Great addon, but it seems to be causing some crashes (I also use Aloft like the person quoted above). When I disable this addon and leave everything else the same, I never crash. I can usually make it crash by enabling all friendly nameplates and hovering a lot of them very quickly in Orgrimmar. I generally just have Enemy nameplates enabled, but I crashed that way too. I tried posting a crash report, but it's too long. I'll try to PM it to you.

EDIT: I e-mailed the crash report.

Well, I deleted the config-cache.wtf file from my account folder, and it appears to have fixed the problem at the moment. I'll report back if it seems to revert to the "omgwtf" pattern it was displaying in the past couple of days. XD

It does appear, though, that if you delete the config-cache.wtf in your character file, that it can cause the same wonky camera behavior that it was before. Let me double-check to make sure.

Edit: I found out what it is. It's the view/camera settings in particular. The defaults are Previous View set to Home, and Next View set to End. If you spam the End key until it stops cycling, it should end at the 5th default view, and it will cause the camera settings to go nuts. Any other setting works perfectly, including first person. So yeah, if the account bound cache folder says "SET cameraview "5"", change it to 1-4, and you'll be fine, I suppose.

That's weird.

Hmm, it appears that after any sort of logout/reload of the UI when Virtual Plates is installed breaks the camera placement. I've tried this with no addons enabled, and my camera (set to only follow horizontal when moving, or however it's worded) works perfectly. However, if I logout, reload the UI, or do anything that involves a loading screen, it defaults to "never follow", and nothing save a fresh reinstall of the addon will fix it.

Any ideas?

That sure is an issue I'd like Blizzard to assess in the near future, it sure would make the lives of addon authors way easier (especially for UI related addons).
Pity you can't handle the text as raster and scale the raster image instead of actual text.

I used VirtualPlates for a while during 3.2 but later removed it... after I rolled rogue during 3.3, the enormous sized name plates often decide to place themselves just above the mob's head (this happens with the Evl's Name Plates included in RothUI) making it quite annoying to see if the mob is actually facing you or not. Now with the name plate changes introduced in 3.3, the addon has proven to be useful.

There's just this one bit that has been poking out: the nameplates won't scale smoothly. It does a fine job with the textures but text seems to be the problem.
What I'm wanting is a bit like scaling (or zooming) an image so the text won't crop when the nameplate is far away from the player.
/end possible confusing rant :P

Hi there,

Thanks for looking into this. I really appreciate it!

I can imagine what you mean about the text being jittery. Since the information it provides is more text-driven than graphical, I wouldn't think giving depth to the chat bubbles would be as successful. But what about a simple uniform scale? The bubbles would appear at the same consistent size, but could be user-defined to take up less space while still being readable.

Either way, thanks again for taking time to investigate this!

Hi there,

Thank you for all the great work on this addon. For the longest time, I was always wishing for a way to adjust the size of nameplates (even in just a uniform way, so the scaled-for-range solution is even more amazing!). For some reason, Blizzard doesn't seem to let UI elements in the 3D space respond to a player's uiScale setting, so on larger displays these elements are enormous and awkward!

Since you've been working successfully in this space, I wanted to ask if you had any insight into whether it's possible to do something similar to _VirtualPlates, but for other elements (like dialog balloons for example). I appreciate the visual cue of dialog balloons, but they're so huge on my screen that they often cover up important elements. I've never come across a way to scale them down. Another example that comes to mind is "damage text" over mobs' heads. I've seen addons that help you change the font, but not any way to simply set the font size smaller.

Thanks!

Great mod.

Sucks that they've made those changes. I can't seem to find a single shred of evidence to the change, much less any sort of statement as to why they would make such a change. You have any further info on the matter?

Edit - OMG, I JUST TRIED IT!! WOW, I THINK I JUST CREAMED MY PANTS!!! LOVE IT!! Such a small change, yet such a big difference. !! Thank you!

How does the work around work?