How to check when target/focus changes status

[fatal120]

Hey,

I'm trying to work out how to monitor when my target or focus change status (i.e., from friendly to hostile or vice-versa), and also which of target/focus it was.

This occurs in a fair few situations, for example when beginning/ending a duel or when a boss goes friendly (instead of dying) when you finish the fight.

I have been using /etrace, but I can't find anything that seems consistent. There are some events like:

PLAYER_SOFT_FRIEND_CHANGED
PLAYER_SOFT_ENEMY_CHANGED

but I'm not even sure what they do.

The thing I'm trying to do is change the colours of the hostile/friendly nameplates. So if there isn't an event, perhaps someone can think of another method?

Would appreciate some help, thanks.

[Fizzlemizz]

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/PLAYER_FOCUS_CHANGED

[fatal120]

Originally Posted by Fizzlemizz https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/PLAYER_FOCUS_CHANGED

Neither of those events fire when my existing target/focus change from friendly to hostile or vice-versa

[Fizzlemizz]

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/UNIT_FLAGS

[fatal120]

Originally Posted by Fizzlemizz https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/UNIT_FLAGS

What am I looking for? I don't see that event changing in /etrace

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by fatal120 I'm trying to work out how to monitor when my target or focus change status (i.e., from friendly to hostile or vice-versa), and also which of target/focus it was.

The target frames use UNIT_FACTION to check when to update their "ReputationColor".

Originally Posted by fatal120 The thing I'm trying to do is change the colours of the hostile/friendly nameplates. So if there isn't an event, perhaps someone can think of another method?

A common problem with NamePlates is a lot of unit events don't fire for them. This is the reason for a long standing bug where existing NamePlates fail to update their state when a unit turns hostile or friendly.