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.
Great Addon. If it had scrollbars so that I could see all 25 Raiders it would be even greater. Thank you for all your hard work.
anyway the hide in pvp option can be fixed? it hides for a game or two then after that it pops up every single time even with it checked it always happens.
thanks for the addon and work put into it.
Misanagi,
Yes, if your computer can handle Recount it can surely handle Skada, which is lighter on both memory and CPU usage. I can not say what your problem is though. It is not a general issue at least, as I have never heard of it before.
How do I hide the minimap button?
Unfortunately it's just Skada. I've run several memory intensive mods at once and had no problem. Recount/Gatherer/Xperl all at once. No problem what so ever.
I'll try the new revision you released and see what happens.
edit: My PC isn't the best, but it should be able to handle this no problem. 2x 2.0g processors and 3gb of ram, plenty of hard drive space that's defragged and virus free.
Misanagi,
Does it only happen with Skada? Ie, if you disable Skada and use tons of memory-intense addons, do you get crashes? Skada can not crash your game directly, as it like all addons just uses Blizzard APIs, but I was thinking your machine could have some memory issues perhaps.
The Threat part of the addon is not finished, it does show threat but it doesnt show hidden threat. As i play a mage this is very frustrating since i dont know what my threat is when i use my mirror images and thus dont know if i need to invis or not.
My guess is this will count for all the other similar effects like Fade aswell, so a quick fix would be lovely! <3
Hello.
I get a horrible problem with this mod that makes me crash sporadically during anything ranging from 5 mans to raids.
I've tried dropping a few of the modules I don't really need, debuff uptime, power, CC, fail reports.
I use the main Skada window and don't create any new ones. I generally have the window switch to threat mode during combat also.
Apart from changing font/bar sizes etc most of the configuration is default, save for only keeping boss segments.
I only use Bigwigs and EBB and I have tried using nothing but Skada but still run into crashes so I don't think its a mod conflict problem.
Has anyone experienced this problem and found a way to fix it?
I really do like Skada and would much rather use it than Recount, though this crash problem is not really letting me do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just one thing I noticed: I can't whisper a report when I am dead. It just does not show the window where I can type the name of the recipient. Only when I am alive does the window show. Is there a fix or workaround for this?