Personal Resource Display stuck?

This is a bit of an odd one, and I’m not even sure if it’s a bug or an intentional change that came with the new default Blizzard UI.

When 8.0 hit and many old, abandoned addons stopped working altogether, I went through several new nameplate addons trying to find one that I liked. Somewhere during that process, my personal resource display got… well, stuck.

Previously it used to hang out in approximately the center of my screen about a third of the way from the bottom, and would adjust itself slightly based on my camera angle so that it was never obscuring something important, or at least it tried to do that lol

Now, it hangs out significantly lower on my screen, just barely above my action bars (I have all four on) and does not appear to adjust itself at all. It’s just… there.

Was this caused by one of the nameplate addons I tried, or is this part of the new 8.0 default UI? When I cleared my WTF and Interface folders, the position of the personal resource display didn’t return to what I consider normal, but I also don’t remember it being so significantly low down on my screen before flipping through so many nameplate addons (Plater was the one I had active when I first noticed it being in the wrong location, but I’d tried four or five others before that)

In either case, is there a way to restore the original functionality where it adjusted itself to suit the camera, or will I have to content myself to using an addon to just move it back up into my field of view, and having it be static there?

You’ll want to adjust the nameplateSelfBottomInset and nameplateSelfTopInset values. The defaults are 0.2 and 0.5 respectively.

/run SetCVar('nameplateSelfBottomInset', 0.2) SetCVar('nameplateTopBottomInset', 0.5)

Alternatively you can grab AdvancedInterfaceOptions and use its CVar browser to configure them via a UI.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/advancedinterfaceoptions
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This was probably caused by a nameplate addon.

It sounds like the frame got anchored to a fixed point on the screen, rather than the default dynamic anchor point (which adjusts with your camera).

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ha! Yup, there it is—for some reason when I was looking through the cvar list (in advancedinterfaceoptions, no less) last night I couldn’t find it but there it is.

It looks like it’s a per-character cvar, which is going to hurt (I have a maxed out 50-character account), but at least I know what to look for and how to fix it, now!

Thank you both <3