Magic Targets 2
Addon Support Statement
NEWS: I'm back in WoW. I'll try to update addons after catching up, especially if they are bugging out.
Addon Description
Magic Targets is a simple set of frames that shows the current targets of the members raid or party. It's meant primarily for use in raiding to keep track of all the mobs currently engaged in combat. Feature list:
- Optionally marks your current target and focus target with green respectively blue arrows.
- Lists the number of people who's currently targeting each mob.
- Colors each bar based on target status (crowd controlled, tanked, untanked or idle).
- Shows the icon(s) of the crowd controll methods a mob is currently affected by and optionally shows a countdown timer for the longest duration remaining crowd control method.
- Automatically adds new mobs as members of the raid targets them.
- Automatically removes mobs after when they die or when they haven't been actively targeted by someone, or seen in the combat log, for a small period of time. Crowd controlled mobs are always kept on the list.
- Uses oRA2 and buff detection (defensive stance, bear form and righteous fury) to determine if a player is a tank.
- Customizable font and font size, bar texture, color and size, and more.
- Optionally able to listen to events from Magic Marker to prepopulate the list with mobs, including the assigned crowd controlled methods.
- Optional tooltip shows mob level and type, health percentage, current target, status and Magic Marker assignment. It also lists all players targeting the mob.
Recent Changes:
Changes in 2.0.119:
- MoP compatibility / raid scanning fixes.
Changes in 2.0.106:
- Fixed 4.1 bug with growing or shrinking bars hopefully.
Changes in 2.0.104:
- Combat log parser fix for 4.1 + toc bump
About Magic Targets 2.0
MT2 is a major refactoring of the original addon. The layout of the bars is now much more flexible. Not only can you freely decide which data to show on the bars, there are also multiple layouts to choose from. Best of all, the transition to Magic Targets 2 should be transparent. Note that the default layout of Magic Targets 2 is different. If you prefer the Magic Marker 1 layout, go into the configuration options => Bar Labels and select the classic Bar Layout. Comments are welcome!
Configuration and use:
Configuration is done using the Blizzard configuration UI. You can use the FuBar/Minimap button or the slash command /mgt config to open it. To get access to a larger number of fonts and textures you need to install the SharedMedia addons.
Note: The bars are not clickable. Due to the secure templates added in WoW 2.0, this is no longer possible. PvP specific addons get around this limitation by making macros that target players by name. Since NPC names are not unique, this is not a viable solution for Magic Targets.
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http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9474/magictargetsbug.jpg
Every few seconds, the right border extends several more pixels. You can see how far the bars got in just a few seconds of a trash fight in the screenshot. I'll try and look at the code after raid.
To address ffxiedyn - Yes, that's easy - getting clickable bars of someone's target (which doesn't move during combat) is trivial. However that's an entirely different thing. As I said in my previous comment, it's easy to make a "raid grid" where you can click on each players target.
You can find someone aiming at a specific target easily. However during combat you can't change the action of a secure button, which means that:
- they have to target the mob before combat. - if they change target or the target dies it will target the wrong thing.
In addition adding clickable frames means that you can't add, remove or move (sort) frames during combat.
I really would have added the ability to target a mob by clicking on a bar if it was reasonably possible in any way. It just isn't though. Only way you can make a "click to target mob" thing is to have a grid of the party/raid where you can click each frame. Each frame could then have the icon of the mob and whatever other data and be bound to /target Playernametarget. However that's pretty much a different addon than Magic Targets.
or it just show targets?
Imagine, DoTing every single targets in the blink of an eye !
Also, when I use the "Classic Magic Targets" layout the 'right label' of "Magic Targets 2" is shown, which is a duplicate of the classic versions 'right label'. They stack on top of each other, unless I change the width. If I change the label in MT2 it will also change in CMT.
Is there a menu to create your own layout? I am not seeing one. Not to fond of the current layout.
And making these clickable would be great. Though, I can understand that blizzard doesn't provide a way to do this, and probably doesn't want you to do this (You could easily make bots like that).
Saying the addon isn't intended to do that is kind of dumb. They are enemy health bars, they display who is targetting them. The only reason they shouldn't be clickable is if there is no way to make them clickable. Maybe you can script /target <name> in there, but that wouldn't work in instances with multiple targets with the same name. Carbonite does that with its punk window - It's great.
It's a good addon, especially for tanking, but not worth removing my enemy nameplates. We need a way to target easier, tab targeting is very annoying and click-targeting doesn't work when fighting huge abominations next to tiny ghouls and plague sprayers. Nameplates do the job if the enemies are within about a 10-yard range.