Skada Damage Meter

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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.

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_ForgeUser373830
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Posted Sep 13, 2011
Does not hide or stop collecting data in BGs. VERY annoying.

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Posted Sep 13, 2011
I get the same BG bug, its set to hide and yet it still shows up every BG.
I dont wanna go back to Recount, but looks like I might have to, no one wants BG stats...

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Posted Sep 10, 2011
I've been getting this error lately, might be connected to Bigwigs, I am not sure how to fix it.

Message: Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:316: attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value)
Time: 09/10/11 12:11:59
Count: 4
Stack: Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:316: in function `Enter'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1901: in function `AddSubviewToTooltip'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:145: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:122>
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251>

Locals: self = {
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:383
Enable = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:315
NewModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:256
Update = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:320
EnableModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:348
modules =
{
}
GetModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:231
IterateEmbeds = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:458
IsModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:238
title = "Cairee's Damaged mobs"
defaultModuleLibraries =
{
}
playerid = "0x05000000024DEC22"
scanned = true
SetEnabledState = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:440
defaultModuleState = true
enabledState = true
baseName = "SkadaDamage"
Disable = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:330
moduleName = "Damaged mobs"
GetName = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:300
metadata =
{
}
Enter = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:313
IterateModules = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:453
name = "Skada_Damaged mobs"
SetDefaultModulePrototype = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:425
IsEnabled = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:467
orderedModules =
{
}
SetDefaultModuleState = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:403
DisableModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:366
}
win =
{
changed = false
selectedmode =
{
}
selectedset = 1
history =
{
}
metadata =
{
}
bargroup = SkadaBarWindowSkada {
}
display =
{
}
usealt = true
dataset =
{
}
db =
{
}
}
id = "0x05000000024DEC22"
label = "Yukio"
player = nil
(*temporary) =
{
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:383
Enable = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:315
NewModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:256
Update = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:320
EnableModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:348
modules =
{
}
GetModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:231
IterateEmbeds = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:458
IsModule = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:238
title = "Cairee's Damaged mobs"
defaultModuleLibraries =
{
}
playerid = "0x05000000024DEC22"
scanned = true
SetEnabledState = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:440
defaultModuleState = true
enabledState = true
baseName = "SkadaDamage"
Disable = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\BigWigs\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAdd

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Posted Sep 14, 2011
Last I looked, the API did not support damage meters. I was actually planning on a Rift version as I played it for a month, but then I lost interest.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Awesome addon. Any chance of porting a version across to Rift? Lots of people are tired of wow and giving Rift a go, and theres no dps /damage tracking addon like this, but it DOES fully support addons, so I am sure it could be ported across with only a few tweeks :)

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Posted Sep 6, 2011
Hi folks!
mb i'm bit stupid - but i tirned off skada window by kross & now i can't get it back on - could u help me, /command or some how else. cuz i tried & checked all options & could not get it back on! so pissed off of it.
Thanx, hope on soonest replay.

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Posted Sep 2, 2011
also this pops:

Date: 2011-09-02 16:15:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 1245:
attempt to index local 'set' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:1245: get_player()
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:30:
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:28
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:264: GTFO_RecordSkada()
GTFO\GTFO.lua:1790: GTFO_RecordStats()
GTFO\GTFO.lua:825: GTFO_OnEvent()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1

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Posted Sep 4, 2011
Based on the call stack, this is probably a problem in GTFO, not Skada.

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Posted Sep 5, 2011
From the call stack, the set that's being called is "Skada.total." I didn't realize that Skada.total didn't get initialized until after you enter combat for the first time after installing Skada (and then it persists in your saved variables, which makes sense why I never got this error).

I have updated GTFO in the next version to account for this situation.

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Posted Sep 1, 2011
I dont know why but i cant toggle on my skada window... not with the keybinding, not with /skada toggle neither, i can change the config options and everything, but i cant see the window :s

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Posted Sep 1, 2011
I have to note that i could before, i was just 1 month out so i came and updated some addons, now i can't see it.

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Posted Sep 1, 2011
Ditto.

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Posted Aug 31, 2011
Guys, donno what u did with it, but till 4.2 it worked flawless. Now i can compare it with recount (no offense to people who actually use recount). I mean, recount have that thing that from time to time it didn't showed up when i got to enter a dungeon while skada never did... till 4.2. Try fix it if it's not to much of a trouble. Cheers and keep up the good work.

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Posted Aug 28, 2011
Bump on the Absorbs & Healing problem.

Skada SEEMS to be accurate for a priest if they are the one running it, but not for other priests in the raid. Someone else's skada was showing my absorbs and healing today on Majordomo at 11-12k while recount showed around 21k. Considering we were pushing scorpion to 12 or 13 stacks its pretty much impossible that skada's 11k is the correct number. Being a discipline priest obviously this makes skada unusable for me and I've switched to recount.. :'( please fix? Recount is ugly.

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Posted Aug 28, 2011
still pops:

Date: 2011-08-28 16:11:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 6
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua line 316:
attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:316: Enter()
Skada\Skada.lua:1901: AddSubviewToTooltip()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:145:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:122
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251

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Posted Aug 27, 2011
Getting a lot of "Unknown" as names for Hunters. It only happens with that class. No LUA errors. Running 1.3-7 and have even tried a clean install (removing skada files from SavedVariables folders).

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
Is there any way to hide some frames of skada and not others? Would like to hide 2 frames when healing but have all 4 show when dpsing.

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
I used to have this problem, No matter how many times I changed it to show "current" it would some how always revert back to "total". If you know anything at all about LUA editing you can change it within the skada LUA file. But please only do that if you know what your doing.

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
As of 2 days ago, every time I log off of wow, my Skada resets itself to "Total", instead of "current fight".

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Posted Aug 25, 2011
I remember that my Skada used to show realm names for other players not from my realm. After a break, I updated Skada, and the realm names are gone. How do I re-enable this feature?

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