ScrollingCombatText
| Last Update: | March 31, 2008 (1 month ago) |
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| Category: | Combat |
| Tags: | ace, ace2, combat, scrolling, and sct |
| Project Manager: | Grayhoof |
| Website: | visit |
| Current Version: | ScrollingCombatText 6.01.1 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.0) |
| Downloads Today: | 1,383 |
| Downloads Total: | 3,478,466 |
| Favorites: | 16,238 |
| Comments: | 1,091 |
- About ScrollingCombatText
Please Note -in 5.7 you can turn off the new spell icons under the Animation tab
Please read and use the main SCT site for news, bugs, and feature requests. I don't read these forums hardly ever.
Be sure to check out SCTD 2.0 if you want SCT to show your damage.
Also check out my simple but enhanced combat log EavesDrop
Table of Contents
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.
Why use 5.0 over WoW's new built in Floating Combat Text ? - SCT 5.0 is a complete rewrite of the mod from the ground up. Its is now based in the Ace2 framework and rewitten with more performance in mind. On top of that, it offers features far above and beyond what WoW's FCT can do. FCT is great if you just need a lightweight SCT with limited options, but using SCT's new Lightmode can get you the same performance with almost all of SCT's normal features.
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 Ace2.
- CTMod, MyAddons, Cosmos, Cosmos2 support
- Settings saved per character by default, but supports all Ace2 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' red(0-10) green(0-10) blue(0-10) Example: /sctdisplay 'Heal Me' 10 0 0 - This will display 'Heal Me' in bright red
FAQ
How do I get My Crits or My Hits to show? I would suggest you get SCTD: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4913
My custom event doesn't work. What's wrong? - Make sure you have the text exactly right, punctuation and capitalization matters. If you need help learning how to capture data, please see the examples or try this site http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial. If its still not working, please read about SCT_Event_Debug and SCT_Event_List in the bottom half of SCT_EVENT_CONFIG.LUA to learn how to add almost any chat event to SCT's search capabilities
How do I change the text for parry, block, etc...? - open up the localiztions.lua file and look for the event you want to change. Then change the text to whatever you like. As of 4.1, you may also now add a custom event for these. As of 5.0 You will get notifications automatically for event specfic skills like Overpower, CounterAttack, etc...
How do I get get text to scroll? I only see numbers! - Make sure the "Show Events as Message" option is unchecked. This is only if you want events to appear as static text (not scrolling/animated)
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 four 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 animation tab.
Support
Please post all errors and suggestions on http://grayhoof.wowinterface.com/ using the provided forms. Please post all questions and comments on the offical SCT thread.
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Caerik saidI am not sure if anyone else has this 'problem', it might just be me and my friend or it might be a configuration thing, however here is the deal:
My combat log no longer works. I have not been playing for several months, and I am sure I have missed something somewhere, so any help is appreciated, even if it is a link or something.
Thanks
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fect saidотличный аддон :)
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Thaco saidNew version available at Greyhoof's space on WowInterface... see link above in "Support" message.
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kamiyo saidis the custom event function activated for Chinese wow clients?
it seems not to work when i play using wowcn client.
i got confused.
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Stue said@fision112
Stue said: "And also "DAMAGETARGET" isnt restricted to YOUR and your PETS damage, it also shows when someone else is doing damage to your target."
I thot by the way i emphazised YOUR and PETS damage it would be clear i was referring to the official description in the config file. And ive tried it, even with selfonly=1, but i still see when other ppl sinister strike my target.
And i tried damage, debuffs, etc to capture interrupts but none of em work. If you do know tho let me know.
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Kaal saidweis wer wie man mit dem deutschen client die macestun proccs angezeigt kriegt ?
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Muertismo saidI have a problem SCT showing ALL casting going on around me... Doesn't matter if I am in a party/raid/solo. anyone around me that is casting something shows in my message 2. I have tried to disable each option, but it still shows.
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hanzo777 saidwhy i doesn't work for me??
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fision112 saidOne more question...
If I wanted to detect an area even like Tremor Totem, what even should I look for if I wanted to just detect this even if I'm not targeting anybody. The old combat log system allowed this because the event would trigger and we could just search for Tremor Totem.
