Spell Timers and Cooldowns

[Meshif]

Hello,

I have a request concerning spell cast icons in the HUD features.

During game play on my shadow priest, I can hardly see the spell duration timers on my HUD; however, the spell cooldown timers are a bit easier for me to see.

For example: After casting S/W: Pain, Dev. Plague, and Vampiric Touch, I can barely see the spell duration timers in my HUD, while I can see the spell casting cooldown timer a bit better. The reason being is that the spell cast cooldown timer icons are a bit bigger and more easily recognized.

At this time I basically have to tunnel vision on the HUD's spell duration timers to keep track, even though I know the rotation and how many mind flays I can cast before re-applying the DOTs.

I believe making the spell duration icons a bit lager and perhaps larger than the spell cast cooldown timers would help me a great deal.

Is there a way that I can enlarge the spell duration icons?

I have had some programming classes, so I can change any code that you may suggest. Classes included were dhtml, .asp, c++, so i should be capable of finding, editing, and saving the required code modifications.

Can someone please assist?

Thanks,

Vince

[Meshif]

I see no replys yet...

Should this be placed in the developers forum?

[spiel2001]

Most forums your questions go days without answer... patience grasshopper ~smile~

You can edit the file [ Interface > AddOns > nUI > Layouts > Default > HUDLayouts > {hud mode} > nUI_HUDLayout_{hud mode}.lua ] where {hud mode} is one of PlayerTarget, HealthPower, etc, depending on which HUD style you use. Locate the cooldown_bar section near the top of the file. You can change the value of btn_size to increase the size of the cooldown bar.

Be aware that when you increase the size of those buttons, you may well start causing overlap problems with other screen elements.

[Meshif]

Okay I changed that setting, tested the setting, and then returned it to default.

Perhaps I should rephrase this.

I would like to increase the size of the DOT icons/buttons, or perhaps I should just live with what I have...

It is a great upgrade for a user interface...

[Xrystal]

What Scott explained should make the change you are asking about. Perhaps we are misunderstanding which items you want to resize.

Are you talking about your action buttons ?

Are you talking about your cooldown icons between your action buttons and the hud ?

The last is what Scott explained and the former can be similarly changed by looking for the dashboard ( if I remember rightly ) file in the layouts/default folder.

[Meshif]

Okay I'll try to explain a little better.

In the HUD you will have 2 rows of icons.

The top row being dots and spells that are applied to the target and active. These icons are very small at 1920x1080 resolution... Thus, I would like to make them a bit larger.

The second row being the spell cooldown icons.

I want to enlarge the first row... It doesn't need to be by much though. Perhaps the same size as the spell cooldown icons would suffice.

Is that a better explanation?