WoW: 12.0.5 (Midnight) · Maintainer: Nelnamara · Original V2 author: cliffclive · Original author: Vreenak (US-Remulos)

CooldownTimeline tracks your ability cooldowns as moving icons along a horizontal timeline bar. As a cooldown expires it slides toward a "ready" zone on the right; when it fires, a configurable alert plays. Supports all spec cooldowns, ICDs, auto-attack swings, and optional Masque skinning.

• Visual cooldown timeline — icons slide along a bar toward a "ready" marker as their cooldowns count down
• Auto-detection — discovers spec abilities automatically on login and spec change; no manual setup required
• Multiple lanes — separate bars for different cooldown categories (offensive, defensive, etc.)
• Configurable ready zone — sound alerts and flash animation when a cooldown comes off cooldown
• Internal cooldown (ICD) tracking — tracks proc ICDs alongside regular cooldowns
• Custom cooldown list — manually add any spell not auto-detected
• Shared cooldown support — optionally hide redundant entries when abilities share a CD
• Auto-hide — bar hides when out of combat (configurable)
• Masque support — skins all cooldown icons through Masque if installed
• LibSharedMedia-3.0 — custom fonts, textures, sounds, and borders via LSM
• AceConfig options panel — in-game GUI at /cdtl config with full profile support

1. Download the latest release zip
2. Extract to World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\
   • The folder should be named CooldownTimeline3
   • It should contain CDTL2.lua, the .toc file, and subdirectories
3. Log in and type /cdtl to open options, or /cdtl config

First run: The bar appears in the center of your screen, unlocked. Drag it to your preferred position, then lock it via /cdtl lock.

All commands start with /cdtl.

Open with /cdtl config. Key settings:

• Lanes — configure each lane's size, position, icon scale, and direction
• Detection — enable/disable auto-detection; add custom spells by name or spell ID
• Ready zone — set sound, flash color, and display duration for ready alerts
• Appearance — background, border, bar texture via LibSharedMedia
• Profiles — AceDB profiles for per-character or shared configs

On login and spec change, CDTL3 scans your spellbook and builds a cooldown list automatically. You can supplement this with the custom detection list in options, or force-track a spell with its ID.

• Renamed project to CooldownTimeline 3 (CDTL3) for continued development
• Updated for Midnight (WoW 12.0.5): SetFont secret-value fix, ba-nil nil-check fixes
• Added GitHub repository and automated release pipeline
• Media paths updated for CooldownTimeline3 folder name

• Near-complete V2 rewrite by cliffclive
• Multi-lane support, AceConfig options, auto-detection overhaul
• Masque and LibSharedMedia integration
• ICD tracking, shared cooldown handling
• AceDB profiles

• Original Cooldown Timeline addon
• Basic cooldown icon timeline concept

• <input id="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" disabled="disabled" type="checkbox" aria-label="Incomplete task"> CDTL3 global variable rename — migrate internal globals from CDTL2 to CDTL3 namespace
• <input id="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" disabled="disabled" type="checkbox" aria-label="Incomplete task"> SavedVariables migration — migrate CDTL2DB → CDTL3DB with import helper
• <input id="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" disabled="disabled" type="checkbox" aria-label="Incomplete task"> Improved spell detection — catch more proc ICDs automatically
• <input id="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" disabled="disabled" type="checkbox" aria-label="Incomplete task"> Compact mode — smaller single-row layout option
• <input id="" class="task-list-item-checkbox" disabled="disabled" type="checkbox" aria-label="Incomplete task"> CurseForge / Wago packaging — automated release pipeline (in progress)

Personal use. Credits to original authors above.