Sleek Unit Frames Forever

Sleek Unit Frames Forever

Sleek Unit Frames Forever is a modern, Retail-inspired and highly customizable unit frame replacement built specifically for World of Warcraft: Forever.

The goal is to provide cleaner, more readable and more flexible unit frames while still feeling at home in WoW Forever. SleekUF replaces Blizzard's default unit frames with a compact visual style built around clear at-a-glance information, extensive customization and a consistent design.

It replaces the default Player, Target, Target of Target, Focus, Pet and Party frames, including compact clickable party-member Target frames.

WoW Forever Beta

Sleek Unit Frames Forever is developed specifically around the new WoW Forever client and its modern addon restrictions.

Forever introduces Blizzard's newer secret-value system, which changes how addons are allowed to access combat-related information such as Health, Power, auras, healing prediction and other unit data.

SleekUF is being built around these restrictions rather than simply forcing an older Classic implementation to run on the new client. Wherever possible, the addon uses Blizzard-native and Forever-safe systems for restricted combat information.

Forever-specific implementations currently include secure handling of the player's harmful Target effects, aura tooltips and timers, incoming-heal prediction and spell Power-cost prediction.

WoW Forever itself is still in beta, so Blizzard may continue changing addon APIs and restrictions between client builds. Some combat-reactive features may therefore continue to evolve alongside the client.

Highlights

• Player, Target, Target of Target, Focus, Pet and Party unit frames, including compact clickable party-member Target frames.
• Four portrait modes:
  • Unit Avatar
  • Animated 3D Avatar
  • Class Icon for player characters
  • No Portrait / Compact mode
• No Portrait / Compact mode is a dedicated alternative unit-frame layout rather than simply hiding the portrait. Name, Health and Power bars collapse into a clean compact card while portrait-related indicators are intelligently repositioned around the frame.
• Class Icon portraits use Blizzard's native class artwork while retaining SleekUF's portrait shape, ring styling and surrounding indicators.
• Animated 3D portraits provide live character and NPC models with optional idle animation.
• Selectable portrait ring styles, including Sleek Dark, Retail Gold and Cool Silver.
• Blizzard Edit Mode integration for moving and scaling SleekUF frames alongside the rest of your interface.
• Independent frame sizing and positioning, including adjustable Name, Health and Power dimensions, frame width, scaling and opacity.
• Custom role indicators for Tank, Healer and Damage roles, designed specifically to match SleekUF.
• Ready Check visualization with clear Pending, Ready and Not Ready states.
• Range awareness with restrained visual feedback rather than simply making an entire unit frame disappear.
• Threat / Aggro awareness for Player and Party frames against the current hostile Target.
• Druid Mana support while shapeshifted, displayed as a compact Mana strip inside the existing Player Power bar.
• Incoming-heal prediction using WoW Forever's newer native prediction systems.
• Spell Power-cost prediction showing upcoming Mana, Energy and other supported resource costs directly on the Player Power bar before the spell completes.
• Animated Power prediction transition when a predicted resource cost becomes the actual post-cast Power value.
• Advanced Target information, including reaction styling, level presentation, difficulty coloring, tapped-target visualization, raid markers and PvP state.
• Optional Questie integration, displaying Questie's current quest-objective marker directly on eligible NPC and Vehicle Target frames using Questie's own objective artwork.
• Custom PvP faction crests for Alliance and Horde, with optional Blizzard-style alternatives and PvP countdown support.
• Configurable buffs, debuffs, HoTs and DoTs, including icon sizing, limits, timers, cooldown presentation and Party aura positioning.
• WoW Forever-native secure Target DoTs for the player's harmful effects, including normal spell tooltips when hovering the aura.
• Configurable aura timer text, including adjustable font size and compact countdown formatting.
• Target cast bar, Target of Target information and Party-member Target frames.
• Combo Point support directly on the Target frame.
• Combat and resting feedback, including portrait effects, combat indicators, compact-frame resting glow and a Retail-inspired animated Z Z Z resting effect.
• AFK / DND visualization with status badges and desaturated Health and Power bars for quick at-a-glance recognition.
• Party enhancements, including PvP indicators, leader information, role icons, Ready Check states, configurable Party auras and optional Party Target frames.
• Healer Mode for Player and Party Health text, displaying missing Health instead of current Health.
• Preview Mode for testing frame appearance, aura layouts, indicators and positioning without needing every corresponding unit to currently exist.

Portrait styles

SleekUF is designed to support very different approaches to unit-frame presentation without requiring separate addons or layouts.

• Unit Avatar uses the familiar WoW portrait presentation inside SleekUF's custom asymmetric frame.
• Animated 3D Avatar displays the live character or NPC model and can retain its natural idle animation.
• Class Icon replaces player portraits with Blizzard's recognizable class artwork. Non-player units automatically fall back to their normal portrait.
• No Portrait / Compact removes the portrait entirely and rebuilds the frame around the Name, Health and Power bars.

Compact mode also relocates important information such as level, role, PvP, combat, Ready Check and raid markers into positions that make sense without a portrait.

