PLEASE NOTE: 6.1 is a MAJOR upgrade to SCT's custom event system. Please make sure you read the tooltips in the in game options, or read sct_event_config.lua if you want to continue to use that file for custom events.
Be sure to check out my simple but enhanced combat log EavesDrop
Also check out SCTD if you want SCT to show your damage.
What is it? - A fairly simple but very configurable mod that adds damage, heals, and events (dodge, parry, windfury, etc...) as scrolling text above you character model, much like what already happens above your target. This makes it so you do not have to watch (or use) your regular combat chat window and gives it a "Final Fantasy" feel.
What can it do?
- Damage messages
- Heals (incoming and outgoing) and Overhealing (with healer ID's), with filtering for small heals.
- Spell Damage/Resists and Damage Type
- All "Miss" events (dodge, block, immune, etc...)
- Custom Colors for all text events
- Config file to setup custom events (self and target), capture data, and display it.
- Debuff/Buff gain and loss Messages
- Low Health and Mana Warnings with values, and optional sounds
- Rage/Mana/Energy Gains
- Enter and Leave Combat Messages
- Rogue Combo Points, 5 CP Alert Message
- Class Skill alerts (Execute, Overpower, CounterAttack, etc...)
- Honor, Reputation, Skill Gain
- Eight Animation Types (Verticle, Rainbow, Horizontal, Angled Down, Angled Up, Sprinkler, Curved HUD, Angled HUD)
- Four Fonts
- Two seperate Animation frames, each with their own settings. Assign any Event to either.
- Ability to flag any event as critical or as a text messages
- Sliders for text size, opacity, animation speed, movement speed, and on screen placement (with custom editbox)
- Lightmode, for when you care most about performance (at the loss of a few features).
- Now Based in Ace3.
- Settings saved per character by default, but supports all Ace3 Profiles
- Load/Delete settings from another character. Load built in Profiles.
- Localized to work in almost all WoW clients.
How do I use it? - First unzip it into your interface\addons directory. For more info on installing, please read install.txt. Now just run WoW and once logged in, type /sctmenu to get the options screen.
SCT_EVENT_CONFIG.LUA is used to setup custom message events. Please open up the file (notepad, etc...) and read the opening section to understand how to use it all.
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FILE IN SCT. IF YOU DON'T READ IT AND USE IT, THEN YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON A TON OF WHAT SCT HAS TO OFFER IN CUSTOMIZATION
/sctdisplay is used to create your own custom messages.
Useage:
/sctdisplay 'message' (for white text)
/sctdisplay 'message' red(0-10) green(0-10) blue(0-10)
Example: /sctdisplay 'Heal Me' 10 0 0 - This will display 'Heal Me' in bright red
Some Colors: red = 10 0 0, green = 0 10 0, blue = 0 0 10, yellow = 10 10 0, magenta = 10 0 10, cyan = 0 10 10
I don't understand what the 2 frames are for! - Each frame lets you set different features. So you can set frame one using Sprinker animation and Default font, while frame 2 can be using Veritcle animation and Adventure font. You can then assign each event to a specfic frame using the radio buttons next to the events.
There's too many options. Help someone new see how things work! - Try out some of the new built in profiles. While on the options screen, click the "Profiles" button. At the top of the window will be a listing of some default profiles to try out. Maybe you'll fine one you like or it will spark some ideas for you to try.
How do I change the fonts? - You can now select from many fonts on the options page. You can also change the font of message and apply the font to the in game damage font used for your damage (requires relog)
I don't like friendly nameplates on. How do I make my heals appear over who I heal? - Friendly nameplates have to be on in order to show your heals. SCT will turn them on if you turn on the option, but you must manually turn them off if you don't like it (see Target keybindings).
I don't like the new spell icons, how do I turn them off? - There is an option to turn them off under the spell tab.
6.1 - Total rewrite of custom event code. sct_event_config.lua can be still be used for custom events (READ THE FILE), but in game option menu fully supports custom events now. Converted to a faster combat log system. Fix for nameplates in PvP. Fix some options not updating when copying or loading a profile. Convert to LibShareMedia-3.0.
6.01 - Added item buffs to buff events and fade events. Fixed interrupts causing errors with nameplates. Fixed timer call. Fix for custom damage and miss events. Fixed active skill names duplicating. Made fades use buff/debuff color. Fixed display usage message. Added CN translation. Allow fonts to scale down to size 8. Made Blizzard options frame movable. Made Blizzard dropdown clamp to the screen.
6.0 - Converted to WoW 2.4 Combat Log. Converted to Ace3. Custom events completely redone, make sure to read SCT_EVENT_CONFIG.LUA. Moved options menu to WoW 2.4 Addons Menu. Options menu reorganized to be much cleaner and simpler.
5.7 - Added optional EavesDrop style spell icons. Added damage filter. Added selfonly flag to debuff custom events. Made all font sizes change 1 step at a time.
5.61 - Fixed some minor bugs with SharedMedia and Messages.
5.6 - Added SharedMedia for fonts. Cleaned up Drain/Leech events. Added option to turn off WoW's 2.1 healing. Cleaned up Unit Nameplate code.
5.5 - Added Spell Name option. Added Truncating or Abbreviating of spell/buff names. Changed buff/debuff events to use SpecialEventsLib; allows for much better buff and debuff tracking. Added Test Button. Removed Light Mode. Added new Custom Event Buff types for much easier buff/debuff event tracking; see sct_event_config.lua for more info.
5.4 - Added Spell Reflection Tracking; only works when combat log reports events in correct order. Added ability to show outgoing heals over friendly nameplates; see FAQ for more info. Temporarily added manual execute/hammer tracking until blizzard fixes 60+ skill auto tracking. Added pet buffs to power gain tracking.
