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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_ForgeUser6436949
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Posted Jun 6, 2011
If I reset data, is there ANY way to retrieve it? I forgot that my data resets upon leaving a group, and never got to check my healing meters before leaving my raid :(

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Posted Jun 5, 2011
Does anyone know how to make skada show "total" instead of "current fight" dps by default. I hate having to change it every time I enter a new instance. Thanks.

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
problem is that there isn't a current window for maximum hit minimum etc, just a little scrren on mousover and can't link it.
i would that screen in a window linkable too

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
Click the window's configuration button (there is only one button). From here you can report your current window's content, whatever it may be, to any channel.

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Posted Jun 5, 2011
very good and interesting addon but it seems to miss an importart feature. when i control my dmg i can see all my spells and olding mouse on them i can see maximum hit, minimum hit, average it for each one, but can't link them in any channel and if i push left click i see hit/crit and can link it but just the numbers and not the value. it could be nice if i could link the window i see olding mouse on single skill too.

tnx for help
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Posted Jun 2, 2011
wowace isn't a external site, its the same login as Curse, and the bug tracker is on curseforge, again a Curse site with same login.

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Posted Jun 3, 2011
You might be right. but which argument should a basic user force to not use the comfy way of the comment section below the download link? if an author truley cares about his addoncommunity, he won't take this comfortable information posting away from his own people.

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Posted May 27, 2011
Hi there got new errors for you. i got about 2.389 then i turned off my bug grabber. as postet before, Skada is broken now.

u got these errors pm'ed. don't blame me for doing so, i ddon't like to registrate on XY sites, just to post some stuff to help.

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Posted May 26, 2011
Hi,

The current version of Skada keeps failing for me. It stops showing data after a couple of fights and will not mode switch (I have it set to show Threat during combat and Damage when out of combat), and the mode switching is the main reason I switched to Skada from Recount.

Reading over recent comments it seems I'm not alone in having issues, so I'm wondering if there is a fix in the works or what the status is regarding problems like this.

Thanks.

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Posted May 24, 2011
I can't find to se healing taken stats, is there anyway of doing this or something to add for the next version maybe? recount has it and it's imba, but I can't find it in Skada? Am I missing something?

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Posted Jun 9, 2011
No, Skada has no Healing Taken mode. It would be fairly trivial to write one though. A guildie actually asked for it just the other day, so I may add one.

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Posted May 22, 2011
SkadaDeaths-r319
Deaths-死亡.lua:44: attempt to index field \"?\" (a nil value)

SkadaDeaths-r319
Deaths-死亡.lua:44: in function <SkadaDeaths
Deaths.lua:40>\nSkadaDeaths-r319
Deaths-死亡.lua:58: in function \"func\"\nSkada
Skada-r319.lua:1762: in function \"?\"\nlibs
CallbackHandler-1.0
CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:147: in function <libs
CallbackHandler-1.0
CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4: in function <string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":4\n<in C code>\n<string>:\"safecall Dispatcher[13]\":13: in function \"?\"\nlibs
CallbackHandler-1.0
CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function \"Fire\"\nAdiBags-v1.4-beta-1-4-g0d5e45e
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <AdiBags
libs
AceEvent-3.0
AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted May 16, 2011
Im getting the similiar to mkcorp.

I used to use Recount, but switched to Skada since 4.1. However, Im finding that Skada maybe a stripped down version of Recount, therefore sharing the same problem. Both Recount and Skada just stop working. At the end of fights, the first 1 or 2 encounters are fine. After a bit, they BOTH do the same thing, fails to display anything after the encounter.

The author for Recount is just a bad author for not letting people post comments and therefore IMO is an ass. This author for Skada, well, hes headed in the same direction. Quite a few posts about issues and he fails at acknowledging the users.

Either authors need to acknowledge users, or just stop putting things out there!

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Posted May 17, 2011
Since you are not making this addon and you are not paying for it. Since people take there time to do this and not get paid I thank them. If something doesnt work right now but it gets fixed I will be happy. Also DMG Meters are great to see were you are not needed to do the game.

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Posted May 18, 2011
I've been using Skada for a while, and I have noticed an issue, it keeps de-selecting the display option I have selected, making it appear to not be working right. I'm not getting a lua error, so I am not sure why the settings aren't sticking, but since this is a new 4.1 feature its most likely something Blizzard did. You might look into your settings and see if they are displaying correctly.

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Posted May 16, 2011
No matter what I do, still getting error:

Date: 2011-05-16 12:23:06
ID: -1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua line 44:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:44:
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:40
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:58: func()
Skada\Skada.lua:1762: ?()
...UD3\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...UD3\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:13: ?()
...UD3\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

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when I'll catch myself mouse-overing skada window during fight, errors similar to this one pop out:

Date: 2011-05-16 18:09:57
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 2
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDamage\Damage.lua line 272:
attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua:272: Enter()
Skada\Skada.lua:2220: AddSubviewToTooltip()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:133:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:113
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:225:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:225

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Posted May 31, 2011
I seam to only get this if I am rezed with Mass Resurrect

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Posted May 14, 2011
Problem found when cascading the bars above the title bar; if the raid has more than 5 people dealing damage the bottom 5 bars are displayed and I have to scroll up to see the top bars. This isn't problem for the damage meter but I also use Skada for threat now and I need to see the top bars. The only way round it is to displayed 40 bars but this can get messy.

Despite this I much prefer it too recount, nice mod :)
Thanks.

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Posted May 14, 2011
How to display the count of miss or parry of someone?

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Posted May 13, 2011
Hi there,
got an error for you.

2x SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:44: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
SkadaDeaths-1.0\Deaths.lua:58: in function `func'
Skada-1.2-32\Skada.lua:1762: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6:147: in function <...Tom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[13]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[13]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-6:92: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (TomTom):120: in function <...ace\AddOns\TomTom\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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