Portrait-only decoration remains stored while compact mode is active, so switching back to a portrait style restores the previous portrait configuration rather than resetting it.

Profiles and presets

SleekUF uses live profiles with automatic saving.

Every character automatically receives its own profile, while reusable custom profiles can also be created and shared between characters.

Changes to settings, sliders, frame positions, scaling, sizing, appearance and layout are written directly to the active profile. There is no separate Save step required.

SleekUF also includes built-in read-only presets.

The included Author's Favorite preset is based on the author's own complete SleekUF configuration and can be applied to any character as a ready-made starting point.

Applying a built-in preset copies the configuration into the character's own profile. The player can then customize it freely without changing the original preset, which remains available to reapply at any time.

Switching profiles changes the complete SleekUF setup, not only frame positions.

This makes it easy to maintain completely different setups such as a main-character layout, healer layout, compact UI or one shared profile used by several characters.

Note: during the WoW Forever beta, Blizzard may continue changing addon and SavedVariables behavior. If the client itself fails to restore addon SavedVariables between sessions, SleekUF cannot work around that at the addon level.

Designed to be customizable

The settings interface is divided into dedicated tabs so even heavily customized setups remain easy to navigate:

• General — Profiles, presets and WoW Forever information
• Frames — Frame visibility, positioning, dimensions and Preview Mode
• Appearance — Portraits, media, fonts, textures, colors and bar styling
• Status — Combat, resting, PvP, threat, range and prediction features
• Target — Target auras, DoTs, HoTs, cast bar, Combo Points, Questie and classification styling
• Party — Party layout, Party Targets, PvP indicators and Party aura configuration

Each settings tab keeps its own scroll position during the current session, making it easier to move between different parts of the configuration while fine-tuning the UI.

Available customization includes:

• Frame position, size and scale
• Player, Target, Focus, Pet, Party and Target of Target layout
• Name, Health and Power bar dimensions
• Health and Power opacity
• Unit Avatar, animated 3D, Class Icon and No Portrait layouts
• Portrait size and ring style
• Player corner ornament
• Compact portrait-free frame styling
• Frame wrapper opacity and styling
• SharedMedia fonts and status-bar textures
• Health and Power text
• Healer Mode
• Buff, debuff, HoT and DoT presentation
• Aura sizing and limits
• Aura timer font size
• Aura cooldown swipes
• Party aura placement
• Incoming-heal prediction
• Power-cost prediction
• PvP indicators and PvP timer styling
• Combat and resting effects
• Low Health feedback
• Range awareness
• Threat awareness
• Druid Mana display
• Ready Check indicators
• Role indicators
• Party Target frames
• Target classification presentation
• Questie objective indicators
• Profiles and built-in presets

Moving and previewing frames

Sleek Unit Frames can be arranged using its own Unlock + move mode or together with WoW's built-in Edit Mode.

Unlocking the frames automatically enables missing-unit previews, making it easy to position Target, Target of Target, Focus, Pet and Party frames even when those units are not currently available.

You can also toggle Preview Mode manually whenever you want to test appearance and layout changes.

Preview Mode can simulate a variety of states and elements including Target auras, HoTs, DoTs, Combo Points, Party auras, class-icon portraits and other visual indicators.

Addon Compatibility

SleekUF includes support for several popular addon ecosystems available on WoW Forever:

• Questie — SleekUF integrates with the official Questie WoW Forever build using Questie's public API. Quest objective markers can be displayed directly on eligible NPC and Vehicle Target frames using Questie's own objective artwork and active icon theme.
• Clique — SleekUF's secure unit frames register for Clique click-casting. Clique itself may have additional limitations depending on the current WoW Forever beta client.
• LibSharedMedia-3.0 — Support is built directly into SleekUF. Additional fonts and status-bar textures registered by compatible SharedMedia packs or other addons automatically become available in SleekUF's media selectors.
• WeakAuras Forever — SleekUF exposes stable unit-frame references that can be used for custom WeakAura anchoring. WeakAuras Forever itself is subject to WoW Forever's combat-data restrictions, so some imported or custom auras may require adaptation for the new client.

Questie, Clique and WeakAuras Forever are optional. None are required for Sleek Unit Frames Forever itself to function.

Commands

/suf — Open settings

/suf unlock — Unlock frames

/suf lock — Lock frames

/suf test — Toggle Preview Mode

/suf reset — Reset Sleek Unit Frames settings

Built for WoW Forever

Sleek Unit Frames Forever is developed specifically for World of Warcraft: Forever.

This is not simply an older Classic addon with a different Interface number. The Forever version is actively built around the new client's APIs, secure execution model, secret-value restrictions and Blizzard's newer unit-frame systems.

The addon is refined through real gameplay testing and player feedback, with a focus on presenting useful information clearly without turning your unit frames into a wall of UI.

Many of SleekUF's newer features, including Class Icon portraits and the portrait-free Compact layout, originated directly from player suggestions.

Feedback, screenshots, Lua errors, bug reports and suggestions are very welcome. ❤️