Tidy Plates: CleanPlates 

@ #2 In the future build (v2.0) you will be able to alter the font / color / size / placement / align / etc... so look forward to that.


@ #1

You can remove the threat glow or change its color.

Here's how:
-- This will remove the threat glow for all non-elite nameplates (i.e. PvP players)

1. Open up your addon's folder to TidyPlates_CleanPlates.
2. Locate normal.lua and open it with notepad.
3. On line #16, look for:
4. Change it to:
Or:
-- This will change the low threat glow for all nameplates to none.

1. Open up your addon's folder to TidyPlates_CleanPlates.
2. Locate normal.lua and open it with notepad.
3. On line #163 (Towards the end of the document) look for:
4. Change it to:
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Sorry for the inconvenience of having to alter the lua, but it is the only way possible(Currently).

Hope this helps and please let me know if you need additional help.

The only information I can display, is what is actually available from the nameplates. Stuff like mob classification, or more specific details, I can't get from just the information the unit nameplate provides. I could take all the npc's in like dalaran and give them icons or something for repairs, food, or profession or something lol.. but uh the only way I would be able to do that is to match the npc names. There's no easy way of doing it.

Eventually, I may be able to add more to your targets nameplate just because I can bring up more info from PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGE etc, etc.

Danltiger is working on a way to give the target's nameplate a sense of identity from the rest of the nameplates.

@ TreeTops:

When I get a chance to work on my own computer with Lua and testing, I'm going to change all the text into something you can customize a little bit. I may add some shared media functionality.

Just drop a font youd like to use into the fonts folder and rename it to Accidental Presidency.ttf

Yes it will, you shouldnt have to worry about Tidy Plates updates. Theyre generally bugfixes.

It could be some layering issues with 3.3. Talk to Danltiger about it.

@clicking nameplates:

You may be clicking on the nameplate text which isnt part of their hitbox. You might just be deselecting them.

The most major problem with nameplates, is it's impossible to associate them to a UnitID (default nameplates that is). The only way to give a return value for if something is a critter is a function built into the wow API called GetCreatureType(unitid) and since you can't associate a nameplate with a critter there's no way for it to give the nameplate an the status of "critter"(which no longer matters since "critter" nameplates are no longer in the game, which is not always the case).

The way Aloft does/did it was it creates the nameplate from a momentary targeting/mouseovring of mobs and getting a mouseoverid/unitid and creating the nameplate from that. As its moused over a LOT of data is created for all the various functions that Aloft has: threat, class, creature type, casting info, etc, etc. Which obviously brings the cpu / memory consumption up and plenty of garbage data.

Nothin' else to do!

Inside each of my template lua's (normal, special, totem, pet, and empty) there is a :

config.frame = {
x = #,
y = #,
},

This effectively changes the "hitbox" of the nameplate boxes. My empty.lua has a hit box of 2 pixels by 2 pixels. Not only is it only 4 pixels in size it's also scaled to 30% of its original size, so it's quite small.

There's always an outside bubble or "padding" of all nameplates, even my empty.lua. The only way to completely remove this padding and invisible nameplates is to simply not have the nameplate there. The only way this is done (now) is to turn the nameplates off via the in-game options (I'm still working on a way to implement them into Clean Plates). The only options from the in-game options are players, pets, and totems, so specific toggles aren't available for specific pets.

There is no way to disable this changing alpha level of targets to non-targets.

Mmmm well, I could make it so your target nameplate could be sized or colored/textured differently eventually. Danltiger is working on a system for displaying combo points on the nameplates of your target only, which the only way to associate the nameplate of your target is to look for the only nameplate who's alpha is at 100% (all the other nameplates dimm to less than 95% alpha). However there is a problem with mobs of the same name, so the delay is there until a work around is implemented.

Feel free to show me a screenshot or two about what the differences are.

What wall?? I'm pretty sure I just completely demolished it...