party battle text

[pengwynman]

i'm in search of an addon that will allow my party's outgoing damage to display on my UI in the form of 'battle text'. I've been using MikScrollingBattleText and really like it, so when I got the idea for this I started tinkering and tried adding different events, but there doesn't appear to be a way to show your party's outgoing damage (there is a way to show that they have done damage, but i can't find a way to show HOW MUCH damage...). anyone know of a way to do this using MSBT or any other mod?

[Daleka]

I know somewhere on here there is a change to the lua of Scrolling Combat Text that shows all party damage as your own. I used it for a while till I found Mik's. Only problem I saw was that it showed your parties damage no matter what, ie your not boxing and in a raid, still shows all party damage.

[pengwynman]

yeah i saw something about that too, but i've kind of grown attached to MSBT and i'm not really familiar with lua either

[Bettysue]

I the addon called SCTD or scrolling combat text Damage change this:

local COMBATLOG_FILTER_MINE = COMBATLOG_FILTER_MINE

to this:

local COMBATLOG_FILTER_MINE = bit.bor (
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_AFFILIATION_PARTY,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_AFFILIATION_MINE,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_REACTION_FRIENDLY,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_CONTROL_PLAYER,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_TYPE_PLAYER,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_TYPE_OBJECT,
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_TYPE_PET,
);

It will show your party damage as well as party pets for those pet classes. This was found in about 2 secs using "party damage" as a search criteria. Be sure to use the search first, so the informative threads don't get mixed into the clutter of non-informative duplicate threads

[pengwynman]

i took the time to do this at lunch today, and i'm pretty pleased with how it's working so far
here is the original thread:
[HowTo] Change SCTD to show party damage as well.

i'm still using MSBT to display my damage, and SCTD displaying party damage. here's a screenshot of what i have so far (keep in mind i did this on my lunch break today :P)


You can see the party damage in yellow text on the right side. Still have some tweaking to do to get it looking how i want... actually i still need to tweak my entire UI, i haven't really done anything with it since 3.0.2 hit :P

[Vainte]

I really like MikScrollingBattleText also and as far as I know it can display anything you like. It actually has documentation too, if you look in the addons folder.

Anyway lets see if I can describe what I did to get party damage to show up.

1. /msbt
2. I went to the scroll areas tab and made a new area called partyout. Then hit configure scroll areas and put it next to my damage.
3. Goto the Triggers tab, click on add new trigger
4. For the Output message do something like '%a %n'

Most main events allow the following substitution codes:

• %n - The name of the source of the event.
• %r - The name of the recipient of the event.
• %a - The amount associated with the event.
• %s - The skill name associated with the event.

5. Now you have a new tigger added. Click on the circle to configure the conditions.
6. Main Event should be skill damage (basically all spells)
7. Delete all the default conditions
8. Add a condition, source unit affiliation = party member. (Basically what this is saying is when the source of a spell is coming from a party member fire this trigger)
9. Save the condition changes.
10. Click the A edit the fonts the way you want.
11. Click the little screwdriver/wrench. Then I changed the Output scroll area to my new partyout box.
12. Profit?

Hopefully this all made sense.

You can also make triggers for other things, like white damage, skill misses (so you can see what party spells are being resisted).
Also I made a scroll area with PartyIn when my party members are taking damage. here the condition is recipient unit affiliation = party member.

[Meeo]

Thanks Vainte!

As much as i like MSBT, its was way fast and i love it now that i can see dmg out and dmg in of my party members!!

[pengwynman]

main events[/url] allow the following substitution codes:

• %n - The name of the source of the event.
• %r - The name of the recipient of the event.
• %a - The amount associated with the event.
• %s - The skill name associated with the event.

5. Now you have a new tigger added. Click on the circle to configure the conditions.
6. Main Event should be skill damage (basically all spells)
7. Delete all the default conditions
8. Add a condition, source unit affiliation = party member. (Basically what this is saying is when the source of a spell is coming from a party member fire this trigger)
9. Save the condition changes.
10. Click the A edit the fonts the way you want.
11. Click the little screwdriver/wrench. Then I changed the Output scroll area to my new partyout box.
12. Profit?

Hopefully this all made sense.

You can also make triggers for other things, like white damage, skill misses (so you can see what party spells are being resisted).
Also I made a scroll area with PartyIn when my party members are taking damage. here the condition is recipient unit affiliation = party member.[/quote]ah! that's exactly what i was looking for! i wasn't sure if those %a %n etc. codes would work, i couldn't find a list of the codes or what exactly they called. now i can just use one addon for all my scrolling damage needs :] thanks a bunch!

[ghonosyph and the moocrew]

OKAY, So can we take this one step further? i've just set up party damage, but its still a little meh for me.... too much spam for melee class, here's what i'd like to do with it from the point now.... can we make is set up specific scroll areas for each party member so you have(i have 4 toons in my multibox group) can we have four separate scroll areas scrolling the clone's dmg (*one area for each toon) ?

i'm gonna play with it and see, any suggestions if anyone has a clue will be greatly appreciated! <3 thanks in advance!



ps: vainte! THANKS SO MUCH for linking this up for us!!! JUST what i wanted...almost hehe but close enough to get me started! hehehe<3

[zanthor]

Ok, this rocks. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't combine events for a total, but maybe I've just missed that option.