Parrot Reforged

The Iconic Floating Combat Text Addon — Completely Reforged for Retail 12.x (Midnight), Classic Forever & All Classic Flavors!

Parrot Reforged brings the legendary Parrot Floating Combat Text (FCT) addon into the modern era of World of Warcraft. Rebuilt from the ground up with a Modern Dark-Gold UI, silky-smooth 120–240Hz sub-pixel animations, taint-free Nameplate anchoring, zero-setup Automatic Class Procs, !PAR1! profile & trigger sharing, full Retail 12.0+ (Midnight) secret-value protection, and pixel-perfect ElvUI integration.

🎮 Supported WoW Versions

One unified codebase — natively supporting every official World of Warcraft client:

• Retail (Midnight 12.x & The War Within 11.2.x)
• Mists of Pandaria Classic (5.5.x)
• Cataclysm Classic (4.4.x)
• Wrath of the Lich King Classic (3.4.x & Titan Reforged 3.8.x)
• The Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary (2.5.x)
• Classic Era (1.15.x / Season of Discovery) & Classic Forever (1.60.x)

✨ Key Features

🚀 120–240Hz Sub-Pixel Animation Engine & Nameplate Anchoring

• Silky-Smooth Sub-Pixel Rendering: Disables integer pixel-grid snapping (SetSnapToPixelGrid(false)) with mathematical easing curves, smooth sine/cosine fade envelopes, hardware SetScale critical punch-pop, and damped anti-overlap gliding — zero 1px stair-stepping even on 240Hz monitors.
• 15 Animation Styles: Features 5 brand-new modern styles (Fountain, Impact, Cascade, Pop-Up, Splash) alongside modernized classics (Parabola, Straight, Semicircle, Rainbow, Sprinkler, Pow, Angled, Horizontal, Static, Action) plus a one-click Modern Preset.
• Taint-Free Nameplate Anchoring: Optionally attach outgoing or incoming combat text directly to Enemy or Target Nameplates (with customizable X/Y offsets and automatic screen-center fallback) without ever parenting frames to secure NamePlates — animations continue smoothly even after an enemy dies.

🛡️ Full Retail 12.x (Midnight) Secret-Value & Taint Protection

• Secret-Safe Tag Engine: Custom two-pass tag substitution engine that resolves combat tags and concatenates <secret number> / <secret string> values safely without triggering Blizzard's invalid replacement value (a secret) Lua errors.
• Combat-Log-Free Fallback Engine: Automatically keeps damage, healing, pet combat, dodges/parries/blocks/absorbs/misses, dynamic DoT/HoT attribution, spell-school colors, and player aura gains/stacks/fades (UNIT_AURA) running even when COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED is restricted by session taint.
• Isolated Event Dispatch: Uses a dedicated private event bus (Parrot.Events) instead of shared AceEvent-3.0 embeds for maximum taint isolation.

💥 Smart Combat Feedback, Raid Anti-Spam & Rich Notifications

• Styled Spell Icons & LibCustomGlow Highlights: Crisp framed spell icons with spell-school-colored inner rims and animated Pixel, Sparkle, Spell Alert, or Proc glows on critical strikes, triggers, Killing Blows, Epic+ Loot, and Renown Rank-Ups.
• Smart Raid & AoE Anti-Spam: Compact Modern Hit Badges (×5, ×3!, ×5 (2!)), dynamic AoE throttle widening during heavy multi-target pulls, combined number shortening (k / M / B), and gear-scaling % Max HP minimum damage/healing filters.
• Automatic Class Procs: Zero-setup detection of glowing class ability procs (SPELL_ACTIVATION_OVERLAY_GLOW_SHOW) across Classic SoD, Cataclysm, MoP, and Retail Midnight — complete with spell icon, glow, cooldown, and ignore list.
• Loot, Coin Icons, Honor & Renown: Inline gold/silver/copper coin icons, minimum loot quality filter, PvP Honor Gains, and Retail Major Faction Renown rank-up banners.

🏛️ Modern Dark-Gold UI, Precision Movers & !PAR1! Sharing

• Standalone Dark-Gold Window: Clean category sidebar, live A- / 13pt / A+ UI font scaling, window position memory, and footer quick-action buttons (Demo Burst, Unlock Anchors, Modern Preset, Enable/Disable).
• Precision Scroll Area Movers: Crosshair alignment guides (+), 1px / 10px directional nudge buttons (◄ ▲ ▼ ►), Right-Click to lock, and realistic multi-school preview bursts.
• Interactive Minimap Button & Addon Compartment: Live status, active profile, CombatLog/Fallback engine indicator, and quick-click shortcuts.
• Profile & Trigger Sharing (!PAR1!): Export and import full profiles (!PAR1!P!...) or standalone custom triggers (!PAR1!T!...) as compact shareable strings.

🎨 First-Class ElvUI, WindTools & BenikUI Integration

• Automatically adopts ElvUI's Transparent template, pixel-perfect 1-device-pixel borders (E.mult), E.TexCoords icon cropping, ElvUI_WindTools outer shadows & LibQTip skinning, and ElvUI_BenikUI window styling.
• Tracks ElvUI's visible plate.unitFrame.Health nameplate bar (0 taint) and includes a dedicated Use ElvUI font toggle in Master Font Settings.

⌨️ Slash Commands

📜 Credits, Support & Links

• Original Authors: ckknight, profalbert, nebula
• Reforged Modernization & Maintenance: gOOvER (goover.dev)
• Source Code & Bug Reports: GitHub — gOOvER/Parrot-Reforged
• Support Development: donate.goover.dev • Ko-fi • Buy Me a Coffee
• License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1)