Quartz
Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:
*Player
The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.
*Target/Focus
Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.
*Buffs
Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars.
*Flight
Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.
*Global Cooldown
Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.
*Interrupt
Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).
*Latency
Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.
*Mirror
Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.
*Range
Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.
*Swing
Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.
*Timer
Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.
*Tradeskill Merge
Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.
Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.
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Posted Jun 14, 2007the target buffs won't work -.- tryin' to get it work since the last 3 hours ... and i have no idea what i can do.
there is just a gray bar, no buff logo and nothin ... and ideas ? :O
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Posted Jun 14, 2007Great Addon! (switched from ECB) Having a little problem: the first time I log on the casting bars don't show up. I have to logout and re-logon...
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Posted Jun 13, 2007is there any option that places the all quartz cast bars on top layer? cause i want my cast bars to be over all other addons. ty. nice addon. but it uses pretty much memory.
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Posted Jun 13, 2007First of all thnx for quartz lovely mod!!!
but is there anyway you can add a "buff" filter, i would like it not to show my mindflay and souch on my target and only show buffs like SWP VT VE etc ;) hope this is posible..
Sentox
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Posted Jun 13, 2007Hey, I have one quick question. On the targets buffs there is a number determining how long is left on the buff. But it covers up the entire icon. Ive tried playing w/ the add on for a hour trying to figure out how to turn it off and I can't find out any way to. I know its Quartz to because I went to the add on's tab at the login screen to disable it and the numbers are gone, then when I enable the add on again they're back. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Posted Jun 12, 2007@bockhorn
You can replace all of your skills with macros that /stopcasting /cast spell
for example, for a frost mage, he could create a macro that read
/stopcasting
/cast Frostbolt
you cant spam this ability, but if you time it correctly, right when the castbar reaches the lag section, this strategy has been known to increase DPS by an extreme 10%
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Posted Jun 10, 2007how do you move the bar? cant find the option
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Posted Jun 6, 2007i cant seem to get the InFlight hook to function properly. Does inflight have to know the flight before it can hook? cause my outlands flights have all been (timing) so far
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Posted Jun 15, 2007yeah see whats happening is its making flights too long, ill say something at flightmap too. this is jsut an FYI
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Posted Jun 6, 2007Love this addon!
My suggestion. Ghost timers for Dots (a la Dotimer). If the mod had this feature I could live without Dotimer altogether.
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Posted Jun 6, 2007And maybe DoT expire sounds? like a ding when meh corruption kapoofs
awesome mod. btw
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Posted Jun 6, 2007Im curious, the latency bar seems to be a great idea, but do I have to make the cast cancel when its actually loaded through moving or pressing esc etc (i.e doing it manually), or does it do that automatically so I can just mash my buttons without having to worry about loosing efficiency due to latency...?
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Posted Jun 5, 2007Yay for files disappearing.. :(
By the way, in general I'm not able to keep up with replying to comments, but I do read 'em all, and I've got a big to-do list for Quartz. :)
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Posted Jun 5, 2007Thanks farook... seems so obvious now. love this mod, have been using ecasting bar forever, which IS a great mod too. But love the new options available in this mod. I'm converted. :)
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Posted Jun 5, 2007why dont i have a button to download? only add to favs :(
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Posted Jun 4, 2007I love this mod! Switched from ecasting bar latency to Quartz when someone mentioned it in the forums, and haven't looked back. :D
May I request a possible feature where you can see the mana cost of the spell currently being cast? Maybe placed under the bar or in the bar, I don't know.
Not sure if it's possible since I don't know anything about making mods, but it would be cool. :D
I notice also that the latency cutoff point/ cast time doesn't change when haste buff (like from the shaman buff) is in effect?
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Posted Jun 3, 2007Unlock the bars.
Then you'll see them and you can drag them around to fit your likings.
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Posted Jun 2, 2007ok, found that option
ECB was easier to understand at first, but this castbaraddon is great after you know how to do it right ^^
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Posted Jun 2, 2007I feel like a noob but I cna't work out how to move it either. seems like an amazing addon... tips on how to move the bars up the screen tho?
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Posted Jun 3, 2007You can go to "player" and there just set X and Y coordinates at least.