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  • Created 7/3/2006 4:46:44 PM
  • Updated 12/4/2011 4:16:33 AM
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  • Newest File: v5.6.113
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About MikScrollingBattleText

Announcements:

  • Release version 5.6.113 should fix the issue some people were having with the cooldown sound.
  • Release version 5.6.112 has been updated to resolve the absorb issue where it would display "<%a> Absorbed!"
  • Release version 5.6.111 has been updated to support Patch 4.3.

Description:

MSBT is designed to be an extremely lightweight, efficient, and highly configurable mod that makes it easier to see combat information by scrolling the information on the screen in separate, dynamically creatable scroll areas. It is a replacement for Blizzard's Floating Combat Text and Damage output.

Features:

  • Lightweight and efficient design.
  • Scroll incoming damage/heals, outgoing damage/heals, and notifications in separate configurable scroll areas on the playing field.
  • Display player and pet cooldown completion alerts.
  • Display loot alerts with a total of how many are now in inventory.
  • Add triggers that will allow you to show notifications based on a variety of conditions.
  • Assign a sound file to play for events/triggers.
  • Dynamically create new scroll areas and assign any event/trigger to them.
  • Customize the position, size, animation style, enabled state, font style, font size, font outline, and opacity for each of the scroll areas.
  • Customize each individual event's color, font style, font size, font outline, opacity, output message, enabled state, and scroll area.
  • Set "Master Font" settings that will be inherited by all of the scroll areas and the events in them unless they are overridden at the scroll area or event level.
  • Merge AoE data into one event with cumulative damage/healing done with number of normal and crits specified.
  • Show overhealing amounts against yourself or party/raid members.
  • Color unit names according to their class.
  • Color damage amounts according to damage type.
  • Show partial effects (resists, absorbs, vulnerabilities, etc) colored according to type.
  • Filter output information with a full suite of spam controls.
  • Load on demand options.
  • For mod developers:
    • Output your own scrolling messages with the MikSBT.DisplayMessage function instead of having to create your own frame and animation code. You can also use your own font by first registering it with MSBT via the MikSBT.RegisterFont function.
    • Create custom animation styles.
    • See the included API.html file for reference information.

Supported Events:

  • Incoming:
    • Melee Damage, Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, and Immunes
    • Skill Damage, Damage Over Time (DoTs), Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, Immunes, Reflects, and Interrupts
    • Spell Resists
    • Heals and Heals Over Time (HoTs)
    • Pet Melee Damage, Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, and Immunes
    • Pet Skill Damage, Damage Over Time (DoTs), Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, and Immunes
    • Pet Spell Resists
    • Pet Heals and Heals Over Time (HoTs)
    • Environmental Damage
  • Outgoing:
    • Melee Damage, Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, Immunes, and Evades
    • Skill Damage, Damage Over Time (DoTs), Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, Immunes, Reflects, Interrupts, and Evades
    • Spell Resists and Buff Dispels
    • Heals and Heals Over Time (HoTs)
    • Pet Melee Damage, Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, Immunes, and Evades
    • Pet Skill Damage, Damage Over Time (DoTs), Misses, Dodges, Parries, Blocks, Deflects, Absorbs, Immunes, and Evades
    • Pet Spell Resists and Buff Dispels
    • Pet Heals and Heals Over Time (HoTs)
  • Notification:
    • Buffs / Buff Stacks / Buff Fades
    • Debuffs / Debuff Stacks / Debuff Fades
    • Item Buffs / Item Buff Fades
    • Enter/Leave Combat
    • Power Gains and Losses
    • Combo Point Gains
    • Combo Points Full
    • Holy Power Changes
    • Holy Power Full
    • Honor Gains
    • Reputation Gains and Losses
    • Skill Gains
    • Experience Gains
    • Killing Blows (Player and NPC)
    • Extra Attacks
    • Soul Shard Creation
    • Enemy Buff Gains
    • Monster Emotes
    • Player, Pet, and Item Cooldown Completions
  • Loot
    • Looted Items
    • Money Gains
  • Default Triggers:
    • All Relevant Classes - Low Health, Low Mana, Low Pet Health, Viper Sting
    • Death Knight - Blood Swarm, Rime, Rune Strike, Shadow Infusion x5
    • Druid - Berserk, Clearcasting, Eclipse (Lunar), Eclipse (Solar), Owlkin Frenzy, Predator's Swiftness, Shooting Stars
    • Hunter - Counterattack, Kill Command, Lock and Load
    • Mage - Brain Freeze, Clearcasting, Fingers of Frost, Hot Streak, Impact, Missile Barrage
    • Paladin - Hammer of Wrath, The Art of War
    • Priest - Clearcasting, Shadow Orb x3
    • Rogue - Riposte
    • Shaman - Clearcasting, Lava Surge, Maelstrom Weapon x5, Tidal Waves
    • Warlock - Backlash, Decimation, Eradication, Molten Core, Nightfall
    • Warrior - Bloodsurge, Execute, Overpower, Revenge, Sudden Death, Taste for Blood, Victory Rush

