DirectionArrow
DirectionArrow
Display an arrow that points to a raid/party member anchored to raid frames.
Features:
- Shows an arrow that anchors to a unit frame and points to a party member, raid member, or target.
- Shows the distance to the unit.
- Configurable arrow: Size, opacity, relative anchor point, update frequency.
- Configurable distance text color, size, and drop shadow color.
- Key binding for sticky targeting. Arrow always points at the specified unit frame when sticky.
- Known to work with:
- The default UI
- PitBull4
- XPerl
- Grid
- Shadowed Unit Frames
TODO:
- Add more arrow graphics.
- Make it so tracking continues on the unit it was last on when the raid/party composition changes.
- Add support for vehicles.
- Add support for only tracking units that are out of range.
Caveats:
Due to how the API works, namely GetPlayerMapPosition(), the arrow will stop tracking if the tracked unit changes zones, changes dungeon levels, or is too far away in the same zone/dungeon. This function doesn't return anything for players in arenas.
Known bugs:
- This code is perfect, of course!
Reporting bugs:
- Please post bug reports here. While I monitor the comments on curse.com, it makes my life easier if bugs are reported in the wowace bug tracker.
Videos:
Watch for the arrow as the mouse hovers over the raid frames:
Here's a more recent video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VTICHu7Ec
This was the first prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaY0PiG6CdE
If this is not what you meant, then, could you elaborate more?
Barf
I'll add a keybind to force it to always track your target.
Barf
Will the arrow just show up when I target something or will I always have to mouseover the target frame first each time?
I'm hoping you can figure this out Barfy. I think your mod would become a HUGE hit for BGers who tab-target and can't immediately pinpoint who they've targeted because of all the spell effects and crap obscuring the red circle under the targeted player.
Also, is it only target or does it work for mouseover as well?
I use this primarily during raids to track down wayward raid members that I can't find to heal them. Will it work in icc? Thanks again:)
It primarily works with mouseover, and I wrote it to track wayward raid members as well. It works beautifully in ICC.
Barf
I tried it in ICC, you're right it works awesome. I probably didn't realize the mouseover part because I didn't have the default raidframes up, only my unitframe. Thanks:)
Barf
Barf
Been waiting for months for this.
Cool. I seen the video posted on the IRC afew days, been waiting to test it out.