Stereoscopic 3D - Get Mouse Icon Depth or Adjust Global UI Depth?

[Brusalk]

When running in Steroscopic 3D mode with the mouse in software mode the mouse will auto-adjust it's depth to the depth of what it's over in the game world.

This is great and all, but the problem I'm finding is that the UI as a whole just sits right on the screen which makes looking at UI elements quite hard with double-vision resulting from looking "past" the UI.

I'm trying to find a way to adjust the UI to where the mouse is so I'm curious if there's either a way people know of to adjust the whole UI depth, and/or get the depth of the mouse.


Thanks for any help you can give me!

[suicidalkatt]

Originally Posted by Brusalk When running in Steroscopic 3D mode with the mouse in software mode the mouse will auto-adjust it's depth to the depth of what it's over in the game world. This is great and all, but the problem I'm finding is that the UI as a whole just sits right on the screen which makes looking at UI elements quite hard with double-vision resulting from looking "past" the UI. I'm trying to find a way to adjust the UI to where the mouse is so I'm curious if there's either a way people know of to adjust the whole UI depth, and/or get the depth of the mouse. Thanks for any help you can give me!

'Hey Brusalk! Syronius @ Kilrogg in <Modest> here. You can play with frame depth if you'd like. I believe that's the only parameter available in the API to adjust the 3D position. As far as determining the mouse depth, I don't believe that's possible.

Since all frame objects eventually parent to the main UIParent frame, you can try using the depth parameter on the UIParent frame as follows:

UIParent:SetDepth(value)

Alternatively you can have a mouse tracking system that will change the depth of the UIParent depending on the position of the mouse (probably the best way to do this).

Here's a rough untested script:

local f = CreateFrame("Frame",nil,UIParent)
local scale = UIParent:GetEffectiveScale()
local centerX = ((GetScreenWidth()*scale)/2)
local centerY = ((GetScreenHeight()*scale)/2)
local delayInt = 0.2 -- Delay integer limits update speed
 
f:SetScript("OnUpdate",function(self,elapsed)
    delayInt = delayInt - elapsed
    if delayInt < 0 then -- After delay has completed run code
    
        local x,y = GetCursorPosition()
        local x,y = (x/scale),(y/scale) -- Adjusts for UI Scaling
    
        if (x < (centerX+200) and x > (centerX-200)) and (y < (centerY+200) and y > (centerY-200)) -- Center of the screen
            UIParent:SetDepth(10)
        elseif (x > (centerX+200) or x < (centerX-200)) or (y > (centerY+200) or y < (centerY-200)) then -- Outsides
            UIParent:SetDepth(1)
        end
        
        delayInt = 0.2 -- Reset integer after running code
        
    end
end)