ScrollingCombatText
Please read and use the main SCT site for news, bugs, and feature requests. I don't read these forums hardly ever.
Be sure to check out SCTD 2.0 if you want SCT to show your damage.
Also check out my simple but enhanced combat log EavesDrop
What is it?
A fairly simple but very configurable mod that adds damage, heals, and events (dodge, parry, windfury, etc...) as scrolling text above you character model, much like what already happens above your target. This makes it so you do not have to watch (or use) your regular combat chat window and gives it a "Final Fantasy" feel.
Why use 5.0 over WoW's new built in Floating Combat Text ? - SCT 5.0 is a complete rewrite of the mod from the ground up. Its is now based in the Ace2 framework and rewitten with more performance in mind. On top of that, it offers features far above and beyond what WoW's FCT can do. FCT is great if you just need a lightweight SCT with limited options, but using SCT's new Lightmode can get you the same performance with almost all of SCT's normal features.
What can it do?
- Damage messages
- Heals (incoming and outgoing) and Overhealing (with healer ID's), with filtering for small heals.
- Spell Damage/Resists and Damage Type
- All "Miss" events (dodge, block, immune, etc...)
- Custom Colors for all text events
- Config file to setup custom events (self and target), capture data, and display it.
- Debuff/Buff gain and loss Messages
- Low Health and Mana Warnings with values, and optional sounds
- Rage/Mana/Energy Gains
- Enter and Leave Combat Messages
- Rogue Combo Points, 5 CP Alert Message
- Class Skill alerts (Execute, Overpower, CounterAttack, etc...)
- Honor, Reputation, Skill Gain
- Eight Animation Types (Verticle, Rainbow, Horizontal, Angled Down, Angled Up, Sprinkler, Curved HUD, Angled HUD)
- Four Fonts
- Two seperate Animation frames, each with their own settings. Assign any Event to either.
- Ability to flag any event as critical or as a text messages
- Sliders for text size, opacity, animation speed, movement speed, and on screen placement (with custom editbox)
- Lightmode, for when you care most about performance (at the loss of a few features).
- Now Based in Ace2.
- CTMod, MyAddons, Cosmos, Cosmos2 support
- Settings saved per character by default, but supports all Ace2 Profiles
- Load/Delete settings from another character. Load built in Profiles.
- Localized to work in almost all WoW clients.
How do I use it?
First unzip it into your interface\addons directory. For more info on installing, please read install.txt. Now just run WoW and once logged in, type /sctmenu to get the options screen.
SCT_EVENT_CONFIG.LUA is used to setup custom message events. Please open up the file (notepad, etc...) and read the opening section to understand how to use it all. PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FILE IN SCT. IF YOU DON'T READ IT AND USE IT, THEN YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON A TON OF WHAT SCT HAS TO OFFER IN CUSTOMIZATION
/sctdisplay is used to create your own custom messages. Useage: /sctdisplay 'message' red(0-10) green(0-10) blue(0-10) Example: /sctdisplay 'Heal Me' 10 0 0 - This will display 'Heal Me' in bright red
FAQ
How do I get My Crits or My Hits to show? I would suggest you get SCTD: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4913
My custom event doesn't work. What's wrong? - Make sure you have the text exactly right, punctuation and capitalization matters. If you need help learning how to capture data, please see the examples or try this site http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial. If its still not working, please read about SCT_Event_Debug and SCT_Event_List in the bottom half of SCT_EVENT_CONFIG.LUA to learn how to add almost any chat event to SCT's search capabilities
How do I change the text for parry, block, etc...? - open up the localiztions.lua file and look for the event you want to change. Then change the text to whatever you like. As of 4.1, you may also now add a custom event for these. As of 5.0 You will get notifications automatically for event specfic skills like Overpower, CounterAttack, etc...
How do I get get text to scroll? I only see numbers! - Make sure the "Show Events as Message" option is unchecked. This is only if you want events to appear as static text (not scrolling/animated)
I don't understand what the 2 frames are for! - Each frame lets you set different features. So you can set frame one using Sprinker animation and Default font, while frame 2 can be using Veritcle animation and Adventure font. You can then assign each event to a specfic frame using the radio buttons next to the events.
There's too many options. Help someone new see how things work! - Try out some of the new built in profiles. While on the options screen, click the "Profiles" button. At the top of the window will be a listing of some default profiles to try out. Maybe you'll fine one you like or it will spark some ideas for you to try.
How do I change the fonts? - You can now select from four fonts on the options page. You can also change the font of message and apply the font to the in game damage font used for your damage (requires relog)
I don't like friendly nameplates on. How do I make my heals appear over who I heal? - Friendly nameplates have to be on in order to show your heals. SCT will turn them on if you turn on the option, but you must manually turn them off if you don't like it (see Target keybindings).
