Smaller and colored nameplates for traffic (Updated 2022-03-04)

You mean a toggle for the background? That’s not so easy especially since many key bindings are reserved in game already.

If you just want an option to toggle the nameplates on and off, here’s a mod that allows this with a fixed key binding:

Note that if you install that mod but want the style of mine, you’ll have to prepend an “a_” to the folder of that mod.
So after installing, change the folder name from

[uimod]-mugz-tinyplates

to

a_[uimod]-mugz-tinyplates

Then my mod will override the look of that uimod provided one but keep the toggle on/off via F11 and F12 intact.

Since I do not like mixing look and functionality in one combined mod (making maintenance and dependencies more complex), I don’t want to include the toggle option in my mod.

If you have suggestions on new colors/combinations, feel free to request and I’ll see what I can do. For me the v2 with dark background including the toggle option to quickly hide them works the best. Also I like the reduced details to just show the altitude (if provided by the sim) since it declutters the view a lot.

Here’s a screenshot with a quite complex background and many players, other styles would make it hard to read and with the default one you’d have the screen full of nameplates: