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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_ForgeUser17089
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Posted Sep 1, 2011
Ditto.

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Posted Aug 31, 2011
Guys, donno what u did with it, but till 4.2 it worked flawless. Now i can compare it with recount (no offense to people who actually use recount). I mean, recount have that thing that from time to time it didn't showed up when i got to enter a dungeon while skada never did... till 4.2. Try fix it if it's not to much of a trouble. Cheers and keep up the good work.

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Posted Aug 28, 2011
Bump on the Absorbs & Healing problem.

Skada SEEMS to be accurate for a priest if they are the one running it, but not for other priests in the raid. Someone else's skada was showing my absorbs and healing today on Majordomo at 11-12k while recount showed around 21k. Considering we were pushing scorpion to 12 or 13 stacks its pretty much impossible that skada's 11k is the correct number. Being a discipline priest obviously this makes skada unusable for me and I've switched to recount.. :'( please fix? Recount is ugly.

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Posted Aug 28, 2011
still pops:

Date: 2011-08-28 16:11:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 6
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua line 316:
attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:316: Enter()
Skada\Skada.lua:1901: AddSubviewToTooltip()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:145:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:122
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:251

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Posted Aug 27, 2011
Getting a lot of "Unknown" as names for Hunters. It only happens with that class. No LUA errors. Running 1.3-7 and have even tried a clean install (removing skada files from SavedVariables folders).

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
Is there any way to hide some frames of skada and not others? Would like to hide 2 frames when healing but have all 4 show when dpsing.

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
I used to have this problem, No matter how many times I changed it to show "current" it would some how always revert back to "total". If you know anything at all about LUA editing you can change it within the skada LUA file. But please only do that if you know what your doing.

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Posted Aug 26, 2011
As of 2 days ago, every time I log off of wow, my Skada resets itself to "Total", instead of "current fight".

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Posted Aug 25, 2011
I remember that my Skada used to show realm names for other players not from my realm. After a break, I updated Skada, and the realm names are gone. How do I re-enable this feature?

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Posted May 7, 2012
Quote from Mecaire »I remember that my Skada used to show realm names for other players not from my realm. After a break, I updated Skada, and the realm names are gone. How do I re-enable this feature?

I would also know how to do this, please.

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Posted Aug 24, 2011
I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but Skada has consistently been giving me incorrect Absorbs and Healing for the two Priests in my group. I know this because the data it is giving is not realistic. With both Priests being Discipline, we both show up on World of Logs within' a reasonable distance, but in Skada it shows some weird things like me doing 1/10th of the Divine Aegis and Prayer of Healing, but online I am usually higher in both categories.

I'm not sure of how to help you find out what this might be since I'm in mid-raid right now, but hopefully looking over Absorbs and Heals would be appreciated. It seems to be like this for any class that has absorbs included. =(

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Posted Aug 24, 2011
Hey there..!

This and Recount only got a "hide when in combat" function.. Why is that?
I want it to be hidden when out of combat.

It would be the perfect option (atleast for me) if something like:
"Hide 10 seconds after combat if not mouse-overed".. That would just be.. WOOW! ;)

P.S
Why is it that all DPS meters got different numbers in the end of a fight?

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Posted Aug 24, 2011
I had a previous comment about not separating spells with the same name but different ID (e.g. Lightning Bolt for elemental shamans), but then I found a page where that was done.

Now, after relogging after raid, I have checked what Skada tells about the damage done by me - and I have only 1 line for Lightning Bolt (and also for Lava Burst), what should be 2 lines. And I have no clue where that page was where I found different IDs separated, don't find it anywhere - maybe this is a bug in how the data is saved in the saved variables?

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Posted Aug 22, 2011
Instead of updating once a day.. how about you group up all your updates and do it once a week? I'm getting tired downloading the update via curse updater and then having to delete all the folders I do not use.

Also you still haven't fixed the battleground show/hide option. It still stays up when I enter an battleground even though I have the box checked. I have to toggle it off.

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Posted Aug 22, 2011
Then.. don't update?

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Posted Aug 23, 2011
I update in hopes the battleground bug is fixed but it never is.

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Posted Aug 24, 2011
The "Hide in PvP" option works perfectly for me, so unless someone who can reproduce the problem can also fix it, it is not likely to get fixed.

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Posted Aug 21, 2011
What happened to this addon? I have been watching for weeks now and have seen this addon go from one of the best to something far less...
Seems to me that the "look" changes you have made has caused many issues with its functionality... "look" changes are not needed... Functionality IS...
Please return this addon to greatness and stop trying to make it "look" different

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Posted Aug 22, 2011
You will have to be more specific. The slightly changed "look" as you say is just the default look and it can easily be configured for the previous default "look". If you do not like it, just use another addon.

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Posted Aug 29, 2011
You have made many look changes... caused positioning all out of wack... changed window sizes and limitations... changed the number of items shown in a list... and that's not counting the actual numbers and real core functionality... and then you wana say dont like it use something else... fine d--- head

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