This is an in use raiding UI and works in all instances.
There is no fancy download package or detailed instrucitons.
Just rename your current wtf and interface folders then extract this file to your WoW directory.
If there is an Addon you do not want or like, merely delete the folder from the Interface\Addons Folder.
Rename the Account, Realm, and Character folders to your information.
If you have more than one account or characters copy the folders first before you rename them.
If an addon is spazzed out upon install, go to the configuration for that mod and set the profile to Blackfriday.
Easy.
Just a note:
Comments and questions would be welcome. I am pretty familiar with all the addons used, though strictly from a user's perspective.
I am always messing with the UI and if enough folks actually end up using it, I will be happy to put up periodic updates.
This UI is used primarily for my Warrior, but it has also adapted well to my hunter and my priest (both holy and shadow). I have sworn off alts so none of the priest specific mods (ie Grid) or hunter mods (ie autobar) are included.
The UI should easilly fit your screen if you can divide the larger number of your resoution by the smaller number and get 1.6 (called the aspect ratio).
I get zero errors.
O - and my thanks to all the addon authors, whether represented in my UI or not. You have provided me with endless hours of entertainment and I hope you find my particular use of your addons pleasing. I, of course, developed none of the addons used here and can only take credit for their arrangement.
Addon List 09-04-09
1. Alices Anti Duel Cancels all duel requests from non party members.
2. BugSack Displays and saves your bugs for you.
3. !Buggrabber Catches those pesky things
4. _Cursor Puts a pretty trail on the mouse cursor useful with dual monitors
5. ACP Addon Control Panel allows you to load and unload Addons on the fly.
6. Action Bar Saver allows you to set up different profiles for your action bars,
7. AddFriend allows you to right click on a target and add it as a friend
8. Addon Profiler Provides usage facts on individual addons find the memory hogs!
9. AdvancedTradeSkillWindow Improved Trade Skill Interface.
10. Align Give you a grid to align the various UI items.
11. Aloft Customized Name Plates
12. Altoholic Allows you to track alts across an account even of different realms
a. A bunch of Modules beginning with DataStore
13. ArkInventory Sweet, highly customizable bag mod.
14. Armory Creates an Armory tab on your character screen and provides all Armory information.
15. ArmoryGuild Bank Same for Guild Bank
16. Atlas Loot Phat loot tables for all the ingame Bosses.
17. Auditor 2 Tracks your money via a FuBar plug in.
18. Awwwwwww! Plays a sound when you die.
19. Big Brother Tattle tale mod for breaking cc, flasks and raid buffs.
20. BigRed (/bigred) Allows you to move the Blizzard error frame and customize it.
21. Broker These are plug in for Fubar (or any similar program). Allows access to stuff easily.
a. 2Fubar No Idea seemed like something I needed
b. ACP Add On Control Panel
c. AllStats Shows a crap load of stats about your toon
d. Auditor Tracks your money.
e. Button Faηade Access to Button Faηade Addon
f. Equipment Your gear
g. HitCrit Keeps track of your highest crits and hits. Can output to different places.
h. Speed Shows your current Speed.
i. Trade Cooldowns Quick access to profession cool downs.