Commands:

/msbtShows the options interface.
/msbt resetResets the current profile to the default settings.
/msbt disableDisables the mod.
/msbt enableEnables the mod.
/msbt versionShows the current version.
/msbt helpShows the command usage.

Frequently Asked Questions:

See the FAQ list at MSBT's portal site. http://mikord.wowinterface.com/portal.php?id=156&a=faq

Version History:

See version history as MSBT's portal site. http://www.wowinterface.com/portal.php?&id=156&pageid=147

5.6.113

  • Converted all sounds to .ogg from .mp3.

5.6.112

  • Modified combat event log parser to work with the absorb changes in Patch 4.3.

5.6.111

  • Updated German translations from mojosdojo.
  • Updated Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations from yleaf.
  • Updated TOC for Patch 4.3.

5.6.108

  • Removed item cooldoown tracking debug print

5.6.107

  • Added support for item cooldowns:
    • Created new event for customizable item cooldown notifications.
    • Added Item Cooldown Complete to the available trigger events.
    • Added Item ID and Item Name condition handling for the main trigger events that support them.
    • Cooldown exclusions now accept skill IDs, item names, and item IDs in addition to skill names.
  • Added monochrome, monochrome + thin, and monochrome + thick to available outline font settings for pixel font lovers.
  • Modified the custom font and sound validation routines to work with arbitrary case extensions.
  • Changed custom font validation error message to a more descriptive message when the font can't be set versus the more generic ttf message.

5.5.106

  • Added option to customize color of shadowflame damage.
  • Added option to customize color of frostfire damage.

5.5.105

  • Modified combat event log parsers to work with the changes in Patch 4.2 without extra indirection.
  • Changed Traditional Chinese default font by yleaf.
  • Updated Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations from yleaf.
  • Updated TOC for Patch 4.2.

5.5.100

  • Added logic to detect and merge off-hand strikes with main hand strikes.

5.5.99

  • Removed Happiness as an available power type since it no longer exists as of Patch 4.1.
  • Added logic to handle the changed combat log event format in Patch 4.2 on the PTR without breaking the current version (Blizzard is changing it again).
  • Updated LibStub to the latest version (14 Jan 2011, 1.0.1).
  • Updated CallbackHandler to the latest version (14 Jan 2011, 1.0.7).
  • Updated LibSharedMedia to the latest version (05 Nov 2010, 3.0-4).

5.5.98

  • Fixed handling for the always show quest items option that was broken by Patch 4.0.6 (reported by Judgespear).
  • Modified to play sounds even when game sound effects are disabled as allowed by API changes in Patch 4.0.6 (reported by Retlaw).

5.5.97

  • Modified combat event log parsers to work with the changes in Patch 4.1 (committed by mojosdojo, reported by several others).
  • Updated Russian translations from StingerSoft.
  • Updated German translations from mojosdojo.
  • Updated TOC for Patch 4.1.

5.5.91

  • Added the new pet heal events to the options interface so they may be customized and disabled as intended.
  • Updated Korean translations from chkid.

5.5.89

  • Made several updates to the cooldown tracking system:
    • Implemented a work around for Blizzard's cooldown bug with dismissed pets. Pet cooldowns should no longer be shown before they are actually finished.
    • Created new event for customizable pet cooldown notifications.
    • Added an option to customize the color of the skill name in cooldown events.
    • Changed Skill Cooldown Complete trigger event to Player Cooldown Complete (only detects player cooldowns).
    • Added Pet Cooldown Complete to the available trigger events.
    • Added Skill ID as an available condition for player and pet cooldown triggers.
  • Created new events for outgoing pet heals, pet heal crits, pet periodic heals (HoTs), and pet periodic heal (HoT) crits.
  • Efflorescense is now detected and displayed as a pet heal.
  • Added default triggers for Blood Swarm and Shadow Infusion x5.

See the included readme.html for further version history.

