UnInterruptable Castbar

[wolvereness]

The cast bar needs something easily distinguishable on if it can't be interrupted.

It's kind of a pain finding the target's cast bar near their floating health bar to make sure I can interrupt the cast.

Also, is there anyway to move the enemy cast bar around / make bigger (before I go into the files and tweak it myself)?

[spiel2001]

Are you talking about the enemy cast bar in the HUD or in the unit frames?

The cast bar in the HUD is pretty large. If you have the HUD turned off, I might suggest you try using the "Simple HUD" mode as it gives you a lot of important combat info without using the health/power bars.

Otherwise, the only way to change the size is to edit the layout files. For the cast bar in the HUD, that would be [ Interface > AddOns > nUI > Layouts > Default > HUDLayouts > {hud mode} > nUI_HUDSkin_{hud mode}_Target.lua ] -- Locate the ["Casting"] section. You can change xOfs and yOfs to move the target cast bar and change height and width to alter the size of the cast bar.

[wolvereness]

Apologies for the late followup / clarification.

I was referring to the HUD castbar.


My original intent on the post was in reference to a feature that blizzard recently introduced into the game (3.2), the ability to determine if a cast can be interrupted.
Many bosses and mobs have casted abilities that cannot be interrupted, and you can see the ability being cast on the floating health bar underneath the nameplate. If it cannot be interrupted, it has a casing around it (think padlock). There's some stuff in the API now to determine if an ability cannot be interrupted.

On the nUI HUD, there is no distinction for abilities that cannot be interrupted. I was hoping something could be added in the next release that would graphically show if a cast can be interrupted.


TY btw for the information on the HUD castbar size changes.

[spiel2001]

Okay --

I've added this to the casting bar code and will have it in the next PTR release. It won't make it to the public release, however, until the 6.0 beta goes live on the live realms.