[ADDON] KM:Boss Mods

[Lorandii]

I was using 0.8.8 last night in River of Souls. No errors to report. However, I have a suggestion for Herold Gaurath: could you extend the warning timers for raising the dead and that cast he interrupts to 4 or 5 seconds warning? Is that feasable with the encounter mechanics?

The reason I ask is because I was picking up the adds from the coffins, but was the only player with any boss mod enabled, and the 2 second warning was too short to warn the raid.

Going to try 0.8.9 tonight

[Lorandii]

Oh, sorry abou the copy/paste. Not sure what you have in your code, and the translations, but it is Herald, not Herold.

[Semele]

Oh, sorry abou the copy/paste. Not sure what you have in your code, and the translations, but it is Herald, not Herold.

I'll look in to the timings for them, see if I can't see any reliable pattern. The alert is based on the cast bar only, it then starts a timer for when they'll spawn. We group during the cast, and move say 5s in to the 7s timer, I could let the alert last until the timer ends if that'll be of more use? (a 9s alert, with countdown)

Also, there are some minor issues with 0.8.9, but they are non-critical and can be avoided or require lots of factors to combine to throw an error. These have already been fixed, so if you'd feel the extended alert would be more useful (or I missed your point with my example with the timer) I'll add them with the next update.

One of the errors some people may see is thrown by SafesRaidManager, it's non-critical and is the first stage of Res tracking. If you get it, just reloadui to be safe, if you're feeling brave just continue, shouldn't really effect KBM at all. There are certain res skills triggering data in the wrong order, but there's a fix done to at least stop the errors and leave it behind the scenes so I can trace the accuracy. Why I'm doing this will become more apparent soon.

Another glitch is shadows not being initiated correctly on the first show of objectives in the objective tracker (you'll probably not notice until I've said so), and finally there's a fluke error with Grug which I managed to witness first hand tonight which has been fixed.

The final error involves the options for Cast Filter colors. This will also be fixed and is a direct result of the way Alert and Timer custom color settings have moved over.

Anyhow, the explanations are larger than the current minor glitches in 0.8.9, if you can live with them you'll need to do nothing, otherwise 0.8.8 should rule out at least the res one (Grug one is rare). For those technically minded, you can copy the SafesRaidManager folder from 0.8.8 to 0.8.9 to fix the Res errors without breaking it.

[Lorandii]

Are the necessary casts that need interrupting on Herald (or other bosses) on consistant timers? Meaning, does he Raise the Dead every 30 seconds exactly, or based on a percentage of his health, or does he cast whenever he feels like?

If it is one of the first two options, then it should be easy to figure out the timing and adjust the countdown timers accordingly. If it is the third option, then I understand why you based the timer on his cast bar. And it takes him two seconds to cast Raise the Dead. Gotcha.

As for Safe's Raid Manager; assuming your changes don't break multiple addons, you could commit a change yourself, or get someone like me to do it with your provided code. Then bump the Version string in the toc. You would need SRM's author's permission of course.

[Semele]

When I was researching the timer wasn't accurate, but that's because I forgot to time in the context of the phases. I'll go over the data and videos again with the 2 spawns to each ground phase in mind, I "should" be able to figure out the timer. I'll keep an eye on percentage correlation also.

I would like to apologize for the recent random error's however, the engine is receiving yet another conversion for future expansion (plug-ins in mind, as you mentioned earlier). I've said before, but I'll burden everyone with it again, I do not have a large test base, so any testing done before an upload is mainly what my wife and I can do, which doesn't help for ruling out large permutations.

Anyhow, any bugs found by myself or the people using KBM (including your kind self) can and will be fixed within a version, so please keep in contact. I'm happy to receive errors in public forums or PM's (as some of you do, and thank you).

I'm still experimenting with LUA, as it's a new language for me (as of KBM and Safe's Raid Manager (both mine)), so now I'm down to fine tuning and optimization. Although I'm still extremely bitter with Trion for introducing hard client crashes in to my addon without any notification via the test server, so I feel I'm fighting an uphill battle.

At the point of f it, I've been chasing my tail ever since they did that, since I literally had to rewrite and kludge KBM from that point onward. le sigh.

[potis]

When I was researching the timer wasn't accurate, but that's because I forgot to time in the context of the phases. I'll go over the data and videos again with the 2 spawns to each ground phase in mind, I "should" be able to figure out the timer. I'll keep an eye on percentage correlation also.

I would like to apologize for the recent random error's however, the engine is receiving yet another conversion for future expansion (plug-ins in mind, as you mentioned earlier). I've said before, but I'll burden everyone with it again, I do not have a large test base, so any testing done before an upload is mainly what my wife and I can do, which doesn't help for ruling out large permutations.

