Earlier restoration of roar audio effects.
GitHub repository: babunidev/ROARSounds
In-game addon folder / title: ROAR
Declared interface: 30300 (WoW 3.3-era, not the Vanilla 1.12 interface number)
Source of truth: ROAR/ROAR.lua and ROAR/ROAR.toc
Verification: Git/source inspection on 2026-10-26. In-game playback and client compatibility were not tested in this documentation pass.
ROARSounds restores a missing bit of character presence to the /roar emote by calling existing World of Warcraft client sound files. When the addon receives a recognized text-emote event, it can play the appropriate built-in roar for the player's own character or another identifiable character. The sound depends on the resolved character's race and sex.
There are no bundled WAV replacements. The addon maps 16 race/sex combinations to existing paths under Sound\\Character\\PlayerRoars\\; the game client must actually contain those files.
What the addon can identify
The code recognizes the local player and attempts to resolve the text-emote sender using these unit contexts, in order:
- Your own character.
- Your current target.
- Mouseover.
- Focus.
- Up to 40 raid unit references if in a raid, otherwise up to four party unit references if in a party.
If an emote sender cannot be resolved to one of those units, or there is no sound mapping, the source does not play a roar for them. Seeing a message in nearby emote chat does not by itself provide the race/sex information needed to choose a file. This is not a nearby-player…
GitHub repository: babunidev/ROARSounds In-game addon folder / title: ROAR Declared interface: 30300 (WoW 3.3-era, not the Vanilla 1.12 interface number) S…
Addon as installed: ROAR Document status: Source-based reconstruction, not a transcript of initial brainstorming.
A subsequent April 22 change (fcc2be8) removed the outgoing/received addon-message protocol and moved toward resolving players from the text-emote event itself. The rewritten F…
The standalone ZIP and folder appear in Git; archive contents were not independently inspected in this documentation-only pass. Git tells us what changed, not why each change…
No current CHAT_MSG_ADDON, SendAddonMessage, COMBAT_LOG detection, repeating timer, saved variables, or slash-command interface.
The surface is intentionally invisible: type /roar (or hear another player's roar) and let the world answer with the character's own client-provided roar sound. The addon…
The April 20 implementation introduced a ROAR addon-message prefix and outgoing messages for group/guild contexts. On April 22 the code transitioned to ordinary CHAT_MSG_TEXT_…
The concept, repository identity and intended experience—giving /roar its built-in race/sex sound—belong to the project created by Babuni.dev. The repository's history shows…
No runtime or asset modifications were made during the documentation audit. The current design remains as committed.
Sound ownership: Game-client native assets; they were not composed, recorded or bundled by this addon.
Read the project repository and its documentation.
