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Compatibility:	Return to Karazhan (7.1.5)
Updated:	05-15-17 03:19 AM
Created:	02-12-09 11:56 AM
Downloads:	622,565
Favorites:	2,068
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Categories:	Data Mods, Combat Mods

Skada Damage Meter

Version: 1.6.7

by: zarnivoop, funkydude, oscarucb

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.

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 forum thread for discussion on Skada.
Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted. There is a page with API information here.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

1.6.7:
Added Buffs and Debuffs modes, an alternative to the Debuff/Buff uptimes modes.

1.6.4:
Added in-game changelog by way of LibNotify.
Added update frequency option.

1.6.3:
Fixed an issue for RealUI.
Moved configuration out from the Blizzard interface panel.

1.6.2:
Added a "Smooth bars" option, off by default.
Doubled update frequency.

1.6.1:
Added mode list sorting by usage (option, on by default).
Added tooltips to mode list.

1.6.0:
Added optional spell school colors and tooltip information.
Tweaked some default cosmetics.
Adapted to new dev site.

1.5-14:
Added icons for mode and segment views.
Fix for Hide when Solo option.

1.5-13:
Toc update for 7.1.

1.5-12:
Fixes for buffs/debuffs.

1.5-11:
Added subviews to DPS mode.
Fixed a rare bug in the debuffs module.

1.5-10:
Fixed a recently introduced issue with the modes list going all wacky.

1.5-9:
Added spell hit/crit details.
Added a few more power gains modes.
Fixed title bar color changes not sticking.
Made the mode selection popup a little prettier by categorizing.

1.5-8:
Changed back segments to keep default setting to 10 from 20.
Code optimizations.

1.5-7:
Added themes.
Fixed up tooltip positioning.
Added spell details for the Total healing mode.

1.5-6:
Reverted the change to the Total segment. Fingers, you failed me!
Bit of configuration cleanup.
Fixed reverse growth and right to left orientation.

1.5-4:
Added a simply optional frame for the Data text display.
Cleaned up configuration a bit.
Changed the Total segment to not be saved, but recalculated at startup. This fixes an early design flaw (Total was never the sum of all segments, but a separate thing). Fingers crossed there's no breakage...
Greater Blessing of Might and Stormlash is now handled.

1.5-3:
Fixed tooltip not hiding.

1.5-2:
Fix for recent changes.

1.5-1:
Added new Inline display system.
Added new Broker display system.
Fixed Bar display's border settings.
Added Strata option for Bar and Inline displays.
Fixed an issue with debuff uptimes mode giving an error when showing a specific player during a new segment.

1.4-35:
Fix for Soul Effigy.
New "Always show self" option.
Various Legion fixes.

1.4-34:
Updated for Legion

Optional Files (3)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date	Type
Skada Graphs	1.1-13	166kB	zarnivoop	08-19-16 12:01 PM	Addon
Skada 4.2 PTR Fan Update	1.2-32b	894kB	Fiercy	05-14-11 09:20 AM	Patch
Shadow Apparition	1.0	8kB	zarnivoop	01-11-11 05:43 PM	Addon

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Skada Damage Meter	1.4-14	875kB	zarnivoop	09-15-13 06:42 AM
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Skada Damage Meter	1.4-9	873kB	zarnivoop	03-08-13 08:02 AM
Skada Damage Meter	1.4-8	874kB	zarnivoop	12-24-12 03:47 AM
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Skada Damage Meter	1.4-5	875kB	zarnivoop	10-20-12 06:43 AM
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Skada Damage Meter	1.3-11	867kB	zarnivoop	02-14-12 02:15 AM
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Skada Damage Meter	1.3-2	859kB	zarnivoop	08-09-11 04:34 AM
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Skada Damage Meter	1.0-10	707kB	zarnivoop	03-03-09 04:53 AM
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01-25-17, 02:28 PM
hugomarciano A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 6 Uploads: 0	Skada disappered after cutscene Date: 2017-01-25 18:26:59 ID: 1 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 1: Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Cannot find a library instance of "LibNotify-1.0". Debug: [C]: ? ...\AddOns\AchieveIt\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:220: EmbedLibrary() ...\AddOns\AchieveIt\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:202: EmbedLibraries() ...\AddOns\AchieveIt\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:169: NewAddon() Skada\Skada.lua:1: in main chunk Locals: (*temporary) = "Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Cannot find a library instance of "LibNotify-1.0"." AddOns: ClassColors, v7.0.3.1 Swatter, v7.3a.5701 (TasmanianThylacine) AchieveIt, v AltzUI, v7.17 AltzUIConfig, v7.17 Skada, v1.6.4 BlizRuntimeLib_ptBR v7.1.5.70100 <none> (ck=b2)

11-08-16, 08:29 PM
mulder A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 10 Uploads: 0	delete Last edited by mulder : 11-08-16 at 08:49 PM.

10-19-16, 01:24 PM
devilArt An Aku'mai Servant Forum posts: 39 File comments: 156 Uploads: 1	Please add spec icon option, it's really useful.

09-28-16, 07:40 AM

griddark

A Kobold Labourer

Forum posts: 1

File comments: 52

Uploads: 4

Originally Posted by Wiltock

Got this error today, I was in WSG at the time. Not sure if it happens anywhere else because I had just enabled the healing part of the mod.

