Multiple Tank Threat Plates

[Bilişim Sorumlusu]

I want a improvment for Raid tanking. Threat plates turns red (or wut
color ur's is) if the target is not attack the tank (me) and in raid
there are 2 or 3 tank al the time. I want that if the other tank is
have the agrro it show as u have agrro. To clearify tanks gona have
the same plates. If any of tanks have the agrro it ll be green plate.
If any other raid member is the agrroer then it ll turn red for tanks.
I hope its understandable. Thank You.

[Jason Harden]

I concur. Tidy plates is great for 5 mans, but what raids now a days
do not have multi tanks going on. I thought at first I was configuring
it incorrectly, but even with both the MT and I set as "tanks" in the
raid, when we do trash pulls, I still have to tab through the "green"
tidy plates to make sure they are ACTUALLY on the other tank. Am I
missing something? Perhaps configuring it incorrectly? Please advice
as both I and the MT in our guild do not know if there is a solution
to this.

Thank you also.

[Dan aka Binbwen]

The color changing is currently dependent on the data that Tidy Plates
reads from the Blizzard nameplates. (Simply: Is the mob attacking me
or not?) This data is easy and fast to acquire, which is why it's
used.

To handle multiple tanks we need to get a bit more clever. See, the
Blizz API doesn't give us any tools for arbitrarily querying the
target-of or threat data of an arbitrary unit; It has to be part of
the player's scope, such as 'target' or 'mouseover' or 'pet' or
'party1' or 'raid5target'. This cleverness costs a bit of CPU.

The way that Tidy Plates currently handles multiple tanks RIGHT NOW is
via widgets 'Tug-o-Threat' and 'Tanked'.

In the case of the either widget, you need to mouse over the
nameplates to provide a unitid so it can get a threat snapshot. It
will only update 'live' for your target, so you'll need to sweep your
mouse over the other targets while tanking to maintain the data.

In 5.14, the widget will store the guid of units that have been
previously moused over, and attempt to match up data from your group
member targets. Still, there are some units that won't be able to be
tracked; think of a large pack of adds where the tank and dps are
mainly using aoe abilities rather than switching targets.

Why isn't this data integrated into the core? Eventually, it will be,
allowing us to more easily control the color via target-of data or
actual threat. (it's possible to do this right now, but it would
require the theme author to develop the external tracking system of
their own, and make the theme functions grab data from it)
Performance and ease of development have made it more attractive to
develop this sort of thing modularly.

On Oct 7, 1:06 pm, Jason Harden <jasondehar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I concur. Tidy plates is great for 5 mans, but what raids now a days
> do not have multi tanks going on. I thought at first I was configuring
> it incorrectly, but even with both the MT and I set as "tanks" in the
> raid, when we do trash pulls, I still have to tab through the "green"
> tidy plates to make sure they are ACTUALLY on the other tank. Am I
> missing something? Perhaps configuring it incorrectly? Please advice
> as both I and the MT in our guild do not know if there is a solution
> to this.
>
> Thank you also.
>