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Quote from Narak »

Try turning off InFlight or the Quartz flight bar?

If you turn off InFlight then Quartz does not show Flight Bar either, so for now I will display both unless can find way for Inflight to not show it's bar which wasn't a choice.

Holy crap, this thread has a nasty habit of getting big while I'm not looking.

Quote from Phanx »

The "Copy from" option doesn't seem to be working. I configured my player cast bar, then attempted to "Copy from > Player" on the target and focus cast bars. It didn't throw any errors, but didn't change any settings either.

I think I know the cause of this, should be fixed soon ^^

Quote from alienangel »

Very nice :)

Hopeful suggestions:
1. An option to autocentre the bars.

Snap to Center options, in the individual bar configs :)

2. Would it be possible to get an option to make the swing timer an over/underlay to the main casting bar? The reason is I usually set up my autoshot bar in some prominent central location, and have my cast bar at low opacity over it (not vertically above it, but actually on top of it, but with different z-order, if that makes sense). I can't explain why but it makes things less confusing to me - while not casting there's only the swing timer to watch, and while casting there's primarily only the casting bar to watch, but if I need to I can look carefully and see how much I over or undershot my timing.

I can't visualize a good way to set that up so as to not conflict with the default bar (which manages to be pretty bright on the default settings, not to mention the spark). Got any ideas?

3. The other dream feature is probably too much to ask for in a general casting bar mod, but here it is: would it be possible to make the swing timer adjust to keep pace with casts of a specific duration? For instance, if my swing time is 3.0s, and I want it synched to a 1.5s cast, the swing timer's width would be adjusted so that both progress bars move at the same rate - if I pick up a haste effect, instead of the swing timer moving faster, the bar just gets shorter, so that it's movement speed stays the same. If both can have their ends anchored to some fixed X-coordinate, it would make weaving of casts between swings much more intuitive. If I were to start a cast when 0.5s worth of distance has been covered on the swing bar, the two bars would maintain that same 0.5s distance in progress, representing the fact that one is 0.5s in time behind the other.

That's an interesting idea, I'll throw it on the list.

Quote from alienangel »

Ooo, one last simpler but pretty important suggestion:

4. Could we have an option to show the current latency safe-zone on the swing timer? The reason is that for a hunter threading steady shots between autoshots, the latency mark on steady shot cast bar isn't useful, since we're not trying to manually cast things after the steady shot - what we're trying to do is to start casting the steady shot as soon as possible after an autoshot fires, and in practice this means pressing the button before an autoshot actually goes off client-side - a latency reading on the swing timer makes this less of a guessing game and more DDR :)

Hrm.. well, autoshot latency isn't as easily measured as casting. So the conundrum is, which latency number to use -- the one provided by blizzard (pros: updated constantly; cons: a measure of general ping, not cast ping), or the one measured by the latency module (pros: probably more accurate; cons: may not be updated as often as it needs to be).

Quote from Gungner »

I don't know if you just missed my post or if it's because it's not something Quartz should do but I try again.

I recently decided to hotkey all my spells and therefore switch off all my actionbars. The only problem I am suffering from now is that I have no range indicator.
A suggestion - have the option to turn the spell icon into a range indicator. Preferably with several colours to indicate different ranges as this would help greatly as a healer as I sometimes need to stay at 40 yards other times at 30 yards etc etc.

Since Quartz is modular I thought it would be a nice idea but if it isn't something for Quartz I can understand of course.

Well, you're still faced with initial range-finding on the first cast.. If I were to add a range finder, I'd like to make it an always-visible sort of thing, not just a color tone on the current cast.

Quote from ZealotOnAStick »

nymbia - Try #3 on Quartz last night for me, enough things seem to have been fixed from my previous attempts to allow me to seriously use it now (I evaluate anything on the "are the people in my guild who will invariably use me as their personal addon support bot going to be able to use this" criteria).

Very nice. eCastingBar is gone for me, Quartz is in. A couple of odd things I observed, and one suggestion:

1) When typing in spells to use as my primary and backup for global cooldown checks, after hitting enter on the primary, the spellname disappeared in the field. I don't know if it took it, or didn't like it, or what. If it wants a rank after it, or . . ? Maybe some sort of visual indication (or an example nearby?) of what's expected would be useful for the masses.

