Finally! A UI that some of you may have been waiting for - I know I was. It's frequent commenter Chronnick and his UI! I'll get out of the way and let Chronnick explain:Here it is!
After a month of delays due to nitpicking every single element of the UI, I hereby humbly present my interface. My focus here was to leave as much of the world visible as possible, while still showing a ton of information, and not using a ton of memory or cpu time. So I've thrown it all towards the bottom of the screen and made it as pretty as possible using Skinner and Clearfont. Clearfont anti-aliases all my fonts, and Skinner gives me a pretty, uniform background on all my windows.
I'm still working on making Damage Meters and KTM a little less ugly and I think there is a way to do that with Skinner, but that's still a work in progress.
For the unit frames I've got ag_UnitFrames using the ABF skin that i modified a bit for to hide the background of the target's caster bar. My buffs are shown using Buffalo, which allows me to place them to the right of my health/mana bars the same way my party member's buffs are shown. But by using Buffalo instead of agUnitFrames' own buff display, i can right-click my buffs to remove them.
SimpleCombatLog shows me all pertinent combat information in a small window, next to simpleMinimap. I use cartographer for all my map/herb/dungeon needs. I have the Cartographer_Herbalism.lua file that marks the location of every herb in the game on my map and minimap, thanks to Wowhead's database. Though as great as Cartographer is, I still have to use AtlasLoot to see Faction rewards. Bongos is my bar mod of choice, and all my keybindings are on a hidden bar. eCastingBar lets me move my casting bar, stretch it, and show the icon of the spell being cast.That's pretty much it. Most of my mods are Ace2 so I can update them easily with WowAce Updater. If you have any ideas how to make this look better or reduce memory usage, let me know!
Advanced Trade Skill Window: Shows 20 recipes at a time, has queueing options, and search filters.
ag_UnitFrames: Highly customizable unit frame mod that also allows the showing of all spells being cast by party members.
AtlasLoot: Shows dungeon boss loot as well as Faction rewards.
Bagnon: All-in-one bag mod that shows bag and bank contents of all your characters.
Bongos: Bar mod that does a great job with keybindings.
Buffalo: Finally, a buff mod that doesn't show buffs as bars that stack vertically!
Cartographer: BEST map mod ever! Shows guild members on map, mining/herb nodes, questgivers, and it's configurable.
ClearFont2: Makes all the fonts anti-aliased and smooth. Easy on the eyes.
Damage Meters: Shows who's doing the healing/damage in a group.
DeadlyBossMods: Calls out boss abilities in raid dungeons.
Decursive: One-click debuff removal.
eCastingBar: Configurable caster bars.EQcompare: Mouse over an item you can equip and it shows you what you currently have equipped.
Fubar: Tons of data in a small bar.
Guild Quests: Shows which guildies share quests with you, independent of distance.
KLH Performance Monitor: Monitors memory and cpu usage of mods.
KLH Threat Meter: Monitors how much threat mobs have on individual party members.
Minimalist: Lots of nice little interface tweaks in a small package.
Mobinfo2 with Mobhealth: Collects and displays data on mobs such as drops, health, and mana.
MountMe: Switches trinkets on mounting, also automatically selects for the best mount for the user.
Move Anything: Move any element on screen.
MultiTips: Show more than one item from a shift-click on screen at once.
Omni Cooldown Count: Giant numbers counting down the cooldown on spells.
Prat: Way too many chat related options. If you want to do something with chat, it's here.
RatingBuster: Converts combat ratings in your tooltips into percentages.
Saeriss' LootLink: Stores all items seen ingame in a searchable database, also makes clickable links when you type [primal might].
Simple Combat Log: Legible combat log.
simpleMinimap: Configurable minimap.
Skinner: Changes the default skin of the Blizzard UI, also adds the texture at the top and bottom of my interface.
StopTheSpam: Silence noisy mods in the chat frame when you log in.
Swatter: Catches bugs and reports them to you.
Theorycraft 2: Calculates DPS, DPM, HPM and all that stuff for every spell and places it in the tooltip.
Tinytip: Places tooltips on the cursor, not in the corner of the screen.
Uberquest: Shows 20 quests at a time, and has a configurable quest tracker.
WoWEcon: Auctioneer replacement, not so sure about this one yet.
WoW Instant Messenger: Places all whispers in a window for easy chatting, also supports one tabbed window.
XLoot: Better looking loot window, also places loot window under the cursor.
