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Last Update:	April 9, 2008 (3 months ago)
Category:	Combat
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Project Manager:	Nymbia
Current Version:	Quartz r66237.5 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.0)
Downloads Today:	1,333
Downloads Total:	624,735
Favorites:	2,193
Comments:	159

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Created On:	June 1, 2007

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Nymbia

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About Quartz

Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:

*Player

The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.

*Target/Focus

Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.

*Buffs

Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars using the new API introduced in patch 2.1.

*Flight

Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.

*Global Cooldown

Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.

*Interrupt

Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).

*Latency

Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.

*Mirror

Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.

*Range

Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.

*Swing

Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.

*Timer

Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.

*Tradeskill Merge

Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.

Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Sulka said
July 18, 2008, 10:41AM (6 days, 21 hours ago)
Same for me, it seems it has something to do with the latest patch (2.4.3). I hope this is fixed soon.

BTW this is a great addon.

Thx

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Arkhon92 said
June 17, 2008, 07:01AM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Hi all!

Plz help me!I have a problem with this addon..when i'm fighting with my mage, and a mob hits me and cause dmg the casting bar goes away, so i dont see when will the spell and.

(THX for help...)

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Arkhon92 said
June 17, 2008, 07:00AM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Hi all!

Plz help me!I have a problem with this addon..when i'm fighting with my mage, and a mob hits me and cause dmg the casting bar goes away, so i dont see when will the spell and.

(THX for help...)

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alexwaelde said
June 11, 2008, 11:53PM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Using the latest version of quartz it is only letting me pick between a couple fonts but it wont let me pick the adventure font. it's not even an option. before i updated quartz it let me pick adventure but now it wont with the updated version. why? ...

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Hopesfall said
June 8, 2008, 08:45AM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
My SwingTimer only show on my warrior when i use Heroic Strike and then it goes away again : ( Is it possible to have it show all melee swings?

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ndean40 said
June 7, 2008, 06:36PM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
this addon is no longer working for 2.4.2 please update!!

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Dajova said
July 1, 2008, 03:26PM (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
Check www.wowmatrix.com and update all addons you need via that program listed!

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indieswixsfu said
June 3, 2008, 11:44PM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
This is a pretty nice addon all around,
though i would like to see a 5 second time on the castbar for those of us who try to stick to the 5 second rule

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Curtiseflush said
May 31, 2008, 08:42PM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
swing timer doesnt work with any Dual wield

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darker21 said
June 19, 2008, 05:06PM (1 month ago)
yeah i cant move it too!

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Quivorir said
May 29, 2008, 01:43PM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
How do I move the bar that comes up over my portrait?

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Pakka said
May 28, 2008, 09:15PM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
I'm using the latest version from the Ace Website and have a problem with the flight module... I use FlightMap and Quartz hooks in and correctly shows a timer bar for the remaining flight duration using the castbar... but I also see the flight timer bar of Flight Map in the middle of the screen... how do I get rid of that? Don't know why the standard flight bar is shown, too... I did NOT have this issue when using eCastingBar.

Anyone knows help? Some setting I missed in the options somewhere?

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nates13 said
May 26, 2008, 07:48PM (1 month, 4 weeks ago)
I have a suggestion, and if you used it you would be the only one to include blizz. I really like your swing timer, because it tells me what the total time is on the left, in addition to the timer ticking on the bar. This needs to be applied to spell casts, specifically steady shot. I've been trying to gage how my steady shot cast time changes with haste gear, heroism, things like that. But there is nothing right now that can give that information. Unlike casters (who can easily see how fast there spells will be) the tool tips for hunters have fixed durations, and to date I have found no mod that displays the correct total cast time of a hunter ability. An update to this mod that simply has the total cast time on the left for hunter casts (like steady or aimed shot) like the swing timer does would fix the problem. Thanks.

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Lunessence said
May 14, 2008, 02:15PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
After downloading the most current version via the Curse Client, it is still displaying 52797. I've tried to uninstall it and then reinstall; it doesn't seem to be updating to r66237.5.

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rjarana said
May 5, 2008, 09:09PM (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
Needs update!

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Gorehunter said
May 4, 2008, 07:21PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Is there any way to have the bar color vary by spell class? Or at least have a seperate color for player/focus/target bars.

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Jolts14 said
April 29, 2008, 10:18PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Is the swing timer working at all, or is it just a few classes. On my shaman its not working, please fix soon

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Quasiar said
May 31, 2008, 10:19AM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
Does the swing timer not work for warrior 2her's? I know quartz works cause it works for my hunter, however for my warrior, the swing timer isn't registering and it would help greatly as I'm arm's/Imp Slam spec.

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Daelin255 said
June 11, 2008, 07:53AM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
Not showing it appears for Paladin Retribution. This mod was recommended to me to maximize my dps but it isn't showing/working for swing timer.

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Blukkie said
April 29, 2008, 06:03PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
For some reason my own Textures aren't working.
I've made one in Photoshop and saved as Targa (Blukkie.tga) and added the following line beneath the Xeon one:
sm:Register("statusbar", "Blukkie", "Interface\\AddOns\\Quartz\\textures\\Blukkie")

It shows up in the Dropdown menu, but doesn't show any texture.

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