X-Perl Skin UI (now supports WS) 

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The textures used for this UI are aviable in xpDeluxe package

One day, when I rolled a druid healer and entered my first raid with her, I have discovered, that Blizzard UI is not helping much my performance. Ever sinse I worked on trying to move things out of my way and, finally, ended with a panel UI.

I tried a couple graphical designs, tried to draw my own graphics but sense of simplicity took over and this is the result.
I hope someone find this usefull for themselves and it will save your time building your own UI from a scrach.


Purposes

I like to say shortly about what I tried to achive in my interface.
I am more or less a clicker. I like all my spells and abilities to be visible or, at least, at ease access. Also, as a raider I wish every single bit of needed information to be clear and noticable while having a clear viewport and minimum of not related graphics. What I have achieved with this UI satisfies me fully in all my demands.

• you are tired of Blizz frames overlaping the whole your viewport
• you always miss at least 12 extra bars besides those Blizz offers
• you never have room to place your 24 bars
• you are tired of looking for the spell you need in the brick of bars you got
• you are sick of brightly colored mosaic of your addons but need them all
• you often get ganked by something from outside your viewport
• you love things to be sorted thematically
• you love your minimap to be clean
• you are fan of panels
• you are fan of X-perl default skin

Core
These addons are basic of the UI. You must have for the UI to look as intended

• Bartender 4- moveable action bars that replace standard blizzard action bars.
• Button Facade - skining for action bars and buffs icons .
• ButtonFacade: Apathy - a skin for action bars that gives the icons that pretty glow and compact shape =)
• Chinchilla Minimap - moveable minimap with some additional features. Allows to move world state frame, quest traker frame, repair frame and others. Allows include or exclude default minimap icons and more.
• kgPanels (3.3.2)- additional panels. In the X-Perl skin UI used for backgrounds for buffs and player frames
• LunarSphere - Additional 10 action bars with additional features such as autosell junk.
• Minimap Button Frame - Moves all your minimap buttons into one compact box.
• Titan Panel with additional plugins - a panel on top and buttom of your screen that is customizable to show information you most need
• Satrina Buff Frames 3 - moves and customizes buff frames
• Reflux (3.3.2)- support addon that allows quick switch of multiply profiles
• Skada Damage Meter(3.3.2) - modular damage meter with various viewing modes.
• Sunn - Viewport Art - resizes viewport and places graphic into the freed space
• Tipsy - moves tooltips
• X-Perl UnitFrames - used for moving and customizing unit frames

Optional
Those addons I use myself in addition to the UI. If you dont like them, you are free to exclude them from your useage.

• Arkinventory - combines all your bags into one and allows sorting contents of your bags into categories. Also alows viewing inventory on other caracters on your account and even other realms.
• Atlas and Atlasloot Enhanced (3.3.2) - a huge database containing information about dungeons, dungeons loot, pvp rewards, professions and more
• DBM (3.3.2), also known as Deadly Boss Mods - Your friend on most deadly boss encounters, warining and informing you on most major events of combat. Raid addon.
• Easycopy - another chat addon that allows to copy everyting what appeares in your chatbox. Als places time to every posted line and allows mouse weel chat scroll.
• Icehud - highly customizeable HUD with quite a few skins.
• Mik Scrolling Battle Text - arranges your combat events into categories. Customize it on your taste - it can never be same for two different players.
• Power Auras Classic - Places a graphical or textural waring on your viewport on event you decide. Raid/pvp addon. Very customizable.
• QuestItemBar - shows all the quest items (except those you decide not to show) on additional bar.
• Spam me not - reports gold sellers automatically and cuts all their crap off from your chat.
• Tidy Plates - enhances the Blizzard nameplates, providing graphical and functional improvements.
• Vuhdo (3.3.2) - hightly cuztomizable raid unit frames. I prefer them to X-Perl for raiding. Concidered to be raid frames for healers.

• Blizzard boss frame is deforming top boss health bar due being placed too close to edge of veiwport.
  
  Appears:
  During Gunship and Blood Princes encounters in ICC.
  
  To hot fix:
  • Right click your minimap.
  • Go to Position tab
  • Check Enable for boss frame
  • Move the boss frame one inch down your screen.
  • Lock the frame again.

• How to install UI for multiple characters? I made it work on one character but nothing happens when I /reflux others
  You have to install the UI settings for every character and for every realm, and every account in order to make UI work on a character that is linked to those.
  So, if after installation your WTF folder looks like this:
  WTF
  __╚═ Account
  ______╚═ YOUR_ACCOUNT
  __________╚═ YOUR_REALM
  ______________╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER
  
  then in order to make it work for multiple characters you have to dublicate YOUR_CHARACTER folder as many times as many characters you want to run UI on:
  WTF
  __╚═ Account
  ______╚═ YOUR_ACCOUNT
  __________╚═ YOUR_REALM
  ______________╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  ______________╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  ______________╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_C
  ______________╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_D
  
  Now the more interesting thing comes. You want to make UI to work also on characters on other realm? Dublicate realm folder as many realms as you are playing, and in each realm folder dublicate the characters folders for as many characters as you have on that realm:
  WTF
  __╚═ Account
  ______╚═ YOUR_ACCOUNT
  _________╠═ YOUR_REALM_A
  _________║ __ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  _________║ __ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  _________╠═ YOUR_REALM_B
  _________║ __ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER
  _________╚═ YOUR_REALM_C
  ____________ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  ____________ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  ____________ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_C
  