5.31 - Added Diablo Font. Fixed Chat Tab Tainting. Fixed Rampage event to use 20 rage. Fixed Overhealing bug. Fixed Gap Slider not working on all frames.
5.3b - Fixed color change saves.
5.3 - Made spell colors editable. Added interruption events. Added killing blow events. Added Rampage Notification (not 100% prefect, but works most of the time). Cleaned up crit overlapping more. Fixed custom event sorting/parsing issues. Made heal filter based on total amount actually healed (so overhealing spam can be removed). Removed compost lib. Added SpecialEvents-Aura lib (will do more in future with it).
5.2 - Converted to WoW 2.0 standards. Added Text Alignment to Frame: Left, Center, Right, or HUD (based on position around HUD) justified. Added new HUD Curved Animation: moves in a semi circle around your character, ideal for use with curve based HUD bars. Added new HUD Angled Animation: moves in a slight angle around your character, ideal for use with angle based HUD bars. Added Gap Distance to HUD Animations to change the distance they are from center. Made Crits overlap less often. Made spammed text behave better. Made Custom events save to the event that triggers them after being found, improves performance over time.
5.11 - Added glancing and crushing indicators. Added outgoing HOT flag. Added Emblem font. Fixed slider edit box bug.
5.1 - Total new look for options window. Added mana gain filter. More speed optimizations around passed args and function calls. Modified custom events so only events for current class are loaded (make sure to use this for you own events). Option window opens while dead =). Converted all table iterators to use pairs().
5.01 - Slight speed optimizations around passed args and function calls. Added more default events to event file. Added buff counts. Made heal filter defaults to zero.
5.0 - Complete rewrite using Ace2 and ParserLib with more performance in mind. Two seperate animation frames. Angled Up, Sprinkler, and Flash Crit animations. New Skill event. Seperate Buff and Debuff fading. Sounds to health/mana warnings. Color spell damage by spell type. Toggle for Custom events (improves performance when off). Light mode, users WoW's new built in events to gain performance, at the cost of a few features. Sample messages when changing options. Editboxes to position sliders. Sounds to custom events. Healer filter option.
...For full version history, please see here: http://grayhoof.wowinterface.com/portal.php?&id=41&pageid=11
How do I adjust the volume of the soundwaves? I have my PC volume up for Vent/TS but in game, my volume is much softer (so I can hear Vent/TS). The Clearcasting soundwave is using the PC Volume, rather than Game volume.
Love this mod. Anyway, I have been using custom events for a long time, and like the idea of the GUI. I seem to have it figured out, but I can not seem to get sounds going with the custom event. I am using the same in-game sounds that I used before. The event is triggering and I am getting the colored message I want, but no sound. (it is a "crit" going to the message frame)
Any Ideas? (Nope, double checked and I not putting them in the .wav section.)
Thanks for your time.
Edit: I should also say that I am making a custom message for Rebout and Reckoning to add color, custom text and the sound. I get the color and custom text just fine.
Last edited by chwolfgang : 05-14-2008 at 08:18 PM.
Mikari, there were some bugs with the damage custom events. I have fixed the errors and uploaded the changes to Ace site, so should be available soon. In the future, please post issue/errors about the Ace version on the Ace forums. Thanks!
Using the version of SCT on Wowace with the new custom event config I'm having a problem where melee crits are not counting for my event. Here is the event I'm using.
Melee and ranged specials are working fine as is Auto Shot.
I'm trying to get hunter pet successful Growls to show up, but I don't know what Event Type it is. This worked fine before 2.4. Now I think all I can do is get messages when Growl misses....any thoughts?
is the custom event function activated for Chinese wow clients?
i followed the introdution in sct_event_config.lua and have tried to change some terms ("warrior","Mace Stun", etc.) into Chinese words and phrases which are used in wowcn client.
but it seems not to work.
i got confused.
the addons i'm using include:
Bigfoot (addon pack)
proximo
quartz
Re: Loading other profiles - not 100% of settings?
It appears to be an Ace3 issue. I'll pass it on the appropriate people.
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Originally posted by Azza2 Had a problem previously where loading profiles didn't work at all, no message in the chat frame whatsoever when clicking, deleting profiles didn't work either. This was with latest SCT from files.wowace.com so was probably that.
Getting to the point: I decided to wipe my sct savedviarables and the sct addons and install with the one from wowinterface instead, and loading profiles works fine but, it doesn't seem to load 100% of settings. I tested by setting it up on a first character and unticked half of the checkboxes in SCT Events, then logged in to another alt and loading the profile, everything in SCT Events was checkboxed which it shouldn't be and some fonts for several frames were on back to default rather than Calibri. I'm not sure what else didn't carry over but this has become a tad annoying as I have to screenshot every settings box to make sure its identical on other profiles.
Had a problem previously where loading profiles didn't work at all, no message in the chat frame whatsoever when clicking, deleting profiles didn't work either. This was with latest SCT from files.wowace.com so was probably that.
Getting to the point: I decided to wipe my sct savedviarables and the sct addons and install with the one from wowinterface instead, and loading profiles works fine but, it doesn't seem to load 100% of settings. I tested by setting it up on a first character and unticked half of the checkboxes in SCT Events, then logged in to another alt and loading the profile, everything in SCT Events was checkboxed which it shouldn't be and some fonts for several frames were on back to default rather than Calibri. I'm not sure what else didn't carry over but this has become a tad annoying as I have to screenshot every settings box to make sure its identical on other profiles.
Farmbuyer, I'm in the middle of a total re-write of custom event code. The underlying code is done, but I am now creating a UI to manage all custom events. It is about 60% done at this point. Probably within a week or so I will have a new version of SCT out that should remove all the issues you are seeing with custom events.
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