WoWInterface - Buff Icon on a party members frame

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Buff Icon on a party members frame

I play a resto shaman and would like to add a buff icon to the party frame of the member I cast earth shield on. My goal is to be able to quickly identify whether or not earth shield is still present, and possibly the remaining charges. If this is possible, could you point me in the right direction?

I think you have two easy solutions :

1. Use a custom tag ala Freeb in oUF_Freebgrid
2. Use oUF_AuraWatch

Code:

--Shaman

49284, --Earth Shield

61301, --Riptide

52000, --Earthliving



elseif class == 'SHAMAN' then

        if i==11 then          

                icon:SetPoint('BOTTOMRIGHT',0,0)

                tex:SetVertexColor(140/255,95/255,75/255)

                local count = icon:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY')

                count:SetFont(db.font, db.fontsize-2, 'OUTLINE')

                count:SetPoint('CENTER', -6, 1)

                icon.count = count

        elseif i==12 then

                icon:SetPoint('TOPLEFT',0,0)

                tex:SetVertexColor(100/255,200/255,200/255)

        elseif i==13 then

                icon:SetPoint('BOTTOMLEFT',0,0)

                tex:SetVertexColor(100/255,200/255,140/255)

        end

Just change the i== with the correct number reference and you're done.

Custom tags are the way to go, and fairly easy to do.

Code:

local myES = select(8,UnitBuff(unit,"Earth Shield")) == 'player'

You'll need to figure out how to use that in a tag. Event to watch is UNIT_AURA. If you need the number of stacks and not just whether or not the buff is there, it's about the same deal with a full list of UnitBuff returns.

Thank you both for your replies, gonna try and implement this myself. Searching for help on the tags now. Really new to LUA so not sure if im gonna be able to get it though hahaha. Would you two mind if I asked for more help later on if I cant figure this out?

No problem !

There's the tags I added when I used oUF_Freebgrid :

Code:

oUF.Tags['[rip]'] = function(u) 

        local name, _,_,_,_,_,_, fromwho,_ = UnitAura(u, 'Riptide')

        if not (fromwho == 'player') then return end

        if UnitAura(u, 'Riptide') then return '|cff00FEBFM|r' end end

oUF.TagEvents['[rip]'] = 'UNIT_AURA'



oUF.Tags['[ripTime]'] = function(u)

        local name, _,_,_,_,_, expirationTime, fromwho,_ = UnitAura(u, 'Riptide')

        if not (fromwho == 'player') then return end

        local spellTimer = '|cffffff00'..format('%.0f',-1*(GetTime()-expirationTime))..'|r'

        return spellTimer end

oUF.TagEvents['[ripTime]'] = 'UNIT_AURA'



oUF.earthCount = {'i','h','g','f','p','q','Z','Y'}

oUF.Tags['[earth]'] = function(u) local c = select(4, UnitAura(u, 'Earth Shield')) if c then return '|cffFFCF7F'..oUF.earthCount[c]..'|r' end end

oUF.TagEvents['[earth]'] = 'UNIT_AURA'

with the font you can found in oUF_Freebgrid, you can add a tag in your layout :

Code:

local myES = self.Health:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY', 'GameFontHighlightSmall')

myES:SetFont(symbolfont, fontsize)    --  the symbol font

myES:SetShadowColor(0,0,0)

myES:SetShadowOffset(1.25,-1.25)

myES:SetPoint('CENTER', self.Health, 'BOTTOMRIGHT', 0, 0)

self:Tag(myES, '[earth]')

Do the same thing if you want the riptide and the riptime tags.