#Got carried away with actionbar backdrops and custom text as UI Elements.

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fathom current
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So I put together a little something. It's purely for me, and I main DPS. I will not be using this mess if I ever decide to heal for very obvious reasons. Basically I just wanted things to feel a bit more connected instead of randomly floating around, so I started connecting them with Custom Text (brackets and dashes). Then I added corner borders with some Unicode Characters (still custom text). Then I slapped down some Empty Clickthrough Actionbars with a transparent backdrop and Low Strata to act as filler for when those UI Elements weren't present (ie: no target, no target of target, no pet summoned, etc) so that the connecting bits had something of substance to latch onto.

I like how it turned out. Makes it feel a little bit like the Starcraft Mission Briefing screens or something.

First Picture is everything filled and castbars rolling.
Second Picture (first comment) has some sections unfilled to show off the Actionbar Backdrop nonsense.

(Edit: Just noticed the Pet Bar on the right. I'll be disabling that as I'm a Shaman not a Hunter.)

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sage raptor
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Gonna need you to spill the beans and share how you managed it. I'm in love with that concept.

fathom current
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Custom Texts like this. Sorry for the mess of a naming scheme but it doesn't let me edit to clean that up without remaking the texts so it is what it is lol

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all the little corner brackets and connecting dashes and brackets are just dark grey colored text, the corner pieces are unicode so the font has to support it (it shows up as the box in the text format field but shows up correctly on the screen).
left half tied to player frame, right half unfortunately tied to Focus and I'm just focusing myself and have that hidden away where it can't be seen.
Works for me because I literally never use Focus but might be a dealbreaker to some players. Target frame is too far from the player frame to reach with x Offsets anchored to the player frame

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The backdrops are Clickthrough Actionbars with backdrops on and show empty buttons unchecked. Resize by playing with the backdrop spacing, # of buttons, per row, and unchecking keep size ratio to mess with width/height separately.

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I'm using oPie for some stuff like mounts, hearths, rezzing, and pre-combat buffs to save on actionbar space

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it's not up to date yet but it's one of the addons that you just have to edit the number in the toc file for it to load just fine in 12.0

Replace the very first line in OPie.toc with:

Interface: 120000, 120001

open sparrow
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how you did that? the borders and the connection lines? 😮
im new into this but i like it. 😄

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and what addon is this?

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fathom current
# open sparrow and what addon is this?

This is ElvUI still. Just made the raid frames smaller, took out the name and health % text, centered the role icon. Not super practical if you need to use them for healing or raid leading / callout purposes. but good enough as a rando DPS where I basically just need to know if the raid is alive or not and if people are in range of me.

wild zenith
fathom current
# open sparrow how you did that? the borders and the connection lines? 😮 im new into this but ...

Scroll up a bit, it's just custom texts (one of the options in UnitFrames > Individual Units > Player, for the ones on the right side I am using UnitFames > Individual Units > Focus and am just setting myself as Focus and shoving the Focus Frame somewhere I can't see it (it's also as small as possible and black to blend in with the bars on the bottom of the default ElvUI Setup). This means if you rely on Focus for anything this won't work in the exact same layout -- I am using Focus because I can't reach both sides to add the lines by just changing the X position for stuff attached to the Player Frame (which is always visible). It doesn't reach. Focus was the only other option available to me that wouldn't go away if I wasn't targeting something.

Essentially it's just: - and ] and [ for the connecting lines and the unicode characters └ ┐┌ ┘for the corner brackets (this requires switching to a font that supports them, see screenshot a couple posts up for what I'm using)

Text Format is:
|cFF171717-
Where the string of characters is just coloring it that dark gray, and the actual thing being modified is '-' or whatever it needs to be.
Honestly I feel like something happened to the formatting there but copy pasting it still worked for me.

It is not a built in option, I'm just making frames with text by messing with the x and y offsets to move it around.

fathom current
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If the option is greyed out for you, I don't know why, but this is all I'm doing.