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  • #12

  Phanx Apr 22, 2012 at 10:17 UTC - 0 likes

  If anyone is still experiencing this issue, please try checking "Throttle Updates" on the Frame tab and let me know if that has any effect.

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  • #11

  Phanx Feb 08, 2012 at 05:05 UTC - 0 likes

  The Blizzard raid frames are not limited by the same constraints that limit addons, and do not use the secure group header system. If the encounter actually generates a vehicle unit for every player in the raid, there's not much that can be done about it in Grid, as the secure group header system does not allow you to exclude arbitrary units. You can specify a whitelist ("include only the units named X, Y, and Z") but *not* a blacklist ("include all units except ones named X, Y, or Z").

  You could, theoretically, specify a whitelist that included the names of all of the real pets in your group, and apply that whitelist to the pet group header(s). You could also theoretically tell Grid to skip all updates (health bar, name text, frame color, etc) on frames for players currently in vehicles named "Earthen Vortex".

  However, such behavior would be specific to one encounter, and thus really would not belong in the Grid core, since it would simply waste system resources for the vast majority of users the vast majority of the time. If you're already writing a plugin, you might as well just have it switch layouts to one that doesn't show pets, since that's much easier to do.

  Anyway, at this point I'm considering this issue something I can't do anything about, unless someone can tell me about another addon that *does* use secure group headers but does *not* exhibit the same issue.

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  • #10

  suicidalkatt Feb 07, 2012 at 07:15 UTC - 0 likes

  The boss has an ability called Earthen Vortex which causes all players to be dragged towards the boss. There is some kind of server side dummy that places all players into a vehicle which has no control like a normal vehicle would.

  See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EDQacgRX6pQ#t=107s

  Normally I see everyone in the raid have a vehicle health frame labeled "Earthen Vortex" which generally can cause a lot of CPU cycles when all the frames are created simultaneously.

  Edit: Just to be clear, the default Blizzard Raid frames seem to ignore these vehicles, however the default frames also do not register "UNIT_ENTERED_VEHICLE" or "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" or have any specific updates for vehicles.

  Last edited Feb 07, 2012 by suicidalkatt
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  • #9

  Phanx Jan 05, 2012 at 20:36 UTC - 0 likes

  Which other addon(s) did you test?

  Grid uses the secure group headers provided by Blizzard, so it simply says "spawn a frame for every player in the group here" and "spawn a frame for every pet/vehicle in the group here", and tells the game how each frame should look, and the game itself handles creating and placing the actual frames.

  Blizzard's compact raid frames do not even use these headers, and many addons do not use them either, but manually create a frame for every possible unit ahead of time. If there is a bug in the headers, there's probably not much that can be done about it in Grid, other than a plugin to automatically switch away from a pet layout for this encounter.

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  • #8

  Tziva Jan 03, 2012 at 23:38 UTC - 0 likes

  @Phanx: Go

  Since you said you do not have access to the content it may be relevant information to point out that Morchok is not a vehicle fight, so the unitframes for pets shouldn't be popping up to begin with. His earth vortex is improperly creating a "vehicle" on Grid for every member of the raid when the ability occurs. I tested this quickly and I can tell you that other addon does not create the pet frames to begin with - nor does Blizzard's default frames. So it's not that Grid's pet/vehicle frames themselves are bugged on that encounter so much as I think they're even made at all.

  Perhaps you knew this but it wasn't clear from earlier posts whether people made this clear (maybe you thought vehicle frames were supposed to appear but not supposed to lag?), and I see you're waiting on new information so I figured I would offer it in case it was useful information. I appologise if it was redundant/needless information.

  Last edited Jan 03, 2012 by Tziva
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  • #7

  Phanx Dec 26, 2011 at 09:54 UTC - 0 likes

  If you do not have any new information to add, please do not bump the ticket with a comment (which causes everyone watching the ticket to get an email telling them the ticket was updated).

  If you cannot answer the following questions, or provide a patch that resolves the issue, please do not post here:

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  Does the same problem affect other addons that display raid pet frames? What about the default UI's raid pet frames?

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  • #6

  A2line Dec 24, 2011 at 07:22 UTC - 0 likes

  It seems to appear only on Grid with a 25 ou 40 /wPets layout. No freeze without pets.

  In heroic, if I forget to switch the layout, the freeze kills me…

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  • #5

  Phanx Dec 22, 2011 at 01:42 UTC - 0 likes

  Please answer the questions from my last post:

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  Does the same problem affect other addons that display raid pet frames? What about the default UI's raid pet frames?

  Since I have no access to this content at this time, I need to know which addons are affected and which are not, so I can look at the relevant code and see what Grid is doing differently that may be causing this issue.

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  • #4

  themanstephen Dec 20, 2011 at 09:14 UTC - 0 likes

  what seems to happen is that a pet unit is created for every player in the raid as they are pulled in. As far as I remember each of these units is called "Earthen Vortex"

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  • #3

  Phanx Dec 08, 2011 at 02:37 UTC - 0 likes

  I have no access to the content in question, so until someone can offer some useful details, I'm afraid there's not much I can do. Does the same problem affect other addons that display raid pet frames? What about the default UI's raid pet frames?