I'm just not sure what kind of buff or gain this would be, being that it has nothing to do with the actual target per say and just to do with the area.
Thanks all!
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fision112 said@Stue-
The stuns and interrupts are considered Debuffs on the target so yes they are covered i'm pretty sure.
DamageTarget is restricted to self or pet if you look and read the SCT even config file it clearly says:
""DAMAGETARGET" critical, selfonly, petonly spellname sourcename targetname amount"
Meaning you need to set selfonly=1 and another with petonly=1... you need to read the actual file before posting problems.
Now for a question I have. It is about the class argument. I know if I am dealing with a self buff, that the class needs to be my class, but what if I am searching for say Will of the Forsaken if my target uses it. That is my target gaining a buff or debuff which ever... But my question is do I have to put all the classes there meaning do I need to put:
class={"Warlock", "Warrior", "Priest", "Shaman", "Mage", "Druid", "Paladin", "Rogue"}
in order to catch this event for everyone? (yes i know not all classes have wotf available but that is not the point here)
Thanks for the help!
Travis
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saecula saidThe ability to load a profile is bugged.
I upgraded SCT for the 2.4 patch and all my settings for every character were reset. I like to turn off stuff like killing blows, buffs, spell icon, but turn on combat flags, etc. I did this for one character and was hoping to simply re-use that character's profile for all my other alts. Doesn't work. Loading a profile makes no changes at all to current settings.
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Blacksahde saidWhy does this addon says its out dated in the wow toon selection? i check the load out of date addons, but still lots of error... am i missing something?
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Stue saidThe new custom combat events since 2.4 version dont cut it. They dont cover events such as stuns and interrupts (important as a rogue).
And also "DAMAGETARGET" isnt restricted to YOUR and your PETS damage, it also shows when someone else is doing damage to your target.
Cant you just make ALL combat events available for custom SCT events, not just the custom events you created containing only the basic events such as damage and heals.
Ive been using SCT custom events forever and i was always able to catch the event i wanted with parsing the combat message thru pattern matching. I realize that in 2.4 the combat log works differently now. Where is the problem? Or does it just require more work?
I hope it can be done!
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Aydah saidIs there a way for me to know when I crit or to know how much damage I do?
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Cheechwood saidOk I've been searching for quite some time now, does anyone know how to set it so that it shows mana gain associated with spell
i.e. Seal of Wisdom: Seal of Wisdom +60 mana
I've seen it enabled but I can't figure out what does it.
Please Help!
Incendia Blackwing Lair
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Snaggletooth saidThanks for your work on this fine addon. But I do have a question, in earlier versions when I do a critical hit - it flashes "Critical" on my screen (as specified in the options - sticky critical) but in this latest version the critical text does not appear, even though I have both the options enabled in the options menu.
Any ideas.
Thanks.
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zeepzeep saidAt the risk of sounding like a noob, is there anyway to show your outgoing damage also?
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ET20 said@ confessions - update to the newest version.
how do i make custom sound events for Nightfall and Overpower? like the SCT battle shout addon.
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confessions saidany warriors having trouble with the "active skill" feature? Before it would tell me when to overpower whenever my target dodged 'my' attacks. For some reason, it is telling me to overpower my target anytime the target I have target dodges anyone's attack. I usually get spammed with overpower in AVs if I have a rogue targeted.
Not sure how to fix this. I do see it in white and yellow though. The color it's suppose to be use to yellow if I recall correctly. But in my interface options, it's white. It's just really confusing as I'm use to seeing a critical yellow font telling me to overpower. I'm not use to looking for it in white.
turn off the option you say? it doesn't work still. I still get spammed with overpower and dodge so I have no idea when my target really does dodge my attack.
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Suhov saidAs for version 6.01 I still can't see a damage that reflected spels did. Before 2.4 I saw a 2 messages - "Spell <name> reflected to <name>" and "Spell <name> do <damage> <school>" (only for direct damage spells, however.
After 2.4 and 6.xx versions I see only I reflected a spell: "Spell <name> reflected".