ScrollingBattleText-SG

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Scrolling Battle Text for Midnight.

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About this addon

What it does

# MidnightBattleText

**Scrolling battle text built for WoW Midnight (12.0) and the Secret Values API.**

MidnightBattleText (MBT) is a lightweight, fully customizable scrolling combat text addon designed from the ground up for World of Warcraft: Midnight. It natively supports Blizzard's Secret Values system, meaning combat numbers display correctly even when values are restricted during encounters.

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## Features

### Combat Text Display
- **Incoming damage** — see what's hitting you
- **Outgoing damage** — see what you're dealing
- **Healing** — incoming and outgoing heals with optional "+" prefix
- **Misses** — dodge, parry, block, miss, immune, deflect, reflect, resist, absorb, evade
- **Pet damage** — toggle pet damage on or off
- **Critical hits** — emphasized with configurable scale multiplier and bounce animation
- **Only My Damage** — filter out other players' and NPCs' damage so you only see your own outgoing combat text

### Spell Icons
- **Spell icons** displayed next to combat text for outgoing damage and heals
- Automatically detected via spell tracking — works for every class and spec
- **Full icon styling**: size, opacity, border (color + thickness), round/square shape, desaturate
- **8 anchor positions**: left, right, top, bottom, and all four corners of the text
- **Draggable icon handle** in visual mode for precise positioning
- X/Y offset sliders for fine-tuning

### Scroll Directions
Choose from **5 scroll modes**: Up, Down, Left, Right, or Fountain (random arc burst)

### Nameplate Mode
Anchor outgoing damage text directly above enemy nameplates — works with ThreatPlates, Plater, KuiNameplates, and default nameplates. Includes a Y offset slider to position text above buff/debuff icons.

### 30+ Bundled Fonts
MBT ships with a large selection of fonts — no need to install a separate font addon. Includes:
Default, A Another Tag, Black Bones, Boston Traffic, Breathe Fire V, Cheri, Consola Mono, Cream Cake, Creato Display, Creativo, Fast Hand, Greek Freak, Hoshiko Satsuki, Hunters K-Pop, Japanese 3017, KG Perfect Penmanship, Lemon Milk, Nunuk, Pastel Trunk, Revamped, Road Rage, Robot Crush, Roman SD, Sanseriffic, Skyforge, Square, Urban Heroes, and more.

The font dropdown in the editor previews each font in its own typeface so you can see exactly what you're picking.

### Full Color Customization
- **Custom colors** for damage, heal, miss, crit damage, and crit heal text
- **Class colors** option — color your outgoing damage with your class color using WoW's built-in RAID_CLASS_COLORS
- Color picker swatches built right into the settings editor
- Or set colors via slash command: `/mbt color damage ff3333`

### Visual Settings Editor
Type `/mbt config` or click the **Open Settings Editor** button in Options > AddOns > MidnightBattleText. The editor provides:
- Font selection with live preview
- Font size, flags (outline, thick outline, monochrome), and shadow toggle
- Scroll direction, duration, height, and fade timing sliders
- Crit scale and "only show crits" mode
- Number abbreviation (1.5k, 2.3M)
- Text opacity and stacking gap controls
- Spell icon toggle, size, position, and full styling controls
- All 5 color swatches with WoW's native color picker
- Class color toggle
- Incoming/outgoing column offsets and Y offset
- Nameplate mode with Y offset slider
- **Visual Mode** — individually drag handles to reposition anchor, incoming column, outgoing column, and icon with a live preview ticker showing spell icons
- Filter toggles for every event type including "Only My Damage/Heals"
- Test button to preview all text types with spell icons
- Reset to defaults
- **Profile system** — save, load, and delete named setting profiles

### Visual Mode Handles
Move each element independently — useful when columns are stacked:
- **Move Anchor** — reposition the base anchor point
- **Move Incoming** — reposition the incoming damage column
- **Move Outgoing** — reposition the outgoing damage column
- **Move Icon** — reposition the spell icon relative to the text
- **Move All** — show all four handles at once
- **Exit Visual Mode** — save positions and close handles

