This is a continuation of Parrot! I started a personal fork in early Mist of Pandaria and have been slowly rewritting it since. Installing this should overwrite the directory for the original Parrot and continue to use your existing settings. If you have problems, just delete the Parrot directory at Interface/AddOns/Parrot and reinstall Parrot 2.
Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.
Displays combat (damage, healing, auras) events as well as other events (loot, cooldown available, power change, repuation, kills, and more) as moving text and numbers across the screen.
Parrot also offers a trigger system to display messages and play sounds in reaction to a variety of things, like gaining a buff or dodging an attack.
FAQ
Q: I created a custom trigger doing <something>. Is it worthy to be in Parrot's default triggers?
A: If you want to contribute a trigger that is useful for your class, please post a ticket where you describe the conditions you used set it up and I'll look at including it.
Q: Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options.
A: WoW displays every full overheal in the combat log (even for HoTs). There is an option in Events to "Hide full overheals," which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.
Q: How do I to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot?
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW). For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia. If you want to include your own custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia folder.
Q: Whenever I reload or log back in again, Parrot hides Blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there a way to avoid having to re-enable Blizzard's options all the time?
A: When enabled, Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard's floating combat text. You can manage these settings in the Parrot config.
Q: Why is the stack count sometimes off when looting stackable items?
A: The problem is that the event for loot is triggered before or after the item was put in the bag depending on lag and may not have updated yet when we check the item's count.
Localization / Feature Requests / Reporting Bugs
Please use the ticket system or create a pull request. I'm pretty terrible at keeping up with comments, so the best way to get my attention is by submitting a new issue on GitHub. Thanks!
Many Cooldowns are not shown, i submitted a ticket back in September 2020 on github, is there any chance you will take a look at this problem?
its a bug? after succesfull creating new scroll area, he wont show anything, and in settings new area also dont displaying
2.3.1 bcc
Is there a way to register my hunter autoshots as melee? They're currently showing up as skill damage.
I get this error in BG:
Message: Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Data\PointGains.lua:29: bad argument #1 to 'GetCurrencyInfo' (outside of expected range -2147483648 to 2147483647 - Usage: local info = C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(type))
Time: Fri May 21 23:58:39 2021
Count: 5
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Data\PointGains.lua:29: bad argument #1 to 'GetCurrencyInfo' (outside of expected range -2147483648 to 2147483647 - Usage: local info = C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(type))
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Data\PointGains.lua"]:29: in function `parse'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Code\CombatEvents.lua"]:2201: in function `?'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Code\Parrot.lua"]:337: in function <Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Code\Parrot.lua:334>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface\AddOns\LibSharedMedia-3.0\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:29: in function <...edia-3.0\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
[string "@Interface\AddOns\LibSharedMedia-3.0\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:64: in function `Fire'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Bagnon\common\Wildpants\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua"]:120: in function <...\common\Wildpants\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: <none>
In reply to Spearhead83:
I get this error as well. It seems to happen whenever Honor is rewarded as I get it when players die or NPCs die / Towers are taken in Alterac Valley.
Hello Nebula,
I am having issues where most cooldowns are not being shown such as BloodThirst and Whirlwind, and this is after setting the requirement to 1.5 seconds. Is there any chance you can take a look at this?
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Hej! Please give us an TBC update... can't stand MikScrollingCombatText....
I am using Parrot since TBC Vanilla and every time when I start to play wow again (a lot of breaks, some longer than 1,5 years) the first addon I install is parrot :(
Edit: God damn it, Nebula... just saw how many projects u have cO good job, keep on please ^^
Didn't look like anything was broken, I pushed a new release that supports BCC
In reply to nebula169:
Parrot showed absolutely nothing in my case... I deleted all parrot files from the WTF folder and installed the newest version
thank you sooooooooo much! finally... works perfectly fine x)
I am sure I'm missing the very obvious: Where can I set frame strata/level?
I think I looked in every menu and submenu of the settings. But probably I didn't.
Thanks for any hint.
I just wanted to say thank you for updating this :)
Hey I love the addon!
Would it be possible to add a global offset for normal and sticky text?
I want to keep the default alignments, but change the animation to Straight, but then the normal and sticky text overlaps and can't see it clearly.
If we could offset one or the other, the alignments could be kept and still be able to see everything clearly.
Thanks again for the addon!
Hey there,
love your addon and really appreciate your efforts in maintaining this. =)
I just have two questions: How do I change classcolors? I already installed whoaBlueShamans but they still show up pink here. Second: Is there a way to summarize certain spells which share a cooldown? As a shaman all shock spells are listed while I would rather have a "Shocks ready!" notification.
Also some cooldowns don't show in the notification area. I'm not certain which or when they are not announced as ready but this is something I noticed.
Thanks again and looking forward hearing from you.
Not really broken for me. The only thing thats annoying is "Parrot: Trigger spell missing: 216413" appearing at login. Its a paladin spell that got removed and reintroduced with a new ID. I deleted the trigger but it keeps coming back somehow.
cant open the config and set this up as it does nothing. please anyone know the fix for it?
I'm sorry but i can not figure out how to pull up the setting menu ingame
what is the / command for that?
please and thanks!
In reply to abenthy:
/parrot
It's working fine for me now.
Can I display amount of mana income/gain from stats and mp5? Is it even possible in WoW Classic?
For some reason I'm unable to make it track some spells. I thought it was because of threshold, but no. I've set threshold to 5 seconds for example and Kidney Shot is being tracked (addon tells me when it's ready), but Distract is not. Stealth is not and so on. Filters are also all clear. Any idea how to fix that?