ShockAndAwe (formerly DisqoDice) - Page 3

Malan · 10/07/08, 9:51 AM

Originally Posted by Levva

Not entirely sure what you mean by the water shield one. I'm guessing you are looking for it to be hidden until its down? Then it pops up to warn you? Then if you cast the shield the bar disappears again? If this is what you are after its a very easy option to add a "Hide Active Shield" option and apply to all shields.

Yes that's exactly what I want it to do. I don't care how long Water Shield or Lightning Shield have left on duration, I only care about noticing when they're down. I find it distracting to have the bar there all the time during solo content.

Levva · 10/07/08, 6:00 PM

V2.63 should be up on wowinterface as soon as file is approved. It now has the bars in the order you suggested, and has an option to show/hide shield when shield is active.

sanna · 10/10/08, 9:34 AM

At first, i love disqodice and i will love shockandawe.

Could you may add support for different fonts via SharedMediaLibrary? You already did this for bar textures and i would love to have the same option for fonts, just to make shockandawe fit into my ui a bit more.

Levva · 10/10/08, 4:40 PM

BAH!! Just this second finished the border textures and someone asks for fonts now!!!

Fair enough will add it to the TODO.

Levva · 10/11/08, 8:32 AM

Version 2.90 now available on WowInterface.com & Curse.com.

Changelog:

Version 2.64
Added no-lib stripping and optionaldeps

Version 2.70
Added option to set border textures
Added option to set font on frames
Moved various options around and re-ordered the menus
Massive overhaul of the Uptime frame - fixed a couple of memory leaks - should run a lot faster and a lot less memory
Added option to configure uptime frame colours

Version 2.71
Added German translations thanks to Bekeon on wowinterface.com
Fixed rescaling issue

Version 2.80
Added a global cooldown bar which auto-adjusts for any haste effects

Version 2.81
Fixed spark point to no longer be offset by its width on GCD bar

Version 2.82
Fixed GCD bar visible by default on entering world
Fixed missing French localisation entries (still needing translation)

Version 2.90
Added optional sound to play when 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon are achieved
Uses any sound registered with SharedMediaLib
Add option to flash Maelstrom Weapon frame when you get 5 stacks

Hmm today's been a BUSY day. Really enjoyed it though, hope you all do to. Please leave feedback if there's other things you'd like to see or any bugs you find.

sanna · 10/13/08, 4:35 AM

Thank you so much (especially for configureable fonts)!!!

Gavain · 10/14/08, 3:39 PM

V 2.93 works fine now for me on Beta

Really good work...I think I keep it

One further suggestion:
I keep the old (und pretty useless) TotemTimer for one reason: I can give keybindings to stuff like Water Shield, WF or FT via the key selection menue (don´t really know the official English name, sorry).

Would it be very difficult to add something like that ?

And your pictures show a symbol of the shock in front of the bar, but thats not showing up when I use it.
Also I got no effect from "show LB/Lvb-Icon when MW is up", when selected I cannot see anything special when MW is up...what am I supposed to see when I choose this option ?

Hope that was understandable...it´s late, I´m tired and old and loosing my battle against a foreign language right now...*grumbling and heading for bed*

Levva · 10/15/08, 5:58 AM

I've not done anything previously with keybinds I can investigate how that would work.

On the icons, I've currently had that turned off whilst testing. I'll need to turn it back on to see if I broke anything in a recent build, servers are down at present though.

The icon on the MW bar was meant to suggest either Lava Burst or Lightning Bolt depending on a number of factors eg: LvB off cooldown, FS on target for 100% crit guarantee etc. However with the change to Lava Burst not being affected by MW this is redundant now. I should tidy up the code and remove all signs of lava burst.

Rosoe · 10/15/08, 1:08 PM

Silly thing to bring up, but I'm having trouble configuring the size of the timer bars. It's not very intuitive, and I have so far made the whole thing vanish with the /saa frames scale command (tried 70, 200, and 1000 - couldn't figure out if scale was % size or pixel size or what). On my UI, the bars take up WAY too much space - both in width and height - and I am just not figuring out the right commands to resize it. Is there a way to make them smaller (a click and drag feature on the edges maybe) that I haven't been able to find?

