CastParty
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[edit] CastParty
CastParty is an addon for Blizzard's game World of Warcraft for unit frames that will take the place of the default player, party, and target frames. The default party frame — the area of the screen that shows you info about your current party members' health, mana, icon, etc — is quite large and in the opinion of many, cumbersome. Because many people would rather have this space not used for decorations and extra artwork, the CastParty frames were born to give a better information-to-screen space ratio.
CastParty can leverage the work of the addon Clique to override the click behavior for the CastParty frames. With it you can assign spells or functions to mouse clicks so that when you click on someone's health bar it will cast a heal spell on them. Five-button mouse and key/mouse button combinations are supported (ie. shift + left-click or alt + Mouse-button-5). All of this makes healing and raid management much easier with a simple point and click interface. Also, the text and graphics on the bar and the bar itself can be customized in many ways to show information that is most helpful to your play style.
CastParty is not only for healing support classes, though it was designed with them in mind. The minimal frame size, buff placement and filtering, and enhanced customization over the default frames make it a viable option for all classes.
CastParty has been updated for WoW 2.0 and currently has a beta release. See the download link below --1 Nov 2007
[edit] Features
- Smaller, more compact party frame, without sacrificing feedback and information
- Similar frames for Player, Target, and Focus (Focus is not supported by the default frames)
- Customization options for grow-with-depletion, colors, sizes, positioning, and bar text.
- Enhanced tooltips for CastParty frames
- Frame decorations - Party Leader, Combat Status, Elite/Rare, PVP, Raid Icon
- Frame status - Offline, Dead, Tapped, Out of range, Resting
- Default frame dropdown
- Support for pet frames with all the features of party frames
- Buff icons displayed with each frame
- Buff alignment and filtering options (known, common, and user customized)
- Buff durations in tooltips
- Both target-of-target display sub-frame, and target-of-target-of-target for all frames
- CastParty frames and Options GUI are all load-on-demand, so use as little memory and speed footprint as possible.
Some features for the future of CastParty:
- Custom buff filtering
- Raid support
- Even more configuration options
[edit] Links
See Also: The CastParty Manual
- See Also: A history of CastParty
- See Also: Change Log
[edit] Downloading and Installing
- Download CastParty. (Change Log)
- Make sure to delete the previous version of CastParty from your WoW/Interface directory.
- If you are re-installing or over-installing, you may need to remove CastParty's saved variables in the WoW/WTF directory, especially if upgrading across version numbers.
- Extract the chosen distribution zip into your World of Warcraft\interface\addons folder, you are now ready to play. This works for BOTH PCs and Macs.
[edit] What each addon does
- CastPartyGUI - This is the CastParty unit frames.
- CastPartyOptions - This allows you to configure CastParty with an in-game configuration UI without having to edit .LUA files
[edit] Frequently Asked Questions
I found a bug!
- - Go to the CastParty forums. If your issue is not there already, post a note about it so the developers or someone else can reply to it.
I want to be an active tester of CastParty, or help the developers fix bugs!
- - There are many ways to do this, however, the way I prefer is to join the Google Group.
How do I setup and download from CVS?
- - There are several methods, but since I use windows I (personally) prefer TortoiseCVS.
How do I get CastParty to work?
- - The default settings for everything are meant to be appropriate. Bring up the CastParty options by clicking the minimap icon and customize as you like.
- See Also: The CastParty Manual for more information about options.
