Quartz
Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:
*Player
The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.
*Target/Focus
Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.
*Buffs
Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars.
*Flight
Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.
*Global Cooldown
Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.
*Interrupt
Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).
*Latency
Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.
*Mirror
Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.
*Range
Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.
*Swing
Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.
*Timer
Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.
*Tradeskill Merge
Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.
Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.
Looks like everyone has questions and no real answers, so I'm guessing the dev doesn't read this forum often...
Nonetheless, I'll stick my feature request in. I stinking LOVE this mod, but I'd really like to see a buff bar for when I have been buffed/debuffed. You should be able to do this via API, just like the target/focus buff bars have been configured. Of course, I'd like the ability to rescale these/turn them off as needed.
Considering there aren't really any mods out there that excel in buff/debuff countdowns, I think this would be a HUGE value add to this mod. :)
one thing I think that would greatly improve this mod is being able to see 'test areas' (like in the miks scrolling battle text) for the bars so you can configure them all at one time...
what is the quartzlod MS-DOS-batchfil doing in the mod ???
the quartzlod.bat file converts the addon from a "all in one" addon to a spit up version of it.. so you can disable the parts you don't use..
does the red latency section at the end of the bar allow the spell to be cast faster than if the mod wasnt being used, and in theory increase the persons dps?
Or do you need to use some kind of /stopcasting macro aswell?
Clicking your next spell when your casting bar gets to red does indeed allow you to cast more spells in a given amount of time. Prior to this last patch, yes, you needed to use /stopcasting in your macros. Now you no longer need to. :o)
I too would like to be able to move the castbar. The way it is now, it doesnt fit well with the layout of my UI. Just tell us which line(s) of code to modify and where it is.
Excellent mod btw. Its really upped my dps on my mage.
When configuring the castbar, is there a way to see what I am doin?
I dont see the castbar when I configure it, so its kinda hard to see how it looks like.
Is there a way to move castbar? i havent figured out that yet
FlightMap has a check box in it's options (/flightmap) to turn off showing it's flight timer.
Also, wondering why the swing timer doesn't work for dual wielding?
I would think that having a .4 second timer just for swings only would be a bit redundant. When I dual wield, it's with fast weapons. So any hits between a 1.8 and a 2.6 speed weapon would be a bit redundant.
To avoid having double bars when using Quartz with Flightmap you can do the following:
Open \World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\FlightMap\FlightMapTimes.XML in wordpad.
On the 23:row you change this:
<AbsDimension x="195" y="13"/>
into this:
<AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/>
As you might guess this changes the size of the Flightmap Bar to 0, effectively removing it from the screen.
Question: How do I configure the size of the Swing bar? not the height.
It's probably considered scale.
I'm wondering if with the supposed changes they made to the casting bar is the latency part of this mod no longer needed? Or am I mistaken and they have in fact not made changes to the cast bar to integrate latency?
Everytime I log in I get in big red letters a warning to put a spell in the globol cooldown. I'm a bit confused as to what this means, can anyone tell me what i need to do? I type Find herbs were I think it want me to put it but it keeps eraceing itself after i do.
I just started using this mod and I am so lost. The forums are not a good option either because there are 45 pages. I use this as a hunter. Does this thing show timers for autoshot because that was my whole reason of getting it to help my timing and clipping of autoshots? I set the GCD to autoshot because I didn't know what else to set it to. Also the grey cooldown bars is about 1mm thick and REALLY hard to see. I really could info on how to get it to show autoshot cast time because I was told it does
yea i use it and above the spell cast bar theres a thin bar that shows your next auto shot will be. its really thin and the defult color is greyish.
any update for this one?
I was having this problem as well. I tracked down what my problem is so this might help you. Quartz is loaded as a LoD (load on demand) addon so that it isn't hogging up resources. As I understand, you then need an "on demand" mod to manage the "on demand" calls. Mine is called "Supply & Demand" and it was disabled in game, not on the AddOns menu at login. Once I turned Supply & Demand back on and then restarted WoW, Quartz began working like a dream.