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 May 17, 2019Hey there, is there any way of getting grid2 to behave so that it will automatically stay at different positions/sizes depending on group type?
For instance like this in dungeons -> https://ibb.co/6FpM8Pj
but like this in raids -> https://ibb.co/0yGdTN1
Could this be done with the layouts/themes etc? I've tried to play with layouts and editor but so far the only way to get it to behave like this is just to have different profiles :/
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Posted May 18, 2019In reply to Xe4ro:
Enable Themes: General -> General -> Tick "Enable Themes" checkbox.
A new Themes section will be displayed in the left panel.
Create and customize several themes, each theme allows to configure different appearance, positions, sizes, indicators and layouts.
And finally configure the activation rules for each theme, you can setup themes for different raid sizes, group types, classes, specs, etc.
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Posted May 18, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
Thanks a lot! =)
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Posted May 7, 2019Is it possible to get black ox statue to show up on frames, and can you filter pet frames to only show shaman earth elementals and black ox statue?
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Posted May 8, 2019In reply to longbuds:
Not possible
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Posted Apr 29, 2019Is there really no spell ID for Mistweavers enveloping mist .. ? Im trying to add a indicator but I can't finish because the buff doesn't exist in grid 2 ? I don't get it can you help me out here please.
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Posted Apr 30, 2019In reply to ELLISMCPICKLE1:
Does not matter if the buff does not exist in the dropdown list, you can create the buff anyway: simply type the exact name of the buff (or the spellid number, enveloping mist = 231605) and click create.
The dropdown list is simply a helper, the list does not contain all posible buffs, only most important.
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Posted Apr 25, 2019Hi, is it possible to add a "Show if dispellable" filter for debuffs similar to old grid? Would make it easier to maintain profiles across multiple characters.
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Posted Apr 25, 2019In reply to kazer08:
Goto Statuses -> Debuffs -> Right Panel
Create a "Debuffs" group status, and check "Dispelleable by me" in the debuffs status settings.
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Posted Apr 26, 2019In reply to michaelspain:
thanks!
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Posted Apr 25, 2019Hey, is there any chance to get rid of space between individual frames entirely, but without compromising on the frame border? i.e. let the border grow inwards/putting it on a higher frame strata or similar?
Currently there is a trade-off between either having no space between frames and having a border. (Or after many years of using grid2 i still havent found the option yet) If I set the border seperation the the negative amount of the border thickness. the space between frames disappears entirely, but so does the border.
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Posted Apr 25, 2019In reply to jaydeheals:
It's working fine here using:
###General>Appearance Tab
Padding = 0
###Indicators>Border>Layout Tab
Border Size = 1
Border Separation = 0
Maybe you are using a transparent background border (when the indicator is not enabled), in this case well: transparent means transparent.
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Posted Apr 10, 2019I've tried making a mana bar with a background, with mana only showing for healers. However, it's showing the background for other toons but then showing transparent where I'm assuming their power would be but they aren't mana. Its kind of hard to me to describe what's going on because I'm not really even sure myself.
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Posted Mar 29, 2019General debuffs like 'Dazed' are in the Raid Debuff list but I don't know how to control where they show up. I can't see how to move them to things like Raid Debuff(2), etc or just remove the debuff from the list entirely.
EDIT: Found it. In the 'Raid Debuff' section I had to choose 'Custom Debuffs' from the 'Select module' menu, and it was in 'Kul Tiras' from the 'Select instance' menu. That's where all the non-raid debuffs that were showing up are listed.
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Posted Mar 30, 2019In reply to rocker5743:
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Posted Apr 5, 2019In reply to rocker5743:
You forgot to mention that you are using the "autodetect" option to automatically detect and collect new debuffs.
Yes, autodetected raid debuffs (not only non raid debuffs) are stored inside the custom debuffs section.
If the debuff is not stored there is because it is already defined in the grid2 builtin module.
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Posted Mar 29, 2019I have anchored my frames in the bottom right cornor, and have them placed on the left side of my screen with grps going from right to left. When I am in a 20 man raid grp the frames fit perfectly on my screen, but if there is more than 20 in the raid grp my frames are moving closer to the middle, away from the anchor point.
Is it possible to either lock the frames so they wont move by themself or making it automatic change size of the frames when more people join?
Or even make grp 5-8 not show or is it possible to place them in another row above/below grp 1-4?
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Posted Mar 29, 2019In reply to kleptoman:
-Disabling the "Clamped to screen" option in "General/Appearance" must fix your issue.
-To use a different frame size, you can configure in "General/Layouts/By Raid Size" different frame sizes&layouts for each raid size.
-To use more customization (different positions, apperance, textures, indicators, etc) you must check the "Enable Themes" Option in "General/General" Tab, and create&configure different themes.
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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