Tutorial - DotIt configuration

The addon has a lot of options and so I wrote this tutorial to make it a bit more clear what every option does and how to use it properly.

General options

The following screenshot shows the geneal options dialogue.

I will only explain things that may not be clear because I think everybody knows what an option like "Locked" should do ;).

• Hide the scale: This option hides the scale when there is no bar active. Should be activated if you prefere a clean screen!
• Only debuffs from target: Only adds debuffs from your current target. This does NOT remove debuffs when you switch targets.
• Hide target text: Hides the name of your targets. This is not needed if you have the "Only debuffs from target" option enabled.
• Icon out of the bar: This option is enabled by default and means that as soon as the icon reaches zero the bar will fade. If you disable it the icon becomes a part of the bar and the bar will hide when the icon is fully through the zero position.
• Remove debuffs on t...: Removes debuffs as soon as you switch targets and only shows negative effects from your current target.

View options

• Scale text: Shows or hides the numbers from the scale.
• Horizontal: If you uncheck this box the addon will be changed into vertical mode.
• Left\above Flag: This changes the scale to the left side for the vertical mode or above the bars for the horizontal mode.

Vertical with this option disabled:

Vertical with the flag enabled:

Horizontal with the option enabled:

• Scalesize: The size of the scale without the logarithmic parts (changes the width for the horizontal mode and the height for the vertical mode)
• Barsize: The thickness of the bar
• Maximum time: Changes the maximum time of the normal bar.
• Steps: In how many steps should the normal part of the scale be seperated. For example if you want a mark every second on a 10 second long scale input 10 here. The following picture should show what you can do with it.

• Maximum negative time: It is possible to show a negative part of the bar. So time that has already passed and with this option you can set the maximum. The following picture should show it.

• Barcolor: You can define the default spell school colors here for the negative and the positive part of the bars. It is important to know that this colors are only used if the spell has no color. So if you give the spell Sunder Armor a red color it will use red instead of the one from the physical category.

Logarithmic option

Here you can define logarithmic parts which are appended at the end of your bar. You input the times seperated by comma as you can see in the following picture.

In this example the first part that is appended to the normal scale is 200 seconds long and the second one is 270 seconds. The following picutre shows the output.

It starts with 30 seconds of "realtime". And then it appends 200 seconds (200 + 30 = 230) and then it adds 270 to it which gives 230 + 270 = 500. This is not limited so you can input much more then two additional segments! By default the addon does not come with an logarithmic scale and so it IS IMPORTANT that you defie it so that your longest spell fits on the bar.

Spells options

Inserting a new spell is not so hard as it may look in the first moment. You only need:

• A spell id (you can copy it from the wowhead url. For example if you try to find Sunder Armor then you will have the following url in your browser: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=7386. The number is the spellid.)
• A pice of lua code that returns the time.

Now to the dialogue:

• Class: The class which should use the spell. If it is not class specific like Heroism/Bloodlust use General.
• Duration: This field can take any lua code you want that returns the duration of a spell. So if we want that a spell is 10 seconds like we type return 10. Important: for cooldowns it is enough to type return 0 and the time will be detected automatically.
• Negative color: This color overrides the default negative colors for spells (the ones you can define in the Barcolor dialgue).
• Positive color: This color overrides the default positive colors for spells (the ones you can define in the Barcolor dialgue).
• SpellId: The Id of a spell (you can get it from the wowhead url).
• Stacks: This is the maximum number of stacks. In this example we have Deadly Poison which has 5 stacks maximum so we input 5. This leads to a changing transparency depending on how many stacks of the spell you have active.
• Type: Should be self explaining.

Don't forget to press Insert whe you are finished with your work. If you inputed everything correctly you will find your spell in the category you choose (dots, debuffs, ..).

Bossmod options

This addon does not have bossmods included. So you have to download BigWigs or Deadly Bossmods which will be used to get the time from.

• Enable bossmods: Enables the bossmod display.
• Hide bar text: Only shows the bars without text.
• Hide bossmod bars: Hides the original bossmod bars.