Name Plates

A name plate is a small label that floats over an item or a creature near you and tells you its name. Plates appear over nearby objects while you hold the key for object handles, so that you can find and pick out things in a crowded place. The client's settings choose which kinds of object get a plate, in Object Handle Filter, and how many plates show at once, in Object Handle Quantity. Both are on the Overhead page of the settings.

The name on a plate is in the colour of the object's notoriety. A name that is too long for the widest plate is cut at a word and ends in dots, and a hover shows all of it.

Name Plates, guildmate — A plate over a guildmate. The name is green.

Name Plates, hostile — A plate over a hostile creature. The name is red.

Name Plates, innocent — A plate over an innocent character. The name is blue.

Name Plates, item — A plate over a forge in the world. Plates over other nearby items and creatures stand over them in the same way.

Name Plates, long-name — A plate over a townsman whose name is too long. The name is cut at a word and ends in dots.

Opening it

Hold Ctrl and Shift together. A plate appears over each object near you that the filter and the quantity allow.
The plates go away when the client takes them down again.
Right-click a plate to close that plate alone.

Using it

Click a creature's plate to target the creature. Shift+click casts your quick-cast spell on it, and Control+click chooses that spell.
Drag a creature's plate to pull off a health bar for the creature and drop it where you want it.
Click an item's plate to target the item, and drag the plate to pick the item up.
While the cursor waits for a target, a click on a plate answers it with that object.
Double-click a plate to use the object.
Hover over a plate to see the object's properties. The plate brightens and rises over its neighbours.