Anyhow, any bugs found by myself or the people using KBM (including your kind self) can and will be fixed within a version, so please keep in contact. I'm happy to receive errors in public forums or PM's (as some of you do, and thank you).

I'm still experimenting with LUA, as it's a new language for me (as of KBM and Safe's Raid Manager (both mine)), so now I'm down to fine tuning and optimization. Although I'm still extremely bitter with Trion for introducing hard client crashes in to my addon without any notification via the test server, so I feel I'm fighting an uphill battle.

At the point of f it, I've been chasing my tail ever since they did that, since I literally had to rewrite and kludge KBM from that point onward. le sigh.

The code changes/bugs stop at some point ;p

You are doing a great job and everyone can agree!

[Semele]

v0.9.0
=====
* System
** New: The addon's tracking system has now been enabled for: Attempts, Wipes, Kills and Best Times.
** New: Boss Encounter's which have a Chronicle variant can now be identified separately mainly for kill tracking.
** New: You can now select to not trigger the addon during Chronicles in Hammerknell and GSB.
** New: Internal Achievement matching and tracking system has started. (Including Rapid Assault timers)
** Note: This is currently internal, but will be displayed in the Records tab shortly.
** Change: All boss and instance mods have been converted to try and better avoid rare errors.
* Menu Options
** Cast Filters
*** Fixed: Error on selecting cast filters for custom colors.
*** Change: Adjusted Filter settings internally to use the same template as Alerts and Timers.
* Castbars
** Change: Castbar updating has been unthrottled in order to better account for interrupt accuracy.
** Note: This is experimental, please report any CPU usage issues compared to previous version.
* Phase Monitor
** Fixed: Objective shadows were not correct on initiation for Meta objectives.
** Fixed: Error involving .Lists member corrected for new dynamic objective manager.
* Hammerknell
** Grugonim
*** Fixed: A slight possibility for the encounter to crash on transition to Tower phases. (rare)
* Greenscale's Blight
** Infiltrator Johlen
*** Fixed: Error on bomb phase transition.
** Prince Hylas
*** Change: Cleaned up the objective tracking a little.
* Guilded Prophecy
** New: Converted to new engine.
** New: Converted all boss modules to new engine in preparation for fully supported mechanics.
* Raid Manager
** Fixed: Inconsistent error on "some" resurrect mechanics. (Error moved to debug tracking info, non-critical)
** Fixed: Heal events were not triggering as expected, catch added for inconsistent nil caster/target errors.
* German Translations
** Runenkönig Molinar
*** New: Erdrückendes Bedauern.
** Hohepriesterin Hydriss
*** New: Flug Phase.
*** New: Meeresbrut.
*** New: Seeklauennest.
** Isskal
*** New: Whirlpool beendet.
*** New: Richtung wechseln.
*** New: Erster Whirlpool.
** Überfallkommandant Jorb
*** New: Lähmender Griff.

[Semele]

Currently in development for 0.9.1. Full support for Guilded Prophecy. And a minor fix to PlayerBuff triggers sometimes being ignored (possibly the last fix needed to the engine).

There's a new method in place to invalidate times if the addon picks up in a fight mid-way through. It'll be a personal preference if you wish to reset your own encounter data for this.

[Semele]

v0.9.1
=====
System
* Timers and Records
** Change: Records will no longer be recorded if you have to restart, reloadui or reset an encounter mid way through.
** Note: Kills, attempts and wipes will still be recorded.
* Mechanic Timers
** New: Timers can now be dynamic and change based on data supplied via triggers. (See Sicaron)

Interrupts
* Info: KBM now houses dynamic skill interrupt handling linked between castbars and alerts.

Cast Bars
* New: Castbars will now record interrupted and successful cast end states.
* New: Interrupted casts will now change to an Interrupt fade out bar to better gauge successful interrupts.
* New: Channeled casts now operate in the same way as they do in native Rift, they are also separate triggers.
* Change: Castbars now work a little different internally. This should help rule out any inconsistency with triggers.
* Note: The above change should also improve CPU usage during cast heavy fights.

Options
* Change: All sub-level check boxes have been disabled in the main menu to avoid confusion.
* Note: The above check boxes will be re-enabled when they actually do something. Apologies.

