Antagonist
Antagonist is a lightweight, easy-to-setup enemy cast bar addon utilizing Ace2. It tracks enemy cast and channeling times, buff durations and cooldowns.
What does it do?
- Tracks enemy casting times
- Tracks enemy buff durations
- Tracks enemy cooldowns
- Smart bars which adjust to the flow of combat
- Lots of things explained below...
What won't it do?
- Track the player's buffs/debuffs
- Track the player's spell durations
- Boss timers
Features
>Target and Focus casting and channeling bars >> Description >> Will adjust to show delays when the units are damaged. >> When you target one of these units a bar and they are casting/channeling a spell then a timer will appear with the time left on that cast. This will also update an already existing timer if it was started from area scanning.
> Smart Fading (Optional) >> Description >> Bars will fade out if the enemy they are tracking dies. >> Buff bars will also fade out if the buff is dispelled or removed by the caster (e.g. Ice Block canceled early).
> Click Behavior >> Description >> You can click on the bars to perform quick functions. >> Right Click - stop the clicked bar. >> Shift + Right Click - stop all bars from the clicked bar's group (casts/buffs/cooldowns). >> Ctrl + Left Click - filter the spell which the clicked bar represents.
> Filter System (Blacklist) >> Description >> This allows you to configure which spells you don't want to see timers for. You can see an example in the first screenshot.
> Self-Relevant Option (Unreliable) >> Description >> This option will only show cast/channeling timers if the player is the target of said spell. This is still in beta as sometimes the target of the spell being cast isn't the target of the casting enemy.
> Appearance >> Description >> The bars are heavily customizable. You can configure the following: height, width, scale, color, font size, texture, fill direction, growth direction. Antagonist uses SurfaceLib for texture handling, this allows it to use other textures from all addons using SurfaceLib. >> Each anchor also has a title which you can enable. You can change the title's text, color and size.
FAQ
>Q: Will you ever add boss timers? >>A: The short answer is no. Antagonist already shows all casts performed by your target and focus units, this includes bosses. However I will not add boss specific timers. This would create bulk. I recommend BigWigs for a complete boss timer package.
>Q: Will you ever add tracking of player spells and buffs/debuffs on the player? >>A: Again, no. Tracking of player spells is done very well by Chronometer. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel when its already a pretty good wheel. If you want an even smaller addon than Chronometer then you could use one of the FuBar_ClassTimerFu addons.
>Q: How do I access the configuration? >>A: Antagonist has three forms of configuration. >> Console - <tt>/ant</tt>. >> Dewdrop - <tt>/ant dropdown</tt> >> GUI - <tt>/ant gui</tt>
>Q:What are the tags I can use in the bar text? >> A: >> $s - Spell name >> $n - Player name >> $t - Target of Player (casts)
>Q: How do I make the bars all show up in one place? >>A: You can do this by setting the showunder setting of each group to an anchor number. >> Procedure: <tt>/ant gui</tt> to open the options screen. Expand the Group submenu on the left. For each group, that is Casts, Buffs and Cooldowns, set the showunder value to the same number.
>Q: How do I move the anchors? >>A: Type the follow to toggle the anchors <tt>/ant lock</tt>.
Support
Latest Beta: http://files.wowace.com/Antagonist/
Casts stuck on screen?
I just uploaded r21903.
Changes:
r21903 | shiftos | 2006-12-23 12:07:26 -0500 (Sat, 23 Dec 2006) | 1 line
Antagonist - added spanish (esES) translation
r21460 | rabbit | 2006-12-19 18:50:39 -0500 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 1 line
Antagonist: Add Surfaces to OptDeps.
I also have casts and buffs showing even while i have no target at all. They're just stuck to the screen.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i267/Skylinee/WoW12.jpg
the red "Casts" word will show up even though im not in test mode...
as soon as a "Casts" bar shows up the words "Casts" will remain... even after the bars are gone as well...
r21174 is up now.
This revision fixes a bunch of bugs which came about after the introduction of the unit spellcast events.
