New nameplate cvars!

[dr_AllCOM3]

spreadnameplates makes the nameplates smoothly float to their new position instead of instantly jumping around. The plate of the target is not static (it should be).
It's pretty much useless atm, since they tend to overlap too much. They also sometimes do not update correctly, feels like a beta version . It could work well with my custom nameplates, but yeah...

[Saiket]

Originally Posted by dr_AllCOM3 spreadnameplates makes the nameplates smoothly float to their new position instead of instantly jumping around. The plate of the target is not static (it should be). It's pretty much useless atm, since they tend to overlap too much. They also sometimes do not update correctly, feels like a beta version . It could work well with my custom nameplates, but yeah...

Yeah, they have a bug where if you move your camera around quickly, some plates just get stuck in place on the screen. It seems like they turned this cvar on by default in one of the recent builds though.

[Saiket]

It seems that build 12644 disabled bloatTest and bloatnameplates. Spreadnameplates still works, but it seems even buggier than before. When I tried it, plates wiggled around even when they weren't bumping into eachother.

There is one new cvar, although it doesn't appear to have any effect yet:

• bloatthreat - makes nameplates larger depending on gaining/losing threat.
  
  Default is 1; Not sure if that means enabled or 1x size.

[Freebaser]

Originally Posted by Saiket There is one new cvar, although it doesn't appear to have any effect yet: bloatthreat - makes nameplates larger depending on gaining/losing threat.

This was working for me today by default.

[Saiket]

Ah I see, the plates only change sizes if that mob has more than one person on its threat table (i.e. you and a tank, or a hunter and his pet). I was soloing stuff in my tests and didn't notice anything.

[dr_AllCOM3]

Blizzard is messing with the nameplates again. Right now they don't work .

[yj589794]

Originally Posted by dr_AllCOM3 Blizzard is messing with the nameplates again. Right now they don't work .

really? they worked for me when I was just online.

I did have to turn them off and then back on again (double-tap v), but they did work.




**** There are some reports up in the official cataclysm bug forum, so it looks like they could be buggy at the moment