Triggers
* Fixed: Some triggers would not fire if there were both Player and Boss buff lists in a mod.
* New: Added Channeled cast triggers for better tracking and duration of channeled casts.
* New: Added Interrupt triggers for better tracking of alerts. (experimental)

Hammerknell
* Murdantix
** New: Soul Trauma interrupts now stop the alert display instantly.
** Change: Soul Trauma is now a solid alert with countdown display based on cast time.
* Matron Zamira
** New: Hideous Blast interrupts now stop the alert display instantly.
** Change: Hideous Blast is now a solid alert with countdown display based on cast time.
* Rune King Molinar
** New: Consuming Essence interrupts now stop the alerts from flashing instantly.
** Change: Consuming Essence for both are now solid alerts with countdown display base on cast time.
** Change: Runic Feedback cast and duration are now separate triggers with countdowns available.
** Change: Cursed Blows cast and duration are now separate triggers with countdowns available.
** Change: The alerts for the above are now separated, cast solid and duration flashing.
* Estrode
** New: Chastise interrupts now stop the alerts from flashing instantly.
** Change: Dancing Steel cast and duration are now separate triggers with countdowns available.
* Sicaron
** New: Soul Harvest now has a dynamic Timer.
* Grugonim
** New: Necrotic Breath duration now has a separate screen alert to it's initial cast.
* Akylios
** Change: Breath of Madness cast and duration are now separate triggers with countdowns available.

Rise of the Phoenix
* Beruhast
** New: Inferno Lash interrupts now stop the alerts from flashing instantly.
** New: Added an alert to notify of a new add spawning.
* General Silgen
** Change: Heat Funnel has changed to channeled cast trigger.
** Change: Incinerate has changed to channeled cast trigger.

Drowned Halls
* Note: Rift Instance inconsistency with NPC Notify and Say messages.
* Note: The Rift API is receiving no messages for this instance, when it's fixed by Trion all timers/alerts will work.

Guilded Prophecy
* Anrak the Foul
** New: Tank-Swap: Enabled support for Brittle.
** New: Spines of Earth: Alert warning for cast and duration added.
** New: Vicious Tail Strike: Alert added.
** New: Call of Anrak: Alerts added.
** New: Bond of the Earth: Alerts added.
** Note: Timers have been left out due to not being able to find consistent time data.
* Guurloth
** New: Orb of Searing Power: Timer added for first Orb of Searing Power.
** New: Orb of Searing Power: Alerts added for each cast and duration.
** New: Orb of Searing Power: Timer added.
** New: Rumbling Earth: Alerts added for each cast and duration.
** New: Timer added for first Add spawn. (Estimate/Average)
** New: Timer added for Add spawns. (Estimate/Average)
** New: Alert added for Add spawns.
** New: Boulder of Destruction: Alert added.
** New: Earthen Toil: Alerts added for each cast and duration.
** New: Earthen Punishment: Mechanic Timer added.
** New: Earthen Punishment: Personal Alert and duration countdown added.
** New: Earthen Geyser: Timer and Alert added.
* Thalguur
** New: Touch of the Core: Alert added.
** New: Absorb Power: Timer added for duration of cast.
** New: Absorb Power: Alert added for start of phase.
** New: Phase and Objective tracking added.
** New: Curse of Greed: Alert added for while you are afflicted.
** New: Call of Gold: Alert added for while you are affected by someones Curse of Greed.
** Note: This encounter is still bugged in Rift (not KBM) where some phases can be skipped.
* Uruluuk
** New: Phase and Objective tracking added.
** New: Fist of Laethys: Alert with dynamic interrupt link added.
** New: Storm of Force: Alert warning.
** New: Crystal Imprisonment: Personal alert added if emoted.
** Note: This encounter is still bugged in Rift (not KBM) where the last 30% phase can be missed.
** Note: More work on this encounter to come.

German Translations
* Configurations
** New: in den Chroniken verwenden.
** New: Blua.
* Runenkönig Molinar
** New: Gabelstoß.
* Matrone Zamira
** New: Spirituelle Erschöpfung.
* Seelenreißer Zilas
** Fixed: Seelenreißer-Griff.
* Kriegsmeister Galenir
** New: Eitriger Infekt.
** Fixed: Essenztransfer.
* Alsbeth die Streitsuchende
** Fixed: Zwietracht-Explosion.
** New: Schild der Dunkelheit.
* Prinz Hylas
** Fixed: Anrufung des Lebens.
* Hohepriester Arakhurn
** New: Feuernova.
** New: Brut von Arakhurn.
** New: Zornige Brut von Arakhurn.
* Anrak der Üble
** New: Stacheln der Erde.
** New: Bösartiger Schweifschlag.
** New: Ruf von Anrak.
** New: Bande der Erde.
** New: Brüchig.
* Guurloth
** New: Kugel der sengenden Macht.
** New: Grollende Erde.
** New: Guurloths Ruf.
** New: Fels der Zerstörung.
** New: Irdene Mühe.
** New: Erdengeysir.
** New: Erdenbestrafung.
* Thalguur
** New: Berührung des Kerns.
** New: Kraft absorbieren.
** New: Ruf des Goldes.
** New: Fluch der Gier.
* Uruluuk
** New: Faust von Laethys.
** New: Sturm der Stärke.
** New: Kristallgefängnis.

