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.
Is there a way to move castbar? i havent figured out that yet
FlightMap has a check box in it's options (/flightmap) to turn off showing it's flight timer.
Also, wondering why the swing timer doesn't work for dual wielding?
I would think that having a .4 second timer just for swings only would be a bit redundant. When I dual wield, it's with fast weapons. So any hits between a 1.8 and a 2.6 speed weapon would be a bit redundant.
To avoid having double bars when using Quartz with Flightmap you can do the following:
Open \World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\FlightMap\FlightMapTimes.XML in wordpad.
On the 23:row you change this:
<AbsDimension x="195" y="13"/>
into this:
<AbsDimension x="0" y="0"/>
As you might guess this changes the size of the Flightmap Bar to 0, effectively removing it from the screen.
Question: How do I configure the size of the Swing bar? not the height.
It's probably considered scale.
I'm wondering if with the supposed changes they made to the casting bar is the latency part of this mod no longer needed? Or am I mistaken and they have in fact not made changes to the cast bar to integrate latency?
Everytime I log in I get in big red letters a warning to put a spell in the globol cooldown. I'm a bit confused as to what this means, can anyone tell me what i need to do? I type Find herbs were I think it want me to put it but it keeps eraceing itself after i do.
I just started using this mod and I am so lost. The forums are not a good option either because there are 45 pages. I use this as a hunter. Does this thing show timers for autoshot because that was my whole reason of getting it to help my timing and clipping of autoshots? I set the GCD to autoshot because I didn't know what else to set it to. Also the grey cooldown bars is about 1mm thick and REALLY hard to see. I really could info on how to get it to show autoshot cast time because I was told it does
yea i use it and above the spell cast bar theres a thin bar that shows your next auto shot will be. its really thin and the defult color is greyish.
any update for this one?
I was having this problem as well. I tracked down what my problem is so this might help you. Quartz is loaded as a LoD (load on demand) addon so that it isn't hogging up resources. As I understand, you then need an "on demand" mod to manage the "on demand" calls. Mine is called "Supply & Demand" and it was disabled in game, not on the AddOns menu at login. Once I turned Supply & Demand back on and then restarted WoW, Quartz began working like a dream.
I seem to be having the same problem as Faeda, who posted about a month ago. I have Quartz installed in my Interface/Addons folder. In game, I try to type /quartz in chat and it doesn't work. Try looking for the mod in DeuceCommander and the new Rock config thingie (I think that's what it's called) and it's not listed at all. However, Quartz does show up in my list of addons at the character select screen, and if I type /ace2 list enabled in chat, Quartz does show up in that list. I also can see a Feign Death bar when on my hunter feigning...
Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
I get a cast bar that dislays weapon buffs on the left of my screen it also displays the duration of the buff how do I get rid of this bar
Murran:
type /quartz
On the left click on player and or target. For both or either UNCHECK the "Lock" option at the top of their respective configuration screens.
now you can drag and drop the bars anywhere you want.
The other bars are attatched to either the player or the target bars.
Target yourself (while you have buffs) if you want to configure the buff display.
The swing timer is also attached to the target or player bar.
The global cooldown timer is as well.
Both can be undocked(free) and configure as you wish and then redocked or positioned where you like.
Enjoy:)
This is a brilliantly designed add-on, and I love it. But, as far as I am concerned it lacks any kind of customization because the configuration screens for position / size / appearance are essentially unuable by a human.
I would love to see a preview -- see the way that elkano's buff bars makes up fake buffs that you can toggle on and off in order to position and style the bars how you would like them.
It really is great though - and I will use it regardless, but customization / positioning would make it unbeatable - without question.
Thanks for your development.
Murran
needs an option to show test bars to make setup easier
<needs an option to show test bars to make setup easier>
YES ;)
Get the latest version from following link;
http://files.wowace.com/Quartz/
Greetz
this isnt working for dual wielding...whats up with that?