[HowTo] Change SCTD to show party damage as well.

[The IT Monkey]

I have not gone to BGs with SCTD mod installed... I don't do BGs all that much so it is not a concern of mine. What I have read here from people who HAVE gone to BGs with this mod installed they get SCTD for ALL people in their raid... I can see where this would be annoying.

I have not looked into how you might turn the text off for raid members but on for party members. My modification of SCTD was something I just shared with the forum... not something that was meant to be an "end game solution" for all your SCT needs. Like I said... BG is not something I am into so it is not that great a priority for me. If you think this is something you can tackle go for it.

Personally with all the stuff that goes on in BGs I think I would just turn SCTD off before going in.

Nice mod there on the getting it to show names btw... well done. Now if you could just build in a throttle like the other mod has it would be great.

[The IT Monkey]

doesnt the next line express the availability of a dmg filter minimum? (like sctd used to have for mana/health, not at home right now so i cant check)
if (amount < db["SCTD_DMGFILTER"]) then return end

SCTD does have a filter IIRC... you can set it to NOT show damage under a certain amount. This line of code obviously compares the value of "amount" with that number set in the options. If it is lower it does not return anything.

[The IT Monkey]

Is there any way that a lua programmer can make extra frames for these?

My idea is to have my Unit frames lined up like this:

Party1 --- Party2 --- Party3 --- Party4 --- Party5

so if there would be 5 extra frames u could scroll them below it like this:

Party1 --- Party2 --- Party3 --- Party4 --- Party5

p1dmg ----- p2dmg ---- p3dmg ---- p4dmg ---- p5dmg
p1dmg ----- p2dmg ---- p3dmg ---- p4dmg ---- p5dmg

I hope it makes sense

Don't think you need a lua programmer for that ... you need an XML programmer... something I have yet to delve into.

[The IT Monkey]

I just tried the change and I'm loving it. The only problem is I don't see the party's pet damage. Any idea on what I can replace the pet damage line with to get the damage from all the pets in my party?

Try adding
COMBATLOG_OBJECT_TYPE_PET,
with the other modifications... should do the trick.

Although it might only show your mains pet... I don't know if it distinguishes pet ownership.

Your code would look like 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,
);

Let me know which of these four things happened:
1) Works as intended.
2) Shows only my main's pet damage.
3) Shows everyone's pet's damage everywhere. (quite possible)
4) Divided by zero and now my computer has fallen into a black hole.

[Maxion]

I have done bg's with the original edit of sctd from this thread, I do see the damage from everyone in my Party, not Raid, so it's not a big problem for me, in fact I sometimes find it interesting to have such a direct view of how the others are doing.

As far as customizing the way your party's damage etc appears on the screen, I suspect with the customizability of mik's scrolling battle text you should be able to do that and perhaps more. With the way you can search for events and add them to the thing, I'm sure you could make it look for your alts only, and not whoever is in your party so that it would work regardless of if you are in the same group or not.

[firest4rter]

I just had a good look at mik's scrolling battle text. If we can get this working nicely with the group this will be heaps better than SCT. Hopefully someone can work out how to make it work like this.

[Maxion]

Yeah, apparently some of the functions shown in the vid there are not in it anymore since the patch, but I made a post about about it and hopefully he'll get back to me about it/make it work the way we want

[LancerX]

Wow, Nice find IT Monkey. I had been looking for something like this but didnt want to go digging through the lua file thanks a ton.

[Emo?]

Why doesnt it work for me?, ive tryed to do as u said and DL the latest V. of both. Can some1 just paste the whole scrip so i can copy+paste it into my sctd.lua file?

- Thx, Emo?

[Maat]

I just found maybe a bit easier and reliable way to do this.

I updated SCT and SCTD yesterday from wowace so can only talk about version that are at least that old.

Type /sct menu in wow
Go to SCT Custom Events section
Click New Event
Give whatever name you want for the event
At Display type in: *4 (*1)
That will make it look like your damage on main
At Search type in: Shock
Set Event Type to Damage
Set Target to Anyone
Set Source to Friends
Set Event Frame to SCTD
Tick in Show Icon
Click Save Event

Now if your clones are in same guild or on your friend list you will get their Shocks and displayed on SCTD.

Huge problem with this is, if your main is in a guild and guildies are around you shocking you will see their damage too.
Obviously create new event and instead of Shock use Lightning, and you will see all Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning damage from clones too.

EDIT: Ahh NM, Friend apparently means the whole horde faction :S
Would be nice if it could filter by Character name instead of Spell name tho.