RaidWatch 2

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Raid Watch 2

Raid Watch is an addon for tracking events during boss fights in both raid and 5-men dungeons. It will keep track of important boss cooldowns, warn for events that requires the users attention and inform about some things that happen around him. It will do this in the form of timer bars, sounds, big warning text accompanied with a screen flash for the most important stuff and small text messages for less important things, direction arrow and more.
Raid Watch also have some functionality that is useful outside of boss fights, such as in game eqDKP display.

I have decided to disable the comments on curse.com since they are hard to keep track of, so instead:
For comments, suggestions, bug reports and general chat please post in the Raid Watch forums

News

From version 1.46 there is now a new module that handles the new alternate power bar that blizzard added. This bar is used in a few encounters and quests so far, for example Cho'gall for the corruption and Atramedes for the sound bar. This new plugin let you position it, or hide it completely and instead show a normal bar using the multi-purpose bar plugin that is used for health bars and other small things atm. The options for this plugin can be found under Plugins -> Alternate Power Bar.

How To

How To: Getting Started - For first time users
How To: Get eqDKP data in game
FAQ
More coming soon..

Features

Timer bars Gives an easy overview of given events during an encounter
- All timers will move between 2 or 3 anchors depending on their the length of the duration they have left. These anchors can be moved freely and placed individually. You can also configure at what duration they should move to each anchor.
Personal warnings Easy to react to message that is only shown to yourself when it concerns you
Messages Messages show about events happening to the raid or the boss in question.
Health frames Shows the current health of the boss, and also npcs when usefull. Can also be used to show other things besides health. One example i the Blood Power stacks in the Deathbringer Saurfang encounter.
Raid marking Automatic raid marks for important events that happen to players or NPCs.
Directions For some events you will get arrows pointing towards the point of interest.
Customization
- Each event that is tracked in an encounter have detailed settings where you can turn of messages, timers and icons individually depending on your current role.
- Colors and sounds can be individually set for each type of warning for each event.
- Fonts, textures and colors can also be set on a global space to be able to make fast changes and have a uniform look of all objects.
Statistics You can see how many times you have done each encounter, how many times you defeated it, how many wipes. You can also see your fastest kill so far. All this is recorded separately for 10- and 25-men raid and also for normal and heroic.
Load on Demand All boss mods are in their own modules and are not loaded into memory until they are needed, and this will be done automatically. But can also be loaded manually if needed for configuration before raids.

Including mods for

The Ruby Sanctum
Icecrown Citadell
Crusaders Coliseum
Ulduar
Vault of Archavon
5-men
- Forge of Souls
- Pit of Saron
- Trial of the Champion

Localization

Raid Watch 2 is fully or partially translated to most languages, but could use some more people to help with the translation as they are important to make the mods to work for all languages. At any point where boss emotes or yells are used as triggers it will or may not work on other clients. But things that only rely on combat log events will still work.

If you want to contribute to the localization simply go to the Localization page or click the localization tab up top and then on your language and start translating. It is open for anyone as long as you have an account here.

Credits

Ideas and Inspiration: DBM, BigWigs
Ulduar Mod: Mcslein
Bad Omen For testing and feedback.

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Posted Jun 16, 2010
this is what i get

Message: ...idWatch\Libs\LibGUIFactory-1.0\LibGUIFactory-1.0.lua:41: The provided object to be embeded with UIF-function must be a table
Time: 06/16/10 04:16:44
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: in function `assert'
...idWatch\Libs\LibGUIFactory-1.0\LibGUIFactory-1.0.lua:41: in function <...idWatch\Libs\LibGUIFactory-1.0\LibGUIFactory-1.0.lua:40>
...idWatch\Libs\LibGUIFactory-1.0\LibGUIFactory-1.0.lua:70: in function `GetFactory'
Interface\AddOns\mMinimap\Options.lua:37: in function `?'
...erface\AddOns\Ace3\AceConsole-3.0\AceConsole-3.0.lua:94: in function `?'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3556: in function `ChatEdit_ParseText'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3222: in function `ChatEdit_SendText'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:3246: in function `ChatEdit_OnEnterPressed'
[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEnterPressed"]:1>

Locals: (*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "The provided object to be embeded with UIF-function must be a table"

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Posted Jun 16, 2010
Thanks, will look into it as soon as I can.

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Posted Jun 17, 2010
np, really enjoy using your addons and glad i could help out.

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Posted Jun 15, 2010
@SSDama
In the timers configuration you have an edit box that lets you create new anchors. Then on the Animations tab you can select a secondary anchor, this is were the bars will go to from the current anchor when it reaches a set time. This time you also set at the same place as you selected the secondary anchor.

I may change the default settings before I make it a release version so that there is at least 2 anchors to start with.