I'll look into making this more.. sane. (which will probably involve prodding nargiddley a bit)

2) When positioning the bars while unlocked, it shows the bar position according to its height/width parameters - but that doesn't seem to take into account icons if enabled. When unlocked, can a dummy Icon be placed next to the bar(s) if Icons are enabled? This would allow for better positioning of these elements.

I'll throw something on there, good idea :)

Quote from Ellipsis »

Is there any possibility of adding a pet casting bar to Quartz? I've replaced every other cast bar from my unit frames, but I still need that one.

I expect lots of strange looks for wanting this, because it has such limited usefulness and most people get along fine without it, but I find this information very nice to have. :P

*obligitory strange look*

(added to the list)

Quote from m0rgoth »

just have a little request :

could you make the global cooldown bar deplete instead of filling or maybe offer choice between this 2 options ?

it's a little thing but i really prefer this way of displaying global cooldown

big thanks for this addon anyway !!

I'll get that added as an option.

Quote from Klam »

Awesome mod so far just a thing i would like to see in Nymbiette is a "test" option.
Something like Test from dropdown and yu see "all" the possible bars for 1 min or 2 donno. Why not some ghost bars like Pitbull cfg but just a test to see all the bars would be enough:p

Yeah, that's planned for sure.

Quote from Aethra »

I know you're getting bombarded with requests and I feel bad requesting such a minor thing but meh. I'ma ask anyhow. :p

Is there anyway to change the flight timers to mm:ss instead of ssss. Seeing 3:23 makes a lot more sense to me than 202 seconds! Short flights are ok but when the seconds climb above 500, my eyes kinda glaze over. heh

Thanks!

Sure :)

Quote from Ellipsis »

Quote from Aethra »

I know you're getting bombarded with requests and I feel bad requesting such a minor thing but meh. I'ma ask anyhow. :p

Is there anyway to change the flight timers to mm:ss instead of ssss. Seeing 3:23 makes a lot more sense to me than 202 seconds! Short flights are ok but when the seconds climb above 500, my eyes kinda glaze over. heh

Thanks!

Bonus points if you generalize this to anything over a certain duration - certain spells can have *really* long cast/channel times (e.g. warlock summoning portals, or summoning stones in general).

That's how it will have to be implemented, so even if I didn't want to grant your request, looks like I'll have to ;)

Quote from gogusrl »

i see that quartz flight has inflight support also but it doesn`t hide the inflight bar so i get 2 bars whenever i fly somewhere. any help ?

I don't feel that I should be enforcing that on another addon, especially since I'd need to essentially cripple the InFlight bar.

Quote from HunterZ »

Quote from Aethra »

I know you're getting bombarded with requests and I feel bad requesting such a minor thing but meh. I'ma ask anyhow. :p

Is there anyway to change the flight timers to mm:ss instead of ssss. Seeing 3:23 makes a lot more sense to me than 202 seconds! Short flights are ok but when the seconds climb above 500, my eyes kinda glaze over. heh

Thanks!

Would also like to see this, although as MM:SS.ss if possible :) Also, an option to make the flight bar shrink from right to left rather than grow from left to right would be cool.

Thanks for adding flight timer support :D

Hrm, I may or may not add the MM:SS.ss mode, as it would need an option, which would constitute a performance hit when the text is updated (which is constantly). I'll take a look and see if it's feasible. Right to left is easy, I'll throw it on the list.

Quote from Mouce »

Sorry if it's been posted before, but...

It would be nice to have options for setting the exact X and Y coords of the bars, and adding a border to Mirror bar for consistancy sake (unless I'm blind and don't see it, forgive me, first day using :P ).

Redoing my UI today and I figured I would give it a shot. Didn't think I would like the big part everyone likes (latency) but better than I thought it sounded :X Nice job!

Yeah, the free positioning of buffs and mirrors isn't quite fleshed out; I'll add that to the list.

Quote from Jayblah »

I have not read the thread in its entirety, so this might be a repeat request:

I'd like to see a better implementation of copying a castbar's settings. Right now, if I want all Castbars to appear like Player, its required to go into the other castbars section and select Player to import those settings. I think it would be more practical to have a section where you could set a universal (texture, etc.) config for the castbars and check off the bars you want it applied to.

