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Settings

Enter /sf to toggle Spectrum Federation's standalone settings window. Changes are saved immediately; there is no Apply button.

The left sidebar lists categories grouped as Core, Raid Tools, Advanced, and Optional. Core is General, Guild Settings, then Gameplay. Raid Tools is Loot Helper, Loot Logs, Raid Equipment, then Raid Supplies. Categories with more than one page show tabs in the content area. Categories with a single page have no tab bar. The first /sf open in a session starts on General. Later /sf toggles restore the category and tab from this session; that restoration is not saved across a reload.

Quick Find matches category and page names, descriptions, and group labels. With a search query, choosing a category opens the best matching page in that category.

Installed optional child addons appear under Optional. If the add-on is enabled for this character but has no settings pages yet, the category opens to a generic empty state. If an optional add-on is disabled for this character, the row stays visible and greyed; hover explains that it must be enabled in World of Warcraft's AddOns list. Spectrum Federation cannot enable or disable child addons from /sf.

Enable Loot Helper on the Loot Helper General tab controls whether the roster window is allowed to appear. It does not grey the Loot Helper category, and it is not the control for hiding a currently visible window for this session.

The window can be resized from the bottom-right grip. Wide pages such as Raid Equipment and Loot Logs raise the minimum size when needed, but leaving those pages does not shrink the window.

General

Window Style

Choose Default, Compact, or Minimal for the Loot Helper window.

Font Style

Choose Friz Quadrata, Arial Narrow, or Morpheus for the Loot Helper title and roster.

Font Size

Set Loot Helper title and roster text between 8 and 20 points.

Settings Window Opacity

Account-wide opacity for the standalone settings window background only (70–100%, in 5% steps). Default is 90%. 100% is fully opaque. Text and controls stay fully opaque. The slider updates the backdrop while you drag it. This does not change other Spectrum Federation windows.

Window Style, Font Style, and Font Size do not currently restyle the standalone settings window or every addon surface.

Gameplay: UI Enhancements

The Gameplay category opens a single UI Enhancements page. That page is character-specific: each character stores its own Mouse Tracer settings.

Mouse Tracer

Mouse Tracer can leave a fading circular rainbow trail behind the mouse cursor. It is off by default.

  • Enable Mouse Tracer — show or hide the trail on this character. When this is off, the trail is removed immediately and Mouse Tracer does no continuous work.
  • Trail Length — how far the trail can extend behind the cursor.
  • Fade Duration — how quickly the trail disappears after the cursor stops.
  • Trail Thickness — visual width of the trail.
  • Rainbow Cycle Speed — how quickly rainbow colors travel along the trail. This does not change how long the trail is.
  • Trail Opacity — overall visibility. Lower values keep more of the UI readable underneath.
  • Copy From Character — replace this character's Mouse Tracer settings with another character's last saved settings. The other character must have logged in with Spectrum Federation so a snapshot exists. The current character is not listed. Copy cannot be undone except by copying back or changing the controls again.

The sliders update the visible trail while you drag them. Copy overwrites every Mouse Tracer setting on this character, including whether the trail is enabled.

Loot Helper: General

  • Enable Loot Helper — allow the roster window to appear when its other visibility conditions are met. Turning this off hides the window and prevents automatic re-show. Sync and Raid Check still initialize. Use Loot Window Show/Hide to hide the UI without changing this setting.
  • Loot Window — show or hide the roster window on this client. The button reads Show Loot Window or Hide Loot Window based on current visibility. Hiding the window does not disable Loot Helper, end a session, or stop synchronization.
  • Lock Loot Window — prevent moving and resizing the Loot Helper window. Title-bar Close, Minimize, Settings, and Start/Stop Session still work.
  • Show Members not in raid — include profile members who are absent from the current raid.
  • Show Loot Window outside of Raid — allow the roster window while solo or in a party.
  • Enable Local Safemode — save the intended local safe-mode preference.
  • Enable Local Safemode on Combat — save the intended combat preference.
  • Reset All LootHelper Settings — delete every local profile and clear the active profile selection.

The two local safe-mode controls are not currently connected to the synchronization runtime and do not pause transfers. The reset action is destructive and requires confirmation; despite its label, it does not restore every Loot Helper option.

Loot Helper: Profile

This page selects and manages the active profile. It includes:

  • profile creation, selection, rename, reset, and deletion;
  • profile owner and point-name display;
  • owner-only loot mode: Point Based or Reward Pot;
  • Reward Pot starting amount, Raid Check deduction, and gold add/subtract controls when Reward Pot is active.