[2009/03/09 21:03:51-1124-x1]: SkadaHealing-1.0\TotalHealing.lua:28: attempt to compare number with nil
<in C code>: ?
SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:868: in function `SortBars'
SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:419: in function <...ib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:410>
(tail call): ?:
Skada-1.0\Skada.lua:1470: in function `CreateBar'
SkadaHealing-1.0\TotalHealing.lua:56: in function `Update'
Skada-1.0\Skada.lua:1158: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1136>
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[2]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:144: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:118>

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Got it too, along with a bunch of others
Message: ...ib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:1000: <unnamed>:SetPoint(): <unnamed> is dependent on this
Time: 09/28/16 23:12:15
Count: 2
Stack: [C]: ?
[C]: in function `SetPoint'
...ib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:1000: in function `SortBars'
...ib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:540: in function `NewBarFromPrototype'
...ib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0\SpecializedLibBars-1.0.lua:565: in function `NewCounterBar'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:504: in function `CreateBar'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\BarDisplay.lua:293: in function `Update'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:335: in function `UpdateDisplay'
Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:2006: in function `?'
...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:53: in function <...AddOns\ElvUI\Libraries\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:48>

Not sure what's causing it, but my guess is something between elvui and skada. I've run elvui and skada before, but I recently redid my ui and it's no longer resetting on new fights, and acting all weird.

01-11-16, 05:14 AM
Akumies A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 6 Uploads: 0	There should be option as Skada Chat Frame Integrator. Basicaly, just integrates Skada to the new chat tab.

06-26-15, 05:20 AM

Basso

A Fallenroot Satyr

Forum posts: 22

File comments: 32

Uploads: 5

Originally Posted by Massiveunit

Any1 know how to turn off names on bars as well as dps numbers. I just want the bar with no writing on it. What do I have to do in the lua? What lines do i have to change?
Thank U

have you tried just turning both text and bar color to the same?

03-01-15, 09:29 AM
Massiveunit A Black Drake Forum posts: 81 File comments: 26 Uploads: 0	Any1 know how to turn off names on bars as well as dps numbers. I just want the bar with no writing on it. What do I have to do in the lua? What lines do i have to change? Thank U

02-19-15, 08:53 PM

geekyadam

A Black Drake

Forum posts: 82

File comments: 1

Uploads: 0

Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem creating windows

Originally Posted by BalwickMaggy

Originally Posted by sundafyllir

I'd just like to throw in that I am also having this issue. I'm not seeing any errors show up. I can run "/skada" commands, edit the config, but the windows themselves are gone.

Originally Posted by zheytac

I'm having the same problem as below. I tried to install an older version, and while it gave me my Damage window back, my other window has vanished, and when I'm trying to create a new one, it fails.

Originally Posted by bartg71

Ever since updating to the most recent version of Skada, upon logging back into the game, there are no default windows and attempting to create new ones simply fails. Anyone else having this problem? I deleted all previous WTF saved variables and installed fresh, same issue. Not sure how to fix.

I'll just add my name to confirm I have the problem too. There's also a Skada rescale triangle thing floating around the middle of the screen.

Same here. Hopefully devs will fix soon. Almost made me consider switching back to Recount...but I came to my senses quickly.

Details looks promising now, but missing a few features and cleaner look of Skada.
<3 Skada
Let's get this fixed soon devs plskthx.

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01-24-15, 05:51 AM

BalwickMaggy

A Cliff Giant

Forum posts: 72

File comments: 15

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Re: Re: Re: Problem creating windows

Originally Posted by sundafyllir

I'd just like to throw in that I am also having this issue. I'm not seeing any errors show up. I can run "/skada" commands, edit the config, but the windows themselves are gone.

Originally Posted by zheytac

I'm having the same problem as below. I tried to install an older version, and while it gave me my Damage window back, my other window has vanished, and when I'm trying to create a new one, it fails.

Originally Posted by bartg71

I'll just add my name to confirm I have the problem too. There's also a Skada rescale triangle thing floating around the middle of the screen.

01-21-15, 09:43 PM

sundafyllir

A Kobold Labourer

Forum posts: 0

File comments: 1

Uploads: 0

Re: Re: Problem creating windows

I'd just like to throw in that I am also having this issue. I'm not seeing any errors show up. I can run "/skada" commands, edit the config, but the windows themselves are gone.

Originally Posted by zheytac

I'm having the same problem as below. I tried to install an older version, and while it gave me my Damage window back, my other window has vanished, and when I'm trying to create a new one, it fails.

Originally Posted by bartg71

01-19-15, 12:51 AM
taiya A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 24 Uploads: 0	is there a way to macro the mode change? i want to macro a toggle between damage and healing. also is there a way to toggle windows independently of eachother instead of toggling everything on and off at the same time?

01-17-15, 03:26 AM

zheytac

A Murloc Raider

Forum posts: 5

File comments: 2

Uploads: 0

Re: Problem creating windows

I'm having the same problem as below. I tried to install an older version, and while it gave me my Damage window back, my other window has vanished, and when I'm trying to create a new one, it fails.

Originally Posted by bartg71

Last edited by zheytac : 01-17-15 at 03:28 AM.

11-01-14, 12:55 PM
bartg71 A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 32 Uploads: 0	Problem creating windows Ever since updating to the most recent version of Skada, upon logging back into the game, there are no default windows and attempting to create new ones simply fails. Anyone else having this problem? I deleted all previous WTF saved variables and installed fresh, same issue. Not sure how to fix.

10-28-14, 02:43 AM
Ogriku A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 9 File comments: 43 Uploads: 0	switched to this at the start of Mist from recount. Never goin back. This to good __________________

08-15-14, 06:08 PM
baterax A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 17 File comments: 4 Uploads: 0	Position issue Hi!!! So, this problem is quite simple, and I saw other people have it but didn't find a solution or reply. It's just that every time I log off and back on, the skada windows change position. No errors or anything...they just move. It's making me crazy. What gives? Thanks in advance!

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