Hunter Pet Coloring

Hunter Pet Coloring

ABCS – Advanced Bar Coloring System can color your bars based on the pet you have out. Every hunter pet can have its own color and effect, pets without one use a color for their family, and you choose whether pet colors go on your health bar, the AzeriteUI pet frame, or both. When the pet is dismissed, your own color and effects come back.

Pet colors are only shown on screen — they are never saved over your chosen color, so /reloading or logging out with a pet out cannot lose your color.

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Where to Find It

Open the options panel (/ahui). The panel has three pages in the list on the left:

Page	What it holds
Health Bar	Your own color, effects, presets and maintenance options
Hunter Pets	Pet colors on or off, where they go, and one entry per pet
Pet Families	The fallback color for every pet family

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Turning Pet Colors On

On the Hunter Pets page, enable Use Pet Colours.

Settings are stored in the shared Default profile, so the toggle and your pet colors apply to all your characters. The list of pets is kept per character.

Show Pet Colours On

Option	Health bar	AzeriteUI pet frame
Health bar and pet frame (default)	Pet color	Pet color
Health bar only	Pet color	Your color
Pet frame only	Your color	Pet color

The bar that does not show the pet color keeps your own color and any rainbow or pulse you have running. The pet frame is only colored with AzeriteUI; the default Blizzard pet frame is not colored.

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Your Pets

Below the settings, the Hunter Pets page lists your pets with their in-game icons:

• Pets in your five Call Pet slots, and in the Beast Mastery second-pet slot, come first in slot order.
• Pets in your stable are grouped under Stabled Pets, sorted by name.
• The pet that is out is shown in green, and its icon also appears next to Hunter Pets in the list.

The list is filled from the game's stable information when you log in, summon a pet or use the stable. If a stabled pet is missing, visit a stable master once. Pets you abandon disappear from the list the next time you visit a stable master.

Pet settings

Click a pet to open its settings:

Setting	Options
Colour	Family colour — the color for its family on the Pet Families page (default) Own colour — the color picked below No pet colour — this pet leaves your bars alone
Own Colour	RGBA color picker. Picking a color switches the pet to Own colour.
Effect	None, Pulse or Rainbow while the pet is out
Reset	Back to the family color with no effect

Pet effects use the Animation Speed and Rainbow Pattern from the Health Bar page. A pet set to Rainbow shows a rainbow even when its family has no color.

Save to Current Pet

The Save to Current Pet button on the Health Bar page gives the pet that is out the color from the main color picker as its own color. It is disabled when no pet is out.

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Pet Families

Pets set to Family colour use the color for their family. The Pet Families page lists every hunter pet family, grouped like the tables below, each with its own color picker:

• Change a family's color with its color picker. A Reset button appears next to changed colors.
• Reset All Families puts every family back to its built-in color.

Families are matched by their game ID, so this works in every client language.

Exotic Families

Family	Color
Spirit Beast	Cyan aura {0.00, 1.00, 1.00}
Devilsaur	Blood-red scales {0.90, 0.20, 0.10}
Core Hound	Fiery magma {1.00, 0.35, 0.25}
Chimaera	Frost-blue breath {0.25, 0.80, 1.00}
Clefthoof	Earthen hide {0.55, 0.35, 0.25}
Direhorn	Muddy horn {0.60, 0.40, 0.20}
Scalehide	Mossy scales {0.40, 0.70, 0.30}
Shale Beast	Crystalline purple {0.65, 0.50, 0.75}
Stone Hound	Azure stone {0.50, 0.70, 0.90}
Water Strider	Teal water walker {0.20, 0.60, 0.80}
Hydra	Emerald scales {0.25, 0.75, 0.55}
Aqiri	Bronze carapace {0.85, 0.45, 0.15}
Riverbeast	Swamp green {0.35, 0.65, 0.45}
Worm	Sandy burrower {0.70, 0.55, 0.25}
Carapid	Purple chitin {0.70, 0.30, 0.80}
Pterrordax	Amber wing {0.80, 0.60, 0.30}