  Guess, what? Its absolutely same system, if you are playing with different accounts:
  WTF
  __╚═ Account
  ______╠═ YOUR_ACCOUNT_A
  ______║ __ ╠═ YOUR_REALM_A
  ______║ __ ║ __ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER
  ______║ __ ╠═ YOUR_REALM_B
  ______║ __ ║ __ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  ______║ __ ║ __ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  ______║ __ ║ __ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_C
  ______║ __ ╚═ YOUR_REALM_C
  ______║ _______ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  ______║ _______ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  ______╚═ YOUR_ACCOUNT_B
  _______ __ ╠═ YOUR_REALM_A
  _______ __ ║ _ ╠═ YOUR_CHARACTER_A
  _______ __ ║ _ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER_B
  _______ __ ╚═ YOUR_REALM_B
  ______________ ╚═ YOUR_CHARACTER
  
  Tips
  • Copying folder of existing chracter may result in bugging lunar sphere in the case if it's bars on donor character were filled up. If possible use the folder from original installation.
  • If you are temping to edit anything in the original profiles, after a failture to install UI on multiple characters, keep in mind, the changes will be applied to all characters, that share the profile.
  • For addons that support profiles, create a new profile, copy X-Perl Skin UI profile settings into it. Set the new profile as active and do your changes.
  • Most efficient way to back up profiles of multiple addons is by using Reflux feature that allowes to copy all existing profiles into a new set. Visit Reflux page for more info.
  
  
  Where the heck is?...
  • ...stance bar/pet bar?
    Its switched off. You may recativate it via Bartender options.
    You can find bartender icon in lower right corner of your screen, on titan panel. You can also use /bartender command or find the settings via blizzard interface menu.
    
    
  • ...my experience bar/reputation bar/map location lable?
    Are texted on the Titan panel. X-Perl Explorer setup uses Experience plug in, while X-Perl Raider does Reputation. You can always activate one or another to be shown at same time.
    
    
  • ...micromenu?
    Right top of Titan Panel, next to clock.
    
    
    
  • ...bags?
    If you are not used for [b]-key, use button on Titan panel.
    
    
  • ...chat buttons?
    Just outside your screen. If you want them just move chat frame a little and you will see them. I dont need them as EasyCopy addon allows scrolling chat with mouse wheel
  
  
• I think there is something wrong with target of target and target of target of target and my pets target and all those are sorta overlaping each other...
  Make sure you did not skip Step of the instalation paragraph.
  
  
• How to fill up the round button bars?
  Right click round button in upper row (menu button)
  Drag and drop skills from your spell book into lower row as normal action bar.
  Close bar by right click menu button or by using spell from submenu (the lower bar)
  For more information about Lunar sphere visit the addon Website
  
  
• I wish raid frames [insert random request]...
  VuhDo addon homepage
  
  
• There is something wrong with the circled bars, they all are overlaping each other and I cannot find my way into them
  Thats Lunar bug in 3.3, that openes some bars when you log in. Hopefully it will get fixed soon. By now, you just have to close them manually or try to reload UI.
  
  
• Titan bar on top on my screen got a black hole...
  It's not permanent. Reload UI once and its gone forever.
  
  
• I have filled up Lunar bars, logged off and when I am logged back all the circles are in the middle of my screen and all buttons data is lost
  Let me guess, you have tried to place your equipment sets into Lunar?
  From author of Lunar Shpere:

  Originally Posted by Moongaze Found the issue. You have a "Use last submenu action" or "Use second to last submenu action" assigned to one of the menu buttons with the equipment sets, yes? On the menu button, check to see if "Show Count" is turned on for one of these left, middle, or right click actions. If it is, turn it off. There is an issue with trying to get the equipment set's "item count" and we're crashing because of that. I just got that error while doing some tests, looked at your error log and I see that you are suffering from the same error. Once I turned off the count for that menu button, the issue went away. I fixed the code for version 1.08 ... [...]

• I am using a different resolution in game, will this UI fit into it?
  Resolution configuration is included into package. You will get the resolution needed for the UI once install the WTF folder. This may cause your game viewport to twist a bit. Use monitor configuration to correct the edges.
  If you dont get it make sure you have been using the correct WTF folder from the package.
  
  
• Whole game turned to be very pale. Give me back my old colors!
  You Have got my personal color gamma configuration together with the package. To set back your old gamma use Blizard video settings.
  
  
• Why can I not track more than 1-2 quests or achivements?
  Because chinchilla did resize the quest tracking frame. To fit it your taste:
  • right click minimap
  • go Quest Tracker tab
  • check Enable
  • configurate the quest tracker on your taste
  
  
• There are so many things to configurate, cant you make interface that I can just download and use?...
  Practically it is impossible to please everyone. I tried to make the UI useable by any class but I cannot satisfy all players tastes. I left a lot of room for customization. And I hope you will enjoy moving things a little around to fit your taste while enjoying the general idea.
  
  Have fun!

Special credit to X-Perl developers, and Lunar autor who's work became foundament of this UI.

And, also to all addon's autors, whos creations are used in X-Perl UI

Special thanks to a big white arse bear, without whom I would have never begun even to worry about my interface layout.