Comments

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  • #3314

    a need same help a trying to add Cunning of the Cruel Trinket into the addon to see when it Triggers but a can not make it working can anyone help me???

  • #3313

    for some odd reason my soundfile that i just added wont play... i did exactly like in the FaQ section.

    Converted it from Wav to MP3 but converted it then to ogg to test that, but still no sound.

    it's in the Enemy killing blow i putted it, since my soundfile is 19kb is that too big then or does that costum sound bug for me?

    i tested it on several other notifications, it seems not to work on any of them

    Last edited by Teckerke on 1/28/2012 1:20:32 PM
  • #3312

    I haven't read about this error anywhere else yet, but I can't get MSBT to recognize when I make changes to the font size in the settings menu. I go in, change the font sizes, but they are never reflected in the scrolling text. What could be causing this?

    Last edited by muhfugger on 1/26/2012 10:55:24 PM
  • #3311

    hello i seams that ur addon crashes my wow client could u patch this it would be great

  • #3310

    Just wanted to give a thank you to the author of this addon.  Its always really nice to download a new addon "of a certain type" and it do exactly what you want it to.

    I was looking for an addon that would give me "combat text" to show me when I looted something.  I got tired of scrolling through loot logs or having to sit there with my bags open to see if I got a piece of loot I rolled on in a group.  Having to scroll through a loot log in a Dungeon or Raid means stopping what you are doing and standing still.  Now when I win something that shows up in my bags, I get a nice scrolling combat text saying I won "item name".  I was even more suprised with the addon that I could assign a little sound file, as well as set it to only show when I won an "Epic".

    So that was my main reason for downloading this addon, which it does wonderfully.  This addon does so much more than just that though.  Think of it as Blizzards scrolling combat text options, plus way more features.

    Highly recommend this to anyone.

  • #3309

    Is there a way to alter the strata to get combat text behind DBM bars.

    Yes, found it: in the MikScrollingBattleText folder in Addons.
    edit MsbtAnimations.lua and find line 535 and replace whatever is on it with
    animationFrame:SetFrameStrata("MEDIUM")

    Last edited by elrandir on 1/14/2012 1:28:01 PM
  • #3308

    the maximum font size for scroll areas is 38, but in "static" scroll area i need it to be 60

    is there a way to increase it to that ammount?

    or if i can just increase the spell icons size in the "static" scroll areabut i dont know how

    anyone can help ?

     

    thanks in advance

     

  • #3307

    I've seen this question posted several times, and have scrolled through pages of notes, but haven't seen an answer yet. I have created a new scroll area and would like to have certain info appear in that scroll area. In my case, I would like all my outgoing player dmg to show up in my typical scroll area, but I would like all my pet dmg to show up in this separate scroll area. I created the scroll area just fine, but how do I know direct certain events to that scroll area?

  • #3304

    I <3 this addon. Thank you so much!

  • #3303

    I find a Collection Bot,

    easy to use.I appreciate all the hard work you've put into it.
    www.vuhdo.net

  • #3302

    I was wondering if there was a way to add a scroll area for a specific spells dot damage? I would like to make ignite show in a different scroll area and I cant seem to figure out how to do this.

  • #3300

    I've switched from SCT and like this a lot more.  Much more customizable.

    I've noticed a couple things I'd like to set up that I can't figure out how.

    The 'enemy buff gains' and 'monster emote' only shows up for my current target.  I'd like that to be for all enemies in range.  I'd also like to have monster say/yell/whisper events as well...

    I've also set up a trigger for when my enemy has been healed to alert me of who the healer is, but haven't tested it yet.  I hope that's not 'for current target only' as well...  And I do hope that the 'spam collecting' thing works on that trigger too...

    Last edited by Thortok2000 on 12/14/2011 1:29:25 PM
  • #3299

    Hello,

    i installed this addon and love it so far.  Is it possible to make it show when i successfully land a kidneyshot with my rogue?  it shows when i miss with kidney shot, but i dont seem to see when i successfully land it.  Is this possible?

  • #3298

    addon will not show outgoing heals no matter what i try, restored to deafault, disabled every addon except msbt, nothing works. extremely frustrating, been about 2 hours of trying to figure this out

     

    edit. it shows heals on team mates such as blood tap glyph but still doesnt show it on myself or any deathstrike heals on myself

    Last edited by kaitra on 12/13/2011 2:36:44 PM
  • #3295

    Hi i love your addon been using it for year or two now.

    I was curious if there was anyway I can edit in a Pet Outgoing Interrupt..like a spell lock?

    Thank you!

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