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".
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 very easy to extend, and there are many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality, such as:
- Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
- Skada DPSplusHPS: Useful add-on for Disc Priests.
- Skada Chat Frame Integrator: Integrates Skada in any chat frame.
- SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
- Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
- Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
- Guild Skada High Score: Let's you compare a guild's performance.
- Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
- Skada Player Score: Generate combined performance scores for players.
There is a page with API information here.
Reporting issues
Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
Just did update and complete reinstal and Skada won't unlock it windows to move or adjust their size. Could use some help.
Same issue here, Skada is not working at all. Shows no info at all. No options to show ANYTHING. Edit" I'm on the latest version.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:401: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got table)
Time: 01/05/17 03:23:01
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: ?
[C]: in function `format'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:401: in function `Update'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:334: in function `UpdateDisplay'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:2031: in function `?'
...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:53: in function <...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:48>
No display on bars. Major bug. Re-installing did nothing. Deleting cache did nothing.
Use version: 1.6.1
Often jump out of two errors, as follows:
You are using RealUI, right? If so, this should be fixed with 1.6.3.
Not a major bug but since r705 (pretty sure it was this one since notes said you changed BarDisplay.lua and I bet that's where the bug would be) the Skada window has started to lock itself in mouseover, so to speak. If I move the mouse over it, especially the upper part, the menu buttons on top right may still be lit up when I move the mouse away. Even if I use my keybind to close it and open the window again.
Addon is broken, Game restart helps nothing...
Uncheck "Install Libraries Separetely" in the Curse updater and try again.
No it's not broken. You may need to re-install the mod or get the latest version.
fails to load skada
They moved a few files around.
Try to restart the game completely that worked for me.
After today update i get spam with amazing many errors... please backroll...
Date: 2016-12-25 21:49:02
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 8:
Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0".
Debug:
[C]: error()
!Swatter\Support\LibStub.lua:23: LibStub()
Skada\Skada.lua:8: in main chunk
Locals:
(*temporary) = "Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0"."
After today update i get spam with amazing many errors... please backroll...
Date: 2016-12-25 21:49:02
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 8:
Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0".
Debug:
[C]: error()
!Swatter\Support\LibStub.lua:23: LibStub()
Skada\Skada.lua:8: in main chunk
Locals:
(*temporary) = "Cannot find a library instance of "LibBossIDs-1.0"."
They moved a few files around.
Try to restart the game completely that worked for me.
thanks, that worked for me. +1
I keep getting LUA errors when i swap between specs, then it continues to give errors when i enter combat. The only way to clear it is to /reload and then its fine again. Here's an example error:
Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:97: attempt to index field 'bargroup' (a nil value)
Stack: (tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:97: in function `Destroy'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:299: in function `destroy'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1215: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1212>
[C]: in function `?'
...ory\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145: in function <...ory\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:13: in function `?'
...ory\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:90: in function `Fire'
...rface\AddOns\AutoVendor\libs\AceDB-3.0\AceDB-3.0.lua:466: in function `SetProfile'
...\Bartender4\libs\LibDualSpec-1.0\LibDualSpec-1.0.lua:184: in function `CheckDualSpecState'
...\Bartender4\libs\LibDualSpec-1.0\LibDualSpec-1.0.lua:416: in function <...\Bartender4\libs\LibDualSpec-1.0\LibDualSpec-1.0.lua:400>
This is likely caused by LibDualSpec, which I have not used in quite a while. Try disabling it and try again.
Skada isn't tracking the damage from "Soul Rip", which is dealt by the Subtlety rogue artifact trait "Akaari's Soul".
Please update Skada for Tanks, thanks! :)
I just updated to ElvUI latest version and that was fine but then I added the skins. Skada is still there, because I see the query about whether I want to reset when I join a group but I can't find the window at all now. I've tried every setting, everything else, but nothing at all will bring it back so I can see it. Anyone have any idea what to do?
Thanks in advance.