This is my attempt to make a UI that is usable to most people. I tried to make it work on all resolutions, but as I am not a coder I ran in to a few difficulties I couldn't solve in the end. As such, the only resolution that is supported is 1920x1080. Most other resolutions should still work (although small and non-widescreen resolutions will probably find the layout doesn't fit), but I can't guarantee it. You may have to adjust the layout a bit yourself.
An important part of the UI is the WeakAuras section the center of the screen below your character. This is where all the important combat timers etc go. Because of limited time, I was only able to make WeakAuras sets for the characters I play at the moment. So you will find there are WeakAuras for Hunter (all specs), Shaman (resto) and a few monk bits. My intention is that when I release the UI fully, I will take out all of these combat WeakAuras sets and provide a set of links for classes and specs to import the auras they want/need.
It's also a Beta version, so will likely be uploading a few new versions before i declare it "released". Bear this in mind if you start to edit and add to it yourself.
Installation instructions:
Step 1
Backup your current UI. Do this by opening your WoW folder and moving the Fonts, Interface and WTF folder to a safe place elsewhere on your hard drive. If things go wrong later, put these folders back into your WoW folder and all will be as it was.
Step 2
Unzip the download and move the Fonts, Interface and WTF folder into your WoW folder
Step 3
Inside the WTF folder you will find folders that are name WTF > Account > ACCOUNTNAME > SavedVariables. Rename the folder called ACCOUNTNAME to be whatever your account name is. If you are unsure what to name it, check the folders that you backed up in Step 1.
Step 4
Start WoW. On the character selection screen, click the Addons button in the bottom left, then in the top right of the panel that pops up make sure that Load out of date AddOns is checked. Also make sure all addons in the list are enabled. Click OK then Enter World.
Step 5
Once you are in the game, type
/kaitinstall
After you recieve the message "Success! All profiles installed. You now need to type /reload" in chat, type
/reload
and hit enter.
Step 6
Chat windows. As far as I understand it, even though you will now be using the correct Chatter profile, the actual config of your chat windows (i.e. what channels are shown in what windows, etc) is held on the servers, not locally. So you will have to do set up the chat windows to be in the correct place yourselves. The way I have it set up is so that all player communication comes into the main chat window on the bottom left, the combat log is a tab of that main window, and there is another window on the bottom right with all spamming chat channels like /1, /2, NPC comments, loot info, etc. You can use the Chatter settings to make this window right justified if it isn't already.
To use the "BIG Trade channel" function in the UI, you will need to make a big trade chat window that is the 4th of your chat windows. It needs to have a frame name of "ChatFrame4". You cannot name the frame yourself, hence it needing to be the 4th chat window. You can check the names of frames by typing /fstack and then moving your mouse over the frame. One of the screenshots shows this big trade chat window so you can see what it should look like
Step 7
Keybindings. I use Bindpad addon for all my key bindings. I find it better than anything Blizzard provides. I use the main Dominos action bar just for displaying cooldowns. Feel free to set up keybindings however you want (on the visible Domios bar, and/or on hidden Dominos bars, or by some other means). If you want to use Bindpad, you sort of have to redo your keybindings to work with it.
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List of Addons used:
(Addons with a orange name have been editted by me and therefore if you update them, the edits will get overwritten. So don't update those ones, wait for an update of the KaitUI versions)
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ACP
Align
Aurora
Bindpad
Chatter
Clique
Dominos
ErrorMonster
GladiatorlosSA
Grid
GridLayouts
KaitInstaller
KaitMedia
kgPanels
kgPanels Config
Kui_Media
Kui_Nameplates
Kui_Nameplates_Auras
Kui_SpellList_Config
Masque
MoveAnything
OmniCC
OmniCC_Config
OPie
Raven
Raven_Options
SexyMap
SharedMedia
SharedMedia_MyMedia
Skada
SLDataText
Stuf
Stuf_Options
UIScaler
WeakAuras
WeakAurasModelPaths
WeakAurasOptions
WeakAurasTutorials
XPBarNone
NOTES for Beta:
- there is a script in kgPanels > Active Panels > Talents BG > Scripts > OnShow that makes Skada go into the LOW Strata. This is to keep it from overlapping the Talents stuff. This script refers to the skada windows by name, so if you change the name of the skada windows or add a new one, this script will need to be editted.
- The Frames that have been configured in Stuf are: Player, Target, Pet, Target Target, Focus, Party 1-4, Boss 1-5. All other frames I haven't bothered with. The style is not hard to copy if you want to set up the lesser frames yourself.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- I think MoveAnything is tainting the quest objectives. It shows up if you try to click the icons of quest items (the taint message will blame another addon, but I'm fairly sure it's originating in MoveAnything). MoveAnything gets updated regularly so maybe ti will be fixed soon. Until then you'll have to live with it.
- If you switch Grid profiles when not in a grp, you sometimes will get a raid frame for yourself even if Solo layout is set to: none. /reload fixes it.
- If you switch Grid profiles when mid combat in a raid it often doesn't work until reload. I think that's a grid issue. Best practice it to just choose the right profile before you enter the raid (especially in situations like LFR when you can often never go out of combat)
- The Rollover micromenu currently doesn't exclude the appropriate options at low levels (when they aren't available yet). I hope to put this in soon.
- GladiusEx: is in the UI because it's the best arena addon I've used by far; however, it's currently still in beta and the author has said an update is on the way. Until then, it will throw up for LibCooldownTracker errors on login, and a few features (like Important Auras module) are not working, but otherwise it's stable and still pretty useful in arena even in this state.
- The player and pet models on the talents panel only load the 2nd time you press the button. Can anyone look at the auras and figure out why this is?
- When changing Grid profiles with the popup menu, sometimes the raid frames disappear until something happens to update them again (like a roster change or I think even maybe just a status change of any sort). A /reload brings it back too, but ideally if I could add a function call to Grid in the profile switch script to refresh it, then that would be ideal.
- If you don't show stats on your character panel, the glow and detail effects go. I might fix later (it means putting some scripts into the 4 associated panels.)
- Challenge modes UI elements not done at all. I've never done a challenge mode so I don't even know how it works. I will try to maybe do it in the future
- PvE Ready dialog does not currently have the same effects and the PvP one. I chose not to do it yet because I think Aurora is messing up the layout of the PvE window. I'll wait till that gets fixed before it do it.
- No Boss timers yet.
- Bindpad window needs restyling.