Guild Wars 2 - Scrolling Combat Text (GW2SCT)

This is an addon for arcdps by deltaconnected (https://www.deltaconnected.com/arcdps/) and adds a highly customizable floating and scrolling combat text beside the users character. Incoming damage is displayed on the left side, outgoing damage is displayed on the right side.

Prerequisites

GW2SCT requires ArcDPS to work. You can install arcdps by following the instructions in this site: https://www.deltaconnected.com/arcdps/

Installing

Go to the the release page and download the newest release. Copy the file "d3d9_arcdps_sct.dll" into the "bin64/"" subfolder of your game directory.

If you want to add your own fonts copy them in the "addons/sct/fonts/" subfolder of your game directory. You can configure the output in the arcdps options panel (opened by default with Alt+Shift+T).

If for some reason the addon is not loading for you, check that you have the newest version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables installed. Get it here.

Translations

Translations can be found on this repository in the according language folder. If you have a translations for a new language or improvements for one, get in touch with me.

Translations available and authors:

• english (complete for 2.0-RC4, Artenuvielle)

Available translations and authors prior to version 2.0-RC3:

• chinese (only complete for 1.1-RC3, jiangyi0923)
• french (only complete for 1.2-RC3, livarkhal)

If you want to check which translation strings were changed in which version have a look here.

Contributing

Feel free to contact me on Reddit if you have suggestions or encounter any bugs not listed below.

Known Bugs

• When having problems accessing the GW2 render API no skill icons can be downloaded or it takes a very long time. Download and extract the images in icons.zip file from here and into the "addons/sct/icons" subfolder of your game directory.

Version History

• 2.0
  • fixed crash issues with messages trying to render after being deleted already
• 2.0-RC5
  • moved texture creation into imgui callback to resolve issues with crashing
  • creating font atlases in advance to improve loading time
• 2.0-RC4
  • removed d3d9 support (game doesn't use d3d9 renderer anymore)
  • changes to improve stability when creating and updating d3d11 textures
• 2.0-RC3
  • profile system (have multiple profiles of setting to quickly switch between and also have character bound profiles)
  • transparency option for skill icons
  • recording and playback of messages for easier option adjustment
  • switched language and skill icon persistence format
  • switched skill remap persistence format (if you want to remap e.g. skill id 46469 to 9168 and 30308 to 9120, put {"46469":"9168","30308":"9120"} into remap.json)
• 2.0-RC2
  • published source code
  • output messages to multiple scroll areas
  • switched options persistence format
  • added %r parameter into template system for profession names
• 2.0-RC1
  • added own font rendering system (problems with other addons font scaling should be fixed)
  • changed memory pool for textures (this caused the game to freeze when resizing game window previously)
• 1.3-RC4
  • updated multiple libraries used
  • fixed skill filter options tab
  • fixed game crashing if for any reason the GW2 rendering API was not reachable
• 1.3-RC3
  • fixed color pickers not working in message options tab
  • fixed active options tab not being highlighted in menu bar
• 1.3-RC2
  • updated imgui library to version 1.80
  • fixed compatibility with arcdps exports (feb.23.2021 changes)
• 1.3-RC1
  • added options for changing default font size and default crit font size
  • improved skill filtering (all previously filtered skill ids won't work any more, please readd them manually)
  • added a couple informational tooltips
  • added posibility to read in a remap.ini for remapping skill ids to different ones for retrieving the correct icons (in the ini under [Active] section add key values like '46469 = 9168'; this e.g. fixes SoJ)
  • fixed a bug in language file loading
  • fixed a bug when deleting first scroll area in list
  • fixed a bug when deleting first filtered skill id in list
  • improved debug logging for skill icons download
• 1.2-RC3
  • Changed skill icon loading code to be compatible with d912pxy
• 1.2-RC2
  • Improved loading of language files
  • Increased maximal scrolling speed for supporting higher display resolutions.
  • Small tweak to skill icon loading to maybe fix some issues.
• 1.2-RC1
  • Added scroll areas
  • Added translation support
  • Added support for chinese fonts
  • Added option for filtering out skills of a given id
  • Optimized message interpreting being run once per message before render and then on the fly only when options change (boosts FPS).
  • Fixed the mixup of damage and healing due to arcdps update
  • Fixed skill icons not being displayed for pets
• 1.1-RC3
  • Added support for ArcDPS API revision 1
  • Added list of skill ids to filter from all messages
• 1.1-RC2
  • Added skill icons as template parameter
  • Fixed %p for pet/clone messages
  • Added option to select master font
  • Added option to hide messages to yourself in outgoing window
• 1.1-RC1
  • Added options window (removed options dropdown in arcdps options window)
  • Added editable message templates
• 1.0
  • Fixed that enemy damage was shown as pet/clone damage
• 1.0-RC1
  • initial release

Authors

• René Martin - Initial work - Artenuvielle

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.