Disable mouse scroll highlight https://imgur.com/a/Tjrprfe

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Basically whenever you move your mouse over a character they will be highlighted.
Is there a way to disable this either through in game, file or addon?
Screenshot: imgur .com/a/Tjrprfe (remove space between imgur and .com)

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The “unitHighlights” setting, that i think is exactly what you’re referring to, was removed. So i’m not sure if what you want is still possible (regardless on addon or without addon).

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Category:Removed_console_variables

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That might have been it :confused: well that sucks. Thanks anyway.

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Yea that cvar was removed in patch 7.2 :frowning:
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2192613-UnitHighlights-cvar-not-working-in-7-2

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You maybe can do this with move anything since if you find the proper name of it it has a hide function as well, used this to hide the chat dialogues

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Unfortunately the highlight is part of the game world, not the user interface. It doesn’t use frames and because of that, Move Anything won’t be able to affect any of it.

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Are you sure? Move anything has endless categories. Respectfully i find that quite hard to believe and surprising…

Maybe the search function of it will tell?
Dont know im not on pc atm cant search.

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It has nothing to do with MoveAnything itself, it is just not possible for any addon to touch the game world directly. Some things in the game world can be changed indirectly, but in those cases it is because Blizzard explicitly made a CVar (or even an entire API) available to let us do so.

You cannot spawn npc’s or make a crappy sword look like Frostmourne or anything like that with pure addons, because its part of the game world (as opposed to being part of the user interface), and the game doesn’t provide an API to those part of the game. In this case the same applies.

Back when the CVar did exist, you could use an addon (or a macro with /script) to flip the CVar, which would indirectly affect the game world, but since they explicitly removed that, there is no way for an addon to have any effect on it without hacking the game.

When it comes to the user interface, everything kinda flips around and we’re talking about what essentially boils down to a blacklisting instead of a whitelisting situation.
By default, you can change almost anything about anything in the user interface (hence the massive list of things in MoveAnything), with the exception of things that blizzard explicitly protects or taints.

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Now if i tell you i though he means the popup window that comes up mentioning level PVP etc when you hover your mouse over a player what you gonna say? :blush:

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Do you mean the tooltip ? That’s part of the user interface and it can be heavily customized or outright replaced.

I must be missing what point you’re trying to make though. He provided a screenshot of what he’s talking about, which is related to the lighting applied to the render of individual parts (a single character or object) within the 3D game world.

If you’re unsure about where the distinction lies between the gameworld and the user interface, then a simple rule of thumb might be: “If it’s 3D and you can look at it from different angles, then it’s part of the game world.”
or “If it’s flat, 2-dimensional, and often consists only out of sections of text, icons, pictures and/or basic shapes, then it is interface”.

If you’re actually inside the game then the /fstack command will give a full overview of all the (overlapping) frames located under your mouse cursor (at each strata, ordered along their level on the Z-axis). A Frame is (in this context anyway) a purely interface-related term.

If you move your mouse over the button which opens the Talents you’ll see TalentMicroButton listed in /fstack, and if you mouse over some of your extra actionbars you might see references to MultiBar…, both of these are part of the user interface.

Now try moving your mouse over other player characters while /fstack is enabled and you’ll notice that it won’t detect them, at all, the entire game world (and all the potentially hundreds of characters and objects that might be on your screen) all take place on one single frame called WorldFrame.

Addons may be able to move/resize/hide/show the WorldFrame itself, but they can’t touch the things inside it.
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Edit:
Oops sorry, i just re-read your comment and noticed that i had misinterpreted a minor typo.

I read

as

i tell you though, he means the popup window

instead of

i tell you i thought he means the popup window

:slight_smile: my bad. I’m leaving the reply in place as the information may still be interesting or useful for someone.

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Yeah that was my bad and thats what i though since RIO addon customizes it how its possible to not be able to move it :wink:

Clearly my bad!!

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It’s all good :slight_smile:

Yea, that wouldn’t suprise me, many other addons do the same.

Addons such as Tip Tac take it even further and allow you to fully customize the tooltip and even show buffs, debuffs and healthbars and the like on there.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tip-tac/screenshots

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