ZChat

Your WoW whispers, reimagined as a Discord-style messenger.

ZChat turns every whisper into a clean chat window that looks and feels like Discord: your messages on the left, theirs on the right, avatars, class-coloured names, grouped messages, reactions and replies. It also adds themes, animated class effects, per-contact sounds and a floating quick-whisper bar.

✨ Features

💬 Discord-style chat

• Flat message rows with class avatars, class-coloured names and timestamps
• Consecutive messages are grouped; hover to highlight and see the time
• Hover action bar on every message: react, reply or copy
• Replies show the quoted message above the name, just like Discord
• "Name is typing…" indicator and a "Jump to present" bar when you scroll up
• Message box reads "Message @Name", or "#Group" in group chats
• Raid target icons like {rt3} or {skull} are shown as icons

🎨 Themes & animated effects

• Discord theme by default, plus several extra colour themes
• Custom theme: pick a base theme, an accent colour and your own image
• Theme profiles: save your custom theme under a name, switch between profiles and share them as a short code (export / import)
• 17 animated effects, most of them inspired by WoW classes: Warrior embers, Paladin holy light, Hunter volley, Rogue poison & smoke, Priest feathers, Shaman storm, Mage frost / arcane / fire, Warlock fel fire, Death Knight runes, Druid leaves, Monk mist, Demon Hunter fel, Evoker essence, hearts and more
• Effects stay behind your messages and only run while the window is open

🔔 Sounds & notifications

• 46 built-in sounds plus any sound registered by other addons (LibSharedMedia)
• Per-contact sounds: give each friend their own notification sound
• Your own sounds: drop .ogg / .mp3 files into the ZChat_Media folder and name them in game
• Click a message notification to open that chat directly

⚡ Quick whisper bar

• Right-click a player and choose Whisper: a floating bar opens instead of the default whisper box
• Drag it anywhere, and it stays there
• Works with Midnight's new Whisper menu, even for names with accents

👥 Contacts, like Battle.net

• Your Battle.net and WoW friends in one list: favourites (gold star) playing your game first, then everyone in your game, then the rest
• Horde / Alliance glow (red / blue) for friends who are playing
• + button to invite a friend to your group, right from the list
• Click a friend to open your chat instantly

🧰 And more

• Whispers tab sorted by most recent chat
• Search finds contacts and words inside your messages
• Messages are kept 7 days by default (up to 30)
• Quick replies sent in one click
• Groups tab for party, raid, instance, guild and community chats
• Contact nicknames, notes, mute, pinned chats and "notify when online"
• In-game Help page explaining every feature
• Fully translated: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean and Chinese

⌨️ Commands

📁 Your own files

Create a folder named ZChat_Media inside InterfaceAddOns — next to the ZChat folder, not inside it — with a Sounds folder and a Themes folder in it. Files there are never deleted when ZChat updates.

🎵 Adding your own sounds

1. Copy a .ogg or .mp3 file into InterfaceAddOnsZChat_MediaSounds
2. Name it with a number from 1 to 20: 1.ogg, 2.mp3…
3. Restart the game completely (a /reload does not detect new files)
4. Rename it in game: Options > Notifications > Rename my sounds

🖼️ Creating your own theme

1. Put a PNG into InterfaceAddOnsZChat_MediaThemes (square, e.g. 512x512; a transparent background shows only the character). Name it 1.png … 10.png, or any name you like (letters, numbers, _ and -), for example my_photo.png
2. Restart the game completely (a /reload does not detect new files)
3. Options > Appearance > Theme preset: Custom, then choose the base theme, colour, image and opacity. For a named image press Image file name… and type the name (without .png)

💾 Theme profiles: save, switch and share

• Options > Profiles saves your current custom theme under a name. Saved profiles show up in Options > Appearance > Custom themes
• Export profile gives you a short code. A friend pastes it in Import profile and confirms
• The image is not inside the code: send the image file too. Importing tells you the exact file name it needs, and it goes in ZChat_MediaThemes

❤️ Credits

ZChat is a modified version of Whisper Messenger by F0rty_tw0, released under the MIT licence. All credit for the original messenger goes to its author. Reaction emoji by Twemoji (CC BY 4.0).

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