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).
i use and love this add-on but have had a prob for like 3months now. when i log into wow i have to turn there dmg/healing text off like everytime i can not see why this is happening is there a fix or ?
ty keep up the good work with this add-on
"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)"
However, I personally dislike the crits being a sticky and standing out on their own in outgoing damage. Being a hunter 90% of my hits pop out as a crit and it makes a mess. Is there a way to keep them scrolling inline on the outgoing right side with regular non crit damage?
For now i simply made the font smaller so its less noticable.
I'm trying to abreviate my incoming/outgoing damage display, i.e. 4208 to 4k, using something like text = string_format("%.0fk",text / 1000). However I have no idea where to put this line even though your code is nicely annotated. Could you direct me to where I need to be looking?
If anyone is interested:
AddOns\Parrot\Data\CombatEvents.lua
Change "info.amount = amount" to "info.amount = string.format("%.0fk",amount / 1000)" wherever you want it changed. I just did it for "local function parseSpellDamage".
Right now it is Pet +[Skill]. what would it be? [PetName] + [Skill]?
Is there any chance of copying/looking at the code for showing at nameplates? I'd love to be able to just have 1 addon :-)
It already shows Replenishment, and Seal of Wisdom, but not things like Trinkets. I get that gear icon 75% of the time I see my mana gains.
I was wondering how to disable the event for the rogue ability Hack and Slash. I have tried adding a suppression for both "Hack and Slash" and "Hack and Slash!" and at present, it now only comes up with "!" and an icon for the ability. It is also not on the default events list, of which I have disabled the entirety of. Many thanks.
It was working fine right before the patch so just curious if this is happening to anyone else.