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.
problem with affli lock and soul effigy talent, damage dealt to the effigy is counted twice, once when dealt to the effigy and again when dealt to the target, at least seems so
Thanks for 7.0.3 update. Recount sucks.
:-)
Still not 7.03 updated =(
I've used this addon for over month or so without problems, but just moment ago I could not set up my character into battleground (PVP). I got an error saying that Skada interrupts the UI. Disabling this addon and reloading ui allowed me to enter into battleground.
I wish skada had support for the option of spec icons as well as class icons. I would love to instantly see what spec someone is on the charts!
My skada window resets to the wrong position after /reload. I was able to find a breakpoint at 439 for the "x" value in the config file. As long as the actual window position is 439 or lower, it works. As soon as the value would get 440 or bigger, skada saves a wrong value to the file.
Then I made the file read-only and tried to set the position manually. ["x"] = 439 works fine. ["x"] = 440 sets the window several hundred pixels too far.
Similar behavior for the y-value.
I'am using a resolution of 3840x2160 with an uiscale of 0.35555...(pixelperfect) if that matters somehow.
Would be possible to make an option to make your own bar always visible? For example I'm low in dps and given the window size my bar wouldn't be visible, with this option the bottomest bar would be replaced with the one representing me with the usual number showing my actual ranking.
Hi on skada when you set border for skada window bar overlap on those borders is there way to keep bar inside the window rather then overlapping to make it look clean
For example you can see what i mean
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pyxKYG4.png[/img]
As you can see top 2 bars are overlapping on white border on left and right so it got me wondering is there way to keep those bars inside window borders
I just realized Affliction Lock damage is counting all damage done to Soul Effigy into the total. Is there a way to make it ignore the damage being done to effigy?
My skada was still working well before the realm merging to icecrown but afterwards, it didn't work so i DL the 1.4-33 version but it still doesn't work (it says out of date) how to fix this?
Will the unstable felshadow emulsion trinket be included in heal meters any time soon? No one really pays attention to the weakaura for it.
Hey! i have a problem...
everytime i hit a new target my damage meter just reset...
even if i change to "total damage" it go back to "DPS current fight" how do i fix it?
/skada config => Windows => Mode Switching
currently dueling a guild mate outside orgimmar, my arcane mage vrs his prot warrior, he is in party * not raid *, skada is recording the damage he is taking, but showing a 0 for my damage done? works normally on the rest of my toons, do i need to tick a setting or just reinstall the app?
after returning to garrison i tested on dungeon training dummy and it seemed to be recording accuratley, each spell had a damage increase and appeared on the list
Can someone help me with a silly little issue I keep having. Certain characters of mine have a problem where the position of their Skada keeps resetting after I change it when I switch characters. Skada is not set to read only anywhere that I can tell, but I also don't know all of the places where settings are saved.
The "Hide When Solo" option doesn't seem to work consistently? It still displays the window unfortunately.
I'm not sure if Skada already does this, or another mod might, but is there a setting in Skada to record/report unnecessary damage taken, i.e., people are standing in the wrong place? The total damage taken could be used to infer this, but it might be nice to have a raid/instance message that called out people for taking more than some % fraction of their health from damage that they should be avoiding?
Thanks for your time.
I'm having an issue with two of my characters, where no matter where I put the dmg meter as soon as I close the game, they return to being on top of my minimap. All of the other toons, it will stay where it's put. I've removed the saves for those toons in the WTF folder, and it changes nothing. I've copied the profiles from other toons, and it still happens.
When playing my enhance shaman my meter will say I did such and such damage but on everyone elses meter it says its lower then it says on mine. While on my hunter however I dont have this issue. I have updated the addon recently and still same issue. Its not a range issue because even the other melee show me as lower on thiers then it shows on mine. On Xhul there were 3 melee whos damage was higher on my meter but on logs all of them were lower which is why i thought it was a range issue but on Killrogg another melee saidhis meter was the same as the ranged meter showing my damage was lower than mine. Anyone know why and how i can fix this?
Every time I use Skada, the longer it takes to logout my char. As long as waiting about 10~20 seconds to log out. So, I have to delete the file Skada.lua so I can change chars/exit game without the horrible delay.
Is there any way to block Skada from saving that file, or not keep logs at all? It's very irritating having to wait more and more to change characters every time I use Skada...