Help with a threat function issue please ?

[Caellian]

Allright so, here's a small threat function, working just fine but not exactly the way i want it to work.

caelPanels.UNIT_THREAT_SITUATION_UPDATE = function(self)
	local status = UnitThreatSituation("player", "target")
	for i = 1, 7 do
		local panel = panels[i]
		if panel then
			if (status and status > 0) then
				local r, g, b = GetThreatStatusColor(status)
				panel:SetBackdropBorderColor(r, g, b)
			else
				panel:SetBackdropBorderColor(0, 0, 0)
			end
		end
	end
end

As you can see local status = UnitThreatSituation("player", "target")

It will only show my threat toward my current target, but my goal was to have it change color if i have aggro from any mob, not just my target, let's take a quick example, i target a mob in a pack of 10 and start using Volley, and get aggro from one of the mob but not the one i'm targetting...

I've tried to do local status = UnitThreatSituation("player", unit) but that doesn't seems to work.

Any idea ?

[Hirsute]

Someone in your party will need to be targetting the mob, I believe. This is a limitation of Blizzard's threat implementation.

[Caellian]

Originally Posted by Hirsute Someone in your party will need to be targetting the mob, I believe. This is a limitation of Blizzard's threat implementation.

Hmm no, here's for example how i use it in my oUF layout, unfortunately that won't work here.

local status = UnitThreatSituation(unit)

[Hirsute]

Originally Posted by Caellian Hmm no, here's for example how i use it in my oUF layout, unfortunately that won't work here. local status = UnitThreatSituation(unit)

I'm no expert here. Is "unit" the unit token for one of your party members? Because according to here, that would query the threat of the Unit, and it takes a second argument to query the mob the unit has threat on specifically.

But like I said, I'm not expert with the threat system. My understanding was that you cannot query the threat table of any mob that someone in your party is not targetting.

[xConStruct]

Under details one the page it reads:

If the second argument is omitted, this function will return 3 if the unit has aggro on something, or 0 otherwise. Needs confirmation/additional testing.

I'm no expert of the thread system either, but as you only want to query thread info about the player (based on your oUF-code and the wowwiki-page), you basically just have to use:

local status = UnitThreatSituation("player")

Just omit the "unit" as you're replacing it with the player-unitID and didn't define it before. So, if "unit" is anything other than 'nil', it likely causes the function to fail.

[Caellian]

Originally Posted by Cargor Under details one the page it reads: I'm no expert of the thread system either, but as you only want to query thread info about the player (based on your oUF-code and the wowwiki-page), you basically just have to use: local status = UnitThreatSituation("player") Just omit the "unit" as you're replacing it with the player-unitID and didn't define it before. So, if "unit" is anything other than 'nil', it likely causes the function to fail.

Works, as simple as that, thanks !