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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_ForgeUser3525965
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Posted Aug 5, 2011
r329 build issues:

1. Same problem with window resizing - width of bars does not changing. Moreover - when i change some options (like font ot texture of bar's, etc) window width changed back - to previous value, but there is now no option to change it.

2. Reporting is ok now, but only by pressing new "Report" mini-button. When i select Report in menu - appears Report window with no buttons or texts and raises this error: "Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\Menus.lua:394: attempt to index local 'window' (a nil value)"

3. Window button "Reset" does not work - even no highlighting when mouse ower. From menu it works as usually.

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Posted Aug 4, 2011
With the newest skada ive lost the ability to determine the size of my display in the fact that it shows everyone. I used to have it only show me top 3 then id just scroll down , now it shows everyone on every screen. is this a bug or is this option gone?

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Posted Aug 4, 2011
also, the buttons don't hide with "hide when solo"

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Posted Aug 4, 2011
r328 build issues:

1. New icons (report, mode, segment etc) are a little pale and aligned to bootom of header, not center (http://savepic.ru/2922224.jpg).

2. New window size grip - changes width of window itself, but width of bars stays unchanged.

3. Pressing buttins in report window ("Report" or close window) raises this error - Message: Interface\AddOns\Skada\Menus.lua:377: attempt to index global 'mod' (a function value)

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Posted Aug 3, 2011
Got this report on the new update when attempting a party damage report.

1x Skada-r328\Menus.lua:377: attempt to index global "mod" (a function value)
Skada-r328\Menus.lua:377: in function <Skada\Menus.lua:376>
Skada-r328\Menus.lua:396: in function <Skada\Menus.lua:395>
(tail call): ?
<in C code>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[2]":9: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[2]":5
(tail call): ?
Masque-r357\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0-33.lua:314: in function "Fire"
Libs\6AceGUI-3.0-33\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Window.lua:27: in function <Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Window.lua:26>
<in C code>
Libs\6AceGUI-3.0-33\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Window.lua:83: in function "Hide"
Libs\6AceGUI-3.0-33\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Window.lua:32: in function <Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Window.lua:30>

Locals:
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Posted Aug 4, 2011
No need to comment on the development version here. This is for the release version.

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Posted Jul 31, 2011
Two bugs I'm seeing:

I have it set to not show up in battlegrounds. But it still does. If I click the button to show/hide during battlegrounds, it then disappears like it should. But I have to do this everytime I enter a battleground.

It doesn't stick to show last fight damage. Whenever I log out and back in, it defaults back to show all damage. I then have to change it to show last fight only.

I have Skada Window Buttons installed as well to make it look more like recount. Any chance this mod will be updated as it's over a year old now.

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Posted Aug 2, 2011
Skada Window Buttons is made by another author. Its functionality will be added to the main addon soon though.

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Posted Aug 7, 2011
I've got both of these issues too, the first one is far more pressing. Hide in PVP doesn't work, Disable While Hidden and hiding it doesn't work, Only keep boss fights doesn't work. Any of those by themselves should be enough to keep it from tracking PVP data and no combination of them does it. :/

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Posted Jul 30, 2011
Decided to finally try Skada and found out why it's so innacurate:

On abilities that deal an initial hit followed by a DoT or Hot (Immolate, Holy Fire, Regrowth, etc.), Skada tracks the crit ticks and ALL initial hits as crits, and the non-crit ticks as hits.

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Posted Aug 2, 2011
This is not true.

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
actually it's completely true... Skada does not distinguish between initial hits and the following ticks, so it records these abilities in the way that I described

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Posted Jul 27, 2011
If set the option to reverse bar growth, it displays the bottom ten (or whatever number of bars you've set) instead of the top ten.

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Posted Jul 25, 2011
As a hunter, (don't know if it is with other classes aswell,) if I'm in an instance and I try to chance my glyphs I get an error conflicting with Skada and it asks me to Ignore or Disable the addon, if I ignore my glyph just gets removed and the new one doesn't get placed, if I disable it I can chance the glyphs but have to relog to enable skada again, it's really annoying, please fix it. =3

Furthermore, <3 Skada =D

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Posted Aug 4, 2011
That is not Skada. If you hit "disable" for Skada, you'll get the prompt again with another addon. It just goes alphabetically until you disable all addons.

It's a bug with Blizzard's Dialog window, nothing to do with the addons.

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Posted Jul 19, 2011
As someone has stated below, it would be good if there's an option to whisper to target instead of typing the person's name (wouldn't work if the target is a player in your party but from another server).

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Posted Jul 18, 2011
Can you help elemental shamans to show real dps on raid memres's Skadas? ^.^
I mean, that our fire elemental (guard) counts in shaman's damage done only in shaman's skada, on other raid\group members fire elemental counts separately. Can you change the addon to count fire elemental in shaman's damage everywhere?
Sorry for repost, but REALLY need it, because of our super 2T11 set.

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Posted Jul 18, 2011
seem to be having a problem with latest skada.. when i click the cog then goto the Skada option the 2nd window opens but half of it disappears off top of screen no matter where i place window on my screen cant seem to see any options to move it

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Posted Jul 14, 2011
Logged on this morning, my profile reset. So I re-configured Skada, set it up how I like, went into ZG, thing went nuts with errors. Everything was bugging out. Deaths, damage, literally everything.

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Posted Jul 11, 2011
Super addon, just discovered it 2 weeks ago, replacing "another" popular addon that does the same thing... There is ONE thing missing from Skada, compared to the "competition": to be able to whisper "to target". Of course I could manually say to whisper to that person, but someone in the raid whispering me and asking for a specific parse, it's much more convinient to select the guy, then send the report to him. The "competition" offers that option.

Can you add this little thing and make it super perfect for me? :)

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