22. Button Faηade Make Pretty Action Bars.
23. Button Faηade Caith One of many skins for your buttons.
24. Cartographer World Map goodness.
a. With Assorted Modules
25. Chat Bar Completely useless but looks good (the colored row of dots just above the chat box).
26. Collect Me What Pets and Mounts dont you have and where are they?
27. Close Up Zoom, rotate etc the built in UI Models
28. Color Tools Add more options to the color picker frame.
29. Data No idea what this is.
30. Day Trader Easy way to trade target tradee and alt click the item.
31. Deadly Boss Mods Boss fight mods mandatory for raiding (or something like it)
32. Dominos Action bar mod. Has other modules not included here (cast, roll, xp)
33. Dominos Config Load on demand configuration options for Dominos
34. DragEmAll Lets you drag various UI frames around non persistant.
35. Drop the Cheapest Thing automatically gets rid of crap in your bags.
36. Dual Speccer One button spec switch.
37. Egg Timer Times things that are due to open sometime in the future.
38. Elkanos Buff Bars highly configurable buff bars.
39. Embiggen Makes the player arrow on the world Map bigger.
40. Enhanced Stack Split One click to get any quantity of a stack.
41. Equip Set Updater Gets rid of the confirmation when updating an equipment set.
42. Event Equip equip set of gear given certain events, i.e., Dps set when switching from heals or tank.
43. Examiner Enhanced inspection tool
44. Fishermans Friend Makes it a lot easier to fish.
45. Flight HUD cool HUD while flying lots of useless but fun info.
46. Flight Map in flight timers and other good stuff.
47. FuBar 3.6 allows the use of fubar plugins and broker stuff.
48. FuBar Plugins:
49. Abrahms Fu Tank Stats
50. Ammo Fu How much Ammo do I have?
51. Auto Loot Fu Switch between manual loot and auto loot.
52. Badge Fu Counts your badges.
53. Clock Fu A clock for the FuBar
54. Digi Cam Fu Customize quality and such for Screenshots.
55. Durability Fu Shows how badly you need to repair.
56. Epic Count Fu How many epic you got, or dont got.
57. Factions Fu Reputation Tracker
58. Friends Fu Whose is online that you like.
59. Gear Rating Fu Rates your gear and allows you to rate others to compare.
60. Group Fu Whats up with your group.
61. Guild Fu Whose on from your guild.
62. Instance Info Fu Are you saved to that one?
63. Location Fu Where you are including Coords.
64. Login Timer Fu How long have I been playing this damned game this time?
65. Name Toggle Fu Toggle off names etc, and toggle them back on.
66. Notes Fu Create persistent notes that you can refer to later.
67. Performance Fu Your FPS, Latency, and how much memory are all these addons using?
68. Pocket watch Fu another clock for Fubar.
69. Recount Fu Access to Recount via Fubar.
70. Reload UI Fu Reload your UI with one click.
71. Scale Fu Change your UI Scale
72. Threat Fu Threat display in the Fubar.
73. TomTom Fu Waypoint arrows on the screen
74. Tracker Fu Change what you are tracking
75. Whisper Fu Keeps track of whispers.
76. Gem Helper (/gh) A way to actually find the name of the gem you want.
77. Gem Quota Gem frame where your stat frame is in the Character Screen.
78. Get Off My Lawn Mute various irritating NPCs and music.
79. Gnomish Vendor Shrinker makes the vendor frame more usable.
80. Helm n Cloak Control the display of your helm and cloak.
81. IceHUD Configurable heads up display.
82. In Flight more flight timers.
83. In Flight Load Load on demand.
84. Inspect Equip shows a frame when inspection of gear sorted by source.
85. Kennel intelligently calls a mini pet when you can have one.
86. Lancelot automatically equip lance when on a tournament mount. Deequip when getting off.
87. LD50_AP Moveable Attack Power display.
88. Light Headed Gives you WowHead comments in your quest log.
a. Assorted Light Headed Modules
89. Miks Scrolling Combat Text Numbers flying all over your screen!
90. Misspelled Spell Checker for Chat!
91. MobInfo2 Extra Info on Mobs in the tool tip.
92. Move Anything You really can!
93. MSBT Options Load on demand for your scrolling text/
94. Natur Enemy Cast bar An oldie but goodie brought back to life.
95. oGlow makes stuff glow by quality.
96. Omen The must have threat meter.
97. OMFG Counts the number of times you have tried to enter an instance only to get the message.
98. Omni Cooldown Count Puts numeric count downs in your action bars.
99. OmniCC Options Load on demand options for Omni CC
100. Opie Causes whatever you want to magically appear at your cursor.
101. oRA3 Everything you need for a raid but the frames.
