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".

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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_ForgeUser1897517
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Posted Mar 16, 2009
tested 1.1-1 today.

no errors

its really coming together, nice work. I know a couple of items that I need have already been planned by author or others have suggested, but I thought I would do a simple side by side with results from Skada and Recount.

RECOUNT SKADA

dps 2145.9 1871.1
time 59.45s (89%) 14:19 - 14:21
dmg 144,076 144,076
sum view count,dmg,% (n/a yet),dmg,%
details hit, crit hit, crit
details count count
details min,avg,max (n/a yet)
DoT uptime count, % of spells % of fighttime, no count

Suggestions or Enhancements:

Add total fight duration in secs, along with current start/stop times.
on DPS view is it possible to put players fight time in seconds.
add count to Summary DMG View, so we can see the number of spells or DoT and total dmg with %percentage.
on Detail DMG View, I think you talked about adding min/avg/max to view. That would be awesome.
on DoT Uptime view, I am not sure what the percentage values mean. I was hoping they were showing the actual DoT count as % of potential. For example, as Shadow Priest, I usually do a fast calc on DoT uptime by taking the fight time / 3 = approx count of DoTs.
Show an Activity View of all players fight time and maybe ending combat if possible (connected to death), so we can see who died early or is slacking.

Thanks for the above considerations,

and keep up the good work.

p.s I am a nub at forum formatting; tried to get the table to align (sigh)
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Posted Mar 16, 2009
Options.lua line 58

name = L["Windows"],

change

name = "Windows",

line 512

name = "Windows",

change

name = L["Windows"],

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Posted Mar 16, 2009
works again :D thx

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
Nephtys_ch: should be fixed in r150. Please confirm.

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
French client :

great addon ;)

but i have a problem with the r149, i see only the actual datas, the other segments are clean :(

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
I switched from r135 to r147 and after that Skada isn't change to show dps, and I can't hide it when I'm soloing.

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
arjTPA: Were you in the Total set by any chance, having just updated to r147 and not having had the Enemies modes available before?

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Posted Mar 14, 2009
r147 throws this error.

[20:35:58] Interface\AddOns\SkadaEnemies\Enemies.lua:104: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) [C]: ? [C]: in function `pairs' Interface\AddOns\SkadaEnemies\Enemies.lua:104: in function `Update' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1633: in function `UpdateBars' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:215: in function `DisplayMode' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1647: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1647>

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Posted Mar 14, 2009
When can we receive a fix to this bug; it doesn't remember our reporting preference [Party, Say, Guild, etc.]. I'd really appreciate it if you can make this AddOn remember that preference.

Thanks

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Posted Mar 16, 2009
1.1-1 will remember reporting preference during a session, but not persistently. Good idea though - added to my to-do list.

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Posted Mar 14, 2009
Date: 2009-03-13 23:39:41
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua line 104:
bad argument #1 to 'rad' (number expected, got nil)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
[C]: rad()
...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:104:
...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:103
...ace\AddOns\Skada\lib\LibDBIcon-1.0\LibDBIcon-1.0.lua:231: Show()
Skada\Skada.lua:194: ShowMMButton()
Skada\Skada.lua:686: ReloadSettings()
Skada\Skada.lua:96:
Skada\Skada.lua:51
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...ventory\Externals\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:469: InitializeAddon()
...ventory\Externals\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:582:
...ventory\Externals\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:575

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Posted Mar 14, 2009
I get this same error.

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Posted Mar 13, 2009
Hi,

I have this errors if I use the mod:

[2009/03/13 23:15:02-1859-x7]: SkadaDispels-1.0\Dispels.lua:66: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'interrupts' (a nil value)
SkadaDispels-1.0\Dispels.lua:107: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Atlas):146: in function
:"safecall Dispatcher[15]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4>
: ?
:"safecall Dispatcher[15]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Atlas):91: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Bartender4):73: in function <...AddOns\Bartender4\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:72>

and

[2009/03/13 23:24:09-1859-x2]: SkadaDispels-1.0\Dispels.lua:63: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'interrupts' (a nil value)
SkadaDispels-1.0\Dispels.lua:107: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Atlas):146: in function
:"safecall Dispatcher[15]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4>
: ?
:"safecall Dispatcher[15]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Atlas):91: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (Bartender4):73: in function <...AddOns\Bartender4\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:72>

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I use V.: 1.0-15. Wow german client.

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
seem my minimap button is broke. latest version and minimap button keeps reappearing even though I have it selected off.

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Posted Mar 11, 2009
I'm still having the same issue, both on live game and PTR i see a big shaman discrepancy. All other classes and numbers match between recount and skada but shaman (much higher on recount)... This also happens when comparing threat reads between skada and omen (which i was also looking to replace in the upcoming patch). I don’t play the shaman class, so it’s hard to dissect the numbers and see what’s missing. Is anyone else reporting this?

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Posted Mar 11, 2009
This is a relly great AddOn, using this since several weeks and love it a lot.

But there is one smaller thing I would like to add to the report-function:
- Report DPS/Threat and so on to the Whisper-Channel (I love to spam my friends <3).

Grettings from Germany,
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Posted Mar 11, 2009
[I hope my english is not too bad to understand :>]

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Posted Mar 16, 2009
In 1.1-1 you can report using whispers.

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Posted Mar 10, 2009
I'm testing this as a replacement for Omen and Recount. Found a couple things that I'd like to see addressed. First, reporing needs a /whisper target option. Second, needs an AoE mode or something to pick up threat when casting AoE but not having a mob targeted. Third, it seems to loos track of mage aggro after Mirror Image is cast.

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Posted Mar 10, 2009
Doesn't seem to save setting between sessions, every time I log in I have to play with the dropdown menus before it remembers and reverts to the profile. Please fix.

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Project ID

17718
Created

Feb 12, 2009
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