### Profile System
Save your entire configuration as a named profile and switch between them. Great for maintaining different setups for PvP, raiding, and casual play.
- `/mbt profile save <name>` — save current settings
- `/mbt profile load <name>` — restore a saved profile
- `/mbt profile delete <name>` — remove a profile
- `/mbt profile list` — view all saved profiles
- Also available in the visual editor's Profiles section

### Blizzard FCT Suppression
MBT automatically disables Blizzard's default floating combat text by setting all 19 FCT CVars to 0 on login. Toggle this with `/mbt blizzfct`.

### Secret Values Compatible
All combat value handling is wrapped in pcall for full compatibility with WoW Midnight's Secret Values API. Numbers that become opaque during restricted encounters are passed directly to FontString:SetText() without any arithmetic — they just work.

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## Slash Commands

| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `/mbt` | Show all commands |
| `/mbt config` | Open visual settings editor |
| `/mbt toggle` | Enable/disable the addon |
| `/mbt fonts` | List all available fonts |
| `/mbt font <name>` | Set font by name |
| `/mbt fontsize <8-72>` | Set font size |
| `/mbt duration <0.5-5>` | Scroll duration in seconds |
| `/mbt height <20-500>` | Scroll distance in pixels |
| `/mbt direction <up\|down\|left\|right\|fountain>` | Scroll direction |
| `/mbt move` | Unlock anchor for dragging |
| `/mbt lock` | Lock anchor and save position |
| `/mbt offsetx <incoming\|outgoing> <px>` | Column X offset |
| `/mbt threshold <n>` | Hide hits below n (0 = show all) |
| `/mbt incoming` | Toggle incoming damage |
| `/mbt outgoing` | Toggle outgoing damage |
| `/mbt heals` | Toggle healing |
| `/mbt misses` | Toggle misses |
| `/mbt pet` | Toggle pet damage |
| `/mbt blizzfct` | Toggle Blizzard FCT suppression |
| `/mbt nameplate` | Toggle nameplate-anchored outgoing |
| `/mbt crits` | Toggle crit emphasis |
| `/mbt critscale <1.0-3.0>` | Crit font multiplier |
| `/mbt onlycrits` | Only display critical hits |
| `/mbt abbreviate` | Toggle number abbreviation |
| `/mbt healprefix` | Toggle heal "+" prefix |
| `/mbt icons` | Toggle spell icons |
| `/mbt shadow` | Toggle font shadow |
| `/mbt classcolor` | Toggle class-colored outgoing damage |
| `/mbt alpha <0.3-1.0>` | Set text opacity |
| `/mbt gap <0-30>` | Set stacking gap |
| `/mbt color <type> <hex>` | Set color (damage, heal, miss, critdamage, critheal) |
| `/mbt profile save <name>` | Save current settings as a profile |
| `/mbt profile load <name>` | Load a saved profile |
| `/mbt profile delete <name>` | Delete a saved profile |
| `/mbt profile list` | List all saved profiles |
| `/mbt test` | Show test text |
| `/mbt debug` | Toggle debug output |
| `/mbt reset` | Reset all settings to defaults |

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## Installation

1. Download and extract to `World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/MidnightBattleText`
2. Restart WoW or `/reload`
3. Type `/mbt config` to open the settings editor, or go to Options > AddOns > MidnightBattleText and click the button

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## Requirements
- World of Warcraft: Midnight (12.0)
- No dependencies — fully standalone

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## Author
**Shea**

All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026.

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  • Peaked at Hot #3502 on Aug 20, 2026.
  • Peaked at Rising #5080 on Aug 12, 2026.
  • Featured on the Hot list across 5 distinct weeks.
  • Shipped 1 release in the last 30 days.
  • Averaging 3 new downloads per day over the past week.

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