BlizzHUDTweaks

Fade the Blizzard default frames by situation (combat, mouseover, target, rested area and more) and tweak the default HUD, without replacing it.

Supported versions

Classic Era, Cataclysm/Mists Classic and other clients are not supported.

Features

Frame fading

Set an alpha value per situation for action bars, unit frames, auras, status bars, the minimap, the objective tracker, the cooldown manager and more:

• Situations: In Combat, Has Target (friendly, hostile or both), Vehicle, Neighborhood, Instanced Area, Rested Area, Out of Combat
• Mouseover: shows a faded frame at full alpha, optionally also in combat
• Fade duration and out of combat delay
• Global settings for all frames, or own settings per frame (copy from another frame)
• Frame links: hovering one frame also shows its linked frames (e.g. all action bars at once)
• Swing timer frames (WoW: Forever only)

If several situations apply, the first one wins: Vehicle > In Combat > Has Target > Neighborhood > Instanced Area > Rested Area > Out of Combat.

Custom frames (frame picker)

Fade any named frame, e.g. one of another addon, under Frame Fading > Frames > Custom Frames:

• Pick a frame: the frame under the cursor is highlighted. Mouse wheel switches between overlapping frames, left click adds it, right click or Esc cancels.
• Add by name: enter a global frame name (MyAddonMainFrame) or a path to a child frame (BuffFrame.CollapseAndExpandButton).

Custom frames have the same options as built-in ones, can be renamed and are saved in the profile. Frames created later by their addon are faded as soon as they exist.

Miscellaneous

• Action bar button padding, also below Blizzard's minimum of 2
• Hide name, level or group indicator on player, target, focus, target of target and pet frames, overwrite the player name
• Font size of health and mana texts
• Flash the objective tracker and experience bar at full alpha after an update

Tooltip

• Anchor tooltips to the mouse
• Show spell IDs

Profiles

Create, copy, reset and delete profiles, and share them via import/export strings (custom frames included).

Usage

Open the options with /bht (or /blizzhudtweaks), the minimap icon or Options > AddOns > BlizzHUDTweaks. The search box finds options on every page. /bht minimap toggles the minimap icon.

FAQ

• A frame does not fade: check that fading is Enabled for that frame.
• A frame does not show: set Bar Visible in Blizzard's Edit Mode to Always visible, otherwise the Edit Mode setting wins.
• Fade delay is ignored: mouseover cancels the delay once you leave the frame.
• Padding changes in combat: they are applied after combat (protected functions).

Questions: Discord. If you like the addon, leave a star on GitHub :)

License

MIT

Developed with the help of AI (Claude by Anthropic). Every change is reviewed by a professional software developer before it is merged.