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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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Should work again now.

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
After today's update reverse bar growth no longer works.. please fix this.

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
Ever since update, Skada resets itself to tracking per segment, rather than the total. Is there a way to revert this?

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
after updating this today I get this error and it makes my grid2 not work.

Date: 2011-08-18 15:43:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Grid2\GridLayout.lua line 533:
attempt to index local 'f' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:533: UpdateTextures()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:481: UpdateDisplay()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:475: LoadLayout()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:375: ReloadLayout()
Grid2Options\GridLayout.lua:36:
Grid2Options\GridLayout.lua:34
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:798:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:613
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...dOns\AtlasLoot_Loader\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:314: Fire()
...er\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:68:
...er\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:57
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Posted Aug 17, 2011
report error

Skada-r352
BarDisplay.lua:236: Invalid spell ID in GameTooltip:SetSpellByID

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Posted Aug 16, 2011
Is there a reason why are spells tracked by name, and not by id?

For an elemental shaman, distinguishing (e.g.) Lightning Bolt and Lightning Bolt is very useful: there is the 'base' spell, the proc from Elemental Overload, and there are 4 trinkets (the Lightning Capacitor family) that also cast a spell called Lightning Bolt - it looks like Skada is merging them together, but I'd love to see them separate - Recount does that, but meh, Skada is way better.

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Posted Aug 16, 2011
Hm.. never mind me, apparently I'm talking stupid

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Posted Aug 15, 2011
Is there any way to make this new version look like the older versions...i.e. not completely hideous?

Seriously. Other than how lightweight it is, the biggest reason I switched to Skada from Recount was how much better it looked. It looks boxy, clunky and obnoxious now. Rolled back to an older version for now, please either fix this in future versions or at least allow a "classic" view for those of us who loved the old look and feel.

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Posted Aug 16, 2011
Yes, by configuring it. Buttons are removable, resizing is removable (by locking), and textures can be modified too.

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Posted Aug 15, 2011
Can someone explain to me why Skada "absorbs and healing" is so different from what Recount shows? I thought Recount now shows absorbs but both aren't even close when it comes to my healing as disc priest. Is Skada tracking more than Recount when it comes to absorbs? If I'm to believe Skada, I'm top healer but when people link Recount, I'm usually 2nd or 3rd in heals.

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Posted Aug 15, 2011
Tried to report to party:

Date: 2011-08-15 17:12:04
ID: -1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Menus.lua line 413:
bad argument #1 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: format()
Skada\Menus.lua:413: CreateReportWindow()
Skada\Menus.lua:388: OpenReportWindow()
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:40:
Skada\BarDisplay.lua:40

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Posted Aug 14, 2011
Installed the newest version 1.3-3. Hide in BG's bug still there. It still stays up when I enter any battleground when I have the box checked to hide it.

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Posted Aug 15, 2011
I can not reproduce this. With "Hide in PVP" enabled my windows are hidden when I enter a battleground.

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Posted Aug 14, 2011
Reporting error: Please restore the ability to report to a channel.

Date: 2011-08-14 07:51:46
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Menus.lua line 413:
attempt to index local 'window' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Skada\Menus.lua:413: CreateReportWindow()
Skada\Menus.lua:388: OpenReportWindow()
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Posted Aug 14, 2011
I should clarify... please restore the option of where to report on the right click of the minimap button rather than have it try to put up a window. Thank you for such a super addon!

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Posted Aug 14, 2011
@chenyuli

It still works fine though.

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Posted Aug 13, 2011
Thanks. But seems like the project is abandoned. Anyway, Skada is my favorite damage meter addon, thank you!

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Posted Aug 13, 2011
@chenyuli

Not built-in, but there is http://www.wowace.com/addons/skada_friendlyfire/.

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Posted Aug 14, 2011
same boat here, stick with version 1.2-34 and everything works fine

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Posted Aug 13, 2011
Disable ElvUI's Skada skin until it is updated and configure it yourself.

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