Unitframes Health Bar Ticks

[tenub]

I know it's been done in many other games and I'm surprised that I haven't come across an addon / configuration for an addon in WoW like it. I'm looking for something that will show a health bar in a certain number of ticks. For example, it would be composed of 10 squares that each represent 10% of the total health and when the unit fell below 90% the first tick would disappear, etc. Anyone that can help me if there has been something like this released in the past?

[nin]

First layout i thought of is this

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ated.html#info

Might not be exactly what you're after, but it's the only layout i have seen that has that style..

[tenub]

This is a quick image in Photoshop that I whipped up of what I'm looking for. I know PitBull and others can use textures like these, but they don't truly work as intended, ie. a tick will become partially filled as the unit loses health rather than waiting for the unit to hit 90%, 80%, 70%, etc. HP before removing a tick completely.

[Phanx]

Why would you want that?

[tenub]

Not just because it looks better and is unique (at least to the WoW UI scene), but because it can fit a futuristic UI more easily than anything else. Also, I had the idea of a numberless health frame that I had posted a while back and I just remembered how cool I thought it was:

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...postcount=4334

[Nobgul]

if said health bar is for nameplates then using tidyplates with the starcraft theme would work, I think.

there is a set of unit frames I saw a while ago, they were in the old post your ui thread or the new one. they were vertical ones that had the lines like your looking for.

[grom]

i think nobgul means Aptechka

[tenub]

If you look closely some of the ticks are just partially filled which unfortunately isn't what I'm after and can already by done with addons such as PitBull.

[Torhal]

So basically you don't want an accurate reflection of health - you want strict 10% decrements.

[Phanx]

I still don't understand why you'd want such an inaccurate health display, but any addon could easily be modified to do this. Figure out where it sets the health bar value; it should look something like this:

local currentHealth = UnitHealth(unit)
local maximumHealth = UnitHealthMax(unit)
healthBar:SetMinMaxValues(0, maximumHealth)
healthBar:SetValue(currentHealth)

Change it to something like this:

local currentHealth = UnitHealth(unit)
local maximumHealth = UnitHealthMax(unit)
local percentHealth = currentHealth / maximumHealth
local nearestTenth = ceil(percentHealth * 10) / 10
healthBar:SetMinMaxValues(0, 1)
healthBar:SetValue(nearestTenth)

[tenub]

Originally Posted by Phanx I still don't understand why you'd want such an inaccurate health display

It's just a concept. If you take a look at the post I quoted you'll see that I want to make a numberless display of the health with the top ticks representing 10% and the bottom smaller ticks representing 1%.

[Ketho]

I can even recall someone asking for Zelda health frames

But I never was able to find that specific addon, if it still exists

[Chibi]

Simple Hud does this:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...SimpleHUD.html

No idea if that version still works (would probably need a toc bump), I have a local copy that's been tweaked and patched bit-by-bit over the years.