I was thinking about something similar: When the player is not submerged in water, the bars for all water creatures could be disabled. Or would you prefer to disable them only for simple fish like Coelacanth etc.?

Another requested feature is an INI setting to deactivate bars completely for those creatures listed in the INI file (by name).

With the update from today, there is a new toggleable 'minimalistic mode' that displays only small bars (without numbers and other information).

Alt + F6 has also been re-added to quickly toggle the bars for wild creatures if you don't need them at the moment.

Thanks for the info.
Honestly I could see both ideas useful. I persaonlly would prefer the second option of just disabling it for basic creatures. And as such, I love the idea of black listing a name in the settings.
That would be my persoanll prefernce, and I don't want to speak for anyone else.
But I could see it being useful to disable all when you get in the water.

Maybe just do whatever is easiest, then move on to the next when you get time? I'm no coder, so I don't know what is time consuming. But the idea of black listing a specific name does sound nice.

I'm using the old discontinued 'health and torpor bars v2' mod for my server cluster which seems to run pretty well however I saw this mod pop up recently and I've been watching it's development.

The ability to filter out which bars are displayed for dinos via an INI file definitely interests me as I can confirm performance can suffer when viewing a lot of small dinos at once (fish, breeding dinos, packs of small dinos, etc) with health bars up. I would like to add my input and suggest the ability to have a few different dino bars groups that you could classify dinos under and then toggle viewing the different groups with various keyboard shortcuts. The menu to add dino species to one of the dino bar groups might look something like the species of dinos listed when configuring a turret (at least the S+ version) to either include or exclude particular dinos from the triggering mechanism. That way you can quickly change what dinos the bars are viewable for with a keyboard shortcut depending on the situation which makes it much more flexible and fluid during gameplay. An example of the groups I might use below:

Group 1 = Fish, Dimorphs, Dilos, Compys, Microraptors, Pegos, Troodons
Group 2 = Therizinos, Rexs (Boss DPS)
Group 3 = Daeodons, Yuty (Boss Support)
Group 4 = Penguins (Let's say I'm breeding these for polymer at the time)
Group 5 = Spiders, Bats, Meganuera, Leeches (Small and/or crowded spaces in caves)

Something like that, not sure what's a reasonable number of groups but I thought I would give an example.

Another cool idea would be the option to set the dino bars groups to automatically enable or disable their visibility to the player when the user goes into or leaves combat.

I know these suggestions might be a bit much at the moment which I totally understand however I wanted to share them in case they are of interest to anyone else. I would be pretty happy with just the INI option though :P

I appreciate your time!

I just noticed the Feature Requests thread (my bad, I know) and the suggestion that's listed there similar to mine sounds pretty good as well, i really like the auto toggling of the bars for targets attacking.

I didn't even notice the feature request thread. Now I feel silly making it here.

And yeah, that sounds like a great idea. More user control. I'm sure OP won't be working on it now, but I toss out the random idea for future use. Doesn't hurt anything.
OP has been updating consistanly. I like mod authors like that. I still don't like tp push to much, real life takes priority.
But makes me feel guilty when they put a donation page up and I don't update whne they do an idea I had.

I got a chance to check out the latest version of the Dino Bars mod I'm running on my own ARK cluster and I absolutely love the new filtering feature with groups and all! Thanks so much for listening to our suggestions and implementing them, I think this feature alone improves the mod's usability tremendously.