XLootGroup: Better looking loot rolls.
What do you think of Chronnick's setup? Want to show off your unique UI setup and your favorite addons? Send a description of your UI, why you like it, and a list of your favorite addons to "readerui at gmail dot com" today!




















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
6-04-2007 @ 9:15PM
Galipan said...
Dude, that's a LOT of mods..I congratulate you on a magnificent job configuring all that crap...if you're ever interested in configuring my mods, send me a tell..(Galipan, Maelstrom)
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6-04-2007 @ 9:19PM
Bresh said...
Awesome! I've been waiting to see this for a while now. Still just as beautiful as the first time I saw it, and glad to see everything broken out in a list. =)
Best Reader UI of the week to date! Thanks Chron!
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6-04-2007 @ 9:44PM
Matt said...
Dude, wow! Can you zip up all those addons into one file for us and link them somewhere so we can download? :)
Awesome interface...I'm jealous :/
Zip and Link!!!! hehehe
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6-04-2007 @ 9:56PM
Lisa Poisso said...
The massive target frames for self and target at the top are great. You almost don't have to look at them consciously at ALL to know what's going on. I never would have thought it would be so functional and not look horrifyingly huge and obnoxious. I use a lot of these mods already, so I'm going to shift things around a bit and see if I can't take advantage of this great idea. Great job!
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6-04-2007 @ 9:59PM
Lionel Hanners said...
there has to be a way to save the settings and all the mods to 1 file....i would absolutely love it
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6-04-2007 @ 10:06PM
Chronnick said...
Unfortunately, I have since found a few ways to cut down on some the addons.
Wow Instant Messenger has a spam blocking plugin, so that cuts out Stopthespam, and Skinner has the ability to skin KTM and Damage Meters.
And thanks for the kind words, guys!
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6-04-2007 @ 11:11PM
Malcolm said...
Looks great!
Is Skinner what is redoing the health bars at the top of the screen? I love those.
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6-04-2007 @ 11:29PM
someone said...
Is skinner all text commands or is there a interface menu I can use? I am having trouble with it.
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6-05-2007 @ 12:12AM
Dracula Jones said...
That UI is incredible. It's the first UI I've seen since release that looks better and cleaner than Blizzard's.
I must try this. Thanks for posting!
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6-05-2007 @ 12:18AM
urbhenry said...
Thats a incredible looking UI. One if not the best i ever seen and CLEAN interface. That would look sweet on my 24" monitor.
I'd love to see that in a package download.
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6-05-2007 @ 12:24AM
eggli said...
I'd love to see that in a package download. +1
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6-05-2007 @ 12:25AM
doobtray said...
I would have to highly recommend that you also get ctmod viewpoint so you can get more of the game in your screen that gets cut off by your lower ui.
Anyway, very nice UI. I spend more time on my UI than I do the game at times. I personally don't use AG unitframes because I don't think they look like they are part of the game. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way. I use simple mini frames which I think is very nice as well.
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6-05-2007 @ 12:39AM
MacAllah said...
Absolutely gorgeous. I despise horrible layouts (main reason I loathe MySpace).
Mazzle used to be the best and since 2.1 I've had to hobble together my own replacement. I use a lot of the same mods as here (PitBull being the main exception).
I have to say this is the best UI I've ever seen and I'm debating switching a few things around. Bravo.
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6-05-2007 @ 2:18AM
Dabura said...
I tried Skinner, but I coudln't understand it at all.
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6-05-2007 @ 2:56AM
zack said...
Um I suck at configuring would uploading like your wtf file or something allow me to have your configuration. cuz i like it and there are to many addons to organize and i suck at them.
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6-05-2007 @ 3:03AM
dahn said...
nice, where to get it? :)
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6-05-2007 @ 3:58AM
Dehaant said...
I suggest you use Pitbull rather than AGUF - it has the same look and feel but integrates very well with Fubar and has a very, very responsive author with fast development.
Also try Eavesdrop rather than SimpleCombatLog - u will find that the display of information is much, much better to follow
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6-05-2007 @ 4:12AM
Baxmaniac said...
Post an update with the download please, I'd love to use this mod! +99999999999
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6-05-2007 @ 4:59AM
Jordan said...
What mod is being used for the black backgrounds? Is that fubar?
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6-05-2007 @ 5:39AM
MartinC said...
Not bad, but I would use Pitbull over AGuf.
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