Hrm, may be tricky as we can never assume that a module is present, but I'll give it a go.

Quote from notrachel »

I have a couple of feature requests for your consideration:

1) An an overheal/healestimator similar to PitBull. Currently I use VisualHeal (off Curse-Gaming) placed below the cast bar to show this but the logical place is in the cast bar itself and it would save me an extra mod. I also think this makes more sense than having it on the unit frames as during big spells I look at the cast bar so i can leave and spell cancel as late as passible.

Bleh, can't find VisualHeal on curse, could you give me a rough overview of how it displays (or just toss up a link)? I had an easy enough time making a display that made sense on PitBull, but this feels trickier.

2) An option to disable the enemy cast bar when a friendly unit is targetted would be great. i.e. it shows when i target a hostile but hides when i target a friendly.

Thanks for a great mod.

Sure, I'll add that to the list.

Quote from LordRhys »

Quote from gogusrl »

i see that quartz flight has inflight support also but it doesn`t hide the inflight bar so i get 2 bars whenever i fly somewhere. any help ?

last night I took a flight and saw a Quartz style bar flash for a second and then just the had the normal InFlight bar displaying.

Minor kinks related to not having the flight data, I'll poke around with it.

Quote from Dameek »

Last night I had my InFlight timer and my Quartz flight timer going ....and once i landed the Quartz timer kept counting down.


Also would like a X:XX time format for the flight instead of YYY sec

See above :)

Quote from slanicka »

Quote from LordRhys »

Quote from gogusrl »

i see that quartz flight has inflight support also but it doesn`t hide the inflight bar so i get 2 bars whenever i fly somewhere. any help ?

last night I took a flight and saw a Quartz style bar flash for a second and then just the had the normal InFlight bar displaying.

Happened to me to, but only once. I guess next time, you'll be taking that route, you can enjoy both bars with all their beauty :-) Anybody knows how to get rid of it?

See even farther above (the part about me feeling that it's not my right to force-hide the flight addon's bars)

Quote from lapalapa »

second, i want to make HUMBLE request to make it possible to undock both Swing and Global Cooldown bars from main cast bar, since as a warrior i really need them both (i had Swinger addon for a swing bar before, but having both swing timer and GCD is simple a ma zing).
that would make my life a little bit closer to perfection.

Sure, I'll give those some proper positioning options.

Quote from imarkon »

even if quartz flight is enabled, i have never seen a flight bar or similar during my flights :O

Got a supported flight timer addon?

Quote from NmareBfly »

Quote from lapalapa »

second, i want to make HUMBLE request to make it possible to undock both Swing and Global Cooldown bars from main cast bar, since as a warrior i really need them both (i had Swinger addon for a swing bar before, but having both swing timer and GCD is simple a ma zing).

I feel a bit dumb because I just went ahead and registered to request this same thing. The GCD bar is wonderful, and a great idea, but it looks a little 'off' on the middle of my screen with instacast spells. It would be neat as hell if I could shove it all the way to just above my chat windows so I could see it out of the corner of my eye.

Thank you much

Sure :)

Quote from HunterZ »

Just a couple minor issues with FlightMap support:

- When taking a flight path that FlightMap doesn't know the timer for, it will report a time of zero, which will result in Quartz making the bar disappear as soon as it appears.

- When taking a flight path that is shorter than FlightMap expects, Quartz will keep counting down after landing. FlightMap calls a second function to report early termination of a flight that can be used to make the bar disappear upon landing early.

I'll work on those, thanks!

Quote from patchinko »

Something I thought would be really cool would be to turn the whole bar red when you get into the latency region. Just to make it a bit easier to know when to do the /stopcasting :)

Hrm, I'll see if I can work it in (the updating code for your cast bar is actually not at all aware of the latency bar, so it may be tricky)

Quote from Mazzlefizz »

Great work, Nymbia. This is a very sharp add-on, that I quickly became excited about.