102. Over Achiever More stupid stuff for stupid achievements.
103. Pit Bull 3.0 Unit frames (4.0 is out but I fear change)
104. Postal Makes your mail box make sense.
105. Prat 3.0 highly configurable chat mod.
106. Raid Tracker Know who you raided with even in a PUG.
107. Range Display Lets you put range data for target, focus and mouse over anyplace.
108. Rating Buster Give lots o data fast when deciding whether something is an upgrade.
109. Recount Damage meter
110. Red Range Turns your action bars red when the target is out of range of the spell or ability.
111. Revelation Right click on a reagent and it will give you a menu of tradeskills to use.
112. Sane LFG Improvements to the LFG panel.
113. Sexy Map Customizable mini-map.
114. Shared Media Stuff that any addon can use.
115. Silent Respec Removes all the chat span when changing specs.
116. Simple Group Tell use /gr to send a tell to your whole group.
117. Stat Score Give weighted scores based on your class to pieces of gear. Upgrade helper.
118. SunnArt Change the size of your viewport and add graphics.
119. Sunn Art Paravel Fan Update - The art pack I use because it contains Simple Grey.
120. Swindle Preventer lets you know via tool tip if an item is available from a vendor.
121. Talented Better way to manage your talents.
122. Talent Switch another one click spec swapper.
123. Tank Points if you are a tank and dont know what this is BAD TANK! If not a tank, delete it.
124. TipTac customizable tool tip.
125. Tom Tom Waypoint arrows on the screen.
126. Tour Guide Quest ordering Mod
127. Tour Guide for Icecrown Dailies 25 Dailies done in a hour (so the mod page says).
128. Uncle Mark Great and easy to use marking program.
129. VertiBroker Mail Mail in Fubar or equivalent.
130. Volumizer Change volume settings in game.
131. Warrior Vigilance Tracker Nice because you can tell when you forgot to put it on someone.
132. X Loot Loot frame replacement.
133. X-Perl I use this and the 2 modules below because it give me a big red AGGRO on the screen.
134. X-Perl Options
135. X-Perl Raid Helper
136. XRS Customizable Raid info.
137. xUtils max zoom, close chat when entering combat, change rep bar when you get rep.
138. Yurr Combat Log Customizables combat log.
Optional Files - Blackfriday of Garona UI
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
Thanks for the fantastic collection of addons!
I am currently using it for my death knight and paladin and I am loving it
I had to tweak and remove a lot of things ofcourse, since my screen is practically smaller than yours, running mac OSX at the resolution of 1440 x 900 and I want things to be at reasonable sizes.
I found some of the addons to be outdated (as of now patch 3.0.3) though, like XRaid status which would not recognise Death Knight as a class in raid. The others I could easily find updates for. There are a few which I find not working properly like MailFu unable to tell me when i have mails until I actually check the mailbox etc, so I had to remove them.
To rydinlow: I had the same problem. I find that the problem came from SW_Stats addon which you can disable. Apparently it does some modification to the class table and it did not add death knight as a recognised class, so it failed the whole guild update altogether as it was trying to update the color of death knight. Just disable it and it will work perfectly!
I had to register to say thanks a lot and I will look forward to your future release of this kind of collection I hope you would develope some native 1440 x 900 resolution if you don't mind, because I spent a lot of time to try to fix it, and still not all things fit in perfectly (I was new at this whole interface change thinggy).
I as well just downloaded this UI and when I try to open up my guild tab I'm receiving an error and I can't seem to find the problem. Thanks for the awesome UI. Below is the error I'm receiving.
[2009/01/03 12:46:02-357-x2]: Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:672: attempt to index local 'classTextColor' (a nil value):
<in C code>: in function `GuildStatus_Update'
Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:178: in function `FriendsFrame_Update':
Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua:124: in function `FriendsFrame_OnShow':
<string>:"*:OnClick":2: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Hi I downloaded this yesterday and I am really enjoying it. The one thing I do not like is that the ingame quest tracker is disabled some how. Although it is turned in within the game interface.
I kept all the add-ons and reloaded my old WTF folder and it was working again, so the issue is obviously found some where within the modifications of the WTF.
I know it seems small but I don't like the Questhelper tracker, I like how the ingame tracks as you are on a quest. Questhelper seems to track too much and cluttler the screen.
Have you heard of this before and / or have any suggestions.
One basic problem with wowmatrix is a moral one. The wowmatrix client has ads embedded in it, which make wowmatrix money. What the client does is initiate a direct download of each addon from curse/wowinterface/whatever to your machine. Wowmatrix gets money, the hosting site gets its bandwitdh leeched, and host site gets no revenue for this. A common argument is "well I use adblock so even if I go to curse or wowinterface they aren't getting ad revenue from me". That's a pretty disingenuous argument since the number of uses who use something like adblocker is pretty low over the number of users total. Ultimately, whether you care about the addon site's revenue stream is up to you, but it would really suck if they went away, no?