I don't like the new spell icons, how do I turn them off? - There is an option to turn them off under the animation tab.
Support
Please post all errors and suggestions on http://grayhoof.wowinterface.com/ using the provided forms. Please post all questions and comments on the offical SCT thread.
i done an clean installation. (i deleted all saved variables and old addon files) but i still got alot of errors:
Error: attempt to index upvalue 'addonFrames' (a nil value) AddOn: sct File: AceEvent-2.0.lua Line: 2419 Count: 5
Error: attempt to index upvalue 'registry' (a nil value) AddOn: sct File: AceEvent-2.0.lua Line: 1247 Count: 1
Error: AceAddon-2.0: AceOO-2.0: Classes can only inherit from one or zero classes and any number of mixins or interfaces File: Interface\AddOns\sct\sct.lua Line: 12 Count: 1
Error: attempt to index global 'SCT' (a nil value) File: Interface\AddOns\sct\sct_animation.lua Line: 26 Count: 1
Error: attempt to index global 'SCT' (a nil value) File: Interface\AddOns\sct\sct_unitpos.lua Line: 6 Count: 1
Error: attempt to index global 'SCT' (a nil value) File: Interface\AddOns\sct\localization.lua Line: 4 Count: 1
Error: attempt to index global 'SCT' (a nil value) AddOn: sct File: sct_event_config.lua Line: 151 Count: 1
Error: attempt to index upvalue 'registry' (a nil value) AddOn: sct File: AceEvent-2.0.lua Line: 1344 Count: 19
i hope someone can help me :s
Version 5.6 seems to be bugged, i installed it and all my ace2 addons wont work..
Ok, I am not sure which is causing this, but 2 of the addons I use are SCT and ItemSync, but in 2.1, When both of them are enabled, only ItemSync seems to work, the only way I can get SCT to work is to have ItemSync disabled. They both used to work fine with no problems like this so I am not sure why it is doing this. Will post on both addon comments. Any ideas?
Grayhoof- I know you don't read these comments much (" I don't read these forums hardly ever.") but I really appreciate you keeping the download file updated. Curse is the most convenient place for me to find all my mod files, and I therefore thank you for posting your updates here.
I used SCT 5.5 a while now on my bloodelf Pala. Everything worked fine.
Since about one week i do get an annoying "Combo Points Ready" warning, everytime my target reaches 20% HP.
Beforehand there where only the Hammer warning, as it should be, now I always get Combo and shortly afterwards Hammer warning.
I did not install any new addons nor did I change something. To ensure that I even tried disabling all relatively new addons. I tried to erase the config data, but still the same.
Nothing worked.
Any Ideas?
I have downloaded another font i wanna use, put it in sct/fonts, what else do i need to change/do?
When i go into the game and look in the fontoptions i still see those regular ones :C
pls help me out really wanna get this font working
thx in advance
adrii
i love this addon though i use to be like "WTF does this help you with besides not see what your attacking"
Strange... last night I was in Karazhan and kept getting a big yellow "Mace Stun!" popup all the time. This is the first time I've seen that. I'm not even using Maces, why the heck am I getting that message and what does it even mean?
I can't get this custom event to work, any help would be appreciated:
[17] = {name="***BUBBLE***", search="(.+) gains Divine Shield.", r=0/256, g=256/256, b=0/256, iscrit=1, soundwave="Sound\\Spells\\ShaysBell.wav},
It just doesn't appear, in any circumstance. Any help?
Is it possible to add your own fonts to the current selection?
I tried commenting out "Full Sunder!" in the sct_custom_events.lua file but that wouldn't work, also "Finish Him!" seems to be a 5 combo point event but also displays when the mob is below 20% and it was "Execute!" before when my warrior was in battle or berserker stance.
OMG, are there any SCTs that give readouts on my pets taken damage?
How can I turn off the events like "Full Sunder", "Finish him", etc? They get kind of annoying
Yes, please add an option in the menu to turn off Envenom (and other custom events). That one is quite annoying since it's not even wholely accurate (Evenom is affected by combo points as well, and I've even had it come up when a *different* rogue was dueling someone)
I love this mod but it chocks my FPS from time to time when there's too many events happening.
how do i get to the options menu?
I can't see poison ticks when I'm poisoned, That's pretty annoying... Is it a bug, or is it just not made yet?
For some reason it no longer says when i get into combat. Anyone know why?
Okay, this new last version introduced a function that shows every time a rogue gets 5 Deadly Poisons on his target. It writes ENVENOM.
How do I turn that off? I dont use Envenom since I am a mace combat specced rogue.
Otherwise it works great
Reply for Xzile, Re: ENVENOM. Go to the file sct_event_config.lua. There all you should need to do is place -- in front of [14] witch is by default the event for Envenom. Also just deleting the line will work. Not sure if you need to renumber the rest or not.