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

You’re using the older variant which has the aircraft type, that’s correct.
I just kept them for those who used them from earlier releases since I added v2 green as a new variant.
One can still edit the css file that is contained there to modify colors if one wants to.

Thanks. I updated the CSS to hide the aircraft type.

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I’m trying to get the highlighting to work. Am I stringing together multiple names correctly here?

// highlight some users from livestreams
  if (data.title.text.toUpperCase() == "name1"
        || data.title.text.toUpperCase() == "name2"
        || data.title.text.toUpperCase() == "name3" 
        || data.title.text.toUpperCase() == "name4" 
        || data.title.text.toUpperCase() == "name5") {
  	this.querySelector('.name').classList.add('highlighted');
  }

“name1” needs to be “NAME1” etc. The comparison is done using toUpperCase so you need to use uppercase when setting the names that you want to highlight :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much for this response. I DID finally figure that part out and have this working like a champ. I now have multiple additional css classes set up and am using them to reward people in my Twitch community for frequent co-flying. It’s outstanding and I appreciate your work making it possible.

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Does this work?
Can it be added as a community mod in the community folder ?

What made you think it wouldn’t work?

Yes, installation instructions are on the readme page on github:

If you want to highlight specific player names or cut off the numerical part of some player tags, you need to do manual changes as described.

That’s cool to hear :slight_smile: I’ve seen others doing similar things, just remember that if you’d add this as a “reward” to some paid subscription you need to be prepared to MSFS changing the affected JS code and this option to maybe not be possible at some point.
So far they didn’t change the code since initial release at all, hence my nameplates and the additional options described here worked the same way since the beginning.

Great little hack/code to hide the #numbers,
Why MS/Asobo do not do this by default !!!
But for now, @CopperNu big thanks. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Combined it with the v2 green tags and all looks much better.

Good question. This was one of the first Zendesk issues I submitted right after release. It is clear that multiplayer related issues are not high on the Asobo agenda.

I know this topic has been marked as resolved, but I wonder if anyone got it to work with FSLTL AI Traffic? I’ve tried and cannot get it to work :slight_smile:

Verify these two settings.
Flight Conditions:

HDR Screenshot

FSLTL injected traffic as well as VATIMS (and FS Traffic) do not show nameplates.
This has nothing to do with my mod (it only changes HOW they are shown, not WHEN they are shown).

So no, FSLTL injected traffic does not support nametags unfortunately, this is a fix required by Asobo.

MSFSRonS posted the instructions how to have MSFS AI traffic which indeed supports the nametags, but that’s not FSLTL traffic.

I defer to you because you should know.

But, I thought this airplane was FSLTL and not AI generated.
I didn’t think that AI generated airplanes had Air Carrier names.

Any newer options to change the label settings? Also, it would be neat to see distance to other aircraft.

No new options, the mod works as it was for 3 years now.
I can’t show additional information since MSFS doesn’t provide them. So I’m limited to change the look and to omit useless data which I did.

If you know CSS you can edit the CSS file yourself, there are some comments on what things you can change in terms of colors etc. But I won’t add more options myself, sorry.

In case you need more/easier control over nameplates, check out Flow from Parallell 42.

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You seem to have FSLTL models but MSFS AI traffic, which shows the callsigns as nameplates.
Aircraft injected by FSLTL Injector won’t have nameplates (same as vPilot Vatsim aircraft etc).

I really hope MS/Asobo have some improvements in terms of nameplates up their sleeve for MSFS 2024. It’s about time to have more data and also having them for injected aircraft…

@CopperNu have you deleted the GitHub repo?

Affirm :slight_smile: With 2024 on the brink and me not intending to continue support of this mod, I’d rather not have people continue downloading it.
There are forks since it was under MIT license, so if you look for nameplates you will find them online, just that I’m not continuing support for them.

Glad that the mod got so much interest over the years and was used by many.
Let’s hope nameplates get some love in 2024 including options to show them on injected traffic… But so far it doesn’t look bright on that matter.

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I used yours and Mugz mods from the day it was released and wouldn’t have used the nameplates at all if it wasn’t for that (using Flow Pro now though).

It’s amazing how poorly designed 24 is, this picture shows ship names because it is linked to air Traffic.

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