There's an argument that wowmatrix is breaking laws by leeching bandwidth and profiting by it, but there's no clear precedent either way to point to at this time to say yes or no.
Another basic problem is that not all licensing schemes are the same. All of my addons use the GNU Public License, so anyone is free to copy and distribute however they like, no problem. Not everyone uses that license, though. Wowmatrix is breaking copyrights all over the place for quite many authors, and there are many accounts of authors asking wowmatrix to remove their addons but are ignored. They aren't very ethical.
I hate wowmatrix because they do not, nor do they care to, distinguish between anything. If I put a beta version of SBF up, sometimes it gets updated several times in a day. These guys do an update once a day at the fastest, possibly even slower than that. When I am in a development cycle, wowmatrix users get the broken build from a link to wowinterface that is very old (comparatively) in the wowmatrix database. There are probably 3-4 new releases since wowmatrix last scanned but these people get the old and busted one. Most people don't even understand the concept of a beta test; they just see a higher version number and get that. As a result, I get easily 3-4 times the amount of email I should, telling me about the grievous errors they are getting - that I have already fixed. Even better is the abuse emails about omg you suck how could you release an addon in that state? Asshats. So yeah, I despise wowmatrix too.
In the end, convenience sells and people use wowmatrix because it is undeniably convenient. Whether you care about the various issues is up to you. Honestly, though: You do not need to update every day. Or even every week. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Thanks for that info about "Forsaken Threat Meter" - got rid of it now.
As far as updating goes, I love the way WowMatrix works for that. I just used your download as a main base mod and then modded bits and pieces here and there. It really is fantastic, and I've got several others from Dreadmaul using it (with slight modifications) now.
Sorry I didnt' respond sooner but I was out of town for a week.
For the threat grid that shows up - I am sorry but I can't remember the name of the Addon and I don't use it any more. I belive it had "threat' in the name so look in the addon folder and rename anything that looks like it might be a threat add on and see what happens.
As far as updating, it is something I do sporadically as the mood hits me and generally only pay attention to the main addons like pitbull, dominos etc.
I tend to hold to the theory that if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Within the next couple of weeks I will update the current ui and upload it. It is a bit leaner than the last one but has everything important.
Thanks for the kind words. I will keep it updated whenever there is something significant done or changed.
I just love the look and feel of this addon collection. I must say that you did a great job! Though there are a ton of addons of yours that are out of date (Fubar_guild does not work at all) but with wowmatrix I updated 61 of the addons to the new versions and have not noticed and bad effects but one. The only one that you do not want to update is fubar_exitfu, because before the update it logs you out with out a wait but after the update it make you sit the wait 20secs before logging your toon out.
Also you forgot to add in two addons that are needed for Auctioner, echtooltip and stubby.
Also with about 1 hours of work I was able to keep the look and feel of you addon comp but mod it to 1024x768 res (yeah, I am blind so I need lots bigger text).
The only design "flaw" that I see in your pack is the size of everything is super small...you must have really good vision because I could not even see it with my trifocals...lol.
Originally posted by Blackfriday Thanks for the input! Very nice to hear. I am glad you are finding it useful. What class are you using it with?
I'm using it with a Warrior mainly, but it's also handy for my Shaman, with a couple of little modifications. Easily the best UI compilation I've used in my years, though.
Quick question - what is the addon that puts the threat grids across your character whilst in combat? I'd like to disable it as I mostly look at omen for threat measurement.
I've been using this addon compilation, with a couple of little tweaks of course, for the past week or so and it's been brilliant. I'm running Mac OS 10.5 (intel) and 1680 x 1050 resolution. All I had to do after the initial install was tweak the position of the pitbull, dominos, omen, etc frames to neaten them up. Took about a half our of fiddling and it's been spot on. Absolutely top notch compilation, Blackfriday.
Seems to be nice UI to replace my current one. Thanks a lot!
But for one question:
If my screen is not support 1900*1200 solution, will it works? And if I changed the ratio into 1.6 or smaller, will the icons on the bars clear to see them?