Authors CurseForge

Ah, ok. I was wondering why your icons where frame objects rather than texture objects anyhow. :p

I'll have to play around and see if I can reproduce it.

You should be using the appropriate Blizzard button templates to get those layers to work. Both the cooldown and autocast are animation frames. Take a look at the default action buttons and pet action buttons to see how they're put together.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21466

Look around in the lua/xml files for action buttons.

Try resetting your profile.

You also have reset the profile for the affected mods. It may just be a case where Raven is putting borders on buttons that shouldn't have borders (IE Buffs), in which case you'll have to go over there. When I get a few minutes, I'll look at it and see if I can find the issue.

Raven ButtonFacade support was changed a while back to try to make border coloring work with more skins. It currently uses two methods (setting the border vertex color and setting the normal texture vertex color), primarily in response to people wanting their favorite skin to work even if the skin was not updated lately. In the near future I plan to make the methods optional (i.e., you'll be able to select either or both of them) with border vertex color only as the default. If you can check this code, StormFX, I'd appreciate any recommendations (look in Nest.lua, search for LBF, border coloring is done around line 830).

First of all, the "Normal" texture is the graphic that appears over the icon. This should not be colored except by the skin or user. The "Border" is an accenting texture for the "Normal" layer that's also used by Blizzard to indicate an equipped item or debuff color. It's very important that you don't mix those two up.

By default, no "Buff" button has a "Border" layer. Only Debuffs should have a "Border" layer. In addition, if you're simply trying to allow changes to the border color, you should simply use :SetVertexColor on the "Border" layer. Since LBF doesn't do anything with the colors, any changes you made will simply work.

Actually, it seems the issue is within Raven. If I leave it alone, Raven adds the "outline" on the corresponding buff/debuffs button on the action bar(s). However, it does not work for a custom-created "buff frame". Butf if I manually enter values (say 0,0,1,1) in lines 830 and 832, it works for both. Somehow the values aren't getting passed correctly for the "buff frame" i created.

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Actually, it seems the issue is within Raven. If I leave it alone, Raven adds the "outline" on the corresponding buff/debuffs button on the action bar(s). However, it does not work for a custom-created "buff frame". Butf if I manually enter values (say 0,0,1,1) in lines 830 and 832, it works for both. Somehow the values aren't getting passed correctly for the "buff frame" i created.

Update: I need to spend more time looking at how BF and skins are implemented in order to get the desired effect for my custom-created "buff frames". I find that setting the border color (line 830) works by itself for Renaitre's skins but setting the normal texture color (line 832) is necessary for Adorn: Light Square and many other skins. To be precise, when I say "works" I mean that setting a custom border color in Raven's bar group appearance options changes the icon's outer border to that color. Not working can mean that there is a faint glow of the desired color or a too-thin colored stripe inset from the border or no detectable added color at all--different skins act very differently.

This is because of the dimensions of the buttons and the size of the colored area of the border texture. For example, with Apathy the border layer's colored area is only two pixels wide. So the smaller the button, the harder it is to see.

How you implement it is up to you. If you want to color the "Normal" texture as well, go for it. That's on you. :p I think PhanxBuffs does something similar. Just keep in mind that scale plays a big factor in how the buttons look.

But as far as the layers not being colored goes, what I was trying to say is that the values being passed seem to be nil, so for the normal layer LBF is defaulting to white because it's not receiving values. If you manually pass the color, it works fine.

Edit: For the record, if you are setting the vertex color of the normal texture, you'll have to reset it after adding it to LBF since LBF actually uses the skin settings to color that particular texture when the button's skinned. If you don't, it'll retain the color specified in the skin or white if no color is specified.

I have added options in the newest release of Raven for selecting the coloring method for icon borders with ButtonFacade. The user can now either apply color to the normal texture or the border texture or both. I have tested this with a lot of different skins and some combination works well with each one. Thank you for your help, StormFX. And, enjaxx, that glow effect can probably be disabled in Raven now by turning off border texture coloring (Defaults tab, at the bottom), depending of course on which skin you are using.