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

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tidehunter13
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Posted Nov 17, 2022
Most demon hunters will spec into Fodder of the Flame where Throw Glaive instantly kills the demon that spawns which has alot of health and therefore does alot of damage thus skewing the results in the damage meter as Throw Glaive being the highest damage ability on the list.

Details! as far as I know doesn't count this

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Posted Nov 7, 2022
Why is this addon not being updated through here anymore and just through github?

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Posted Oct 29, 2022
How to choose between addon "SkadaFriendlyFire" (which is mentioned in Skada description on this page, and also exists on CurseForge), and module "Skada\modules\FriendlyFire.lua" inside Skada itself?

Or they both should exist?

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Posted Oct 28, 2022
Updated version with the new API changes mentioned by @MoeSys and bumped addon version.

https://github.com/eSkiSo/Skada/releases/tag/v1.8.4

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Posted Oct 28, 2022
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Thank you very much

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Posted Oct 29, 2022
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tyvm sir.

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Posted Nov 4, 2022
In reply to eSkiSo:

Thank you for the update! I am so happy that Skada will continue to work in DF.

Can you package the .zip file on GitHub so that the folder Skada\ is included in the .zip file for the addon folders? That's how the .zip file on Curse is set up for manual downloads. That would allow me to unzip the .zip file directly to the WoW retail Addons folder (which is what I do with any other addons I install manually) instead of having to create the Skada folder myself and to into that folder to unzip the .zip file in there.

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Posted Nov 6, 2022
thanks

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Posted Nov 6, 2022
thanks

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Posted Oct 27, 2022
In addition to eSkiSo's answer, as per the API changelog, SetMinResize and SetMaxResize have been changed to SetResizeBounds, so, you probably want to change the deprecated calls to SetResizeBounds and not just remove them.

FROM:

list:SetMinResize(60,40)

list:SetMaxResize(800,800)

TO:

list:SetResizeBounds(60, 40, 800, 800)

For the SetHighlightTexture, the '1.0' can also be replaced by "ADD". Removing the 1.0 probably disables blending (although not sure about this).

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Posted Oct 28, 2022
In reply to MoeSys:

I summarized your code suggestions in this reddit comment in easy-to-understand steps: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/ydxctq/skada_temp_fix_for_dragonflight/. Thanks!

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
I've fixed the issue by:

- Updated Ace libs
- Fixed SpecializedLibBar-1.0 lib that prevented addon to load

Download and extract Skada.zip from here:

https://github.com/eSkiSo/Skada/releases/tag/v1

To your addons folder : World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\Skada

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Posted Oct 26, 2022
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Thanks! was getting worried I'd also have to put this addon on the shelf :)

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Posted Oct 27, 2022
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I still had to put it on a shelf, because all that patch did was cause WoW to not launch.

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I still had to put it on a shelf, because all that patch did was cause WoW to not launch.

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I still had to put it on a shelf, because all that patch did was cause WoW to not launch.

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I've tested this and corroborated the change. I modified my file local _retail_\Interface\Addons\Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua and made three edits:

1. line 317 (in AddButton) remove the 1.0 param and close the parenthesis after highlighttex

2. line 499 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMinResize entirely

3. line 500 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMaxResize entirely

Kudos to eSkiSo for solving the lib changes

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I've tested this and corroborated the change. I modified my file local _retail_\Interface\Addons\Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua and made three edits:

1. line 317 (in AddButton) remove the 1.0 param and close the parenthesis after highlighttex

2. line 499 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMinResize entirely

3. line 500 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMaxResize entirely

Kudos to eSkiSo for solving the lib changes

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Posted Oct 27, 2022
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I've tested this and corroborated the change. I modified my file local _retail_\Interface\Addons\Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua and made three edits:

1. line 317 (in AddButton) remove the 1.0 param and close the parenthesis after highlighttex

2. line 499 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMinResize entirely

3. line 500 (in NewBarGroup) remove SetMaxResize entirely

Kudos to eSkiSo for solving the lib changes

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Thanks! A lot of addons broke with the new patch and it's great that someone fixes them.

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