I’m referring of course to addons such as Bartender and Dominos. For me, disabling the griffins is the single biggest issue I have concerning the interface.
So I went online and tried a bunch of old add-ons that don’t work anymore and then I started reading through some old forum posts. Finally, I came across this one and the line below intrigued me:
Paste everything but “/run” into the website “addon.bool.no”.
Well, what do you know? It’s a webpage that allows you to write some code and it transforms it into the required file format for the WoW client to recognize!
I started playing with it and after a lot of trial and error, I found the right code to write and disable those damned griffins.
Disable Griffins
While most scripts require you to make a macro and press it every time you log into WoW, with this code you can do it once and they're gone forever, on every character.
I also wanted to remove the micro menu buttons and add a 6 button action bar in that zone. This is the code for it but I have yet to find a simple addon that adds an extra movable bar.
Remove Micro Menu Buttons
And with this next code, I managed to change the portraits with class icons. This is very neat, especially in terms of PvP. The required code is below.
Change Portraits with Class Icons
Hide Backpack Code
Hide Action Bar Up/Down Arrows
Make Player and Target UI Black
Alt Powerlevel Message
"Here is a one-liner for a macro I wrote for some of our mages doing alt runs. Perhaps it may serve as inspiration for a small but easy tutorial. You can improve it with a guard for when they aren't in a party, but macros have limited character allotment and it met their needs.
It sends a whisper to every person in your party ("Moving to next instance"). It's been getting used after running an instance to power level alts. It notifies people they need to alt-tab back in for the instance reset."
Getting you started with LUA code
Now, you’re going to have to dig through the forum posts yourself for the exact commands for whatever changes you want to make. I left a bunch of links below to get you started so let me know how that works.
Removing Blizzard default frames
Guide: hide anything you want on the default interface
Lua code seems to be an important keyword for this sort of stuff. For example, it should be easy to find the code to remove, say, the minimap. I wouldn’t ever remove that so I didn’t search for it.
You can also download existing addons and steal the code from its lua files if you know what you’re doing. This is how I came by the code actually to replace portraits with icons.
A big shoutout is in order for the guy who made this tool, whoever he may be. You rock my dude! So, that does it! I hope you found it useful.
