Grid2
What is Grid2 ?
Grid2 is a party/raid unit frame addon.
Grid2 is fully customizable. New zones (indicators) can be defined in unit frames to display information (statuses). The indicators can be customized and placed anywhere. Grid2 supports several types of indicators: icon, icons, square, text, bar, multibar. You can configure what statuses are displayed on each indicator.
Grid2 includes a huge amount of available statuses, but not all enabled be default, look through the configuration and familiarize yourself with the available options and statuses.
Grid2 is fast: consumes between 4 and 10 times less CPU cycles than other similar addons.
To open the configuration UI type "/grid2", left-click the minimap Icon, DataBroker icon launcher or use WoW addons list window.
Grid2 components
Grid2 package includes:
- Grid2
- Grid2 Options
- Grid2 Raid Debuffs
- Grid2 Raid Debuffs Options
- Grid2 LDB
Grid2 does not work or I think I found a bug
- Update to the latest versions of Grid2.
- Make sure you downloaded the mods WITH libs. nolib is not for you.
- Reset your Saved Variables, pasting into chat: /script Grid2DB = nil; ReloadUI()
- If you still get an error, go ahead and log it. Install and use the BugGrabber and BugSack mods to record the error and make it easy to cut and paste it.
- Then, Post a ticket. Check for existing tickets about your bug first. Remember to check back on your ticket later in case we need more information.
Tutorials/Guides
http://murlocparliament.com/how-2-grid2/
(Thanks to Zelmaru)
Common issues/FAQ
Raid debuffs not showing up !!!:
Raid debuffs are not enabled by default. Go to statuses -> Raid Debuffs and enable at least the Cataclysm module (if you are inside a instance you must exit and enter the instance or reload the UI after enabling the module)
I cant push the grid boxes as close together as before:
The border indicator has 2 pixels size and it has a transparent background color now. If you want the old grid2 appearance. Goto Indicators -> border -> Layout tab: Set a border size 1. And select a black and opaque background color for the border.
What about mana bars ?
Grid2 supports mana bars, but they are not created by default. If you want mana bars, create a new indicator of type "bar", place it wherever you want and map the "mana" or the "power" status to it (remember you must map some color status to the bar:color indicator too).
What is the poweralt status ?
Poweralt status is a power type (like mana/rage/energy,etc). This power type is enabled by Wow in some combats. It shows: Atremedes sound, Chog'al corruption, etc. This status is not active by default in Grid2: you must map poweralt to any compatible indicator (text or bar indicator).
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Posted Mar 21, 2019Is it possible to make Grid2 frame appearance look exactly like Grid ?
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Posted Mar 21, 2019In reply to blowmymace619:
Yes
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Posted Mar 16, 2019I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it so no matter how many people are in my party, there will only be 1-3 rows of frames. It caps out at 5 per row, so if there are 30 people it's a massive 5x6 box, instead of a 10x3 that only takes up the upper portion of my view. I stopped playing back in October or so and I don't remember the rows being capped at 5 frames per, and I haven't changed any settings :/.
Basically, I can't find how to remove/change the frame cap per row from 5.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Posted Mar 17, 2019In reply to P3tr1chor:
You must create a custom layout using the layout editor, general >layouts.
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Posted Mar 18, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
thank you!
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Posted Mar 16, 2019Hi, themes, as I understand it, change only the size and location of frames. I would like to display debuffs only in a group. Is it possible? There are no auto profile changes for this type...
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Posted Mar 17, 2019In reply to Drevneus:
On each theme you can Enable/disable indicators too (indicators tab). So create two indicators and use a different indicator for each theme.
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Posted Mar 19, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
I apologize for not answering for a long time =) Thank you very much!
And I had another question ^ _ ^ I would like to place the Debuffs to the left of the frames and so that they grow to the left. It depends on the anchor, if it is on the left, then the debuffs grow to the right, and if it is to the right, then as I want it to the left. But their initial location is on the right in the frames, and you can only move 50 units ...
I hope I clearly put it =) Please help.
I’ll add a little bit: When I try to position the Debuffs on either side of the frames, so that they go to the side of them and start from the edge, it’s impossible for me, because size more than 50 ...
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Posted Mar 20, 2019In reply to Drevneus:
i will fix this issue in next revision (in next revision you can manually type any value in the edit box below the range slider).
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Posted Mar 20, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
Thank you so much!
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Posted Mar 7, 2019Is it possible to add a sort feature to groups so you can have Tank/Healer/Ranged/Melee?
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Posted Mar 8, 2019In reply to TwilightCinder:
Not possible, blizzard secure frames code does not differentiate between mele/ranges.
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Posted Mar 4, 2019Hi!
I have been fiddling with different frames for healing. A useful feature I found on some frames which I otherwise disliked was the ability to track the GCD by having health bars grey out slightly. I can see this being quite easy to replicate using Grid2, but I am unsure how you would track the GCD as it does not manifest as a buff/debuff. Is it possible and, if not, would it be possible to add it as a default status in a future version?
Cheers!
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Posted Mar 5, 2019In reply to DeFaWS:
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Posted Mar 6, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
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Posted Feb 27, 2019Hi,
I started using Grid2 a few days ago and i love it so far, but i have a problem. I started using the multibar instead of the standard health bar ( i deleted the normal health bar) so it doesnt resize the height (only of the health multibar) when i enter a raid. The mana bar for example is place at the right spot but the health bar is still the size from the solo layout, so i end up with overlapping heath bars.
And for some reason the layouts arent changing when party/raid sizes are changing. But as i see this is a well known problem and you are working on it.
Do you know what the solution might be for this?
Thanks in advance
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Posted Feb 28, 2019In reply to B1gF4tP4nd4:
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Posted Mar 7, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
Yeah, the 0height was the peoblem thank you.
Now, another question. I am trying to change the layout depending on the spec that I play. For example, I’m a disc priest, andi have my frames on the middle of the screen. But when I’m a shadow priest I would like them on the side of the screen and smaller but I can’t seem to fogure it out. I believe I have to do something with themes, but I don’t know how. I can’t set different themes for different specs. Could you tell me a kinda step by step guide on how to do that? Looked everywhere, also on mulrocparliament on how to grid2 but I couldn’t get an answer.
Thank you very much
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Posted Feb 23, 2019Hi michaelspain,
first of all thank you very much for maintaining this awesome addon.
I think I've encountered two issues with themes switching again:
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I am currently running vr872 and I still have the issue that in BGs the raid size is not detected correctly.
I am running themes for different raid sizes and when I am entering a BG the size still gets selected for the highest raid size numer (40) so the theme change does not happen.
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As well in arenas my theme for arenas sometimes does not get switched to. What did work in that case was going to the theme go to layouts enable the test frames for the arena by group layout, disable the test frames and the frames are visible again.
I hope you have a fix for that.
Thanks!
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Posted Feb 23, 2019In reply to stamic: