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Compatibility: | Classic (1.15.2) Plunderstorm (10.2.6) WOTLK Patch (3.4.3) |
Updated: | 04-03-24 03:14 AM |
Created: | 10-11-10 09:56 PM |
Downloads: | 145,291 |
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Categories: | Buff, Debuff, Spell, Casting Bars, Cooldowns |
For feature suggestions and/or bug reports, please use our issue tracker.
Major Features
1) Customizable timer bar and icon configurations to monitor buffs, debuffs and cooldowns
2) Multi-target HoT and DoT tracking bars
3) Timelines to show buff, debuff and cooldown icons sliding along a bar
4) Comprehensive condition checking to support buffing/debuffing, spell rotations, etc.
5) Data broker display with horizontal stripe configuration
6) Value bars to show game and player info plus unit frame data
Installation and Configuration
Install Raven by copying its files into your WoW addons folder (or use your favorite addons update utility).
You can bring up a configuration panel by typing in "/raven" or clicking on Raven's optional minimap button or data broker icon. Raven includes detailed tooltips for most options in the configuration panel.
Raven project page: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/raven
Bufflehead project page: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bufflehead (for cancelling player buffs in combat)
Compatible with Shadowlands and Classic
The latest releases include support for both retail and classic servers. For classic servers, this release is intended to provide basic compatibility but not to be optimized to exactly match classic's functionality.
Getting Started
The quickest way to get started with Raven is to use the standard bar groups on the Setup tab of the configuration panel. Standard bar groups offer a variety of presentations of buffs and debuffs on the player, target and focus plus cooldowns for the player.
Select the standard bar groups you want (hint: you probably don't want all the player buff bar groups since that will result in duplicates) and click either the Create As Bars or Create As Icons button. This will create an anchor for each selected bar group near the center of your display that you can move by clicking and dragging.
When you mouse over an anchor you'll see a tooltip with shortcuts for changing the bar group's configuration and for showing test bars. You can lock and unlock the bar group anchors using buttons on the configuration panel Setup tab (locked anchors are hidden, unlocked anchors are visible). The Defaults tab lets you change the appearance of your bars with configuration options for bar dimensions, fonts and textures.
Using Bar Groups
Once you set up standard bar groups, timer bars or icons will be displayed for buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. Bars will be in standard colors which can be customized on the Defaults tab (and overridden in each bar group, see More Customization below).
After using Raven a while, you will probably want to make some adjustments. Perhaps you don't like the default colors of the bars or you want to switch between bars and icons. Or maybe you want a dedicated bar group for the procs and cooldowns you monitor closely during combat.
At this point, it is necessary to understand that there are two types of bar groups: auto bar groups and custom bar groups. Auto bar groups are used to automatically display bars for buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. Most of the standard bar groups (all except Notifications) are pre-configured auto bar groups. Custom bar groups allow you to manually configure bars for a mix of buffs, debuffs, cooldowns and notifications. Typically, custom bar groups are used to present spell rotations and buff/cleansing reminders.
Auto Bar Groups
Open the configuration panel and click on the Bar Groups tab. Using the pull-down menu near the top, select any existing standard bar group (except Notifications) or create a new auto bar group by clicking on the New Auto Group button. A second set of tabs appears that lets you configure the selected bar group.
You use the Buffs, Debuffs, and Cooldowns tabs to specify what kinds of bars to display (and which ones to filter out). These tabs lets you control how the bar group is populated as new buffs, debuffs and cooldowns are detected. For buffs and debuffs, you specify who the action must be on and who it must be cast by. For cooldowns, you specify what kinds of cooldowns to detect. When new buffs, debuffs and cooldowns are detected that match the criteria, bars for them are automatically displayed.
Auto bar groups have filter lists to let you suppress showing unwanted bars. Both black lists (i.e., don't show if on the list) and white lists (i.e., only show if on the list) are supported. You can manage filter lists on the Buff, Debuff and Cooldown tabs.
Custom Bar Groups
While the standard bar groups provide an easy way to get started, you might also want to set up bar groups that contain just the bars you care about during combat. For example, to support your feral druid's DPS rotation you might want bars for the Savage Roar buff on the player, Mangle, Rake and Rip debuffs on the target, and Tiger's Fury and Berserk cooldowns.
To create a new custom bar group, open the Raven configuration panel, select the Bar Groups tab, then click on New Custom Group and enter a name (e.g., "Combat Bars"). This will bring up a new, empty bar group. To add bars, select the Custom Bars tab and click the New button.
When you click the New button, the configuration panel is put into bar creation mode (you won't be able to access other options until you click either Okay or Cancel at the bottom of the scrollable options). Select a bar type (e.g., buff, debuff, cooldown) and then appropriate options. For example, when you select Buff, you can then enter a spell name. Pay particular attention to correctly setting who the action is on and who it is cast by. Click Okay to finishing adding the bar (it is now included in the list of bars and can be customized by clicking on it and adjusting its associated options). You can repeat the bar creation process by clicking New again to add any mix of bar types.
The Custom Bars tab also lets you make changes to bars after they have been added. Select any individual bar to bring up configuration options that let you adjust its color, label text, special effects, and other properties. You can toggle enable to disable the bar.
More Customization
You can further customize bar groups using configuration settings in the General, Layout, Appearance, and Timer Options tabs. The following is a brief description of what each tab supports (mouse over options for explanatory tooltips).
The General tab provides options to enable/disable the entire bar group, rename the bar group, specify how bars are sorted, conditionally show/hide the bar group, and adjust settings for mouse clicks, tooltips, and special effects (e.g., pulsing icons, flashing on expiration).
The Layout and Appearance tabs let you modify the look of the selected bar group. You can adjust the bar group's configuration and the direction that bars grow from the anchor. You can select alternate coloring schemes which, among other things, let you show each spell with a custom color that you can define on the Spells tab. You can adjust dimensions, fonts and textures (after overriding defaults set on the Defaults tab). You can turn on and off particular characteristics (icon, colored bar, spark, label, etc.) and change their relative positions. If you prefer icon-based interfaces, Raven includes configurations featuring large icons with optional mini-bars. You can also attach bar groups to each other to facilitate alignment (including the ability to attach to a bar group's last bar so a stack of bar groups can expand and shrink as needed). Play around some and check out the range of possible designs (hint: you can shift-left-click on a bar group anchor to show test bars).
The Timer Options tab lets you adjust settings related to bar duration and time left. You can set all bars in a group to have a uniform duration (this makes it easy to compare how much time is left on bars with similar, but slightly different, durations). You can specify whether to show bars with unlimited duration (e.g., paladin auras). You can filter bars based on their durations and amount of time left (this is how the standard bar groups separate short buffs from long buffs).
Bar groups can have background panels and borders. Set them up in the Defaults tab to show them for all bar groups or in the Appearance tab for individual bar groups. You can enable a background panel with texture, color, and size (size is specified as padding in pixels from the bar group's bars and icons). You can enable a background border separately with a border design, color, edge size, and inset (inset helps merge panel and border correctly).
Multi-Target Buff and Debuff Tracking
Raven includes multi-target buff and debuff tracking similar to other DoT and HoT timer addons. The Setup tab now includes Buff Tracker and Debuff Tracker standard bar groups. These bar groups will group timer bars for buffs or debuffs that you cast on each target and, by default, will show a header with the target name above its associated timer bars. Optionally, you can include the target name in the timer bar labels instead of showing headers (set Hide Headers on the General tab for the bar group). Use black list and white list filtering capabilities in these bar groups to customize them (e.g., you can make a Beacon of Light tracker by creating a HoT timer bar group with only that spell in its white list). You might want to stick with bar-oriented configurations for these since the headers (which include raid target icons and indicate current target, focus or mouseover unit) are currently designed to work best as bars.