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Posted Jun 15, 2010
Hi! First of all, this addon ROXORZ1!! :) I was blown away after i switch from DBM...
But, recent changes really worried me. I really dont like new beta look of addon, i loved its unique skin! Is there any chance you implement old skin back as an option or somthing that can be changed in one click (not to configure every single bar manually)? Oh, and those anchors for long, short and normal CD's were AWSOME! why do you threw them away? :( I say, everything with RaidWatch 2 was perfect, and as soon as some other things you implemented i really needed ( boss hp, inverse filling of timers etc... ) and recent AVR support (wich unfortunately wont work in near future) i really thought it couldnt be better.

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Posted Jun 15, 2010
They change to the bars made it possible for you to make your own anchors, just as many as you want. Only difference is that they are not there from scratch. I may change the default settings so that there is 2 anchors to start with.

And what do you mean by the change in the look of it? bars use the same texture still, only thing that change may be that the default color is not the same.

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Posted Jun 15, 2010
Oh and you can now set timers to show up on any anchor, just go into the detailed settings for any boss ability and go to the timers tab. Each timer should now have a dropdown where you can select the anchor.

This was made so that you could for example put Soul Reaper cooldown on a totally separate anchor in the middle of the screen for example.

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Posted Jun 16, 2010
Mangeg,

I think he means how the old default 3 bars works, which are pretty easy to setup once you get the hang of the new anchor system.
The best way I found to setup the bar like 1.26:
(these settings are under plugins -> alert plugins -> timers ->)
in default tab setup 2 more bars(I called mine medium and short);
in the Flash & Animation tab Change the default bar to not flash and animate move to 60 seconds /w 2nd anchor set to medium bar(or whatever you called it), change the medium anchor to 10 seconds 2nd anchor to short flash @ 15-20 seconds, short you can leave as is or adjust the flash to something shorter(5);
then in the 1st 2 tabs just adjust the bars color, position and size to your preference.

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Posted Jun 17, 2010
it look different :S it has deadly boss mod "look", not that unique that it had in previous versions. i loved the way it worked, 3 bars and that had cool fligh in transition effect ( i dont know does it have now or not) but to be honest, now you need much more time to make it work. In previous versions it worked out from the box, you just rearange timers on the screen and you are ready to go. Now, i need to dig in options to find configure it all by myself, wich is more time consuming and less noob friendly. Last thing i need is another addon wich takes me forever to configure. and there are realy lot of addons that you need more then 10 min to adjust it the best way. Make our life easier, and make it cool looking and functional out from the box! and, ofcourse, if someone wants to rearange all the anchors the way he wants, make an option for them to do so :)
Thx again for all the great work you do, and great great addon! Cheers m8!

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Posted Jun 30, 2010
Wow, thx man! i will definetly look into it and try to setup it like that :)

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Posted Jun 30, 2010
Ok, i just download the latest version, and its all looks like it was in old one! THX for bring it back! ;)

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Posted Jun 14, 2010
Just got the new update and it only has one timer bar with everything and it will not move to middle when a timer is about to end like it did before. I like haveing the long/med/short timer bars and I do not see a option to turn them back on or add a new one I reset all to default and didnt change is there anyway to fix this or is this how it is supposed to work now

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Posted Jun 10, 2010
im using RW 2 now and i dont have raid, buff and damage done frames as shown in SS 'In Action 2'.

anyway i can activate them somehow?

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Posted Jun 11, 2010
None of those are parts of Raid Watch, they are separate addons.

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Posted Jun 4, 2010
When I try to configure the addon there always apear some strange LUA-Errors of Prat. I really do not know why RW2 does affect Prat 3.0. Any ideas?

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Posted Jun 5, 2010
Sydneyfox,

I was running into the same issue, my work around was to replace the prat libs with the RaidWatch 2 ones. RaidWatch/libs to Prat-3.0_Libraries. Just the lib folders that match and not the xml toc files sitting directly in those folders. Hopefully prat or RaidWatch 2 will push a new build with compatible libs soon.

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Posted Jun 11, 2010
These problems was because of changed AceGUI library, but will be fixed in the next beta that comes in a few hours or so.

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Posted May 30, 2010
For the Blood Queen encounter, a good use for the Bite Bar, would be to allow click/announce. So i can click the name, and it would announce to the raid "Biting [name]".

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Posted May 30, 2010
Is 429 stable?

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Posted May 28, 2010
if i try to do the settings of rw2 after a few clicks the previous screen keeps like loaded in the background what messes up the whole interface. The only solution i found so far was doing each time a /reload ui gettin pretty annoyed with it any idea what is happening to me? version check say 1.26 with revision 412 if u want i can make a vid of it or make some screenies if you want.

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