Thumbnail

Btex

Get your own artwork in the bottom of the screen

Btex

What is it? :

Btex (for 'Bottom TEXture') is a very lightweight addon for World Of Warcraft providing Background texture at the bottom of the screen and was created by Tiggy. It contains a package of pre-made skins, a simple menu for settings skins, texture height,width,transparency,colors, positions, viewport,etc ..

What can it do? :

  • Put a texture of your choice on the bottom of the screen via menu options (use /bx menu or /btex menu),
  • Set height/width/transparency/position/colors/layer of your texture,
  • Use any other TGA/BLP texture file or any other 'pack' of skin,
  • Display a grid to setup your interface correctly,
  • Modify the 3D rendering area with viewport function,
  • Work in any resolution,
  • Low memory usage & standalone addon (no libs or dependency are needed).

Ready to use skins :

The following skins are packaged and are ready to use via the option menu:

  • Dark Shadow serie
  • Simple Black
  • Fade Black
  • Red Fury
  • Warcraft Classic
  • Ice Dragon
  • Ice Dragon remake (credits to Xaphiroth)
  • Ice Dragon remake with pet bar(credits to Xaphiroth)
  • Wall,
  • White Dragon

! WARNING IF YOU ARE UPDATING BTEX: backup your Interface\Btex\Skin folder if you use custom skin !

Skins package known to work (Thanks to all artists sharing artwork !):

You can download and use this skins too (copy them to /Interface/Addons/btex/skins/ and just use "Custom skins") then type the name of the file u want to use without the "-1.tga" :

Making your own skins :

Download 1 of these PSD files to get started.

When done, make 4 tga like this :

  • image must be in RGB,
  • Width and height must be a 512x256,
  • Color depth must be 24-bit (8x8x8),
  • 8-bit alpha channel must be present (thus making a 32 bit depth),
  • Image must be uncompressed,
  • Image must be TGA or BLP

How can i share my artwork ? :

Create an account on wowinterface, then upload it there as a plugin under Plug-Ins & Patches

Translation :

Language aviable for all frame config are :

  • Default : english/US localisation,
  • French localisation,
  • German localisation, credits to Kuhglöckchen a.k.a. Blocki
  • Russian localisation, credits to Troyen
  • zhTW and zhCN localisation, credits to wowui.cn

FAQ :

How do I run menu config ? type "/bx Menu" or "/Btex menu" in the chat windows. Why the download is so big ? it's because it contain many images. How do i load custom skins? Copy TGA or BLP files to /interface/btex/skins/ directory, and use the "custom texture" options on the top dropdown menu. Write name file without the end "-1.tga". Example: for 'blabla' skin, you have 4 tga named blabla-1.tga, blabla-2.tga. Write 'blabla' in the custom name. Do the skin support transparency ? yes. Via images files and via WOW API. Can i use BLP file? Yes. use custom load skin, and do like with any other tga file.

A development of Tiggy's excellent addon Original file/addon can be found here: Tiggy's Btex