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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_ForgeUser2288110
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Posted Mar 10, 2015
Almost perfect but falls short in pvp even though (i think) the fuctionality is there or I'm retarded (good possibility).

Friendly healing shows the spell breakdowns in percents, averages, etc but doesn't show the 'count' while enemy healing does.

Friendly damage shows which spells they did their damage with, how much, and how many. Enemy damage done just shows... who did damage to who.

There isn't a differentiation between offense dispels and cleanses. Trying to weed out someone in an RBG proves to be hard when I see our MW getting a free 150 dispells, a resto druid getting 30 from cleanses, a DK getting 60 from icy touch, etc. The ability tracker could use another layer in its tree as well.

Is this something I can figure out on my own? I mean, I can find the answers to all those questions by bouncing back and forth between 6 different charts, it's jsut a matter of collecting it under the same category.

edit: And I would be SO happy if I could seperate segments by entire (and seperate) battle gounds matches and arenas.

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Posted Mar 6, 2015
It turns itself on even though I have set it it not to when I solo dungeons.

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Posted Mar 5, 2015
is there seriously no way to make the font bigger? I cant see it, its so small

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Posted Mar 10, 2015
if need be you can scale the whole thing larger then reduce all the size seting one at a time.

i havent tried this but it sounds like it would work.

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Posted Mar 16, 2015
Yes, there is, in the addon's configuration window.

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Posted Apr 25, 2015
where? I have looked through the settings

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Posted Mar 1, 2015
Im trying to test my threat on a training dummy but skada disables threat logging. Omen does the same so i cant check my threat using a target dummy. Any idea how I can switch on threat logging on target dummies?

Thanks for any help

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Posted Feb 28, 2015
Message: ...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1-8.lua:128: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value

Time: 02/28/15 01:01:46

Count: 1

Stack: ...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1.lua:128: in function `SavePosition'

Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:638: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:556>

[C]: in function `ApplySettings'

Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:326: in function `EmbedWindow'

Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:334: in function `Embed_Skada'

Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Skins\Skada.lua:70: in function <Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Skins\Skada.lua:68>

[C]: in function `UpdateDisplay'

Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1484: in function `StartCombat'

Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1400: in function `?'

Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:37: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:36>

Locals: frame = SkadaBarWindowDamage {

0 = <userdata>

enablemouse = true

win = <table> {

}

lastBar = <unnamed> {

}

callbacks = <table> {

}

texture = "Interface\Addons\Skada\statusbar\BantoBar"

ClearAllPoints = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:311

gradMap = <table> {

}

colors = <table> {

}

showLabel = true

showIcon = false

spacing = 0

button = <unnamed> {

}

length = -4

SetPoint = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:314

UnregisterAllCallbacks = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:202

offset = 0

fontSize = 12

fontFlags = ""

buttons = <table> {

}

growup = false

resizebutton = BarGroupResizeButton {

}

RegisterCallback = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:118

thickness = 14

font = "Fonts\FRIZQT__.TTF"

UnregisterCallback = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:181

locked = true

orientation = 1

showTimerLabel = true

name = "Damage"

barbackgroundcolor = <table> {

}

}

parent = EmbedSystem_LeftWindow {

0 = <userdata>

}

s = 1

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = SkadaBarWindowDamage {

0 = <userdata>

enablemouse = true

win = <table> {

}

lastBar = <unnamed> {

}

callbacks = <table> {

}

texture = "Interface\Addons\Skada\statusbar\BantoBar"

ClearAllPoints = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:311

gradMap = <table> {

}

colors = <table> {

}

showLabel = true

showIcon = false

spacing = 0

button = <unnamed> {

}

length = -4

SetPoint = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\AddOnSkins\Core\Embed.lua:314

UnregisterAllCallbacks = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:202

offset = 0

fontSize = 12

fontFlags = ""

buttons = <table> {

}

growup = false

resizebutton = BarGroupResizeButton {

}

RegisterCallback = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:118

thickness = 14

font = "Fonts\FRIZQT__.TTF"

UnregisterCallback = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TomTom\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:181

locked = true

orientation = 1

showTimerLabel = true

name = "Damage"

barbackgroundcolor = <table> {

}

}

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = nil

(*temporary) = "attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value"

nilParent = <table> {

GetHeight = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1.lua:115

GetWidth = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1.lua:112

GetScale = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1.lua:118

}

abs = <function> defined =[C]:-1

setStorage = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibWindow-1.1\LibWindow-1.1.lua:61

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Posted Feb 28, 2015
I have the same issue since the patch, Skada no longer shortens player names and instead throws the name underneath which looks pretty terrible and makes it confusing to read.

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Posted Feb 28, 2015
Same issue, bump

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Posted Feb 28, 2015
Same problem here.

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Posted Mar 1, 2015
Also happening to me, using SVUI and docking it.

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Posted Feb 28, 2015
I'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, 2015
Fix 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 14, 2015
Same 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 Mar 13, 2015
Didn't work for me...

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Posted Feb 26, 2015
Is it possible to keep logs for every fight? Like last 3 fights or something.

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Posted Feb 26, 2015
Sometimes 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, 2015
tet seems to be all over with patch 6.1

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Posted Feb 20, 2015
The "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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