Scoot

What is Scoot?

Scoot is a suite of tools for customizing the default Blizzard UI. As a long-time ElvUI and WeakAuras user, Midnight's addon restrictions pushed me to build my own solution with two rules: every setting is opt-in only, and prefers re-skinning over replacing. It works directly on existing Blizzard elements wherever possible, with custom frames reserved for gaps where Blizzard offers no alternative (like custom CDM groups and number text on the Personal Resource Display).

That approach leads to a few things that I think make Scoot unique:

• It has two-way sync with Edit Mode: profiles are linked so switching one switches the other, and all Edit Mode settings are available alongside Scoot's own settings for each element.
• Because most of the work is re-skinning rather than replacing, CPU and memory usage stays well below other UI suites — even as support for new elements grows.
• This approach does have real limitations, especially in 12.0. Where re-skinning hits a wall, custom frames step in — but only as a last resort.

Let's get this out of the way: is it vibe-coded?

Yes, it is.

But, before you go — I work in Software Engineering, my day-job is similar to QA. AI wrote 99% of Scoot's code, but I've tested and refined everything with the same iterative processes I use in my professional work.

I know this is a touchy subject. I hope you'll judge the add-on by the quality of its output. The video below contains a couple dungeon encounters with Numy's Addon Performance Monitor enabled to demonstrate performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yj12XRp8C8

I've also leveraged the Perfy tool for many rounds of instrumentation-based performance monitoring and optimization targeting: https://github.com/emmericp/Perfy

What does it customize?

Cooldown Manager -- Restyle the default CDM viewers or create custom icon groups (including items like Potions and Trinkets). Set icon borders, bar textures, text fonts, colors, sizing, and position. Center icons on their Edit Mode anchor and display keybind text.

Action Bars -- Style all Action Bars with borders, backdrop, and text controls. Set per-bar opacity with combat-aware fading (out-of-combat fade, with-target fade, mouse-over reveal). Customize button borders, backdrops, and hotkey text.

Unit Frames -- Customize Player, Target, Focus, Pet, Target-of-Target, Focus Target, and Boss frames. Swap bar textures and set color modes (default, class color, or color-by-value using Blizzard's Color-Curve API). Adjust text styling for health/power values, and tweak or hide portraits and cast bars.

Group Frames -- Restyle Party and Raid frames with custom bar textures, borders, text, and color modes.

Personal Resource Display -- Utilize the PRD as a true WeakAura replacement. Adds customizable text to the PRD bars using Unit Frame information. Resize or hide health and power bars, choose textures and colors, and adjust class-specific resource displays.

And much more! -- Style the Buffs/Debuff Auras, Scrolling Combat Text, Minimap, Tooltip, Objective Tracker, and Damage Meters. Includes basic Quality-of-Life features like Auto-Repair and improved Auto-Loot.

Profiles, Presets, and Rules

Scoot's Profile system operates on a two-way sync with Edit Mode: creating a new Edit Mode profile creates a new Scoot profile, and vice versa. It also offers preset profiles created by me, one is my Desktop UI and one that I've created for playing on Steam Deck.

ScooterUI Preset (pictured above)

ScooterDeck Preset

The Rules feature allows simple toggles within a single profile based on certain criteria, like player spec or level. For example, you might want to see the Personal Resource Display's Power Bar on your Frost Death Knight, but not your Fire Mage. A Rule can be added to hide that bar only on the specs you specify.

To get started, open the menu from the mini-map icon or by typing /scoot.

Links

Feel free to ask questions or report bugs in our community Discord: https://discord.gg/6tvAE9W77V