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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_ForgeUser604992
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Posted Feb 27, 2013
Monks' replicas from Storm, Earth and Fire are being tracked separately as different charcters with the same name. The spell was changed recently, their names went from "Fire/Storm/Earth Spirit" to the char's own name, like Mirror Images.

"Merge with pets" is checked, Xuen's damage is being merged with my own as usual.

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Posted Feb 25, 2013
I also have a problem with "when to show" preferences. When option "Hide in combat" is selected and BEFORE combat SKADA was hidden - after combat it is shown instead of previous state. I think it's not right. If it's was hidden BEFORE combat it shouldn't popup after...

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Posted Feb 19, 2013
On healing done. what does the green and the red stand for?

Green = healing done
Red = overhealing?

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Posted Feb 14, 2013
How to show players' realm names when they're not from yours ?

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Posted Feb 17, 2013
Quote from Dodots »

For some reason my "when to show" preferences aren't working. I tell Skada not to show in PvP or when solo but it does, and sometimes it doesn't show in a party when I have that selected.

Got same problem also...

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Posted Jan 30, 2013
For some reason my "when to show" preferences aren't working. I tell Skada not to show in PvP or when solo but it does, and sometimes it doesn't show in a party when I have that selected.

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Posted Jan 29, 2013
Just checked. The addon isn't tracking the uptime or absorbs of the Colossus weapon enchant. Going to try to add it myself, but an official update would probably be better.

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Posted Feb 4, 2013
I am having exactly same problem in Heart of Fear raid.I deleted addon today to clean install and will share if i get better results.

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Posted Jan 16, 2013
I want to first say I love this addon! But I'm posting to see if it is a known issue that Skada seems to only save two trash pulls in Heart of Fear. I have the option selected to only save boss segments, but it won't. Just those two trash pulls. I can see current fight stats fine, but not previous boss pulls.

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Posted Jan 19, 2013
I thought it was weird Skada wouldn't show data some of the time, but now that I think about it, it was indeed always in Heart of Fear.

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Posted Jan 16, 2013
There's an option in the config somewhere that lets you choose the "default" screen you want (or something to that effect).

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Posted Jan 15, 2013
Skada keeps defaulting to showing "totals" rather than "current fight" every time I zone somewhere. No matter how many times I switch it to "current fight", it will set itself back to "total".

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Posted Feb 9, 2013
Quote from dionnejl »

There's an option in the config somewhere that lets you choose the "default" screen you want (or something to that effect).

Can you (or anyone for that matter) confirm where this option is? I've looked through the options multiple times and I'm having the same issue. From what I can tell looking through the coding it's default is set to current, but keeps doing totals as well.

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Posted Jan 14, 2013
as of today:

Date: 2013-01-14 18:55:01
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...rface\AddOns\Skada\lib\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua line 40:
   bad argument #1 to 'unpack' (table expected, got nil)
Debug:
   [C]: ?
   ...rface\AddOns\Skada\lib\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:40:
      ...rface\AddOns\Skada\lib\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:38
Locals:
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "table expected, got nil"

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Posted Jan 12, 2013
New feature: Have the Number format option change the DPS and HPS column under Damage and Healing.

Maybe even give more options for number formatting.

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Posted Jan 27, 2013
when are you implementing this?

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Posted Jan 11, 2013
Yea, just noticed that myself, tho as far as tested only see it not working on my panda monk...

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Posted Jan 7, 2013
Skada addon stopped working recently on all toons. i have tried deleting and reinstalling multiple times and it still does not appear.

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Posted Jan 3, 2013
Hey, could you Add opacity feature like Raven addon. (was my suggestion) this option you can find under General via "bar groups" tab after you create a bar group

I.E.

Opacity "in Combat" "out of combat" "mouseover" "fade effects" Slider~~=|==========|=======|====~~-=====|===

Photobucket screenshot of said request:

http://s1224.beta.photobucket.com/user/pwnbusiness/media/Untitled146_zpse7ebef00.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Raven Addon http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/raven

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Posted Jan 2, 2013
Skada dosent detect it when players are on other platforms, like on Sha of Fear, it stops recording them completely when your not on the same platform with them, any fix for this?

It really ruins the addon for the fights effected because it dosent provide... accurate numbers.

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