Mammal Families

Family	Color
Bear	Brown fur {0.45, 0.35, 0.25}
Boar	Tusky brown {0.60, 0.40, 0.30}
Cat	Pale pink {1.00, 0.50, 0.50}
Fox	Orange fur {0.95, 0.45, 0.20}
Gorilla	Grey shadow {0.40, 0.40, 0.40}
Hyena	Savannah {0.80, 0.60, 0.25}
Monkey	Jungle brown {0.65, 0.55, 0.40}
Oxen	Taupe {0.50, 0.45, 0.35}
Rodent	Whiskered grey {0.75, 0.65, 0.55}
Tallstrider	Savannah yellow {0.85, 0.70, 0.20}
Camel	Desert beige {0.75, 0.65, 0.45}
Courser	Golden stallion {0.90, 0.80, 0.60}
Feathermane	Majestic plum {0.75, 0.50, 0.85}
Gruffhorn	Rough hide {0.55, 0.45, 0.30}
Hound	Loyal brown {0.60, 0.50, 0.40}
Mammoth	Tusked grey {0.65, 0.55, 0.45}
Stag	Forest green {0.50, 0.70, 0.40}
Wolf	Pack grey {0.45, 0.50, 0.55}

Bird Families

Family	Color
Carrion Bird	Vulture red-brown {0.75, 0.35, 0.20}
Bird of Prey	Golden feather {0.95, 0.85, 0.30}
Dragonhawk	Fiery wings {0.90, 0.30, 0.30}
Ravager	Rust chitin {0.80, 0.40, 0.20}
Moth	Soft lilac {0.80, 0.75, 0.85}
Bat	Night wing {0.30, 0.25, 0.35}
Waterfowl	Lake blue {0.40, 0.70, 0.90}

Reptile & Amphibian Families

Family	Color
Basilisk	Jade hide {0.35, 0.75, 0.60}
Crab	Scarlet shell {0.90, 0.30, 0.30}
Crocolisk	Swamp reptile {0.30, 0.70, 0.35}
Raptor	Rust scales {0.80, 0.45, 0.20}
Serpent	Emerald serpent {0.15, 0.75, 0.40}
Turtle	Jade shell {0.20, 0.60, 0.30}
Lizard	Lime scales {0.55, 0.80, 0.35}
Whiptail	Olive scales {0.60, 0.75, 0.30}
Sporebat	Cyan spores {0.55, 0.80, 0.90}
Hopper	Leap green {0.60, 0.80, 0.50}
Ray	Ethereal purple {0.70, 0.60, 0.90}
Wind Serpent	Airy teal {0.50, 0.90, 0.70}

Insect Families

Family	Color
Spider	Web grey {0.45, 0.45, 0.55}
Wasp	Yellow stinger {1.00, 0.85, 0.15}
Beetle	Jade carapace {0.30, 0.70, 0.55}
Scorpid	Desert amber {0.85, 0.70, 0.30}

Mechanical & Special

Family	Color
Mechanical	Arcane blue steel {0.50, 0.80, 1.00}
Blood Beast	Crimson blood {0.80, 0.15, 0.20}
Lesser Dragonkin	Dragon purple {0.60, 0.40, 0.85}
Warp Stalker	Void pink {0.85, 0.50, 0.95}

All built-in family colors are fully opaque (alpha 1).

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How the Pet Is Recognized

1. When you summon or dismiss a pet (UNIT_PET), the addon checks which Call Pet spell is active and reads that pet from your stable. This also works where the game hides unit names from addons.
2. If that does not find the pet, it matches your pet's name against your call-pet slots. If the stable has not caught up right after a summon, the addon looks again one second later.
3. The pet's family comes from the game while the pet is out. When the game hides it, the addon uses the family it noted earlier, or the family name shown in the stable.
4. The color is picked in this order:
   1. No pet colour → no pet color.
   2. Own colour → that color.
   3. A pet that is not in your stable, such as a warlock demon, with a preset of its exact name → that preset.
   4. Otherwise → its family color, if the family is known.

Upgrading from older versions

Older versions saved a pet's color as a preset named after the pet. The first time the addon sees that pet in your stable, the preset's color becomes the pet's Own colour. The preset itself stays, so you can still load, rename or delete it without changing the pet.

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Tips

• Give your favorite pets their own colors and let the rest use their family colors.
• A pulsing or rainbow pet set to Pet frame only keeps your health bar calm while the pet frame stands out.
• Picking a color or starting an effect on the Health Bar page while a pet is out shows your choice on your health bar right away; the pet color returns there the next time your pet changes. If pet colors also go on the pet frame, it keeps showing the pet color.
• Changing a pet's color, effect or family color while that pet is out shows the change immediately.

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Behavior Details

Situation	Result
Pet out, Own colour set	Its own color and effect are shown
Pet out, Family colour, family known	Family color and the pet's effect are shown
Pet out, Family colour, family unknown	Your color unchanged, unless the pet is set to Rainbow
Pet out, No pet colour	Your color unchanged
Pet dismissed	Your own color shown again
Rainbow or pulse running when a pet color is shown on your health bar	Your effect pauses there and resumes when the pet is dismissed
/reload or logout with pet out	Your saved color is untouched