Skada Damage Meter

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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes, segmented fights and customizable windows. It aims to be highly efficient with memory and CPU.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

Usage

When you first start using Skada, there will be a window created by default. This window can be extensively customized in Skada's configuration panel; click the little cog icon to access a menu, and then click Configure. Depending on your user interface, there may also be a minimap button allowing quick access to this menu.

Skada supports multiple windows. To create a new window, click Windows in the addon's configuration panel. There are three built-in types of windows - Bar, Inline, and Data text. Bar is the classic damage meter window, and is very customizable. Inline shows the meter in a horizontal line, which can be useful for integration in custom user interfaces. Data text shows just one item at a time, and can also be displayed by any LDB display addon, such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, or ElvUI.

In the normal Bar window, you can left click on specific items for more detailed information, and right click for less details. At the very "top" is the list of all saved fight segments. Some data modes have several detailed information views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.

You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.

Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.

Plugins

Skada is very easy to extend, and there are many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality, such as:

Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
Skada DPSplusHPS: Useful add-on for Disc Priests.
Skada Chat Frame Integrator: Integrates Skada in any chat frame.
SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
Guild Skada High Score: Let's you compare a guild's performance.
Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
Skada Player Score: Generate combined performance scores for players.

There is a page with API information here.

Reporting issues

Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.

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_ForgeUser733470
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Posted Dec 24, 2011
yes hi i left a ticket on curseforge + the FPS drop in raids since 4.3 mentioned below still happens sometimes :)

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Posted Dec 17, 2011
Since the new content patch, skada is not storing any changes made in the window settings. that's quite annoying, cause i have to reconfigure skada windows on each wow startup.

any other settings (title, bars, ...) are saved correctly. is this a known bug, or does anyone has a hint, what i could do to get it working again?

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Posted Dec 15, 2011
I usually keep my skada set on current fight, but now it keeps reseting itself to total everytime i relog, anyone know why this setting isn't staying saved anymore?

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Posted Dec 11, 2011
Ah, It is really hard for me to see. Since I usually have the window locked I didn't see it before. Thanks, that works wonderfully.

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Posted Dec 7, 2011
Is it possible to get the min/max bars functionality back? I understand that skada only displays 13 bars at a time and you can scroll down to view the additional bars. I however, use a trackball mouse and do not have a scroll wheel so I cannot view all 25 players in 25 man raids.

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Posted Dec 9, 2011
You can make the window bigger by using the bottom right drag handle.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Same here took off every add on then started one by one and it is skada for me that is droping me down in fps in org the fair you name it

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Missing

\locale\ptBR.lua

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Anyone had severe fps drop in 4.3? I had mine drop from 50-60fps to 3-5fps on entering combat with Skada enabled. And I have the most recent Skada version 1.3-1.0. Disabling Skada solves the problem. Please fix. Meanwhile I'll take a look if the same occurs with Recount, thank you.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
I've got the same problem. Was hoping the recent updates would've fixed this problem, but as of 15 minutes ago I'm still getting big FPS spikes with Skada upon entering raid combat.

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Posted Dec 9, 2011
My fps was like 1-2 fps in LFR, but seemed fine elsewhere. Removed all my addons including skada and its much better now.

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Posted Dec 13, 2011
Same here. Was wondering which addon caused it, turned out to be Skada. Disabled it, went from 40 FPS to 60FPS capped in 5man combat, from 15-20 FPS in 25man raid combat to 35-40.

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Posted Dec 19, 2011
Yes, Morchok and on lootship.

Im sitting at 60FPS, then boom blood of the whatever on Morchok and FPS crushed to 1. Ive seen people DC too, but I guess my PC comes back to its senses somewhat quicker.

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Posted Dec 11, 2011
Ok, I finaly made it myself. It's exact term is "Clamp to screen"

Modifying a library is involved, which I guess prevents the author of Skada to do it officialy.

Howerver this is how its done:

edit a file: ..\Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua

find: list:SetClampedToScreen(true)

change it to: list:SetClampedToScreen(false)

This will allow you to drag Skada window off screen

..working like a charm (and I'm happy again)

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
Sorry, but i'll insist :)

I'd really need to be able to move Skada window outside the visible area.

Opened a ticked @wowace - please everyone who would like to see this funtionallity to vote/bump the ticket up.

http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/244-allowing-to-move-skada-window-outside-visible-area/

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Posted Dec 4, 2011
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When I updated skada for some reason it stopped creating segments. It now only has "Total" and "Current Fight". I have tried checking and unchecking agressive combat, save for bosses only, setting "data segments to keep" anywhere from minimum to maximum, and several other options. I also deleted everything having to do with skada in the WTF folder and did a clean install and still no segments are created at any time, from bosses, training dummy, trash, nothing.

In the extreme I even moved my entire interface and WTF folders out and installed freshly only skada, and it's still not functioning beyond "current fight" and "total".

No error messages pop up.

I'm having the same issue. I can modify any/all settings and nothing happens. No data is being recorded that I can see.

I've got the same issue. Would like to get some sort of feedback as to whether this issue is known and whether or not we'll see a fix. Thanks.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
If you were using the "Save only boss segments" option, then this would indeed happen in Dragon Soul prior to the last release. It should now be fixed.

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
@stencil

Just found out the same thing after a lot of head-scratching. Notice how the combatlog you get from /combatlog does *not* reflect this change. Weird.

Commited a fix just now.

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@ywfn The cause of this error is a change Blizz made to the combat log event params passed for the _MISSED spell suffix. From: missType, amountMissed To: missType, isOffHand, amountMissed

So, no data would get collected for full resists. The one third of expected you're seeing is probably from partial resists. I've opened a ticket, #242 for this issue. Since the repository access type is open I also thought about checking in the fix, but thought that might a bit rude without asking permission first :)

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Quote from Forge_User_01037898 »

When I updated skada for some reason it stopped creating segments. It now only has "Total" and "Current Fight". I have tried checking and unchecking agressive combat, save for bosses only, setting "data segments to keep" anywhere from minimum to maximum, and several other options. I also deleted everything having to do with skada in the WTF folder and did a clean install and still no segments are created at any time, from bosses, training dummy, trash, nothing.

In the extreme I even moved my entire interface and WTF folders out and installed freshly only skada, and it's still not functioning beyond "current fight" and "total".

No error messages pop up.

I'm having the same issue. I can modify any/all settings and nothing happens. No data is being recorded that I can see.

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