Tidy Plates

Tidy Plates ... enhances the Blizzard nameplates, enabling graphical and functional improvements.

By default, the appearance is simple, but you can quickly customize the appearance by downloading one of the many themes. See the Optional Files section for pre-made themes, and for the development sample.

If you're looking for something slick, check out the Knurl theme, or Cleanplates (A clean, minimalist theme from Suicidalkatt).

Features found in the various themes:

• Threat/Unit Dependent Nameplate Art
• Class Icons
• Health Text
• Dynamic Opacity
• Threat Coloring

Common Questions:

How can I get Feature X? Check the various themes; The Tidy Plates engine allows for some pretty clever manipulation of the nameplates, beyond what the author originally conceived.

What about a GUI for customization? It's something that I've talked about doing, but haven't gotten the time. I HAVE made it practical to design an addon that links to Tidy Plates, so hopefully this feature will finally get introduced. If you're interested in helping in the development, send me a private message, or check out the readme.txt file.

Can you increase the range of the nameplates? Not yet! 3.3, baby!

What's this Threat Glow thing?
The default nameplate from Blizzard will highlight (with a red glow) mobs that are attacking you. However, sometimes it's nice to have a positive indication of when they're attacking someone else. (I'm looking at you, tanks)

The default coloring (Can be modified by simply editing some numbers in a LUA file):
Greenish Yellow: Low threat, Not attacking you.
Yellow: High threat, but not yet attacking.
Red: Aggro, Attacking you.

The threat graphic will also change, depending on the unit: Elite units are designed with a bolder appearance, helping you to differentiate the Elites within a pack of mixed mobs.

Change Log:

Release 4.10: Fixed typo in alpha delegate
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Release 4.9: Polished up some things, and added an alpha handler
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Release 4.8: Fixed leaks, and added multi-plates (which means more leaks, probably)
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Release 4.7: Now you can change the color of the threat glow levels in the theme files! woo!
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Release 4.6: Fixed the no-show elite frame..
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Release 4.5: More bug fixes, and moved to specific event-triggered updates, rather than "OnUpdate" over-kill.
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Release 4.2: Fixed Bugs (some of them)
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Release 4.3: Added Bugs
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Release 4.2: Fixed level text
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Release 4.1: Lots of things... But, I 'broke' the level text. I'll get that working!
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Release 4:
-Now configurable via 'skin\config.Lua '
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Release 3.1:
-Added Level Text
-Cleaned up some code
Release 3:
-Updated the TOC interface tag
-Changed the threat indicator glow. It now also appears when you're not tanking, showing 'loose' mobs.
-Changed the layout of the icons
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Release 2:
-Fixed an issue with raid icons appearing way too large.
-The border will now color itself red for Elite mobs.
-Rewrote 90% of the code; It's cleaner and smaller, and removed dependency on the Ace libraries.