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K1 Nameplates


World of Warcraft-style nameplates for KOTOR: every enemy gets its own health bar, and loot and usable objects are always labelled.

KOTOR shows one overhead name and health bar at a time, only for the creature under your cursor or your target. It flickers away and is hard to click. This mod gives every hostile you could click its own plate:

  • Red plates on every visible enemy within 60 m; neutral and friendly creatures on hover or target.
  • A framed, larger target plate with health in percent. Other plates fade while you have a target.
  • Damage chips, distance scaling and stacking instead of overlap.
  • Click a plate to select or attack, just like clicking the model.
  • Object labels: remains, containers and items on the ground in gold while they hold loot, "[empty]" once looted, terminals and workbenches in cyan. Scenery and invisible script objects get no label.
  • Only while the HUD is up (never in dialogs, menus or cutscenes). F6 turns it off and on. Everything is configurable in nameplates.ini.

Install: copy dinput8.dll and nameplates.ini into the game folder (next to swkotor.exe). Delete them to uninstall. It doesn't touch swkotor.exe, Override or saves: everything happens in memory while the game runs, and it checks the game code before every hook, so on an exe it doesn't recognise it does nothing.

Compatibility: KOTOR 1 patch 1.03 on Windows. Tested on Steam, with the KOTOR Editable Executable and on the stock exe. GOG should work but is untested, so please report either way. Any resolution, with or without UniWS, High Resolution Menus and the 4 GB patch. Works with ReShade. Conflicts only with other mods that ship a dinput8.dll. Not for KOTOR 2.

Troubleshooting: nameplates.log in the game folder says whether the hooks installed. For bug reports, set Debug=1 in nameplates.ini, reproduce the problem and include the log and a screenshot.

Engine addresses come from Lane Dibello's KOTOR Patch Manager address database. Thanks, Lane!

Source (MIT): https://github.com/phalladar/k1-nameplates


  • Submitter
  • Submitted
    10/27/2026
  • Category
  • K1R Compatible
    No

 

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