Prat 3.0
In loving memory of Jon Akthar (Sylvanaar)
Hello WoW community, I'm LuciferCatnip, Sylvanaar was my coworker and my mentor. It goes without saying that Jon was an amazingly talented individual. He always seemed to know everything... but he once said to me "It's not about knowing the answers, it's about asking the right questions", he always challenged me to ask me the right questions until I would arrive at the answer on my own terms. Jon was also a champion of the open source movement, and so with special thanks to Gil from Curseforge as well as Sylvanaar's family, there's no better way to honor Sylvanaar's legacy than to keep his project going strong in the community.
If you'd like to help maintain Prat, please reach out to MysticalOS or LuciferCatnip directly. Thank you so much.
About
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for World of Warcraft.
It is made up of 30+ smaller "modules" which each provide additional functionality, and can be enabled or disabled individually.
In game, type /prat for a menu. Or use the icon on one of the many data broker hosts.
Prat has just about every feature you can think of, and then some. Really. When I get some more time, I'll try and put together a full list (Even I have lost count)
(Thanks to Dreamsight for this partial list)
- Sync your chat settings across your account (Beta)
- AI powered spam filter (Beta)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add player color per channel, color per level, color per class
- timestamps (styled)
- whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- whether to show players level
- you can select the option for channel "stickys" (last channel you used you auto use when hitting enter, that sort of thing – or last thing someone said)
- change the looks of the chat's editbox - as well as where it appears (you can even undock it and move it to where you'd like it to be)
- chat fading, fading delay
- You can change the font to a list of fonts, add an outline to it, monochrome it (if you don’t mind messing with files a bit you could probably even add other fonts to that list)
- change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- Keep chat history between game sessions
- Set channel abbreviations
- set brackets and color(or something instead of brackets)round player/lvl
- alt invite option (press keyboard “alt” button and click on the player’s name to auto inv them)
- raid icon
- invite links - click them to invite the person
- URL copying
- Full chat copying + copy button
- Click timestamp to copy line
- Configurable alerts when your name or other word is mentioned
- enables tell target /tt which whispers your target
- Alias options - make macros into short commands
- See names of players Alt characters
- change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
- Achievements info and grats
- Full chat search and search box
- Customizable filters for advanced users
- Show item icon next to item links and player class icon next to player names
- Icon-only options for newcomers chat
- Optional flashing or font color change for chat tabs when a new message comes in.
You can enable/disable all Prat modules - don't have to have the ones you don't use running
While trying to reduce resource utilization, it is also important to note that some people prefer the features, and don't care that an addon uses 500k more.
Every time I zone in, the chat changes to the default chat settings. It's like the addon isn't there, except that it is.
Entering world: [23:46:44] [2] [nicknamecolored]: LFM os 25 need 2healers and ot and some dps /w me
Zone in to any zone at all: [23:44:45] (2.T) [nickname_UN_colored]: LF tank, 2 healers, 1 dps - toc 10 (no scrubs)
I honestly can't play WoW without this addon, and to make it work again I have to reload the UI. Doing that every minute becomes really tedious after some time :p Please help, and keep up the good work with this great great addon!
Anyway having the same problem ?
i managed to hear a sound for incoming whisper
but i still can't hear incoming sound for a guild chat message (going to install ChatSounds addon while i don't figure out what is causing the problem :(
i.e:
"NicknameA whispers: [invite] NicknameB"
now I can't click on the link to invite the other guy and have to type it myself.
before the invite link looked like this:
"NicknameA whispers: [invite NicknameB]"
and I can click this link to invite the other guy.
this changed som versions ago but can't remember which one. is this removed or is it an option I haven't found?
Also, why leave the whole list of channels (boss yells etc.) for OUTGOING messages filter?
I've always had a bunch of addons, heres a list of some major ones:
Auctionner
Atlas
Atlas loot
Carbonite
CT_barmod
DBM
Fat
Gearscore
Gladius
Grid
Masterlooter
MSBT
Moveanything
Omen
Onebag3
pError
Poison Swapper
Proculous
Recount
RPB
SHD3
Wdings
and i've never had any problems with them slowing down my game. Ever!
Untill now....I installed prat and I'm lagging! I notice it alot in 25man raids, and even in like 10v10 BGs. I will lag and freeze for a second, then be able to play again. This has never happened before. :( Is prat really that memory intensive? I mean I really like it and dont want to get rid of it, but its making me lag! What the hell? Could this just be the addon that finally broke my computers back? Or is it just something about prat specifically that makes you lag like this?
Help please!!
Wich font is it? I miss it so much :-(
The 3 folders has to be placed directly into /Interface/AddOns
The toc-file of an addon needs to be in the addons top folder.
Others:
There is a MAC version availible afaik.
"I am not going to spend a lot of time trying to figure it out myself"
THIS made me laugh because you else should care about YOUR addons if not yourself?!
If you would have spend some minutes to look at other addons you might have found the solution.