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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Shimiya
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Posted Jul 21, 2018
Is it normal that DPS value is not condensed ?

e.g .: It shows 3387 instead of 3k3

Is this due to the low value ?

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
In patch 8.0 on Bm Hunter when im using Animal Companion Skada dosen't show my and my pet dps together. Any solutions ?

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Posted Jul 29, 2018
In reply to Forge_User_08047873:

I am also experiencing this problem, but I'm guessing every BM hunter is. A solution would be most welcomed :)

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
With the 8.0 version, total healing done bars don't colour by class

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
I use ELVUI latest version and after patch, I can no longer get the skada window to show.

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
In reply to martinboy:

I used the top one in this version list works perfect: https://www.wowace.com/projects/skada/files

I downloaded the file and manually pasted into my addon folder after deleting the old 'Skada' folder

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
In reply to Forge_User_41086200:

Tried that. Still cant toggle Skada window to open to see dps meters. Must be something in ELVUI, because if I disable ELVUI, I can get the skada window to open.

Last edited by martinboy1974: Jul 18, 2018

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
posted my BFA patch 8.0.1 Lua errors in this ticket ( https://www.wowace.com/projects/skada/issues/556 )

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
There's some Alpha builds on WowAce here that might work. Haven't tried them myself yet.

https://www.wowace.com/projects/skada/files

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Posted Jul 17, 2018
Any plans to update this? I like it much better than Details, would be love to keep using it. Thanks for your work.

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Posted Apr 16, 2018
IS THIS PROJECT ABANDONED?

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Posted Apr 16, 2018
Has this project been abandoned?

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Posted May 30, 2018
In reply to Sveganhorde:

Nope.

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Posted Mar 18, 2018
So recently my skada is bit off, im demonology warlock and in raids damage of our hunter hati pet gets added to mine damage done list. why is this how to fix this?

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Posted Feb 12, 2018
Been seeing this bug a little.

33x Skada\Skada-1.7.2.lua:1200: script ran too long
Skada\Skada-1.7.2.lua:1200: in function `Reset'
Skada\Skada-1.7.2.lua:1080: in function <Skada\Skada.lua:1058>
Skada\Skada-1.7.2.lua:1095: in function `?'
Skada\Skada-1.7.2.lua:42: in function <Skada\Skada.lua:41>

Locals:
(*temporary) = <table> {
SetDefaultModuleLibraries = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:398
displays = <table> {
}
UpdateDisplay = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1972
ApplySettings = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1261
CanReset = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1148
EnableModule = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:363
modules = <table> {
}
CancelTimer = <function> defined @Grid\Libs\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:145
IterateEmbeds = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:473
char = <table> {
}
MemoryCheck = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2920
baseName = "Skada"
windowdefaults = <table> {
}
SetNotifyStorage = <function> defined @Skada\lib\LibNotify-1.0\LibNotify-1.0.lua:400
ClearIndexes = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1631
ApplyBorder = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2546
options = <table> {
}
GetSetTime = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2280
versions = <table> {
}
SetDefaultModulePrototype = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:440
getsetlabel_fs = <unnamed> {
}
EndSegment = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1369
AddLoadableModuleCheckbox = <function> defined @Skada\Options.lua:160
defaultModuleState = true
SegmentMenu = <function> defined @Skada\Menus.lua:376
IsEnabled = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:482
AddColumnOptions = <function> defined @Skada\Options.lua:122
ScheduleTimer = <function> defined @Grid\Libs\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:92
DisableModule = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:381
defaults = <table> {
}
AddFeed = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2261
resetoptions = <table> {
}
PET_BATTLE_CLOSE = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1115
OpenReportWindow = <function> defined @Skada\Menus.lua:446
AddDisplaySystem = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2184
FrameSettings = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2567
OpenMenu = <function> defined @Skada\Menus.lua:73
DeleteWindow = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:710
AddLoadableModule = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2928
DeleteSet = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1203
RemoveMode = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2252
db = <table> {
}
OnEnable = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2884
OpenOptions = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2874
OnInitialize = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2764
PetDebug = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:912
ShowTooltip = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2479
enabledState = true
ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1041
FixPets = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2307
ReloadSettings = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1233
PlayerActiveTime = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2289
FormatValueText = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2382
GetSetLabel = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:463
IterateModules = <function> defined @AutoTurnIn\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:468
ENCOUNTER_START = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:1897
SetTooltipPosition = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2346
AddSubviewToTooltip = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2427
GetFeeds = <function> defined @Skada\Skada.lua:2256
ShowPopup = <fun

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Posted Feb 1, 2018
Since I picked up wow, I use it and I thank you for it.

A small question what are the differences with "recount"?

Thank you

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Posted Jan 26, 2018
Is it possible to whisper a blizzard id friend, or someone on another server. And if so, how?

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Posted Jan 9, 2018
where the update?

Aug 30... omggggg

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Posted Dec 21, 2017
Is there any way to remove minimap button? And to remove comfirmation for reset and to be automatic?

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Posted Dec 23, 2017
In reply to draaktorr:

Yes, in the settings. You can access them through the little cogwheel in the upper right of the skada window.

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