you add an option to play a sound on the triggers as well as displaying a graphic? Just a thought. :)
Sounds really nice, I can't wait to try this one out when it's done. Small-ish feature request though, could you add an option to play a sound on the triggers as well as displaying a graphic? Just a thought. :)
I like that! :)
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http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/3897/power-auras/
Though it has some issues, as stated in the add-ons comments, which need fixing.
Would love it if someone took over the idea and made a similar add-on :]
It's ironic that it's not more popular or well known and that people just seem to stumble upon it. I've written a few plugins for personal use and would love to see someone from the Ace community pick it up.
For anyone who doesn't know, "Power Auras" provides the ability to create custom auras that show up on your screen. An aura is simply a graphic you that you choose and set alpha, color and animation style. These auras display based on certain conditions that you specify. For example, I can set up different auras to display based on how many Combo points I currently have. Or alternately, you can display when your target has a buff (or debuff) or when you have a buff or debuff.
A couple of examples of use with a Fury warrior...
When I do NOT have Battleshout and I am in combat, I have a custom aura that creates big flashing neon green circle in the center of my screen. Since this is a 2 min buff that I always want to have, it's pretty important to make sure I have it and this addon makes it clear as day.
When Rampage is active, show a countdown timer for how long it will remain active. This tells me how much time I have before I need to renew Rampage. Since Rampage is on a 30 second timer and I need to renew it before 30 seconds expire to keep all 5 applications--this is pretty important.
All three of those can be done by setting them up with the current version. I added my own options to provide me auras based on 1) whether or not I had aggro of my target, 2) my target was below 20% health and ready to be executed, 3) I have over 30 rage and Bloodthirst is ready.
Anyway...I just wanted to throw my $0.02 out to say that this mod is definitely worth continuing and supporting.
I think a good use of this would be to make it modular and allow people to create plugins for it. That way, different people could create different plugins for different classes. Also, an SCT plugin would be awesome as it already acts as a combat log parser.
If the performance isn't that bad and it's still in active development, I see no reason to rewrite it ^^.
Actually... It ISN'T still in active development. The author has stated he doesn't have time to pay attention to it and that someone is welcome to pick it up.
Also-- The addon doesn't NEARLY reach the potential that it could reach because it only really works with buffs/debuffs and combo points.
The best solution would be the following:
1) A core module used for showing and hiding custom auras. An "aura" is a graphic that has options for color, alpha, scale, position. It would also be nice to have animations (like POWA) but not absolutely required. This core addon would be responsible for the framework of showing and hiding auras and providing a config gui for editing them. A simple API for this core module would provide other authors what they need to create their own auras for thier addons.
2) Optional modules that use the API framework of the core module. Multiple authors could create their own modules. Examples:
Aggro: show/hide auras based on who has aggro
Buffs/Debuffs: show/hide auras based on buffs (like POWA)
Health/Mana: show hide auras based on health and mana bars
Rogue: show hide auras that are useful to rogues (combo pts, riposte, etc)
Warrior: and so on...
While I could fumble around with #1 and eventually come up with something, there are much better authors than I am that could do a better job setting up the options gui and the core framework.
I will say that I would immediately commit to helping with #2 by helping develop some of the modules.
Saving me a lot of work, and the animations POWA is capable of are far prettier than anything I could ever hope to toss together.
Please make it ace'd !
Isn't there a wiki for statements like this yet?
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If only the current verion worked perfectly it would be so awesome :)
I just stumbled upon PowerAuras and this was really seems to be what i was looking for but it is no longer updated :\
I'm currently taking a look into PA and making a bit brainstorming, testing some things.
Probably I'm going to re'ace it (I'm not "porting" PA to ace, I'm rather going to rewrite it, PA code is really horrifying >_<), will post updates
I would really love to be able to link any type of trigger to a displayed picture, like health < x, mana < x, those sort of things.
Jep, this will definitly be in. I'm currently working on the display part, testing a bit around with OnUpdate and ScheduledEvents.
Implemented options are:
I haven't started working on the event-part but
- De/Buff on Self/Raid/[Target/Fucos]
- Debuff type on Self/Raid/[Target/Fucos]
- Combo Points
- Action Usable
- Health/mana below threshold
- Mana/Health regeneration enabled
- Aggro gain
are planned so far. :)GREAT
Sounds really nice, I can't wait to try this one out when it's done. Small-ish feature request though, could you add an option to play a sound on the triggers as well as displaying a graphic? Just a thought. :)
I like that! :)