Aloft

Aloft is an addon that allows you to customize and enchance how nameplates and nameplate casting bars appear in the game.

Options:

"/aloft"
"/aloft waterfall"

Under WoW 3.0.2 and later, Aloft no longer requires (nor can it even benefit from) external libraries for health estimation (i.e. MobHealth3, LibMobHealth-4.0, MobInfo2) or threat (i.e. Threat-2.0)

The customization options in Aloft allow you to change the size, shape, anchors, font, font options, textures and colors of:
1. Name text
2. Level Text
3. Health Bar
4. Mana Bar
5. Cast Bar
6. Spell Icon
7. Boss Icon
8. Raid Icon
9. Mouseover Highlight

Aloft also enhances the display by providing options for:
1. Health text - you can display health percentage, health, or health deficit right on the nameplate
2. Spell name - Aloft will place the spell name right on the casting bar
3. Spell casting timer - Displays the remaining casting time
4. Combo points text - Displayed on target's nameplates for rogues and druids
5. Recently Damaged icon - Displays an icon next to any unit that has recently taken damage
6. Finer visibility control - A collection of options that give you specific control over which nameplates are shown - eg. You can hide friendly pets, out-of-guild players, and lots more
7. Guild Text - Show guild information right on the nameplate. Shows abbreviated forms by default.
8. Border and backdrop color
9. Comments - Show "Banker", "Flight Master" and other automatically gathered comments, or your own custom ones right on the nameplate
10. Mana Bar/Text - show group member/pet/summon mana, energy, rage
11. Combat Text - display all damage and healing done to group members or targets right on the plate.
12. Pets Owner's Names
13. Polymorph Timer bar
14. Undead shackle Timer bar
15. Unit Aliases
16. Class Icons
17. Experimental: Target-of-target system that employs race/class/raid target assignment (as available) to identify enemy nameplates and supply ToT information; uses the existing "[TargetName]" text tag
18. Keybindings for toggling enemy nameplates, friendly nameplates, and all nameplates
19. Integrated with SharedMedia

Finally, Aloft (this UPDATED version) provides a full-featured threat indicator capability:
1. Player threat displayed on player target's nameplate (the player has no bar-style nameplate)
2. Group threat (including pets/summons) displayed on group nameplates
3. Threat bar and threat text capabilities
4. Threat bar and threat text can be enabled independently
5. Can be enabled while solo (for pet-owning classes)
6. Control over display colors to indicate common threat and maximum threat thresholds
7. Threat gain threshold display (i.e. omen-style "aggro bar") capability for player threat
8. Threat threshold nameplate "glow" (separate from aggro glow, see below); Threshold can be customized
9. Uses the WoW 3.x native threat event model and API

2.8.15-1616
- tried to fix a few problems related to text tags, concatenating opposing conditions, and "attempt to concatenate boolean value" errors; those of you with a lot of custom tags, please report any problems
- added a "[Type]" text tag; returns a string, see AloftTags.rtf
- added an "[IsPlayer]" text tag; returns a boolean (LUA-style, true/not-nil or nol), whether unit is/is-not a friendly player or hostile flagged player
- added an option to "bounce" (toggle) nameplates when AloftAutoShow changes nameplate overlap settings automatically (disabled by default; option under "Overlap Name Plates" options)
- applied a fix to SetFrameLevel() processing to prevent the value from going out of range (AloftFrame.lua line 296 error/etc)
- validated with WoW 3.3.2-11403 (02-Feb-2010 in north america)

2.8.14-1600
- adjusted all frame levels, now relative against the underlying nameplate frame
- applied a blend mode on all texture regions (including backdrops) to "improve" behavior of UI object layering
- latest/greatest CallbackHandler-1.0 (from Ace3)