Threat Plates (TP for short) is an addon for customizing your nameplates. It offers a high amount of customization and tweaks to how your nameplates react and look. I've spent a considerable amount of time improving this addon and any comments or concerns about this addon are appreciated. I'm always looking for ways to improve it.
Features
- All the standard nameplate features like healthbar, name, castbar, coloring (e.g., based on threat), scaling and transparency and so on.
- Two different modes for nameplates: Healthbar View (show healthbar and name) and Headline View (show only name)
- Customizable totem nameplates
- Custom styles for nameplates for extra customization for units based on name, auras or casts.
- Automatic spec detection and role assigning for an easy out of the box setup
- Support for profiles per spec
- Support for LibSharedMedia (adding additional fonts, textures and sounds) and LibDogTag (markup language support for custom texts)
- And lots of options...
Chat Commands
- /tptp: Displays options
- /tptp profile <name>: Switch the current profile to <name>
- /tptp legacy-custom-styles: Adds (legacy) default custom styles for nameplates that are deleted when migrating custom nameplates to the current format
- /tptp help: Prints this help message
- /tptptoggle: Toggle Role from one to the other
- /tptpdps: Toggles DPS/Healing threat plates
- /tptptank: Toggles Tank threat plates
- /tptpol: Toggles nameplate overlapping
- /tptpverbose: Toggles addon feedback text
Additional Information
Version for WoW Classic
A port of Threat Plates for WoW Classic is available here: Threat Plates (Classic).
Version for WoW TBC Classic
A port of Threat Plates for WoW TBC Classic is available under the files tab: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tidy-plates-threat-plates/files. Look for the latest version for game version 2.5.1.
Scripting (Beta)
Scripting is a new feature of Threat Plates that will be introduced in a future version. It allows you to extend the functionality with custom Lua scripts. Once the feature is finished, you should be able to change all aspects of nameplates. Currently, functionality is still restricted to a high degree as internal functions of Threat Plates ( like, e.g., scaling) are not easily accessible to these scripts. So, overwriting or changing them to, e.g., implement custom scaling is not that easy or may even be impossible right now.
More details as well as the current beta version are available here.
Please feel free to leave feedback in the comments!
Hi,
so many options...
What I can't get to work: How do I make my current target _in combat_ larger than the other ones (while I'm in combat with all of them)?
General - Scale - Target-based Scale - [x] Target (15%).
This works but only if I'm not in combat. When I enter combat all name plates are equally large and I have problems to see what my current target is. It doesn't stand out enough (for me)...
In reply to oo0xx0oo:
Ah, scaling is indeed complex to configure. First, when entering combat, the scaling settings from Threat System - Scaling are used and - by default - overwrite the settings from General - Scaling. You can disable in-combat scaling, then the target will keep it's scale. You can also enable additive scaling meaning that in-combat scale values are added on top of the out-of combat ones. It get's a bit tricky there :)
There is currently no seperate setting for an in-combat scale value for only the target unit.
In reply to Backupiseasy:
Thanks, for the moment I've disabled the threat system and the current target is now as large as I want it :)
Can you change the range from 20y to 41y please for the TBC beta version.
Thanks in advance
In reply to Kotex1973:
Yeah, just read that that's the max distance now. I already changed it locally, but did not yet upload a new version. You can always change the CVar directly though.
Hi! Absolutely love the add on. Thanks for all of your efforts.
This has made the biggest challenge for me in wow, which is vision and visibility under much greater control.
I’m wondering how to gain control of whether or not enemy nameplates go off the top of the screen when fighting a taller boss.
I read somewhere there was a Cvar, And I even tried to run it from the console, but I couldn’t get it to work.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
In reply to boomphlor2:
Nice to hear :) Clamping nameplates to the screen is an often asked question, so I added some help to the FAQs:
I want my (target) nameplate to stick at the top (or bottom) of the screen and not to disapear outside of the screen, especially for huge bosses.
This behaviour is controlled by certain CVars from WoW which are not accessible using the default Interfaces options. Right now, there are also no options in ThreatPlates to make this changes directly.
The CVars you have to to change are: nameplateOtherTopInset and nameplateOtherBottomInset (and/or nameplateLargeTopInset and nameplateLargeBottomInset, if you are using large nameplates).
To keep the nameplates from moving outside of the screen, you have to change them to something like .1 or .05. The value defines the width (in percentage of screen size) of the area around the screen border into which nameplates will not move. The bigger the percentage, the farther the nameplates stay away from the border of the screen. Setting the CVar to -1 will allow nameplates to move outside of the screen again.
I recommend using the addon AdvancedInterfaceOptions to change the CVars. But you can also change them in-game using the /run command, e.g., "/run SetCVar("nameplateOtherTopInset ", 0.05)" or the /console command, e.g., "/console nameplateOtherTopInset 0.05".
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Does TP support personal resource display modding? If so, where?
In reply to zazantiago:
No, currently it does not support this.
hi, good work thx for updating for tbc, maybe can u zoomed the icon from castbar? o put an option for quit borders?. Also can u put an option for always show the resource bar stay targeting or not? thx btw :)
In reply to typhosy:
You can change the size of icon of the castbar under General - Castbar. Or do you mean something else? Also you can disable borders for castbars, not for the healthbar though (unless you mean the target highlight border or the threat glow border; these two you can disable).
With ressource bar you mean your own characters resource bar, right? Currently, there is no option for this, although it's been requested a few times, I think.
In reply to Backupiseasy:
in first time i mean on icon of castbar are a little ugly i guess. First picture are threat plates and second picture elvui nameplate u can see the icon on cast bar hvnt borders
on second half i want to mean on resource bar like elvui, u see all rage bar, energy, mana on all nameplates like these without targeting a specific player or mob.
In reply to typhosy:
Threat Plates shows the icon as it is provided by WoW (which have this ugly border). ElvUI probably includes a different icon set without borders. I myself for example use Clearn Icons Thin (https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info19844-CleanIcons-Thin.html). It might be able to change icons that way in TP itself, but not efficiently, I think.
Regarding the resource bar, I now understand. Currently, it's only supported for the target unit. It's been requested a few times to extend this to other units as well (https://github.com/Backupiseasy/ThreatPlates/issues/125), but it's not high on my priority list right now.
Its not a bug, but when the Warlock interrupts the cast, his nickname White and not a class color. This is probably because the pet does it.
In reply to BIGBON36:
Ah, you're right. Right now I only check for the caster of the interrupt. Not sure if it's possible to determine the pet's owner in that part of the code, but I'll look at it.
Hey, great addon!
Regarding icon mode for enemy nameplates showing CC and debuffs ... is there a way to have the CC icons not stack on top of the debuff icons?
So that maybe CC icons show in same line, but on left side and the debuffs on the very right?
Or so that CC icons show on the left next to the healthbar of nameplates, but the debuff icons show on top of the health bar of nameplates?
I'd prefer that those icons dont stack up on top of each other ... but can't find a way to make this happen somehow.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
In reply to Joshenas:
It's something that is not possible currently, but probably one of the most often requested features. Still planning to add it to 10.2 or 10.3, but things like fixing bugs and working on a BC Classic version as well as scripting support have a higher priority right now.
In reply to Backupiseasy:
Ok thx for letting me know.
Really looking forward to you guys implementing this !!!! :)
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