I am working on a mod with very small units and the ability to zoom out very far (to fit battlecruisers and carriers). I don't want the health bars to get in the way so I've made them very small. I notice that no matter how small the health bar gets or how far zoomed out the camera is, the black border around the health bar remains the same (~2 pixels) which basically turns the health bar into a black 4x4 pixel box when zoomed out far enough. Is there any way to get rid of that border so it's instead a 4x4 color box (which is actually useful as player-owner color coding for when the smaller units are individually too small to be spotted)?
The Combat: Custom Unit Status Frame popup dialog box seems to just be blank when I double-click on the field, so no options for entering in any data... I don't have any filters on, so not sure why that's the case. Do I have to create the custom UI health bar first? How would I do so?
Click XML View or View Raw Data and enter it (all UI work is in XML anyhow).
For making your UI I would advise asking in the UI forum. Else look at the HOTS hero one used by raynor and see what you can modify to suit your needs.
I am working on a mod with very small units and the ability to zoom out very far (to fit battlecruisers and carriers). I don't want the health bars to get in the way so I've made them very small. I notice that no matter how small the health bar gets or how far zoomed out the camera is, the black border around the health bar remains the same (~2 pixels) which basically turns the health bar into a black 4x4 pixel box when zoomed out far enough. Is there any way to get rid of that border so it's instead a 4x4 color box (which is actually useful as player-owner color coding for when the smaller units are individually too small to be spotted)?
Use a custom UI health bar added via the Combat: Custom Unit Status Frame field.
Contribute to the wiki (Wiki button at top of page) Considered easy altering of the unit textures?
https://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/resources/tutorials/179654-data-actor-events-message-texture-select-by-id
https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/187/40/Screenshot2011-04-17_09_16_21.jpg
Thanks for the rapid reply!
The Combat: Custom Unit Status Frame popup dialog box seems to just be blank when I double-click on the field, so no options for entering in any data... I don't have any filters on, so not sure why that's the case. Do I have to create the custom UI health bar first? How would I do so?
Click XML View or View Raw Data and enter it (all UI work is in XML anyhow).
For making your UI I would advise asking in the UI forum. Else look at the HOTS hero one used by raynor and see what you can modify to suit your needs.
Contribute to the wiki (Wiki button at top of page) Considered easy altering of the unit textures?
https://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/resources/tutorials/179654-data-actor-events-message-texture-select-by-id
https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/187/40/Screenshot2011-04-17_09_16_21.jpg