Conditions
Raven monitors a variety of events during play and can display notifications when certain conditions are met. While somewhat complex to set up, conditions are quite powerful and can help with spell rotations, decursing, etc. Raven includes default conditions for each class for basics like making sure you have class-specific buffs during combat.
Conditions can be used in Raven to trigger notifications and to control whether or not bar groups are visible. Generally speaking, once you set up a condition you will want to set up a notification bar to show you when the condition is true. When you configure the Notifications standard bar group on the Setup tab, you automatically get notifications for your configured conditions.
Conditions are configured in Raven under the Conditions tab. To get a feel for setting up conditions, take a minute to look at the default conditions for your class. Select one of the conditions using the pull-down menu near the top. A second set of two tabs (General, Tests) appears with options for configuring the selected condition.
The Tests tab has a summary of settings at the top and a list of available tests below. There are tests for checking status of the player, target and focus, tests for checking for combinations of buffs and defuffs, and tests for checking if spells or items are ready to be used. Selecting a test brings up options specific to that test. For example, the Player Status test lets you check if you are in combat, resting, have more than a certain percentage of your health, how many combo points you have, etc.
All the tests you enable must be true for the overall condition to evaluate to true (the summary at the top is intended to help visualize how the tests combine). You can also add dependencies between conditions that can be helpful for factoring out common tests (e.g., a condition to see if you are in cat form and in combat might be a dependency for other conditions defining a druid's feral spell rotation).
The General tab for each condition allows you to enable/disable the condition and specify if the condition is suitable for triggering a notification. You can also associate a spell with a condition (the spell's icon and color are used to customize notifications based on the condition).
Multiple Characters
Raven is designed to simplify configuration across multiple characters. This is required because each class may make quite different use of timer bars (e.g., some depend on tracking cooldowns while others watch for debuffs to expire on the target). In the Profiles tab, Raven includes the profile options common to Ace3-based addons and, by default, creates a new profile for each character.
In addition to using profiles, Raven shares a variety of settings across characters. This can result in some confusion since it works differently than in other addons (but can simplify configuring Raven if you play several different classes). First, the appearance options on the Defaults tab (dimensions, fonts, textures) apply to all profiles (they can be overridden as needed in any bar group, of course). Second, almost all bar group settings (the primary exception being the actual bars associated with custom groups) are linked between bar groups of the same name in all profiles that have Link Settings enabled (note that Link Settings is no longer enabled by default for standard bar groups on the Setup tab). Third, filter lists are linked by default between auto bar groups of the same name in all profiles, simplifying dealing with unwanted buff, debuff and cooldown bars.
Cancelling Buffs
Raven includes support for right-click cancel of player buffs when out of combat but only limited support for cancelling in combat.*The addon Bufflehead was created to address this. Please check it out and consider using it as a companion addon with Raven.*Raven does include an "in-combat" bar that is useful if you can anticipate which buffs you will need to cancel. You set up the "in-combat" bar with a list of player buffs that you want to be able to cancel in combat. When one of these buffs becomes active, its icon pulses into place on the "in-combat" bar and you can right-click it to cancel.
Final Words
I hope you enjoy using Raven for all your buff, debuff and cooldown needs! Questions and comments are always welcome.
