Manipulate standard nameplates

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Is there anyway to manipulate the standard nameplates very simple?

Like hide the textures around the bar, change the bar texture and but a simple border around it.

I don't like using big nameplate addons that create totally new frames.

I'm looking for something like

NameplatesBorder:SetTexture(nil)
NameplatesElite:SetTexture(nil

but I doubt that will work. I can't find any frame names or texture names in the Github repo for the wow source code, so no Idea how to do it :/

[ls-]

They dun have anything like that as far as I remember, cuz nameplates are implemented in C/C++, not in LUA.

First, you have to "catch" a nameplate frame among all the frames on the screen. You have to hook WorldFrames OnUpdate script, my hook function looks like this:

local prevNumChildren = 0
local function WorldFrame_OnUpdate(self, elapsed)
	self.elapsed = (self.elapsed or 0) + elapsed

	if self.elapsed > 0.1 then
		local curNumChildren = WorldFrame:GetNumChildren()

		if curNumChildren ~= prevNumChildren  then
			for i = prevNumChildren + 1, curNumChildren do
				local f = select(i, WorldFrame:GetChildren())

				local name = f:GetName()
				if (name and match(name, "^NamePlate%d")) and not NP.plates[f] then -- I also have a table of all handled nameplates
					HandleNamePlate(f) -- that's my function I use to customise templates
				end
			end

			prevNumChildren = curNumChildren
		end

		-- more code here

		self.elapsed = 0
	end
end

Then inside my HandleNamePlate function I get frame's children and regions:

local function HandleNamePlate(self)
	self.barFrame, self.nameFrame = self:GetChildren() -- textures and name
	self.health, self.cast = self.barFrame:GetChildren() -- health bar and cast bar

	self.threat, self.border, self.highlight, self.level, self.bossIcon, self.raidIcon, self.eliteIcon = self.barFrame:GetRegions()
	self.name = self.nameFrame:GetRegions()
	self.health.texture = self.health:GetRegions()
	self.cast.texture, self.cast.border, self.cast.shield, self.cast.icon, self.cast.text, self.cast.textShadow = self.cast:GetRegions()

	-- more code here

end

Not optimised code though, I consider rewriting it, cuz too many table lookups occur later on.

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Thanks. I'll guess I have to do look into this more intense.

I was looking for a simple nameplate solution for my personal interface, guess I'll try to write my own.

[ls-]

Thanks. I'll guess I have to do look into this more intense.

I was looking for a simple nameplate solution for my personal interface, guess I'll try to write my own.

Yeah, when first started writing nameplate module for my UI, I also hoped for a better solution... Good luck