A couple observations and suggestions:

• The enemy cast bars do not seem to work with many bosses. I'm guessing this has been reported since it's pretty obvious. We did Gruul tonight, and I did not see castbars for any of the bosses there. I did still get reports of the casts from things like Witchunt and CEnemyCastBar. It's a pretty serious limitation, though I'm guessing it's one that is handed to you by the new API.

It should always work when targeting them.. If not, then smack me around, because that's a serious problem.

• I think the power of the timers really shine when doing things like: tracking DOTS/HOTS across multiple targets, tracking the duration of a CCs like sheeps/saps, tracking immobilization stuff like frost novas. In all those cases, you'll probably switch targets after applying the effect. I'm guessing the dot/buff timer, etc. do not remain after switching a target is also b/c new API just gives information for effect linked to certain unit types. If so, I wanted to suggest the following:
• Perhaps, whenever the user switches targets, you can create replacement candybar timers for the effect on the target you just had. These timers could be shifted up to a list of bars right above the current ones, with the name of the mob it was applied to right next to it (ala DoTimers). The bottom of the block of timers would always be the current target's timers.
• When the user switches to a target, you could also compare the name of the new target and the durations of the new targets buffs/dots with the values of the faux timers you made when the user switched from previous targets. If the name of the unit and one of the timers matches closely enough, you could consolidate the two groups of timers, i.e. delete the faux timers for that unit.

Hrm, I like that idea, the one red flag that it raises in my head is how to integrate between the focus and target bars correctly. I'll give it a shot.

• I wouldn't even worry about doing some of the fancy things that CEnemyCastBars of DoTimers do to monitor effects that randomly break expire early or become subject to diminishing returns. If you ignore that aspect, this solution could be pretty seamless and maintain the simplicity of your current scheme.

I definitely don't want to do any combat log parsing in the buffs module, so early breaks are definitely out on stuff that you aren't targeting, but diminishing returns could be doable.

This is a small suggestion, but I think having larger ranges to the offsets would be useful. 10 and -10 were too small for nearly every setup I was trying to create today.

Consider it done.

Oh, one question, and I hope it's not too stupid of one. How do you move a set of bars that you don't link to a unit frame and mark as free? I tried all the obvious things like alt/ctrl/shift dragging, right-click dragging, etc.

There should be an 'unlock' checkbox that shows up once you set it to free, once that's unchecked drag it around by the first bar.

Quote from SchmuseTiger »

Thanks Nymbia for this wonderful Addon

For Requests, nothing new, to move the swing timer would be nice thou :)

It shall be so. ;)

Quote from Adelea »

The latest update r36625 from r36530 seems to have broken the flight timer - or at least it's no longer visible for me.

Apart from that loving this mod =)

I'll take a look, thanks.

Quote from Mazzlefizz »

Quote from whuz »

any dot timer does all that, why does a castbar need to do it?

A castbar absolutely doesn't "need" to do that. In the original incarnation, I would have never suggested that it should. But the fact of the matter is that the current incarnation does have quite a bid added to track buffs/debuffs, configure how they're displayed, etc.. I'm guessing a lot of that has been added simply because (a) the new API made it easy to do so, and (b) it's modular, so why not? If you think that it should not be part of a castbar add-on, I can understand that argument. Nevertheless, it is, and, with just a few additions, I think it could easily provide enough functionality to replace other timer and castbar add-ons quite elegantly. Right now, I think it's in an in-between state that makes it hard for certain classes to use those features without sacrificing a lot.

Adding that stuff will certainly add a bit more complexity, but, I think I can do it while keeping things up to my standards speed-wise; we'll see :)




Patch madness is dying down, I should be able to get a bunch of this stuff taken care of soonish.

I just discovered the timer module. What a great thing! I'm always forgetting when I put my dinner in the oven!

Would it be possible to have the time configuration default to MM:SS rather than raw seconds? Would mean I don't have to use The Calculator AddOn in the background. Oh, and a sound when the timer finishes would simply rock! I know, I know... ;)

Cheers, and thanks for a great mod. :)

Quote from Nymbia »

Bleh, can't find VisualHeal on curse, could you give me a rough overview of how it displays (or just toss up a link)? I had an easy enough time making a display that made sense on PitBull, but this feels trickier

Sorry VisualHeal is out of date (but still works). Screenshot here http://tinyurl.com/24ddfj

Thinking about it more I guess it could get confusing trying to fit that into a cast bar. Form a healer POV though the main thing is to know if I should let it land or cancel it so it could be quite simple. It could even be as simple as changing the cast portion of the bar (of the background) to red if it the heal would overheal by more than the configured percentage. Or maybe just have a something like the latency indicator that grows out of the right hand edge in proportion to the amount of predicted overheal.

