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Skada Damage Meter

Skada is a modular damage meter for World of Warcraft with various viewing modes, segmented fights, and customizable windows. It is designed for efficiency with minimal memory and CPU impact.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

Midnight Edition (WoW 12.0+)

This version of Skada is updated for World of Warcraft: Midnight and uses Blizzard's new session-based combat systems.

Features

Midnight Optimized: Uses Blizzard's internal session data for performance and accuracy.
Combat Reliability: Handles modern combat data restrictions for a stable experience.
Updated UI: Includes new presets with smooth animations, gradients, and textures.
Dynamic Elements: Alternating row colors, highlight overlays, spark effects, and icon scaling.
LDB Integration: Compatible with Data Broker displays such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, and ElvUI.
Extensible Architecture: The API allows developers to create additional plugins.

Usage

Getting Started

A default window is created upon first load. Access the configuration menu by clicking the cog icon on the window title bar or via the minimap button. Select Configure to access settings.

Multiple Windows

Skada supports multiple windows. Create new ones under the Windows section of the configuration panel. Windows can be:

Bar: The standard customizable meter.
Inline: A horizontal line for custom UI setups.
Data Text: For LDB displays and minimal setups.

Navigation

Left-Click: View more detailed information.
Right-Click: Return to the previous view.
Mousewheel: Scroll through lists.
Tooltips: Hover over bars to see additional context and shortcut keys (e.g., Shift-click for targets).

Themes

Manage window designs with the built-in Theme Engine. You can import and export themes by using theme strings.

Versions

Midnight (Default): For WoW 12.0+ using the Native API.
Classic Version: The version for older WoW releases.

Support

If you find Skada helpful, consider supporting its development through GitHub Sponsors.

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_ForgeUser6467112
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Posted Dec 15, 2011
I usually keep my skada set on current fight, but now it keeps reseting itself to total everytime i relog, anyone know why this setting isn't staying saved anymore?

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Posted Dec 11, 2011
Ah, It is really hard for me to see. Since I usually have the window locked I didn't see it before. Thanks, that works wonderfully.

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Posted Dec 7, 2011
Is it possible to get the min/max bars functionality back? I understand that skada only displays 13 bars at a time and you can scroll down to view the additional bars. I however, use a trackball mouse and do not have a scroll wheel so I cannot view all 25 players in 25 man raids.

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Posted Dec 9, 2011
You can make the window bigger by using the bottom right drag handle.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Same here took off every add on then started one by one and it is skada for me that is droping me down in fps in org the fair you name it

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Missing

\locale\ptBR.lua

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Anyone had severe fps drop in 4.3? I had mine drop from 50-60fps to 3-5fps on entering combat with Skada enabled. And I have the most recent Skada version 1.3-1.0. Disabling Skada solves the problem. Please fix. Meanwhile I'll take a look if the same occurs with Recount, thank you.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
I've got the same problem. Was hoping the recent updates would've fixed this problem, but as of 15 minutes ago I'm still getting big FPS spikes with Skada upon entering raid combat.

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Posted Dec 9, 2011
My fps was like 1-2 fps in LFR, but seemed fine elsewhere. Removed all my addons including skada and its much better now.

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Posted Dec 13, 2011
Same here. Was wondering which addon caused it, turned out to be Skada. Disabled it, went from 40 FPS to 60FPS capped in 5man combat, from 15-20 FPS in 25man raid combat to 35-40.

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Posted Dec 19, 2011
Yes, Morchok and on lootship.

Im sitting at 60FPS, then boom blood of the whatever on Morchok and FPS crushed to 1. Ive seen people DC too, but I guess my PC comes back to its senses somewhat quicker.

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Posted Dec 11, 2011
Ok, I finaly made it myself. It's exact term is "Clamp to screen"

Modifying a library is involved, which I guess prevents the author of Skada to do it officialy.

Howerver this is how its done:

edit a file: ..\Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua

find: list:SetClampedToScreen(true)

change it to: list:SetClampedToScreen(false)

This will allow you to drag Skada window off screen

..working like a charm (and I'm happy again)

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Sorry, but i'll insist :)

I'd really need to be able to move Skada window outside the visible area.

Opened a ticked @wowace - please everyone who would like to see this funtionallity to vote/bump the ticket up.

http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/244-allowing-to-move-skada-window-outside-visible-area/

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Posted Dec 4, 2011
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When I updated skada for some reason it stopped creating segments. It now only has "Total" and "Current Fight". I have tried checking and unchecking agressive combat, save for bosses only, setting "data segments to keep" anywhere from minimum to maximum, and several other options. I also deleted everything having to do with skada in the WTF folder and did a clean install and still no segments are created at any time, from bosses, training dummy, trash, nothing.

In the extreme I even moved my entire interface and WTF folders out and installed freshly only skada, and it's still not functioning beyond "current fight" and "total".

No error messages pop up.

I'm having the same issue. I can modify any/all settings and nothing happens. No data is being recorded that I can see.

I've got the same issue. Would like to get some sort of feedback as to whether this issue is known and whether or not we'll see a fix. Thanks.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
If you were using the "Save only boss segments" option, then this would indeed happen in Dragon Soul prior to the last release. It should now be fixed.

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
@stencil

Just found out the same thing after a lot of head-scratching. Notice how the combatlog you get from /combatlog does *not* reflect this change. Weird.

Commited a fix just now.

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
@ywfn The cause of this error is a change Blizz made to the combat log event params passed for the _MISSED spell suffix. From: missType, amountMissed To: missType, isOffHand, amountMissed

So, no data would get collected for full resists. The one third of expected you're seeing is probably from partial resists. I've opened a ticket, #242 for this issue. Since the repository access type is open I also thought about checking in the fix, but thought that might a bit rude without asking permission first :)

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Posted Dec 2, 2011
Quote from Forge_User_01037898 »

When I updated skada for some reason it stopped creating segments. It now only has "Total" and "Current Fight". I have tried checking and unchecking agressive combat, save for bosses only, setting "data segments to keep" anywhere from minimum to maximum, and several other options. I also deleted everything having to do with skada in the WTF folder and did a clean install and still no segments are created at any time, from bosses, training dummy, trash, nothing.

In the extreme I even moved my entire interface and WTF folders out and installed freshly only skada, and it's still not functioning beyond "current fight" and "total".

No error messages pop up.

I'm having the same issue. I can modify any/all settings and nothing happens. No data is being recorded that I can see.

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
Same for me.

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
You need to update the LibBossID library and it will start working properly again.

I manually installed the latest version (r74) of http://www.wowace.com/addons/libbossids-1-0/files/ and saving only boss segments works again.

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