Antagonist is a lightweight, easy-to-setup enemy cast bar addon utilizing Ace2. It tracks enemy cast and channeling times, buff durations and cooldowns.
What does it do?
Tracks enemy casting times
Tracks enemy buff durations
Tracks enemy cooldowns
Smart bars which adjust to the flow of combat
Lots of other things explained below...
What won't it do?
Track the player's buffs/debuffs
Track teh player's spell durations
Boss timers
Features
Target and Focus casting and channeling bars
Will adjust to show delays when the units are damaged.
When you target one of these units a bar and they are casting/channeling a spell then a timer will appear with the time left on that cast. This will also update an already existing timer if it was started from area scanning.
Smart Fading (Optional)
Bars will fade out if the enemy they are tracking dies.
Buff bars will also fade out if the buff is dispelled or removed by the caster (e.g. Ice Block canceled early).
Click Behavior
You can click on the bars to perform quick functions.
Right Click - stop the clicked bar.
Shift + Right Click - stop all bars from the clicked bar's group (casts/buffs/cooldowns).
Ctrl + Left Click - filter the spell which the clicked bar represents.
Filter System (Blacklist)
This allows you to configure which spells you don't want to see timers for. You can see an example in the first screenshot.
Self-Relevant Option (Unreliable)
This option will only show cast/channeling timers if the player is the target of said spell. This is still in beta as sometimes the target of the spell being cast isn't the target of the casting enemy.
Appearance
The bars are heavily customizable. You can configure the following: height, width, scale, color, font size, texture, fill direction, growth direction. Antagonist uses SurfaceLib for texture handling, this allows it to use other textures from all addons using SurfaceLib.
Each anchor also has a title which you can enable. You can change the title's text, color and size.
FAQ
Will you ever add boss timers?
The short answer is no. Antagonist already shows all casts performed by your target and focus units, this includes bosses. However I will not add boss specific timers. This would create bulk. I recommend BigWiggs for a complete boss timer package.
Will you ever add tracking of player spells and buffs/debuffs on the player?
Again, no. Tracking of player spells is done very well by Chronometer. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel when its already a pretty good wheel. If you want an even smaller addon than Chronometer then you could use one of the FuBar_ClassTimerFu addons.
How do I access the configuration?
Antagonist has three forms of configuration.
Console - /ant.
Dewdrop - /ant dropdown
GUI - /ant gui
What are the tags I can use in the bar text?
$s - Spell name
$n - Player name
$t - Target of Player (casts)
How do I make the bars all show up in one place?
You can do this by setting the showunder setting of each group to an anchor number.
'Procedure': /ant gui to open the options screen. Expand the Group submenu on the left. For each group, that is Casts, Buffs and Cooldowns, set the showunder value to the same number.
How do I move the anchors?
Type the follow to toggle the anchors /ant lock.
yeah i tried that of course....but i dont use a english client.... and some1 in another forum told me that it d only work with an english client is that right?
i hope so otherwise i am rly stupid
Originally posted by Yarta i d rly like to know how to move the bars xDDD do i have to use Ctrl+ cklick or some i tried /ant lock and stuff but the damne bar is still placed in the left corner : /
thx 4 hlp =)
you have to type /ant gui
Then click on the "lock button". The anchors show up and you can drag them around. Press lock again to lock them into place.
I have a question of my own too. I just downloaded antagonist but it just doesnt do anything. Sometimes when i press "test" nothing even happens and i have to reload my ui to make the test work again. I never managed to see a single buff or cooldown bar even though i unchecked "target only". I do see castbars of my target sometimes, but only of my target even though i unchecked "target only". So in general, i never really saw anything appear under anchor 2 and 3 for some reason.
I disabled NECB / afflicted because i thought they might bug eachother. The same problem remained.
I used the following addons in the last scenario
Aloft
Pitbull
Bongos
Quartz
OmniCC
omen
DBM
proximo
and prolly some minor addons i forgot. Maybe some people had the same problem, but i didnt find a post describing the same. The problem is that the program sometimes does nothing, and never ever showed anything under anchor 2 and 3.
i d rly like to know how to move the bars xDDD do i have to use Ctrl+ cklick or some i tried /ant lock and stuff but the damne bar is still placed in the left corner : /
Originally posted by Kebinusan I havent used this since it was called hostel, back then it used to track DR on fears and such, any chance of adding that back?
Left this out because it is a big headache and Chronometer does it already (except for DR, that is upcoming). Chronometer is coded pretty much the same way I would code my own implementation so there really isn't much of a point to me wasting hours working on it.
r25965 fixes the title bug. It also adds a bunch of optimizations to the code. There are now OnClick handlers.
RightClick = Kill bar.
Shift + RightClick = Kill group (casts/buffs/cooldowns)
Check the changelog for the rest, I've forgotten .
This revision fixes a bunch of bugs which came about after the introduction of the unit spellcast events.
Antagonist now also uses SurfaceLib for the texture handling. The texture option will be set to "Smooth" to avoid errors from the old system. The big bonus of using SurfaceLib is it allows all addons that utilize it to share textures.
So if you have a couple Ace2 addons which come with their own textures and use SurfaceLib then you can use those textures in any other Ace2 addon which also uses SurfaceLib.
i tried /ant lock and stuff but the damne bar is still placed in the left corner : / 
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