Thanks again.

Guildie had insisted in people getting this mod if your class used a castbar and from what I've seen so far it's the best castbar out there hands down. I play on an Australian ping, as a hunter, and for me to maximize my DPS a little precision comes into play and this castbar gives me more control over my latency. In other words props to you Nymbia, you have my many thanks.

That aside, was wondering whether it was possible to add the latency gap into the swing bar as well since I consistently play at around 400-500ms it would help me tremendously if I could tell when I could efficiently open up a steady shot without interrupting/clipping my auto-shot.

Cheers for the great mod once again.

When I install this I get the following issues

http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/438/wtfkn6.jpg

Any help would be appreciated.

~Ownage

What's the trick to get this to replace the default blizz flight bar? I use FlightMap if that makes any difference. Doesn't it hook into that? Love this addon so far. Thank you!

Edit: Noticed someone else above mentioned that they can't see the flight timer, and you are looking into this. :)

Any chance you can add support to move the delay text? I like it above the time remaining text (such as in CBRipoff).

To get rid of InFlight flight timer bar but keep the hook for Quartz just need to use Inflight_Load module. If you turn Inflight_Load module off you will get a Quartz error stating that it can't initialize flight timer.

Quote from torano »

What's the trick to get this to replace the default blizz flight bar? I use FlightMap if that makes any difference. Doesn't it hook into that? Love this addon so far. Thank you!

Edit: Noticed someone else above mentioned that they can't see the flight timer, and you are looking into this. :)

There is no default Blizz flight bar - that's probably the default flightmap bar you're seeing.

Type /fmap and then uncheck the timer box.

For Quartz, if you're using the latest version from the WowAce SVN, there's a flight timer option in its menu - make sure it's enabled and you should be good to go.

Hello

I'm having some trouble with the Quartz modular casting bar. It dosen't include a manual on how you install it. I tried to put it into a quartz folder that i placed under Addons, but when i activate it and enter the game it gives me an error.

Error messege:
Interface\Addons\Quartz\Quartz.lua:18:attempt to call global 'acelibrary' (a nilvalue)

I'm using Quartz-r36714.1002

Hope you guys can help

no FuBar plugin yet? :)

Quote from theevilmeister »

Hello

I'm having some trouble with the Quartz modular casting bar. It dosen't include a manual on how you install it. I tried to put it into a quartz folder that i placed under Addons, but when i activate it and enter the game it gives me an error.

Error messege:
Interface\Addons\Quartz\Quartz.lua:18:attempt to call global 'acelibrary' (a nilvalue)

I'm using Quartz-r36714.1002

Hope you guys can help

don't create any folders just drop the zip on the AddOn folder and say extract here, the zip includes all the folders.

Quote from Azmodan »

no FuBar plugin yet? :)

FuBar plugin not really needed for this.

nymbia: any chance you can have it hook into Niagra so we can set the options there, I think you are using Waterfall anyway aren't you?

The sunder armor target debuff timer is slightly bugged when devastate is used to refresh the debuff. The text for the debuff duration is properly set back to 30 each time devastate is used, but the bar does not fill back up with color.

For example, if a mob has 15 seconds left on sunder armor, then the bar will say 15s and be 50% full. When devastate is used on the target, the bar is correctly updated to say 30s, but remains 50% full; and the bar will shrink at a smaller rate so that it will take the proper 30 seconds to become empty.

I'm having a problem with this addon. Before today, the latency part was working fine, as in it showed up at the right side of the bar when casting a spell that had a cast time and at the left side of the bar when channeling a spell. However, today, when I uninstalled all my Ace addons, and re-installed it, Quartz shows up and casts, but the latency always appears reversed (right side when channeling, left when casting). Any help would be appreciated.