Levva · 10/15/08, 2:58 PM

Hmm the scaling code dates from the old DisqoDice addon and not something I've really touched. I'll look into it though. The scale command should work - easiest is to use the blizzard interface rather than command line to set it. Press ESC to get menu click interface and addons tab then select ShockAndAwe - this gives you access to all the config options including a slider for configuring scale which resizes the frame as you scroll the slider.

Roflmeow · 10/15/08, 4:38 PM

Levva,

I don't suppose you'd be willing to add an alternative skin for the maelstrom counter?

I started using it yesterday and while it provides a wealth of information, as stated above does take alot of space.

I scrabbled up an idea to retain it's functionality, and yet also make the size more manageable.

Sorry for the image size, I'm not sure how to resize them for the forums in a post. They are in PNG format so they retain their editability if you want to use it. If not shoot me a PM and i'll kill them from the post.

Malan · 10/15/08, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by Gavain

One further suggestion:
I keep the old (und pretty useless) TotemTimer for one reason: I can give keybindings to stuff like Water Shield, WF or FT via the key selection menue (don´t really know the official English name, sorry).

Ugh, please don't make this the "Everything and the kitchen sink" addon. This works fine for what it is, an Enhancement shaman addon. There's tons of general purpose totem management addons out there.

Levva · 10/15/08, 7:42 PM

With regard to the scaling. It can scale from 0.25 to 3 times its size. I can change this range if people want it even smaller.

The issue would seem to have been that everyone was using the command line to configure the addon and its not at all clear how to set the scale. I've updated the help message to give the valid range.

I've also added a message to recommend that you DON'T configure using the command line and instead use the Blizzard menu. ie: Press ESC, select interface then select the Addons tab and click on ShockAndAwe to get all the config options in a very easy to use graphical interface.

On the other issue of keybinds for totems etc. Malan is right there are lots of Shaman addons that deal with totems. The focus of this addon is Enhancement Shamans and their abilities. So I won't add totem stuff. That doesn't mean to say I won't hack around a different addon for totems and generic Shammy stuff that might have extra options for Enh Shaman.

My design philosophy is to add new features that people suggest or I feel would be useful but always to make them optional. Also any optional setting will NOT do any processing if the option is off. This means that those people who use one or two features will not be penalised because others want more from the addon.

Version 3.0 will be up shortly. I noticed a few gotchas once patch 3.0.2 went live - one of which was missing initialised variables if on first logging in you get kicked off the server and it thinks it had set everything up. A rare occurence but it happened to me - compounded by having zero talents at the time - thus exposing a rare bug where it would crash with nil values, due to no talents and partially created setup data. The GCD bar's spark also seemed to be offset in the opposite direction that it was on the beta!!

I've also added something I have missed since long ago I stopped using Shaman Friend. The display of the total value of a WF or SS proccing WF hit. So now there is an option to display in SCT (Scrolling Combat Text) the total damage you did in that single strike (hit + 2 WF or both SS hits + 2 WF).

Rosoe · 10/15/08, 8:21 PM

Ah, yes, that worked much much better for resizing. Thank you.

Now I just have to learn to pay attention to all the bars. I have - until now - been just using SS every time it was off CD.

Malan · 10/15/08, 8:49 PM

Originally Posted by Levva

I've also added something I have missed since long ago I stopped using Shaman Friend.

Along that line of thought, I saw today that the author of ShamanFriend said he had no intention of continuing the addon. I used it for the weapon buffs missing warnings (sound/chat/error frame warnings), and the purge feedback (spammed chat output with what buffs you removed). Think those fit with ShockAndAwe?

Bug report - latest version has some option "/saa bars break1" that throws a lua error if I try it. Caption says "bars section"