Random idea. Why not change the top bar of each frame to a health bar on mouseover? Ie show the health of whoever your mouse is over via the top thicker bar of the frame. If you are going to use something like Clique to do your click healing you are going to have your mouse over the name anyway so now you can see a orange tank and go to heal them mover your mouse over them and see exactly how much health they lost and choose your heal via your click combo.
I would also download this if Vill's pictures were used as a basis. Also, I don't know if each name is it's own frame or not, but if you could make it so something like "Clique" would be able to work with it, that'd be absolutely perfect. I know all I give a rat's ass about is healing deficeit, if they're being healed and if they have aggro, which is all that shows. (knowing the class is nice too, but not needed if I raid with the same people all the time, ;P )
Changed it a little, actual health bar at top w/ abbreviated debuff type, and an idea of how to display debuffs:
Purple line = druid002 is cursed, blue line = druid003 is magic-debuffed.
Just some ideas for you Maia, feel free to take this stuff and do whatever. Depending on what font you use, you can make these frames even smaller...I used Myriad Pro above, but Myriad Semibold Condensed is...well, condensed!, and shaves off like 30% of the width. It's a little less readable though.
And Kimat, can I just say your idea to show health deficit in 2 digits is absolutely brilliant? ;)
Changed it a little, actual health bar at top w/ abbreviated debuff type, and an idea of how to display debuffs:
Purple line = druid002 is cursed, blue line = druid003 is magic-debuffed.
Just some ideas for you Maia, feel free to take this stuff and do whatever. Depending on what font you use, you can make these frames even smaller...I used Myriad Pro above, but Myriad Semibold Condensed is...well, condensed!, and shaves off like 30% of the width. It's a little less readable though.
And Kimat, can I just say your idea to show health deficit in 2 digits is absolutely brilliant? ;)
I have to echo that this idea could turn out to be amazing. But as seems the norm, I would like to throw in my ideas :)
The option to sort by group would be really nice on this (and is probably something you have already thought of or planned on.) Then, if you could select a person from each group and have them always be on the title bar across the top and perhaps a small Target window to the right of this title bar, what you have essentially done is combined both raid frames, MT windows, and PT windows in to a single addon. Typically, groups are set up with the MT in group 1, second MT in group 2, etc. Mages usually end up somewhere down in the groups, just depending. Keeping the warriors selected in your first couple of groups covers the MT frame, and for example, having mages selected in a couple of other groups that are responsible for AOE pulls/kites means that you have your PT frames, too. This also eliminates the thing of not having focus on a mage in a certain group (which I always find myself doing.) I'm usually watching tanks on the BWL pulls with the goblins, and in between healing trying to scan down a list of the entire raid to find that mage that was told to AOE the goblins always delays me. Having a set up like this would mean just scanning down the entire list, and only having to look at the title bar of each grouping. That could be huge.
Other idea, in each box you sort the player according to their health. In the "titlebar" of the box you show the health deficit for the top player (the player with the minimum health so)
Why not add 1 Button that toggles between Name/Health deficit.
And you borrow one Option from Perfect Raid but use it different.
In PRaid you can enable showing the Text "Mana" after the Energybar if someone gets under XX% Mana. The XX% can be ajusted.
Copy ths but use it as a switch for auto toggle between Name - Health deficit display.
Player 100% Life = Show Name. If player smaller then xx% Life then show health deficit.
Now add a second Button that´s overrides the Health deficit display to show while pressed the Names again.
Thus the windows would remain further small. But if necessarily you can work also with them to heal people.
Well, I like all your suggestions, as long as the frames are really, really minimal. I'm still waiting to see if ag adds a style to his unit frames, because then I won't have to code the addon myself - and as I somehow decided I'd like to do an Ace2 version of Decursive, MiniRaid doesn't have priority. If anyone would like to write the addon, feel free to do so. If you're using RosterLib, I guess the addon won't be longer than 200 lines of code.
Random idea. Why not change the top bar of each frame to a health bar on mouseover? Ie show the health of whoever your mouse is over via the top thicker bar of the frame. If you are going to use something like Clique to do your click healing you are going to have your mouse over the name anyway so now you can see a orange tank and go to heal them mover your mouse over them and see exactly how much health they lost and choose your heal via your click combo.
I came up with another variation using two ideas posted in this thread. :D
First box, no one selected, total class health is shown at the top. Number to right of name is health deficit.
Second box, Druid002 selected, his health percentage replaces the text at the top.
Would be simple to highlight the background color of a name when debuffed as well...
I would love to use these Maia. ;)
- Kira
Purple line = druid002 is cursed, blue line = druid003 is magic-debuffed.
Just some ideas for you Maia, feel free to take this stuff and do whatever. Depending on what font you use, you can make these frames even smaller...I used Myriad Pro above, but Myriad Semibold Condensed is...well, condensed!, and shaves off like 30% of the width. It's a little less readable though.
And Kimat, can I just say your idea to show health deficit in 2 digits is absolutely brilliant? ;)
I have to echo that this idea could turn out to be amazing. But as seems the norm, I would like to throw in my ideas :)
The option to sort by group would be really nice on this (and is probably something you have already thought of or planned on.) Then, if you could select a person from each group and have them always be on the title bar across the top and perhaps a small Target window to the right of this title bar, what you have essentially done is combined both raid frames, MT windows, and PT windows in to a single addon. Typically, groups are set up with the MT in group 1, second MT in group 2, etc. Mages usually end up somewhere down in the groups, just depending. Keeping the warriors selected in your first couple of groups covers the MT frame, and for example, having mages selected in a couple of other groups that are responsible for AOE pulls/kites means that you have your PT frames, too. This also eliminates the thing of not having focus on a mage in a certain group (which I always find myself doing.) I'm usually watching tanks on the BWL pulls with the goblins, and in between healing trying to scan down a list of the entire raid to find that mage that was told to AOE the goblins always delays me. Having a set up like this would mean just scanning down the entire list, and only having to look at the title bar of each grouping. That could be huge.
Any chance it's gonna be in SVN soon?
And you borrow one Option from Perfect Raid but use it different.
In PRaid you can enable showing the Text "Mana" after the Energybar if someone gets under XX% Mana. The XX% can be ajusted.
Copy ths but use it as a switch for auto toggle between Name - Health deficit display.
Player 100% Life = Show Name. If player smaller then xx% Life then show health deficit.
Now add a second Button that´s overrides the Health deficit display to show while pressed the Names again.
Thus the windows would remain further small. But if necessarily you can work also with them to heal people.
looks very nice tho :)
Bootiful!
Woot!