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Hey guys, I am looking for a WeakAura or an AddOn that shows class icon over a friendly nameplate. Something like https://wago.io/P1aKl8fSn which unfortunately shows it only for the enemy nameplate or something like this https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/platesclasses but for retail.
Basically like the widged function from ThreatPlates.

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As of 7.1.5 you can’t modify friendly nameplates while inside instanced content.

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I need it for arena and it works there. ThreatPlates provide such an option but I am using a different nameplate addon and can’t make only the widged from TP work with my current addon.
A WeakAura does the trick too. I found one but it’s only for enemy nameplates.

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Next time you enter an arena, do /etrace then enable friendly nameplates, search the etrace window for “nameplate”, and see if it’s using NAMEPLATE_UNIT_ADDED or FORBIDDEN_NAMEPLATE_UNIT_ADDED

If it’s using the latter, you should just need to update the WA to support the forbidden added and removed events.

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The WA is working, it’s just not doing what I need, which is why I am asking here for help.

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Right, and I need more information on how friendly nameplates work in arenas in order to help you, hence my previous post.

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It seems to be NAMEPLATE_UNIT_ADDED
https://imgur.com/20bCskl

I thought it might be possible to simply swap enemy nameplate for friendly in the current WA and that’s about it.

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That’s unfortunate. I looked through the WA code and I’m not seeing anything that’s explicitly limiting it to enemy nameplates.

Trigger:

function(allstates, event, unit)
    
    if event == "NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED" then
        
        if UnitExists(unit) and string.match(unit, "nameplate") and UnitIsPlayer(unit) then
            
            if UnitIsUnit("player", unit) then return end
            
            local _, class = UnitClass(unit)
            local icon = aura_env.class_icon[class]
            
            for _, state in pairs(allstates) do
                if UnitIsUnit(state.unit, unit) then
                    state.changed = true
                    state.show = false
                end
            end 
            
            allstates[unit] = {
                changed = false,
                show = true,
                icon = icon,
                unit = unit
            }
            
        end        
    end
    
    
    if event == "NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED" then
        for _, state in pairs(allstates) do
            if state.unit == unit then
                state.show = false
                state.changed = true
            end
        end
    end
    
    return true
end

Text:

function()
    if aura_env.state and aura_env.state.unit then
        local region = aura_env.region
        local plate = C_NamePlate.GetNamePlateForUnit(aura_env.state.unit)
        
        if plate then 
            region:ClearAllPoints()
            region:SetPoint("CENTER", plate, "LEFT", 3, 0)
            region:SetParent(plate)
            region:Show()
        else
            region:Hide()
        end
    end
end

Aside from filtering out the Personal Resource display it all looks reaction agnostic.

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Ye, that was my issue.
What’s the second part?

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So I finally bothered to turn off ElvUI so I could actually test the WA, and it’s definitely working on allies using default nameplates.

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So it can’t work with KUI nameplates then I assume?

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You’d need to change

local plate = C_NamePlate.GetNamePlateForUnit(aura_env.state.unit)

to whatever KUI uses.

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Best guess:

local plate = KuiNameplates:GetNameplateForUnit(aura_env.state.unit)

[added-2]
Actually, I’m confused because you said it was working with Enemy Nameplates, and I assume that means KUI ones so it must be hooking properly somehow.

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Tried several things, no idea how you made it work.

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