[Semele]

v0.9.2
=====
Castbars
* Change: Reduced the accuracy of interrupts being fired to above 5/100ths of a second only.

Hammerknell
* Inwar Darktide
** Fixed: Fetid Slime count changed to 15. This should allow Phase 3 to trigger correctly.

Rise of the Phoenix
* High Priest Arakhurn
** Fixed: Fire Nova trigger changed from cast to channel.

German Translations
* Hohepriester Arakhurn
** New: Feurige Metamorphose
** New: Rüstung aufreißen (T-SM)

[weiland]

Thanx for all the work you have put in to the addon .. here is a link to Lucidiums kill of Akylios using the KBM addon

Lucidium vs Akylios

[Semele]

v0.9.3
=====
Plug-Ins
* New: Added the framework for the Plug-In Engine.
* New: Linked Plug-In engine to be able to interact with and use KBM's options page.
* New: Plug-In version tracking enabled. Plug-Ins require a minimum version of King Boss Mods to work.

Screen Alerts
* Change: Reduced the default size of screen alerts by 60%. These can still be resized within the same bounds.
* New: Individual Alerts can now have their borders shown or hidden while triggered.
* New: Individual Alerts can now have their notification text shown or hidden while triggered.

Castbars
* Esthetics: Fixed the fade-out for interrupts when preceeding a disabled filter cast.

Options
* Change: Mechanic Timers that are disabled during an encounter will be stopped if currently active.
* New: Plug-Ins will appear at the top of the menu list when installed. (this will change eventually)
* New: Option to disable an individual alert to not display the border.
* New: Option to disable an individual alert to not display alert text and countdown.

Hammerknell
* Vladmal Prime
** New: Added Single phase Phase Monitor for percentage monitoring.
* Rune King Molinar
** Change: The percentage monitor now tracks 7% variations.
* Inwar Darktide
** Change: Merged Phase 3 and Phase 2, there will now be a requirement to kill 2 Tide Wardens.
** Change: After killing 2 Tide Wardens, Phase 3 will trigger with Percentage display for Undertow and Rot Jaw.
** New: Added further triggers to capture any kills missed due to out-of-range issues with kill events.
** New: Phase 3 will trigger when either Rotjaw or Undertow become available.
** New: Phase 4 will trigger when Inwar Darktide becomes available.
* Akylios & Jornaru
** New: Added an additional phase when Akylios is at 15%. This will stop the submerge timer.
** Fixed: Castbars were not resetting correctly after a wipe/kill.
** Fixed: The emerge/submerge timer association had become unlinked.
** Fixed: Jornaru's castbar would become disabled in Phase 2.. and never internally enabled.
** Change: Jornaru's castbar tracking is now removed at the start of phase 2. And reapplied in Phase 4.

Rise of the Phoenix
* High Priest Arakhurn
** New: Added a further trigger to catch the start of P3. (Again until Trion clean this encounter up, I'll continue to work around it)
** New: Added Unit tracking for Spawn of Arakhurn in P2 (Transition Phase). This should enable the Objectives to track correctly.

Greenscale's Blight
* Infiltrator Johlen
** Change: Phase percentages tweaked again for the first and second bombs. (76% and 51% respectively)

[Semele]

First I'd like to thank Toc for supplying the first batch of Russian translations. These will be making their appearance, and should be expanded on from this point forward.

I intend on expanding cast bars to work with multiple units of the same name. So this will require some engine changes for them. It will allow plug-ins to use the engine entirely, and allow for "adds" and "trash" to start utilizing KBM's core alert and timer engine.

Finally, I'm hoping to unlock the records tab. Sorry it's taken so long, but it keeps getting pushed down the priority list.

[Semele]

http://s.riftui.com/preview/pvw425.png
This has just been finished, and is included in v0.9.4.

[potis]

http://s.riftui.com/preview/pvw425.png
This has just been finished, and is included in v0.9.4.

I see you are still doing an awesome job.

I just have one question for you.

Is there any chance that KBM will die with you if you get bored with the game or is there any other developer helping you?

Mostly speaking for Infernal Dawn coming probably late February.

I know its a random question, dont wanna see an awesomely progressing add-on die ;)