Antagonist now also uses SurfaceLib for the texture handling. The texture option will be set to "Smooth" to avoid errors from the old system. The big bonus of using SurfaceLib is it allows all addons that utilize it to share textures.
So if you have a couple Ace2 addons which come with their own textures and use SurfaceLib then you can use those textures in any other Ace2 addon which also uses SurfaceLib.
Foxtrot: The translations are being worked on for all locales :).
fine ! after some corrections like this in the 3 files in /data, ant works perfectly.
Ahh yes. That is simply a missing translation.
No need to disable Ant. Simply open up Antagonist/Data/Casts.lua
Scroll down to the line which says
[BS["Avenger's Shield"]] ={1, "paladin","holy"},
and change it to
--[BS["Avenger's Shield"]] ={1, "paladin","holy"},
The reason this happens is because Babble-Spell isnt complete yet. It is a huge task to translate all the new BC spells and some of us are working hard at completing it.
same as Zao but i have an error when i enter in the game:
in casts.lua:39:Babble-Spell-2.2 : Translation "Avenger's Shield" does not exist
i have diable anta now because it is unplayable with this error, i thin this is not the only error in the translation.
good luck
Alright theres a 2.0 version up. Which is really just an update of the toc and a copy of the TBC version :).
Zao: It would help to know what the error is.
Is that normal for Ant to doens't work on a FR cleint ?
Because I have the menu i see the bar when a make a test but whenever someone cast a spell i got an Error .
Thanks for the fast reply, works fine now. I mixed Antagonist and Chrono, they were Chronometers that was showing in the middle, sorry for the trouble.
Arashikage: I cant say Ive seen that happen before. The only I can think of is your buffs anchor is bugged somehow. So simply delete Antagonist.lua from your SavedVariables folder and it should reset everything back to defaults. Get back to me if it still doesnt work and Ill investigate further.
Heya, great mod
but
first installation and the bars was on default place (middle), so i unlocked and moved the 3 bars to new spots and locked, ok BUT still the buffs appear in the middle. While i press TEST it shows right where the anchor bars are but actual buffs shows in the middle. Tried /reload UI and moving around again.
So, any idea what's the problemo?
Antagonist don't work with SP-Hunterspam :( If I use Antagonist, Hunterspam is out of order. But I'll don't miss Hunterspam.
iondissonance: I use Chronometer for my debuffs. Currently it doesnt have DR support but its planned.
Read the FAQ, I mention Chronometer in there.
"The newest version of Autobar causes the error, when it's used together with Antagonist."
Actually Antagonist has nothing to do with Autobar. Simply Antagonist is one of the first Ace2 addons to be loaded (probably the first for most people) and thus all Ace2 library instances are used from the Antagonist folder. Thats the only reason youre seeing Ant's name come up in errors.
I wasn't using AuldLangSyne but I tried to find out which addon causes the error, so I enabled and disabled one after another, while always keeping Antagonist enabled. The newest version of Autobar causes the error, when it's used together with Antagonist.
Too bad that Antagonist doesn't monitor Stuns and DR. Oh, you're a rogue too, what are you using for that?
Great Mod!
iondissonance: Its not an Antagonist error. I have had other people ask me about it also. Antagonist uses the GetSpellIcon method to retrieve the spell icon path from Babble-Spell. The reason youre seeing the error from the Antagonist folder is because your client's instance of Ace2 is from the Antagonist folder. Ace2 only keeps the latest minor revision of each library (for every major revision). So the first Ace2 libs loaded in WoW are from Antagonist as its loaded alphabetically.
Ive been told this is possibly an AundLangSyne error. So try disabling that addon.
I'm getting following error message when I log in:
Addons/Antagonist/libs/AceLibrary/AceLibrary.lua:672: AceLocal-2.2: Translation "GetShortSpellIcon" does not exist.
The addon itself seems to be working fine, but the error message is quite annoying ;) Any ideas? I'm using the UK client.
TIA