Equipment enchant and gem rules are not profile-configurable; they live on Raid Equipment. Minimum item level is the exception and is configured under Loot Helper → Session.

Rename and profile-specific configuration are admin-only. Only the profile owner can change loot mode. Creating a profile makes the creator its owner and first admin.

Reset Current Profile is currently a nonfunctional placeholder and reports that it is not implemented.

Loot Helper: Session

This page includes:

  • a note that syncing between addons only happens during a session, then start/end session control;
  • saved raid-wide safe-mode preferences for all-the-time or combat use;
  • Points Per Raid Check in Point Based mode;
  • Require Minimum Item Level, and the whole-number minimum used when that requirement is on;
  • Pre-Raid Check and Raid Check actions;
  • admin system-message summaries of missing players and Inspection Failed, independent of whisper settings;
  • optional whispers for missing and prepared players;
  • Enable Early Preparation Whispers, a local coordinator preference that defaults to on and is not part of the profile;
  • editable whisper templates.

The two raid-wide safe-mode preferences are not currently connected to the runtime session safe-mode API. They persist on the profile but do not pause session transfers.

The visible Trigger Raid-Wide Sync control is currently a placeholder. It does not initiate a sync; use /sf loot sync on the client that needs to catch up.

Raid Equipment

Raid Equipment is a top-level Raid Tools category. It does not require a Loot Helper profile or session. Auto refresh is off by default and remains stored as lootHelper.raidCheckAuditAutoRefresh; enable it or select Refresh Snapshot when you need current data.

See Raid Check for interpretation and inspection limitations.

Loot Helper: Admin

Preview as Non-Admin is the first control on this page. It is a runtime preview for the canonical admin of the active profile, not a saved setting. Genuine non-admins do not see it. While the preview is on, the control stays available so you can turn it off, a red banner appears on every Settings page, and the other admin/owner rows stay visible but grey like they do for a genuine non-admin.

Profile admins can add profile members as admins, remove admins other than the owner, and manage Linked Characters. The link dialog asks for Character 1 and Character 2. Unlinking asks for confirmation because shared points, Attendance, and equipment opportunity state stop being combined.

The owner cannot be removed from the admin list through this page. Only the effective owner may link or unlink characters that belong to the canonical owner's identity. Other admins may manage non-owner identities.

Loot Helper: Character

Profile admins can choose a character, set that character's persistent specialization, and use Gear Override from a character-equipment board. Empty slots show placeholders; used slots show the item icon, a WoW tooltip, and a red X to clear. Clicking a slot offers loot that fits that slot, plus unresolved awards marked for force assignment. An available slot can be marked consumed when the item is unknown, and that same control clears the consumption later. An already-assigned item can be moved to another empty compatible slot with one REPLACE. Selecting either linked character shows the shared BiS board and award pool. Award ownership stays with the character who received the loot. Manual loot additions enter the pool without consuming an opportunity and keep the selected character and slot. Consumed opportunity — item unknown is visually distinct. Overflow #278 origins are not listed as associable opportunities. In the item-aware raid equipment popup, an admin slot click opens this page with the character and slot already selected. Final visual behavior still requires Retail QA.

Loot Helper: RC Loot Council

This tab appears only when the optional SpectrumFederation_RCLootCouncilIntegration child addon is enabled. Profile admins can choose whether finalized RC Loot Council awards are written to Loot Logs, which RC response labels to record, and which recorded responses qualify as BiS for future awards. Settings belong to the active Loot Helper profile and sync with that profile's snapshot. There is no extra Optional sidebar row.

During a Loot Helper session, while RC award recording is on, admins also get a local warning if a player selects one of those BiS responses after that opportunity is already used. The Master Looter gets an informational popup if the item is awarded anyway. Neither message changes RC Loot Council or the tracked BiS state. See RC Loot Council Integration.

Loot Logs

Loot Logs is its own Raid Tools sidebar category, immediately after Loot Helper. It is not a Loot Helper tab.

Filter the active profile's history by event type, author, or member. These filters are temporary UI state and are not saved.

Debugging

Start or stop diagnostic logging, filter the viewer by level, copy log text, or clear the diagnostic log. Debug data is separate from Loot Logs.

Use debugging while investigating a problem; verbose logs can be noisy. The database retains at most 500 diagnostic entries.

For contributors

Implementation and extension guidance lives in Settings System.