NAME

   Eviscerometer - by danboo

WEBSITE

   http://wow.boorstein.net/

DESCRIPTION

   Eviscerometer creates a colored, semi-transparent bar that overlays
   a region of the target health bar, showing predicted eviscerate
   hit and crit damage.

   It records a history of your eviscerate damage broken down by
   target level, target class, combo points and other factors to make a
   decent guess at your predicted damage.

SUPPORTED TARGET FRAMES

   It is designed to work with any target frame system, but each new
   system has to be explicitly setup in the distribution.

   Currently the following target frames are supported:
   
      - Default UI
      - Discord Unit Frames
      - Nymbia's Perl Unit Frames

   If you'd like it to support the target frame you use, you can help
   me out by identifying the name of the 'StatusBar' that reflects the
   target health. If you are comfortable with the Lua, please feel free
   to test your setup by editing the Eviscerometer.lua file. Look for
   the 'Eviscerometer_TargetFrames' table.

CONFIGURATION

   To configure to your liking use the '/evismeter' slash command.

   You can configure the following via the GUI:

      - overlay transparency
      - hit overlay color
      - crit overlay color
      - inverted health bars
      - wipe eviscerate damage history

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

   How did you know the FAQs before you published the addon?

      Umm, I guessed.

   Why doesn't it work?

      Is it installed correctly? Is it enabled in the "AddOns" section
      of your character select screen? Is your target frame in the list
      of 'SUPPORTED TARGET FRAMES'? Is it configured to a non-zero
      transparency?

      If so, keep in mind that you won't start seeing predicted damage
      until you repeat a combo point count where you have performed
      eviscerate on a same level, same class target.

   Why doesn't it use a piecewise linear function to interpolate the
   predicted eviscerate damage where the data is absent?

      When you start using it, you might feel a little anxious to see
      the predicted damage on all targets. Give it some time and you
      will fill out the histories soon enough. I didn't feel the
      complexity of interpolating and extrapolating was worth the
      effort in light of the speed with which the data fills in.

   How does it calculate target hit points?

      Hit points are calculated in a manner similar to the MobHealth addon;
      the observed damage total is divided by the fraction loss in life.

      The main difference is that the values are not stored. This leads to
      less stability, but for player targets, greater accuracy.

CHANGES

   d2005.10.06_i1700_r01

      - fixed a bug that lead to error messages when non Rogue/Druid
        characters performed special attacks

   d2005.10.03_i1700_r01

      - added experimental support for Druid's "Ferocious Bite" finisher (untested)
      - added support for Nymbia's Perl target frame
      - set the scale of the overlay based on the scale of the health bar

$Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2005-10-06 07:05:25-04 danboo Exp danboo $