Skada Damage Meter
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.
I think u just need to make your window the size u want it to be
Anyone know how to change the max number of bars dispayed? I can't find the option.
When I do that, it only makes the window bigeer or smaller. The same number of bars (7) appear. Creatling a new window, I get several more bars, but don't see anywhere to change the number of bars visible there either.
I figured it out. If the window is unlocked, there is a drag icon in one of the corners. It's hard to see depending on your coloring.
Same thing here. It only starts recording when i do dmg, not when the figt starts.
One thing I noticed is that it doesn't start "recording" data when fight starts, but it goes only when I engage so people that were dealing damage/healing before I attacked weren't recorded... Is that a thing that others have or am I going crazy?
Hey, wonderulf addon I love it.
I was just wondering if it was possible for you to code the different types of meters such as the "tab" feature in a web browser. So i could click "DPS tab" Healing Tab" without having both meters on my screen... Just a suggestion.
had same issue, it was 'cuz I was not in combat, try hitting a tank dummy
Hey, is Skada working with training dummies? I tried to work on them, but i have no data from Skada. Maybe its a special setting? Ty in advance
Can you please change the Anchorpoint of the Frame to ParentUI or something similar? Or add a little dropdownmenu to choose the Anchorpoint?
I'm asking, because i'm currently playing on eyefinity, and Skada always changes it's position. Recount doesn't do that, but is not as awesome as Skada, and I really want to continue to use Skada.
Thanks
Is there any way to change to colour of Skada, from the default purple shades?
Yes, there is a way to do it, just open Interface, go to Skada, and somewhere there there's a option to change the bar color and layout.
Just can't remember right now where it is exactly...
For some reason when I set my Skada windows' position and lock them, then relog on my characters it moves the two windows to the top right hand corner of the screen on top of each other. It's really annoying. Any reason why this is happening? I tried removing all lua/bak files in WTF folder. It still does it.
Got this error on load
42x ...bs\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0-99001.lua:320: Usage: <unnamed>:SetScript("type", function)
[C]: in function `SetScript'
...bs\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0-99001.lua:320: in function `AddButton'
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:37: in function `Create'
Skada\Skada-1.4-28.lua:640: in function `CreateWindow'
Skada\Skada-1.4-28.lua:1162: in function `ReloadSettings'
Skada\Skada-1.4-28.lua:2488: in function <Skada\Skada.lua:2487>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...aceMasque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
...aceMasque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <...aceMasque\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:327: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:401: in function `TimeManager_LoadUI'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:828: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:789>
Locals:
nil
Whenever I am in a group, and we queue together as a bg, when we get out of the BG, my skada doesn't reset or ask to reset. I've deleted my cache and reinstalled, and still experience this only if I'm in a group.
Well, this is pretty much a dealbreaker. I've asked many people, and no one seems to know how to fix this. Back to Recount.
You should delete all!!! lua/bak files regarding skada in wtf folder and check if you have any addon what could mess with skada window such as moveanything or blizzmove. Addon windows dont move without any reason, so something went bad with your skada settings or some other addon is messing with you.
Is there a way to make it so the windows actually stay where I put them? Every time I switch characters, the main damage window puts itself directly over my minimap and locks itself, no matter what i've done with it previously. How do I stop this?
is there a way to pause skada data collection where it is no longer needed, for example in a BG. similar functionality exists in recount as /recount <pause/resume>
Interface -> Addons -> Skada -> General options -> Check "Hide in PvP" and "Disable while hidden".