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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Farmbuyer
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Posted May 10, 2011
Using 1.2-32, I'm getting this error when a battle rez happens. (The advice below to "reset data" doesn't help. This is a freshly reset Skada with every random pug, there is no preserved data. Certainly none from pre-4.1.)

1x 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 (Ace3):147: in function <...Ons\Ace3\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 (Ace3):92: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Ace3):120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>

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Posted May 6, 2011
Debuff uptimes is a nice plugin. would there be a buff uptime tracker as well?

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Posted May 5, 2011
Hi, the option "disable in PvP" doesn't work well. User checked this option needs rechecked again every time when get in BG or Arena.

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Posted May 4, 2011
I have to disable it during raids otherwise I get 1 fps even when ppl are buffing.

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Posted May 5, 2011
From time to time I get "paused" for several seconds, sometimes even disconnected. When Skada is disabled this doesn't happen. Occurs in 25man raids. :(

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Posted May 4, 2011
Skada is now using 11 mb outside of a group with no data being recorded.

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Posted May 4, 2011
AceLocale-3.0-5: Skada: Missing entry for \"DTPS\""

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Posted May 4, 2011
First I have to say Skada is pretty awesome. Got it configured to show Threat, DPS, and Healing but I have a problem and it pertains to the DPS part of Skada. Now, if this question has been answered somewhere, I couldn't find it so please don't kill me :D That said: I've noticed that sometimes Skada will not...I guess read the combat log correctly. I was sitting on either Chimaron or Atramedes...maybe Magmaw but I noticed all the DPS was ~4.6k. ALL of them. Then other times the DPS is correct (values ranging between 20k+ and 8k). I've even tested this on the Raid Dummy. I can DPS it and show about 13k. I can then stop, wait a few seconds and start again OR I can tell Skada to reset. Either way it will then show DPS down (in the raid dummy's case about 5-6k). Is there something I need to set Skada to do or is this a bug? Other than that: Once again this is a VERY sweet add-on!

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Posted May 4, 2011
Ahh let me add that I've tried both 1.2-32 and r318.

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Posted May 4, 2011
Clickthrough option seems to get reset (not its checkbox though) when switching to another stat. :(

I have Clickthrough for Bars set to On, the menu button is Off, Skada window is locked, data bars are dislpayed.

By clicking right mouse button on titlebar I switch to view where you choose what stat to display. At this moment the (blue) bars become clickable despite Clickthrough=On. That would be great, because that would make the navigation very comfortable, but the bars remain clickable even when actual data are shown. At this moment Clickthrough=On should actually work. Obviously I don't want them to interfere with mouse during combat. (Doesn't apply to the blue bars for selecting stat displayed, let those be clickable always.)

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Posted May 4, 2011
Ah the blue bars are called "Modes" view. :P Then PLZ when you fix that Clickthrough bug let the Modes bars clickable always, pwetty PLZ.

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Posted May 4, 2011
I would, but I forget my password over there. ;)

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Posted May 11, 2011
https://www.wowace.com/home/login/

Enter your email in the "Forgot your password?" section.

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Posted May 3, 2011
Getting the following with the latest version that came down from the curse client.

1x AceLocale-3.0: Skada: Missing entry for 'DTPS':
Skada-r318\Options.lua:100: in function `AddColumnOptions'
Skada-r318\Skada.lua:1992: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1985>
Skada-r318\Skada.lua:2046: in function `AddMode'
SkadaDamageTaken-1.0\DamageTaken.lua:204: in function <Interface\AddOns\SkadaDamageTaken\DamageTaken.lua:192>
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceAddon-3.0-10 (Ace3):543: in function `EnableAddon'
AceAddon-3.0-10 (Ace3):556: in function `EnableAddon'
AceAddon-3.0-10 (Ace3):635: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:621>
<in C code>: in function `LoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:256: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn':
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:279: in function `CombatLog_LoadUI':
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:546: in function <Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:519>:

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Posted May 3, 2011
same error

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Posted May 4, 2011
No need to report alpha (development) version problems on Curse; stick them where they belong, wowace. :)

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Posted May 3, 2011
Is it possible to display Skada *above* WoW UI? When I place it right next to my bottom action bars that gray gargoyle/dragon thing is above it and covers it. It would be neat place for it to reside.

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Posted May 9, 2011
not sure what you mean by "reset your data" - reinstalled Skada, same error.

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Posted May 4, 2011
Reset your data and it should be fine. The Deaths module was changed around a bit and old (pre-4.1) data confuses it.

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Posted May 3, 2011
Keep getting this:

Date: 2011-05-03 15:30:29
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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