Skada Damage Meter
Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes, segmented fights and customizable windows. It aims to be highly efficient with memory and CPU.
"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".
Note: I took a tiny break from WoW (a decade), but recently started playing SoD. Be aware that this addon may not quite work yet.
Usage
When you first start using Skada, there will be a window created by default. This window can be extensively customized in Skada's configuration panel; click the little cog icon to access a menu, and then click Configure. Depending on your user interface, there may also be a minimap button allowing quick access to this menu.
Skada supports multiple windows. To create a new window, click Windows in the addon's configuration panel. There are three built-in types of windows - Bar, Inline, and Data text. Bar is the classic damage meter window, and is very customizable. Inline shows the meter in a horizontal line, which can be useful for integration in custom user interfaces. Data text shows just one item at a time, and can also be displayed by any LDB display addon, such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, or ElvUI.
In the normal Bar window, you can left click on specific items for more detailed information, and right click for less details. At the very "top" is the list of all saved fight segments. Some data modes have several detailed information views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.
You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.
Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.
Plugins
Skada is easy to extend, and there were once many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality. However, there are unlikely to be any maintained ones currently.
There is a page with API information here.
Reporting issues
For now use comments.
Skada does not take into account data that it does not see itself. Libsharedmedia has nothing to do with syncing.
15 fps with Skada and 55 without it does sound rediculous, and I have never seen or heard of such a thing. Skada should never affect your FPS to any discernible degree. You could try clearing your addon settings.
All i do is pvp. I like using a dmg meter so i can have a small window open to always see where i am and how im doing. Ive just recently noticed that skada is not accurate at all for the rest of the team. This seems to be because it stops recording everyone when i am dead.
Is there a way to make it keep recording everyone else while i am dead?
if not then its kind pointless for me to use it.
I have a persistent fight in skada that stays through my resets, how can i get rid of it?
still have this issue, please help :)
How do I move the Skada window around?
Void Tendril damage (from Touch of the Void trinket) is not added to the player damage (as merged pet damage).
Just wonder if that is intentional?
I have been trying to use the buff uptimes for an accurate representation of trinket and proc uptimes but skada always seems horribly innacurate when compared to logs at the end of the night. Is there a way to improve this accuracy or maybe a more accurate addon for this or something. It is maddening to try and quickly check uptimes between multiple people between pulls (not much time at all) only to have inaccurate data.
I have two bugs with this addon and I tried fixing them myself, I dont know if this is the best way to do it though.
1: The tooltip sometimes covers the whole screen
Fix: In Skada.lua add GameTooltip:ClearAllPoints() to the dataobj:OnEnter() function
and the SetTooltipPositionFunction tooltip:ClearAllPoints()
2: If font outline is set sometimes names dont have it
Fix: In BarDisplay.lua at line 442 rename 'PLAIN' to 'OUTLINE'. There is probably a better way.
Love this addon. Great work ... Thanks!
The fonts got all weird, with little cuts inside the letters. I tried changing font and font size, but the problem persists, I can't read the text normally.
Any idea?
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Any known fix for hiding on login? I have hide while solo checked, but have to uncheck and recheck it each login on each toon.
im having trouble bc it wont show skada in my addons option
Has the Soul Capacitor bug been fixed?
Hi, is it possible to add an option to show pet damage along with the option that skada already has (merge pets with users) so we can actually know how much dmg a pet is doing and how much an owner merged is doing.. (recount has this option , but I'd rather like skada way much because of all other options)
Thanks
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\DamageTaken.lua:265: attempt to compare number with nil
Time: 07/01/15 20:50:16
Count: 48
Stack: [C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\Skada\modules\DamageTaken.lua:265: in function `tooltip'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:173: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:160>
Locals:
seems addon authors with 100 downloads/month is 10x quicker in fixing these issues then this with 2mln/month... time to switch to details or smth else. skada is useless now untill fixed.
I am wondering how Skada handles Unstable Felshadow Emulsion healing? Does it add the leech healing to the trinkets owner log?
I don't think the leech goes towards hps unfortunately- it appears like a flat spirit trinket. It'd be great if the leech would go towards the healer's hps since in some cases this trinket is best in slot.
Currently Skada does not display damage done by the Mirror of the blademaster trinket to other Skada users, it's only visable for yourself. It does still show up on warcraft logs however.