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01-07-11, 12:53 PM | |
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Hi,
I've tried Raven today and was very impressed with the number of options the addon gives the user for configuration. However there seems to be one thing missing or i'm just not seeing it. I found the possibility to limit the number of bars shown in one buff group but i haven't found an option how the not shown bars will be handled. Is there a possibility to show the overflowing bars in another bargroup or to show them in another row/column like there is for icons? thanks for making a great mod
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01-06-11, 09:00 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Performance
In some cases a custom bar group is quite competitive with an auto bar group. Let's take as an example debuffs on a raid boss. An auto bar group is going to select which debuffs to display by looking at all the current debuffs and selecting the ones that match the right criteria. A custom bar group is only going to check for specific debuffs. If there are lots of debuffs then the custom bar group is more efficient since it potentially makes fewer checks. On the other hand, buffs on the player are probably more efficiently displayed with an auto bar group since there are many potential buffs of interest. With respect to strings versus numbers, Lua implements string compares extremely efficiently (by only storing one copy of any string and just comparing addresses, iirc). Lua also provides very efficient table data structures (provided one is meticulous in avoiding memory leaks). What class do you play in raids? I am wondering in particular if you play a rogue since that might point toward inefficiencies in how weapon buffs are handled. There is poor support for detecting these using the Blizzard interface and with three slots now capable of having weapon buffs it is possible that is an area of concern for performance. Also, can you give me some sense of how powerful your computer is? What processor, how much memory, and what video card would be helpful. |
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01-06-11, 08:32 PM | ||
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Re: default raven bar hiding
Other than that possibility, I can't think what would create a large button labeled "Raven". You could temporarily disable Raven and see if it goes away, of course, or reset your profile.
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Re: Re: Performance
I am not capturing video, the stutters are are what I am seeing in game. I will do some tests with the custom bar groups disabled. Just so I understand, the auto groups should be fast because you just display say all buffs on the player, no filtering is really needed. But for custom groups you need to loop over all the buffs and for each one loop over all the custom filters to know if you need to display the buff. You might already be doing it but could the things to be displayed be put into a hashtable (not sure what lua calls these) to avoid the inner loop? Another question I am sure you know, right now for the custom groups what is used is the buff/debuff name, so for each one you need to compare the name, would it be any faster if the spell id was used? I am not sure what the buff API looks like or if the cost is really in the complexity of the algorithm. |
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01-06-11, 04:00 PM | |
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default raven bar hiding
Couldnt find it in any of the options.
I enabled the minimap button, how do I get rid of/hide the larger button labeled "Raven" that sits on my screen where ever i drag it? |
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Yes.. I really like your mod but is there a way to make the mod show stupid little things like when is person is mounted to see what mount it is.
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Re: Performance
One thing that will support improved performance in the near future is a rewrite of the filtering options that will introduce white lists for auto bar groups--this should allow you to switch from custom to auto bar groups in many cases. When you say "choppy video" do you mean you are capturing video during raids or just referring to the normal game display? Do you still get display stutters when you disable the custom bar groups but keep the auto bar groups enabled? |
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Performance
Have you done any profiling of Raven, using Interface Usage I am seeing high CPU usage for Raven. The only reason I looked at CPU usage was because in raids I am getting choppy video if I use Raven. Overall my frame rates are good but the video freezes for split sec every sec or so.
My setup has icons for all buffs, bars for all debuffs and four custom bar groups. Two of the custom bar groups are on the target and two is for my buffs, two of them also have filters to only show entries with less than 6 secs. A couple of the custom groups I have have 10 to 15 buffs they are watching. Thanks |
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You can then filter the spells out of the normal buffs auto bar group. Select the bar group and open the Buffs tab. Near the bottom there is a Filter section where you can manually maintain a list of buffs to exclude from the bar group. This is equivalent to what others call a "black list". There is an enhancement planned that will let you filter all the bars in a custom bar group out of an auto bar group. This will simplify the process but is equivalent to manually filling in the filter list. |
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Great mod here
Just wondering if it is possible to specify spells by spell ID only in Raven? Entering the spellid when creating an effect in custom bar groups seems to change it to a spell name. I find it can be extremely useful for eg. showing Magmaw's Mangle, but not a feral druid's, or showing the sleep portion of Wyvern Sting but not the DoT effect.
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Hello,
i REALLY liked this addon, and iīm using it for all my buffs/debuffs monitoring.. With the latest version, iīm having a small white border over all my icons and i donīt seem to see any option to disable this white border. Is there anyway to disable them ?? I didnīt have this "problem" with older versions. I found how to change the border color, but not to disable border color. Thanks!
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