Table of Contents
- Step 1 - Set up the ArenaLive Menu
- Step 2 - Set up OmniCC
- Step 3 - Set up Tidyplates
- Step 4 - The Scoreboard
- Step 5 - Slashcommands
Step 1 - Set up the ArenaLive Menu:
Make sure you disabled all addons except for ArenaLive, OmniCC and Tidyplats. Setting up the ArenaLive-Menu is fairly easy. Let's have a look at the menu itself.
Note: This version only is a release candidate, not the final version. If you happen to find a bug, please let me know.
- Game-Mode dropdown-menu: This dropdown lets you decide, how many unitframes are shown (1v1 - 4v4)
- Left and Right Team's Name Textfields: These are used to set up the names, that are shown in the scoreboard.
- Player Names and Realms Texfields: To add a Player to one of both teams, just fill the textfields with his/her name and realm accordingly. Note that you can also simply target the wanted player and click the "Add Target"-Button next to the textfield.
Important: For the left team only party- or raidmembers are valid and for the right team only arena1-5. - Other Options:
- Class Colors Checkbutton: This checkbutton toggles class colored Healthbars.
- Show Scoreboard Checkbutton: This checkbutton is used to show or hide the scoreboard
- Broadcast Countdown Checkbutton: Toggles the broadcast of the match starting countdown to party- or raidchat.
Important: To prevent spam, only one ArenaLive-User per team should enable this checkbox. - Time Limit Textfields: These two textfields set the timelimit for our scoreboard-timer. If the timer reaches the set time it will reset to 00:00 and post the message "***TIME'S UP!***" in part-/raidchat.
- UnitFrame X-Offset Slider: This slider lets you move the addon's unitframes towards the center of the screen. This should only be used by the shoutcasters if they feel, that the unitframes are to far apart from eachother to see everything. Streamers should leave this slider at 0.
- UIScale Slider: You can use this slider, if you are running WoW on a lower resolution than 1920x1080 to prevent overlapping of frames etc.
- Toggle BlizzUI Button: You can hide or show the standardUI's frames with this button.
- Start Countdown Button: This button starts the addOn's graphical match-countdown. It will count from 5 down and start the scoreboard's timer as soon as it hits 0.
- Reset Team-Scores Button: Use this button to reset the scoreboard to 0:0
Step 2 - Set up OmniCC
Actually you can set up OmniCC as you want. For ArenaLive to work properly, you only have to set the "Minimum size to display text" slider to 81. This way the cooldowntime is only shown on ArenaLive's cooldowntracker. On the following image, the mentioned slider is accented in green.
Step 3 - Set up Tidyplates
Setting up TidyPlates is a bit trickier, since it has a wide range of features. You can compare your settings with the screenshots below. Like with OmniCC the important settings are accented green and should be set to the same value as shown on the screenshots in order for ArenaLive to work properly. First of all, we will set up Blizzard's standard Nameplates
Next is the TidyPlates Main Menu
And last but not least the themes settings. Tank- and Damage-Themes need both these settings.
Step 4 - The Scoreboard
The scoreboard has some functionality itself. The team-name-frames (bordered green) can be used to change the scores. To add 1 point to a team, simply left-click on the team's frame. If you want to reduce a team's score by 1, then you have to right-click on the team's frame.
Step 5 - Slashcommands
There are slashcommands that can be used to get easy access to some of the addOn's functions via macros.
This command shows or hides the ArenaLive menu
/al menu
This command shows or hides the standard interface (macro this)
/al toggleblizz
(Add "/console ShowPlayer = 0;" in a macro to hide your own charactermodel)
This command starts the match-countdown (macro this)
/al countdown
This command resets teamscores to 0:0
/al resetscore