Parrot
Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.
Displays Events from the combatlog (damage, healing, ...) as moving text and numbers across the Screen. It also supports various other Events (Loot, Cooldowns, ...). Further Parrot offers a Trigger-system to display Text and play sounds on certain predefined events (e.g. Nightfall for Warlocks).
Localization
If you want to translate Parrot into your language (or update an existing translation) please do so here.
FAQ
Q: "I created a custom Trigger doing <something>. Is it worthy to be in parrots default triggers?"
A: In many cases it is. If you want to contribute a custom trigger to be added to the default triggers, please post a ticket where you describe *exactly* how you set it up. I can't figure that out for every class and every spec.
Q: "Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options"
A: Since 3.2 WoW displays every full overheal in the combatlog (even for HoTs). That's why Parrot v1.9.0+ contains an option in Events to "Hide full overheals" which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.
Q: ''I want to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot, but there are none available'
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW)
For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia.
To use custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia-folder.
Q: "Whenever I /reload or log back in again, parrot auto-hides blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there any way to avoid having to enable blizz's functions all the time?
A: When enabled Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard FCTs damage- and heal-display. You can enable these features to be used with Parrot in the config (General->Game damage/healing)
Q: "Sometimes when Looting stackable items, the stackcount is off. Why isn't this fixed?"
A: The problem is, that the Interface-event for the Loot is sometimes triggered before, and sometimes after the item was put in the bag (depending on lag). If anyone knows a solution that does not involve constantly polling the bags' content, I'm open to suggestions.
Questions
If you need help with some option, trigger, or whatever use the Parrot-forum on wowace for any questions you might have (please no bug-reports).
Feature Requests
To make a feature Request please use the ticket-system.
Before making a feature Request please make sure that the current alpha does not contain the feature already.
Also check if there is a similar feature request among the open tickets already (and maybe join the discussion there).
Thanks :)
Just a little "Oops" that should be gone in v1.9.1-31-gcb6b271
I can't see any incoming damage with the latest build (everything else is 100% fine), I didn't change any options. Am I doing something wrong?
What do you mean by "Indication"?
You mean a combatevent displaying something of the following?
Or do you mean some kind of Trigger-condition?
I updated the FAQ to include that.
If the problem persists please create a ticket.
But maybe someone wants to write a plugin (that just registeres the relevant CombatEvents with Parrot)
Look at SharedMedia and "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia" in the SharedMedia-folder.
Hi, I have no indication for the cast "Unstable Affliction" is there a hide where i must activate it?
2. I think 95% of the errors in alphas are missing or misspelled Localizations. These errors are not critical. AceLocale just returns the key (the english value) when these errors occur. So the only difference between the fixed and the unfixed version is that no error is thrown by AceLocale.
3. I suggest for every alpha-tester to use "Buggrabber" + "Bugsack" to catch errors.
Thanks for alpha-testing.
Still the same error:
[2009/08/27 15:55:29-1469-x1]: AceLocale-3.0: Parrot_Auras: Missing entry for 'Unit that is affected': Parrot-v1.9.1-11-g113feab\Data\Auras.lua:723: in main chunk
-Hi i got this bug, with the newest version:
[2009/08/27 12:32:59-2892-x1]: AceLocale-3.0: Parrot_Auras: Missing entry for 'Unit that is affected': Parrot-v1.9.1-10-gdbe5a02\Data\Auras.lua:723: in main chunk
-**PS: Sorry folks but I'm kinda mad because I love this addon (using it for years.. and I appreciate their work and support!) and shitty comments like yours are something the authors never deserve.. so STFUPLSTY