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".
Note: I took a tiny break from WoW (a decade), but recently started playing SoD. Be aware that this addon may not quite work yet.
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 easy to extend, and there were once many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality. However, there are unlikely to be any maintained ones currently.
There is a page with API information here.
Reporting issues
For now use comments.
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Posted Mar 1, 2015Also happening to me, using SVUI and docking it.
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Posted Feb 28, 2015I'm having some trouble with the formatting in the lines inside of the bars. It seems to be trying to put the name under the number, like:
1. So-and-so X.xxM (XX.xk, X.x%)
2. X.xxM (XX.xk, X.x%)
Whoever
3. etc.etc.
It doesn't show up perfectly there, but it acts like it's trying to avoid truncating the names and using "..." after them, and just dropping them to the second line inside the same bar, but it ends up looking really messed up.
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Posted Mar 10, 2015Fix for right now: open bardisplay.lua
Line 58:
window.bargroup.button:GetFontString():SetPoint("LEFT", window.bargroup.button, "LEFT", 5, 1)
Right above that, put this:
window.bargroup.button:GetFontString():SetWordWrap(false)
The above fixes the title bar. I believe the next bit fixes the bars within the window.
Line 457:bar:SetScript("OnSizeChanged",BarResize) -- ticket 365: required to resize bgtexture
Insert this line above that:
bar:SetWordWrap(false)
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Posted Mar 13, 2015Didn't work for me...
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Posted Mar 14, 2015Same issue, came here just to report this. Players name aren't shortened anymore and they take two lines, making everything seems out of place. Looks very ugly. Is there a possible fix in the works? Thanks!
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Posted Feb 26, 2015Is it possible to keep logs for every fight? Like last 3 fights or something.
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Posted Feb 26, 2015Sometimes my skada mysteriously dissapears, refuses to come back up untill i reload, even clicking the minimap button wont bring it back up, no errors found.
It is a custom skada window and i deleted the original.
Using dbm(and expansion add's), bartender4, auctionator, atlasloot, ackis, postal, sexymap, acheivments reminder and master plan.
Everything is set to be updated to the latest Alpha and everything is fully updated, has been happening since 6.1
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Posted Feb 24, 2015tet seems to be all over with patch 6.1
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Posted Feb 20, 2015The "hide in combat" and "hide when solo" options do not play well together, since with "hide in combat" on, the window appears when combat ends even if you're ungrouped and have "hide when solo" on too.
I know the Curse description says that bug reports should go to WowAce and not here, but there's already a 5-year-old unaddressed ticket for the issue (http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada/tickets/120-window-appears-after-combat-even-though-it-is-set-to/), so I didn't want to make a duplicate one.
It's an easy fix: add "and not (self.db.profile.hidesolo and not IsInGroup())" to Skada.lua:1385.
I've made the change locally and it works perfectly, but it'd be nice not to have to make it again with each update.
Thanks in advance!
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Posted Feb 19, 2015Anyone know how to change the max number of bars dispayed? I can't find the option.
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Posted Feb 25, 2015I think u just need to make your window the size u want it to be
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Posted Feb 25, 2015When 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.
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Posted Mar 27, 2015I 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.
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Posted Feb 26, 2015Same thing here. It only starts recording when i do dmg, not when the figt starts.
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Posted Feb 18, 2015One 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?
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Posted Feb 14, 2015Hey, 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.
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Posted Feb 13, 2015Hey, 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
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Posted Feb 25, 2015had same issue, it was 'cuz I was not in combat, try hitting a tank dummy
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Posted Feb 8, 2015Can 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
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Posted Feb 5, 2015Is there any way to change to colour of Skada, from the default purple shades?