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Sunn - Viewport Art

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Sunn's Viewport Art allows you to change the size of the rendered world area (viewport) and adds textured artwork in the non-rendered areas.

Problems? See the Frequently Asked Questions

Usage

Use "/sunnart" (or "/sa") for the options gui. Use "/sunnart help" for console commands

Panels

There are 4 panels in SunnArt, top, bottom, left and right. By default each will use the same theme although they can be set up with different themes, overlaps and dimensions using the advanced options.

Art Packs

Art packs are optional and should be installed as if they were separate addons (although they are useless without the SunnArt addon).

Extract the zipped folder into your interface/addons folder for it to function.

Previews of the artwork in the packs are available in the screenshots on this page.

Art Packs are available on this site

There are other art packs available that have been submitted by users. Search for "Sunn" on Curse or check for Optional Files on WoWInterface.

Custom Artwork

Artwork from any standard panels addon may be used with SunnArt. Just set them up using the in-game interface or by editting CustomTheme.lua.

File formats

  • Files must be .TGA or .BLP format
  • Be sure to set the alpha channel if your artwork contains any transparency
  • Panels can be constructed from 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 separate sections, numbered from left to right (eg. <art file>1.tga, <art file>2.tga ... <art file>5.tga)
  • Each section MUST have dimensions that are a power of 2 (ie, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc) - this is a limitation of all artwork to be used in WoW.
  • Only files within the Interface\Addons\ structure are available to the addon

Using CustomTheme.lua

  • Save your artwork sections in Interface\Addons\SunnArt
  • Open CustomTheme.lua in any text editor
  • Follow the instructions in the file
  • Any number of themes can be set up in CustomTheme.lua

Using the in-game interface

All you need to know is the path to the artwork files, the amount of overlap and the number of sections the artwork is split into. Enter these into the Advanced options screen, Enter a name for your theme and click save. The theme will now be available to all your characters.

Submitting Artwork

I'm looking for a talented artist or two to help create a new Art Pack. Please submit your editted files or a complete screen-size file so that I may split it into compatible files and create a "How-To" tutorial for others.

If you have artwork that you would like to submit for Art Pack 10 and onward, please mail it to sunnart@uksf.com and if I like it then I will include it in the next release.

These are some addons that will help organise your UI so that elements may be moved off the world screen and into the artwork areas of this addon. All of these addons use the same libraries as Sunn Viewport Art, which means alot of the code and resources are re-used rather than bloating your UI with lots of different code that does that same thing.

Action Bars - Dominos or Bartender4

Minimap - BasicMinimap and Minimap Button Frame or SexyMap

Chat Frame - Prat

Unit and Raid Frames - Pitbull and Grid

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  • 3 comments
  • Avatar of Twopro Twopro Oct 03, 2011 at 02:19 UTC - 0 likes

    heres an idea. you don't have to do it but you know how when your playing certain classes where you switch specs such as a tank or dps that does totally different type of damage or type of magic damage and you set up a 2nd theme for that set up/spec

    well if you guys added some sort of option to select a theme for your primary and secondary talents. it'd save time when switch specs when your asked to or when you join battle grounds

    and you notice your team dosn't have a 4,500resil flag carrier so you switch to blood.

    i don't mind typing /sa and changing quick but i'm just sayin it'd be a nice feature to have.

  • Avatar of Twopro Twopro Aug 24, 2011 at 04:59 UTC - 0 likes

    oh yeah also, you guys should do a diablo3 theme to go with d3 orbs

  • Avatar of Twopro Twopro Aug 24, 2011 at 03:32 UTC - 0 likes

    super addon, but could u guys add more themes i.e ones without cartoon faces. i need one to fit on my warlock's ui and most themes tend to be nature, cata or cartoon faces.

    could you make me a Fel style one for my lock? do like purple,green or like black/grey theme

    aslo, i could use a Bloody one for my dk, unholy diesed one for my unholy spec.

    also, u guys could add spec tracking to ur options so that when u change talent trees your art profile changes to it.

    and could u make it so i can move the illidan picture for my rogue's illidan pix to the left slightly my diablo3 orbs are coving it up.

    also, i could use a STONE or chrome or metal type art work for my Warrior's profile

    my shaman profile looks great cata theme works perfect

  • 3 comments

Table of contents

  1. 1 Usage
  2. 2 Panels
  3. 3 Art Packs
  4. 4 Custom Artwork
    1. 4.1 File formats
    2. 4.2 Using CustomTheme.lua
    3. 4.3 Using the in-game interface
  5. 5 Submitting Artwork
  6. 6 Recommended Addons

Facts

Date created
Jan 06, 2007
Categories
Last update
Dec 16, 2011
Development stage
Release
Language
  • enUS
License
GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Curse link
Sunn - Viewport Art
Reverse relationships
9
Downloads
1,327,764
Recent files
  • R: 3.60 for 4.3 Dec 16, 2011
  • A: r82 for 4.3 Dec 11, 2011
  • R: 3.59 for 4.3 Nov 30, 2011
  • A: r80 for 4.3 Nov 29, 2011
  • R: 3.58 for 4.2 Oct 03, 2011

Authors

  • Avatar of Sunn
    Sunn
    • Manager
    • Author

Relationships

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